Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anita Saada had children of similar ages to Laura 's and was to become a staunch source of support to her over the years . |
| 2 | The man in charge at Chelsea at the moment , David Webb , is on probation and it is unlikely his chairman , the fiery Ken Bates , would release such a sum of money to him during the trial period . |
| 3 | As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out , those funds are of importance to us in the provision of our capital infrastructure , although they are not totally significant . |
| 4 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 5 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 6 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 7 | There was nothing of interest to her in the present conversation except as a means of promoting their intimacy and retaining his arm around her waist . |
| 8 | Users who are not connected to the Joint Academic Network or Internet systems can seek assistance to identify datasets of interest to them from the user services staff at the Data Archive . |
| 9 | The king would often reward a family for service to him by the grant of a fair . |
| 10 | If your notice period was 12 months , you might obtain damages to cover that period and yet still be asking an industrial tribunal to reimburse you to the extent of the maximum compensatory award in respect of your anticipated future loss , together with payment to you of the basic award . |
| 11 | But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ? |
| 12 | Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future . |
| 13 | I 'm in bondage to him to the tune of three hundred guineas which he 's squeezing me for , crushing me to death like a snake its prey . ’ |
| 14 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 15 | Staff and students are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure that all books on loan to them from the Library are kept securely , in good condition , away from harmful environments , and readily accessible to Library staff in the event of their being required for other readers . |
| 16 | Falmer School Library Pupil 's name : Anthony White Form : 412 The book " The Vietnam War " on loan to you from the library is now overdue . |
| 17 | One is that that registered disabled employees and we will be bringing forward further proposals on initiatives to you at the next meeting , and I hope that if you agree , that will be amongst other things with the issue of non-registered disabled employees , and the other consideration in looking at movements in targets and so on , is inevitably the whole job market situation and the opportunities for achieving that . |
| 18 | Than k you that we can bring our concerns for others to you in the confidence that you will hear and act . |