Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The application of such legal rules as those concerned with implied terms and frustration will often be uncertain , creating scope for disputes as to the extent of the parties ' rights and liabilities , costing valuable time and money . |
| 2 | These complications have led to a whole variety of views as to the composition of the middle class and its place in the social structure . |
| 3 | This diversity of view is manifested in Smith v. East Elloe Rural District Council in which their Lordships adopted a variety of views as to the meaning of ‘ not within the powers of this Act . ’ |
| 4 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 5 | Indeed , Spurgeon and Barwell ( 1990 ) have raised a number of queries as to the appropriateness of utilising management processes relevant to one situation in a totally different context . |
| 6 | B. ‘ That , subject to the passing of Resolution A , before this meeting , the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 24 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 to allot equity securities ( as defined by section 23 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by such resolution as if sub-section ( 1 ) of the said Section 23 did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders and to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to a rights issue as aforesaid ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of IR£1,772,100 . |
| 7 | If the terms are too one-sided , they may provoke customer resistance , leading to a battle of forms or to the loss of potential custom and a bad trading reputation . |
| 8 | Denktash had been rebuked by Boutros-Ghali on Nov. 6 for being " in total opposition to all UN resolutions , to the society of nations and to the Security Council " , refusing to accept the return of refugees , insisting on two separate states and separate sovereignty , rejecting the proposed map and refusing to hand over Varosh , the Greek suburb of Famagusta , to UN administration . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it is necessary for the applicant for judicial review from the start to give at least as much attention to questions of remedies as to the question of whether the respondent has committed a legal wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ Though the agreement be void by the Statute of Frauds as to the duration of the lease , it must regulate the terms on which the tenancy subsists in other respects , as to the rent , the time of year when the tenant is to quit , etc . |
| 11 | This was due , not to lack of discoveries but to a disinclination by the oil companies to invest the huge sums necessary to develop discoveries because of the onerous terms of the UK fiscal regime . |
| 12 | The Court emphasised the importance of that element of the English practice that entrusts the execution of an order to the plaintiff 's solicitors and requires them to give a series of undertakings as to the manner of execution and the use made of the information or documents obtained . |
| 13 | But the mapping of this fictional-real opposition onto the worldly-divine dichotomy raises a number of questions as to the status and role of fictional constructs , given that we have access here and now to this world alone . |
| 14 | Also generally unknown is the extent to which decline is due to the abandonment of routes or to the reduction of frequencies . |
| 15 | for instance , residential care in Flanders and the Netherlands seems more closely tied to psychological assessment of children and to a diagnosis/treatment approach than in the United Kingdom — at least for social services cases . |
| 16 | He has pointed both to its overall lack of numbers and to the fact that some of the areas where it was strong , west Cornwall for example , were not in any case likely locations for revolutionary agitation . |
| 17 | Elections to the Chamber of Citizens and to the Chamber of Republics , which together comprised the new Federal Assembly , were scheduled for May 31 . |
| 18 | If you have not kept up with the nursing journals or have been out of practice for a long time then you will have to trust to luck or the recommendations of others as to the relevance and value of any course you choose to attend . |
| 19 | The resulting harm , both to the status of women and to the production of food , is well documented ( Sontheimer ( ed. ) , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | With great difficulty I obtained a copy of this document and while it stated that ‘ public servants should not reveal the opinions and attitudes of colleagues as to the government business with which they have been concerned ’ , another section said quite clearly that a reasonable timescale for a public servant 's silence would be ‘ fifteen years or for the service life of the adviser , whichever is the longer ’ . |
| 21 | It can be argued ( and was so argued by the Saudis ) that any over-supply had been provoked by the encouragement that the over-rapid price increase in the 1970s had given both to fuel conservation on the part of consumers and to the economics of projects to develop substitutes for oil and especially OPEC oil . |
| 22 | There has , however , been considerable unease amongst institutions as to the complexity of the rule books , the cost of regulation , and the wide range of regulators involved within the system . |
| 23 | She was terrified that if she poured out the tale to her husband now , he would be filled with doubts as to the extent of her previous involvement with Davis . |
| 24 | But the end of the Iran-Iraq war led to a precipitous decline in exports and to the bankruptcy of two major firms : Avibras and Engesa . |
| 25 | The conventional form is generally convenient ; it is useful to have equal eigenvalues in groups and to the use superdiagonal ; but in particular cases it may be well to use a nonzero quantity other than a unit in the superdiagonal . |
| 26 | Those involved were given a basic introduction to the causes of deterioration in books and to the terminology used in their description . |
| 27 | the average fall in sound pressure levels of four to five dB(A) was attributed to a decrease in the number of passing vehicles , to a reduction in speeds and to a change in driving style . |
| 28 | In general , it appears that relatively high cancer induction rates apply to the breast in females and to the thyroid , although the mortality rate from induced thyroid cancers is low — that is , about 3 per cent per 25 years . |
| 29 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 30 | Concern has been voiced to the Commission over the lack of a repertoire of music common both to schools and to the Church . |