Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If judges carry out their duty of assessing damages for non-economic loss in the money of the day at the date of the trial — and this is a rule of practice that judges are required to follow , not a guideline from which they have a discretion to depart if there are special circumstances that justify their doing so — there are two routes by which the judge 's task of arriving at the appropriate conventional rate of interest to be applied to the damages so assessed can be approached . |
| 32 | By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother . |
| 33 | Under SOGIT 1973 , the test of reasonableness was to be applied taking account of all the circumstances including those which occurred after the making of the contract , whereas , under UCTA 1977 , the test is to be applied to the terms of the contract at the time of contracting . |
| 34 | Is there an opportunity for an offshore trust structure to be applied to the vendor 's advantage ? |
| 35 | The parsing algorithm specifies the manner in which lexical information is to be retrieved , which grammar rules are to be applied to the input and how the information obtained is to be stored . |
| 36 | The Commission proposes a margin scheme , i.e ; VAT to be applied to the margin between the selling and the purchase price , not to the full price . |
| 37 | At one stage , Labour sheds crocodile tears for the decline in the merchant fleet , yet in the next breath , it says how much more regulation it would like to be applied to the merchant fleet . |
| 38 | I think it convenient in this judgment first to set out the salient facts of the case , as found by the judge , and then to consider the authorities from which must be extracted the principles of law and equity to be applied to the facts . |
| 39 | On the outside of the barrel , to be turned to the colour you want and slid down to push the lead into the tip . |
| 40 | Is it not short-sighted for both Opposition parties to be pledged to the abolition of this scheme ? |
| 41 | I do n't care if they have to be strapped to the mast . |
| 42 | Complaints that British ships by comparison with those of France were too small , sailed badly and were encumbered by too many guns , continued to be heard to the end of the century and afterwards ; while French prizes were frequently used as models for the design of new British men-of-war . |
| 43 | Kelly said : ‘ It 's not right that the end of year events are worth more than the early season classics just because the interest has got to be maintained to the finish . ’ |
| 44 | Among his achievements at Chelsea were some pineapples considered fine enough to be presented to the King by Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 45 | At the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Lieutenants ' Association — surely Britain 's most exclusive trade union — there is much discussion of such knotty questions as whether the pushy chairman of the local district council has , as he insists he has , the right to be presented to the Queen before the laid-back leader of the county council . |
| 46 | In the same year , Dustin was in London again as one of the guests at the Royal Command Performance of Love Story , where he was to be presented to the Queen Mother . |
| 47 | The Commission 's opinion was due to be presented to the Court of Human Rights in 1991 . |
| 48 | The prosecution 's evidence does not have to be presented to the court all over again . |
| 49 | The draft was expected to be presented to the government as a bill , before going before parliament by the end of October . |
| 50 | This folder must be available to be presented to the NEBE at the time of the final theoretical examination . |
| 51 | Note 1 to the definition stipulates that , where the Panel has ruled that a group of persons is acting in concert , it will be necessary for sufficient evidence to be presented to the Panel before it can be accepted that the position no longer exists . |
| 52 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 53 | But he wants all the facts to be presented to the committee before a corporate decision is made not to invest in the UK . ’ |
| 54 | A Bill extending the grounds on which terrorist suspects can be handed over is to be presented to the Dail early in the next session . |
| 55 | Prepare trigger material to be presented to the learner : |
| 56 | The claim is to be presented to the UN Compensation Commission , but the commission " set up after the war to co-ordinate claims against Iraq " has few funds at its disposal . |
| 57 | Haughey had denied all knowledge of the bugging , but on Jan. 21 Doherty said that he had taken the blame " to protect Haughey " and had decided to speak out only because a new telephone-tapping bill was about to be presented to the Dáil ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 58 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , on March 10 presented the budget for the financial year beginning April 5 , the last to be presented to the House of Commons during the Conservative government 's third term of office . |
| 59 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |
| 60 | Preliminary drafts of a bill repealing the Group Areas Act had been completed and were to be presented to the Cabinet in mid-January . |