Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can assure my hon. Friend that we shall continue to attach the greatest importance to achieving improved rules and disciplines , as we have throughout , along with better market openings , both of which are of importance to our textile industry , which wants lower tariffs on woollen textiles in the United States of America , where it already has a substantial export trade but where there is great further potential . |
| 2 | The guidelines are in response to what BAAF claims is overwhelming evidence that babies and children with respiratory illnesses are particularly at risk from passive smoking . |
| 3 | Neptune and Uranus are in opposition to your ruler Mercury — and this combination will hit your pocket . |
| 4 | It would provide a reminder that the impact of Government policies on business should be taken into account before they are implemented , not left until afterwards , when the choice could be between damage to our competitiveness and a damaging climb-down by the Government . |
| 5 | The er the defence case is that er there was no duty a and in my submission it must be of assistance to your Lordship to determine that issue to hear evidence from both sides upon whether there is such a practice and if there is what the extent of it is . |
| 6 | Two further points regarding the ways managers cope with ambiguity will be of relevance to our consideration of strategic management . |
| 7 | I enclose the details of No. 22 High Street , as I understand that it may be of interest to your wife 's mother . |
| 8 | They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances . |
| 9 | During employment the employee may damage his employer 's business in the following ways : ( a ) working for a competitor during his hours of employment ; ( b ) working for a competitor in his spare time ; ( c ) making preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left ; ( d ) disclosing or using the employer 's business secrets ; or ( e ) failing to disclose information which may be of use to his employer and in some instances personally profiting from its use . |
| 10 | They are likely to be in debt to their record company for a number of years . |
| 11 | Of course , our bodily forms and somewhat disorganized working systems were in contradiction to their understanding of the correct codes of policing . |
| 12 | In this connection it was agreed that Christine should add the names and addresses of those who had been at Carberry to her database . |
| 13 | You will notice that the greater the interval between wage payments , the longer the period during which the firm is in debt to its employee and , correspondingly , the greater the security of tenure of the employee . |
| 14 | This is the best procedure , and it is without risk to your engine for descents of up to 3,000 feet . |
| 15 | As we saw earlier , in this and the first chapter , this theory holds that things are a combination of form and matter , and it is by appeal to their form that one would hope to explain why things have the properties they do . |
| 16 | The area demised was Upper Langdale and Tilberthwarte , with Sir John reserving one-twelfth of the prepared ore as his Royalty , and this was in addition to his percentage of the profits , for he became a partner in the venture upon his own insistence ! |
| 17 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 18 | ( e ) There is , to put it negatively , no evidence that she did wish to persist in a refusal of a blood transfusion even if it was at risk to her life . |
| 19 | ( 7 ) If an employee of the Council becomes a member of the Council and was by reference to his employment by the Council a participant in a pension scheme such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 5 ) above — |