Example sentences of "[subord] anything [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in ( i ) and ( ii ) of this paragraph the Directors may amend the Executive Scheme to secure or maintain its approval by the Inland Revenue or to comply with or take advantage of any changes to legislation provided that such amendments do not affect the basic structure of the Executive Scheme or the limits outlined in paragraph 5 above ; |
| 32 | The following is an example of a suitable clause : It is hereby agreed that notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Articles of Association the investor shall be entitled at any time after Completion to transfer all or any part of the investor 's shares to another investor or investors approved by the Managers ( such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) to the intent and effect that any such investors shall be entitled to the benefit of all such provisions of this Agreement and Articles of Association as the investor shall require and the Managers and the Company shall do or procure to be done ( insofar as it lies within their respective powers ) all such matters and things , including the execution of all such documents as shall be necessary or which the Investors shall reasonably require for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this clause . |
| 33 | Motion made , and Question proposed , That the Promoters of the King 's Cross Railways Bill may , notwithstanding anything in the Standing Orders or practice of this House , proceed with the Bill in the present Session ; and the Petition for the Bill shall be deemed to have been deposited and all Standing Orders applicable thereto shall be deemed to have been complied with ; |
| 34 | It was very much alive in England and the French principalities in the mid twelfth century , and if anything on the increase in Germany . |
| 35 | Anyway I suppose before we decide we really need to know how much the National Party are going to charge us if anything for the actual posters and what the posters look like . |
| 36 | Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) . |
| 37 | Firstly , it seems that in practice the word " fair " adds little if anything to the definition , and that the courts have tended to focus in practice on what is " reasonable " . |
| 38 | There could hardly be a more opportune time for attempting to salvage something for those young people who are currently gaining little if anything from the educational system . |
| 39 | If anything in the Amis corpus has validated his penchant for the poison dart , it was last year 's Memoirs : indiscreet , at times indefensible , but nevertheless a book to leave you giddy with laughter . |
| 40 | Laura would often send memos to Meirion asking him to let her know if anything in the design was causing problems in making up ; if so , she would alter it . |
| 41 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 42 | These are especially important where there is ‘ the potential for discord when anything beyond the conventional or ordinary begins to surface . |
| 43 | Her wonderful speech about the death of an aunt ( ’ It 's my belief they done the old woman in ’ ) is as blissfully funny as anything on the London stage . |
| 44 | I was an articulate , busy girl , brave as anything on the platform , but timid about love . |
| 45 | The Thames barges , built of living wood that gave and sprang back in the face of the wind , were as much at home as anything on the river . |
| 46 | The audience is as weird as anything on the screen . |
| 47 | The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information . |
| 48 | IT 'S quite clear our Prime Minister , in his ‘ Mission For Maastricht ’ , sees himself as anything but the grey man he has been painted . |
| 49 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 50 | Heading north from Chesterfield on the road to Dronfield , with urban sprawl spreading its way along the valley of the River Drone , you would hardly guess that high on Barrow Hill a mile away stands Hagge Farm , as lost and as completely rural as anything in the country . |
| 51 | The four frigates , MEKO 3600 H2 Type , are as modern as anything in the German navy . |
| 52 | As Philip Gibbs , correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph who was present at the battles as an observer , wrote : ‘ The suffering of all the German troops , huddled together in exposed places , must be as hideous as anything in the agony of mankind , slashed to bits by storms of shells and urged forward to counter-attacks which they know will be their death . ’ |
| 53 | Predictably , a modern dynamic range benefits both the thrilling theatre of that invocation ( culminating in a triple forte cry of ‘ Printemps ’ as powerful as anything in The Rite ) , as well as the still calm of Persephone 's spoken lines rolling off the tongue with all the grace and ease exclusive to a native française , in this case Anne Fournet ( daughter of the conductor , Jean Fournet ) . |
| 54 | For in each country where the game had taken hold , the essential English principles had been retained , but the game had been redefined , building up traditions and skills as substantial as anything within the English game . |