Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is intended as a present to me on my fortieth birthday in July . |
| 2 | She moves on before I can ask how much of the above is intended as a reference to Madonna . |
| 3 | The report is intended as a complement to the International Convention on Biodiversity , which is expected to be signed at UNCED . |
| 4 | This chapter is intended as a supplement to the earlier ones , for those with a special interest in children 's problems . |
| 5 | This leaflet is intended as a guide to simple ways of looking after your mouth . |
| 6 | The information given is intended as a guide to prospective participants and organisations . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding this provision , it is often of some reassurance to a purchaser from the husband if the wife is joined as a party to the contract or to a separate consent to sale form ; this confirms that she knows that vacant possession is to be given and the land charge is to be cancelled and can contain a specific release by the wife of her rights in the property as from the date of sale . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyone accused of murder is regarded as a danger to the public and there should have been more control here , ’ said a senior City police officer . |
| 9 | Fan defence 1 : The attacker strikes with a low punch and is stopped with a strike to the wrist bone . |
| 10 | Such a review is undertaken with a view to saving the purchaser the costs of more expensive , full scale investigations ( and other professional fees ) , which may be incurred unnecessarily if the above issues can not be resolved and the deal has to be aborted . |
| 11 | The top copy is given as a receipt to the guest , the second copy remaining in the receipt book , and the third copy is attached to the parcel or valuable concerned . |
| 12 | An example of the difficulties associated with the analysis of informal power — the political dimension to behaviour — in the case of women is given in a footnote to Katz and Lazarsfeld 's study of Personal Influence : |
| 13 | The order slip is carried by a runner to a trader in the pit . |
| 14 | The plot states that an attachment to a strange woman , a woman who does not belong to this community of strangers , is succeeded by a return to the community , and by the dispersal , and survival , of the community . |
| 15 | The Oryctes virus is mixed with a bait to which adult beetles are attracted . |
| 16 | The manipulation and decontextualization of language is presented as a temptation to be overcome but a necessary step on the way to achieving mastery of the ‘ languages ’ of intellect and spirit . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) It is immaterial whether the appropriation is made with a view to gain , or is made for the thief 's own benefit . |
| 18 | The Act states in s.1(2) : " It is immaterial whether the appropriation is made with a view to gain or is made for the thief 's own benefit . " |
| 19 | In these offences there is no equivalent to s.1(2) of the 1968 Act which states : " [ i ] t is immaterial whether the appropriation is made with a view to gain , or is made for the thief 's own benefit . " |
| 20 | If a request is made for a meeting to be summoned and the request is supported by at least 25 per cent , in value , of the creditors , the official receiver must summon a meeting ( s 294 ) . |
| 21 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 22 | A gratuitous transfer of property into the joint names of himself and another will be presumed to be made upon trust for the person transferring , unless there is something to show that a benefit to the transferee was intended ; such intention will be presumed where the transfer is made by a father to his child . |
| 23 | Data is collected with a view to determining which ‘ kind ’ of pupil ‘ succeeds ’ and which does not . |
| 24 | Once behaviour is seen as a response to some external stimulus ( such as economic forces or the requirements of the social system ) the methods and assumptions of the natural sciences appear appropriate to the study of humans . |
| 25 | The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) has published a report on the environment , in what is seen as a response to environmentalist criticisms of the organization 's emphasis on free trade [ see SAFE report , below , and also EDs 51 , 52 and 55 ] in the run-up to final negotiations in the current " Uruguay round " of trade talks . |
| 26 | His appointment is seen as a concession to the DTA . |
| 27 | Fundamentally the whole complex of hostility towards homosexuality is a reflection of a biological imperative to procreate , in which the homosexual is seen as a threat to the species , ‘ unnatural ’ , and therefore worthy of condemnation . |
| 28 | Not only is there a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts , this close connection between industry and the military is seen as a threat to the balance of the American economy . |
| 29 | Against such threats the ego has many defences , such as denial , distortion , forgetting , intellectualization , projection and so on ; and thus it comes about that , in the not uncommon tendency to confuse the theory with the fact of what is repressed , psychoanalysis itself is seen as a threat to the very process of repression which it was the first to discover and is itself subjected to these defensive reactions . |
| 30 | At first , the river is seen as a threat to Pip as Magwitch comes from it , but later when Magwitch returns to Pip in London , it is seen as a promising object , drowning the bad Compeyson , and uniting Pip and Magwitch . |