Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You have n't been on the receiving end of Doreen 's barbs , but if they pierce Ling 's skin to the extent of causing him to leave your service you can put a ring round the fact that there will be … definite disruption . |
| 32 | Most planning decisions are administrative acts against which appeal lies only to the secretary of state , but in the case of a determination of whether or not planning permission is required , the question is a mixed one of fact and law : thus not only is there the normal right of appeal against the local authority 's decision to the secretary of state , there is also a right of appeal against his decision to the High Court . |
| 33 | Announcing the MoD 's decision to the House of Commons yesterday , the Under Secretary for Defence Procurement , Michael Neubert , said : ‘ The choice between these two programmes has been an extremely difficult one because both offer the prospect of a highly capable ship defence system . |
| 34 | Certainly the obligation to perform military service for the king existed in Skåne in 1085 , for it is mentioned ( as expeditio ) in St Cnut 's donation to a church in Lund in that year , the only surviving Danish royal charter from before 1100 . |
| 35 | The discovery reduced the discrepancies in Uranus 's orbit to the level of arcseconds , comparable with the noise in the observations , but that did not stop some astronomers from predicting a planet beyond Neptune , of a few Earth masses . |
| 36 | The super-lunar region was the remainder of the finite universe , extending from the moon 's orbit to the sphere of the stars , which marked the outer boundary of the universe . |
| 37 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 38 | There are some remarkable verbal correspondences between the Interludium and Dame Sirith , such as the clerk 's plea to the girl to " " mend mode " " ( I. 25 ) , appearing in Dame Sirith as " " Amend mod " ( DS. 113 ) , and in the denial by Mome Elwis ( the Interludium 's counterpart to Dame Sirith ) of her ability to perform the tricks the clerk requires : ( Interludium ) ( " A son ! |
| 39 | It is the fight choreographer working out the moves for Leonard 's struggle to the death with Otto . |
| 40 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 41 | Palmerston took the defeat as a vote of no confidence and tendered the Government 's resignation to the Queen on 21st February , 1858 , and she immediately asked Lord Derby to form the new Government . |
| 42 | The resumption of Taiwanese contributions to the Asian Development Bank ( ADB ) , suspended following China 's admission to the bank in 1986 , was announced on Oct. 24 . |
| 43 | The divisions which accompanied Mrs Thatcher 's election to the leadership in 1975 have , with one notable exception , faded . |
| 44 | However , Mohtashemi 's election to the Majlis in the December 1989 by-elections [ see pp. 37137-38 ] represented an attempt on his part to make a political comeback . |
| 45 | It was a move from a concern with the intrinsic character of the student 's experience to an interest in what the student knew and could do at the end of the course . |
| 46 | If the light fittings are designed for surface-mounting , simply connect in the supply cable ( see below ) , and secure the fitting 's baseplate to the wall with screws and wallplugs . |
| 47 | The Labour Ministers fully supported Churchill 's resistance to the opening of a Second Front . |
| 48 | It symbolizes the significance of state intervention , of industry 's renunciation of the market and labour 's advancement to the status of an ‘ estate of realm ’ . |
| 49 | The problem begins at a conceptual level with the initial division between master and slave as such , as if relations of power work according to the binary opposition of Hegel 's fight to the death between two individuals . |
| 50 | Increased economic activity in these locations can be seen in Charles 's grant to the bishop of Paris of the Grand Pont with its mills and , later , of the right to dispose of some newly-built houses ; in the mint ( with its profits ) conceded to the bishop and cathedral clergy of Châlons ; in the trading interests of the clergy of Rheims ; in the monks of Corbie 's intended purchase ( " if we have enough money " ) of pepper at Cambrai ; and in the scattered but widespread references to episcopal and monastic building works ( not all of them ecclesiastical ) and , more rarely , in archaeological traces or architectural remains of these constructions . |
| 51 | Thus in RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farms ( 1978 ) , farmers bought seed potatoes under a contract which limited the supplier 's liability to the cost of the seed . |
| 52 | The husband 's liability to the bank under the guarantee was secured by a charge of the matrimonial home executed by the husband and the wife . |
| 53 | Subject to Condition 14 , and notwithstanding anything contained in these Conditions ( other than Condition 14 ) or the Order , the Seller 's liability to the Purchaser in respect of the Order , in contract , tort ( including negligence or breach of statutory duty ) or howsoever otherwise arising , shall be limited to the price of the goods specified in the Order or [ £ ] whichever is the greater . |
| 54 | In the absence of clear words , however , it will not be interpreted as excluding the manufacturer 's liability to the wholesaler for negligence ( i.e. under the principle in Donoghue v. Stevenson , see paragraph 9–04 above ) . |
| 55 | This clause might well be interpreted as excluding the manufacturer 's liability to the wholesaler under the implied terms as to merchantable quality and fitness for purpose . |
| 56 | Angels hovered around the eucharistic altar and carried the congregation 's self-offering to the throne of God , bringing back his blessing . |
| 57 | On the contrary , the higher education experience should be a challenging and unsettling experience , opening the student 's mind to a sense of ever-widening possibilities , in concept , supposition and approach to the world . |
| 58 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 59 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 60 | To complement the quotation from Winston Churchill 's reply to the debate on the then Coal Mines ( Eight Hours ) Bill that was given by the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , I should like to draw the House 's attention to other words of Winston Churchill in the same speech , which are as self-evidently true today as they were then : ’ We have reminded the hon. Gentleman of it often ; but why should cheapness of production always be achieved at the expense of the human factor ? |