Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 2 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 3 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 4 | This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations . |
| 5 | Law Report : Employee not entitled to payment from redundancy fund : Secretary of State for Employment v Levy — Employment Appeal Tribunal ( Mr Justice Wood , Mr R J Lewis and Mr J A Scouller ) , 4 October 1989 |
| 6 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 7 | Although the Secret Committee formally agreed to publication of Nazimov 's instructions , many contemporaries recorded the attempts of committee members to prevent it . |
| 8 | A four-year-old boy nearly bled to death after karate kicking a glass door as he mimicked the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 9 | Also , the extinction of a species is not the end of the story : insect taxonomy simply transfers to archaeoentomology with attendant information loss . |
| 10 | None of either type quite come to mind at present but , still , it is the latter bunch who are likely to become rich or famous or both . |
| 11 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
| 12 | They get practically no help at all and yet mum still manages to sort of save a bit |
| 13 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 14 | Nineteen of the 31 authorities who spent over £3,000 ( see Table 11 ) actually spent £5,000 or more , and it should be noted that this group of 19 library authorities accounted for 55% of the money directly allocated to training by our sample , while employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 15 | Quite a large group apparently went to work as compositors in the south of England , if that is the right interpretation to put on the mention " gone to Colchester " which is recorded against the names of some women in the trade-union membership registers which are the chief source for this information . |
| 16 | Azaña promptly returned to power at the head of a purely Republican government , the Socialists preferring to shun cabinet responsibility . |
| 17 | Hares ( but not rabbits ) are particularly vulnerable to paraquat , a herbicide often applied to stubble in the autumn so that it can be easily burned . |
| 18 | Working on an exhibition of this nature inevitably leads to reflection on the artist : ‘ The more I work on Rembrandt , the more fascinated I am and the more remarkable he becomes ’ was Christopher Brown 's assessment , ‘ in range , ambition and the achievement of that ambition he stands so far above his contemporaries ’ . |
| 19 | is the name generally applied to rice of varying quality and sold as an all-purpose grain . |
| 20 | Men in regular employment found their real wages rising and many families moved out to the new housing estates , where evidence rapidly came to light of female depression arising primarily from physical isolation . |
| 21 | Rag mats , heavy oak furniture too big for the small space , a gas mantle dangerously converted to electricity with many a swathe of woven purplish flex , provided the essentials without achieving either beauty or convenience . |
| 22 | It failed to resolve the question of foreign influence in Korea , which a decade later led to war between China and Japan . |
| 23 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 24 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 25 | It should be remembered that , unless it is extended by SFA , the foreign business carve-out only applies to business with customers in the UK if the overseas person exemption would have applied if the non-UK branch had been a separate person ; apart from checking that the activities concerned fall within the exemption , the SIB 's restrictions on cold calling , therefore , also have to be complied with . |
| 26 | Their offer only applies to property in the home counties . |
| 27 | Panning the camcorder , that is swinging it round through a horizontal arc , is a camera movement often used to excess by amateurs . |
| 28 | The failure to prioritise needs realistically or to genuinely recognise people 's individuality sometimes leads to competition for resources which badly damages the educational chances of some individuals . |
| 29 | My father never went to bed without supper , no matter what happened . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Dorothy my dear , there is a poor dog absolutely stifling to death in a car outside . |