Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the contention that the court ought not to entertain the action ‘ because to do so would be detrimental to national security ’ , the defence referring to the long-established practice of Secretaries of State not to disclose or discuss the existence of a warrant . |
| 2 | Thus , the income arising to the overseas trustees ( whether actual or deemed ) may avoid a tax charge under general principles but on the other hand may result in the settlor or beneficiaries in an appropriate case being assessed under TA 1988 , s739 or under TA 1988 , s740 . |
| 3 | The settlor , when creating an overseas settlement must make certain that he does not come within any of the provisions of TA 1988 , Part XV , Chapters I — IV if he wishes to avoid tax on the income arising to the overseas settlement . |
| 4 | An elicitation procedure is designed to provide a child with the opportunity to respond to a specific set of stimuli ; the relationship between a stimulus and the child 's response is then taken as an indication of the child 's mastery of a particular aspect of language . |
| 5 | Executive responsibility — as part of a team the solicitor has the opportunity to participate to a greater degree than an outside solicitor in the commercial decisions resulting from advice . |
| 6 | The obvious example is Australia , which was separated early , and in which the marsupial mammals had the opportunity to adapt to a whole range of ecological niches , which they managed with remarkable success in spite of a low cranial capacity and a primitive mode of reproduction . |
| 7 | The monotony is relieved somewhat if you have the opportunity to talk to a fellow traveller who feels the same about long train journeys , then you have something in common besides moaning about the rigours of train travel . |
| 8 | For those who make it to lab director , about 1 out of every 25 or 30 technicians , there is also the opportunity to move to a bigger , richer hospital . |
| 9 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 10 | AFTER SEVEN years of perfecting an original and incisive style of investigative journalism in the provinces , I relished the opportunity to move to the big city and expose the callous greed and avarice that had poisoned the cynical entertainment industry for so long . |
| 11 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 12 | If necessary , we will offer you the opportunity to transfer to an alternative holiday or cancel the holiday without penalty . |
| 13 | We give children the opportunity to develop to the best of their potential . |
| 14 | Even if women do return to work after having children , the majority go to a new employer and often to a job at a lower status than the one they left . |
| 15 | For example , if the business is heavily dependent on numerous long-term contracts , a purchaser may decide to investigate the contracts equating to a specified percentage of the turnover of the business plus one or two minor contracts . |
| 16 | Funds made available under the Acts relate to a specified financial year . |
| 17 | Of the 40 members , nine were chiefs ; the remainder belonged to the old intelligentsia . |
| 18 | The remainder went to the Georgian Popular Front , other party blocs , and independents . |
| 19 | The remainder went to the Socialist Party ( four seats ) , the Party of Yugoslavs ( one ) and independents ( three ) ; one seat remained vacant . |
| 20 | In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) . |
| 21 | The concentration of artistic architectural masterworks , the variety of restaurants , even the energetic bustle of the crowds contribute to an irresistible energy . |
| 22 | The clubhouse was closed to save overheads and the headquarters transferred to a local pub , The Buck . |
| 23 | It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff . |
| 24 | Delaney moved forward , keeping to the side of the superstructure , intent on the stairway leading to the next deck , and finally the bridge . |
| 25 | In his speech , the prince returned to a favourite theme — the value of simpler times and the spiritual vacuum created by consumerism — in urging a return to traditional values . |
| 26 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 27 | By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit . |
| 28 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 29 | As on Suilven , the ridge dips to an easy saddle and rises to an east top . |
| 30 | This compares to some 100,000 tonnes in the mid-1970s sold to a smaller Community . |