Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] to the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We give children the opportunity to develop to the best of their potential . |
| 7 | Of the 40 members , nine were chiefs ; the remainder belonged to the old intelligentsia . |
| 8 | The remainder went to the Georgian Popular Front , other party blocs , and independents . |
| 9 | The remainder went to the Socialist Party ( four seats ) , the Party of Yugoslavs ( one ) and independents ( three ) ; one seat remained vacant . |
| 10 | Delaney moved forward , keeping to the side of the superstructure , intent on the stairway leading to the next deck , and finally the bridge . |
| 11 | By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | There are , of course , problems with measuring and interpreting trade union membership since in the United States , for example , some professional bodies may not call themselves trade unions although they engage in bargaining activities and in France the only source of such statistics is from the unions themselves ( or , indirectly , via the support given to the various unions in elections for enterprise committees ) . |
| 14 | The support given to the Urban Foundation showed British recognition of the acute shortage of housing for blacks in South Africa 's urban areas , a move welcomed by Nthato Motlana , chairman of Soweto 's civic association . |
| 15 | Moreover , blanket support by volume of output ensures that most of the support goes to the wealthiest 25 per cent of landowners , who produce 75 per cent of output . |
| 16 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 17 | Between the accession of Clovis in 481 and and the acquisition of Provence in 537 the Merovingians had established one of the most powerful of the successor states to the Roman Empire . |
| 18 | The North Atlantic Co-operation Council ( NACC ) , comprising the members of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact ( including the successor states to the Soviet Union ) , held its third meeting in Oslo on June 5 [ for earlier meetings see pp. 38698-99 ; 38841 ) , discussing security issues including nuclear and conventional arms and regional conflicts . |
| 19 | Twenty-nine countries — members of the North Atlantic Treaty organization ( NATO ) and the former Warsaw Pact , including the successor states to the Soviet Union — on June 5 signed a revised Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , which provided for sharp reductions in conventional weaponry and troop levels in Europe . |
| 20 | What does the Award mean to the winning team ? |
| 21 | In the event , the award went to the veteran midday cowboy John Wayne for his performance in True Grit and/or for never having won an Oscar before . |
| 22 | of the award made to the successful assisted party . |
| 23 | of the award made to the successful assisted party . |
| 24 | The creditor appealed to the High Court of Australia . |
| 25 | One part of the explanation lies in the intensional value of the respective constructions , and the other in the meanings attached to the various adjectives by the speaker . |
| 26 | We paid for tea , but the money went to the Red Cross . |
| 27 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 28 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 29 | If you want to just check the bank account cos we do n't want the we do n't want the money going to the wrong |
| 30 | ‘ This is him , Fagin , ’ the Dodger said to the old man . |