Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) ‘ authorised insurers ’ , ‘ the Council ’ , ‘ practising certificate ’ , ‘ the roll ’ and ‘ the Society ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 2 | ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 3 | ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 4 | Again , paradoxically , objects are seen as increasingly exchangeable with one another , but also increasingly specific in terms of the particular values assigned to them in the form of prices . |
| 5 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 6 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 7 | With its incredible wealth — about £6 million estimated annual income has been suggested — and ownership of about nine thousand manors came inevitable corruption as the Templars took advantage of the privileges granted to them by the Pope . |
| 8 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 9 | I got back to Ingard House a bit after four o'clock , and went up to rooms 207–8 , the offices allotted to us for the purposes of our audit . |
| 10 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 11 | I do n't think anyone will dispute that those are not offices suited to us in the nineties . |
| 12 | An agent residing on each client provides the machine with operating operating parameters delivered to it from the application residing on an administrator 's host system . |
| 13 | This person was in fact an undischarged bankrupt who wrote to the plaintiff as being recommended by the editor and who misappropriated the funds sent to him by the plaintiff for investment . |
| 14 | Although , in principle , the communities of interest are allowed to raise in ‘ contributions ’ only the amounts agreed by the delegates from their member ‘ organizations or associated labour ’ , in practice , such organizations have little option but to agree with proposals presented to them by the community managers . |
| 15 | He is not entitled to withhold the goods until other debts owed to him by the buyer are paid . |
| 16 | The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system . |
| 17 | Convocation has a role defined in the Charter : it may ‘ discuss and pronounce an opinion on any matters whatsoever relating to the University including any matters referred to it by the Court or the Council ’ . |
| 18 | He knew the way vaguely from the journey the night before and the careful directions given to him by the Prior . |
| 19 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 20 | In the autumn of 1930 , the sub-committee was instructed to consult the governing bodies , and the medical and surgical staffs at the voluntary hospitals , ‘ in order to enable the county council to discharge the functions transferred to them under the Local Government Act 1929 , Section 13 , relating to the provision of hospital accommodation ’ . |
| 21 | Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire . |
| 22 | Furthermore , sometimes the government expressly delegates public administrative functions to non-governmental bodies : for example , under the Financial Services Act 1986 the Securities and Investments Board exercises a wide range of regulatory functions delegated to it by the Secretary of State ; the Board of Deputies of British Jews plays an important role in policing certain Sunday Trading laws ; the Wood Green Animal Shelter in North London runs the government 's computerized register of fighting dogs ; and the Rowntree Trust ( a private charitable organization ) administers the Family Fund ( a public fund to assist families of severely handicapped children ) . |
| 23 | France , the papacy , Poland and perhaps other states , also honoured Venetian ambassadors in these ways , while in 1603 the doge in Venice knighted a group of seven ambassadors sent to him by the Grisons league in Switzerland , and in 1621 James I did the same for six deputies sent to London by the Dutch republic . |
| 24 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 25 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 26 | Immediate Svengali Andrew Loog Oldham with two sleeve-design awards presented to him by the NME in 1969 |
| 27 | In the light of later events , it is possible to doubt Scott 's altruism in taking the initiative in this case ; clearly after the change of government with Manners ' well-known enthusiasm for the Middle Ages , the chances were that a Gothic design would be acceptable , and Scott was the best placed of the Gothic competitors , although of course he was completely unaware of the ultimately crucial placings awarded to him by the assessors . |
| 28 | Second , women and men have different responsibilities accorded to them in the domestic division of labour . |
| 29 | So the Act provides for the appointment by the Prime Minister of a Tribunal with very limited powers to regulate the way in which Ministers use the very extensive powers given to them under the Act . |
| 30 | If they desired that the should stay and that the crown should retain the powers given to it by the constitution he should be informed . |