Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun sg] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Director may withdraw or restrict access to the facilities in response to an offence or a suspected offence against these rules or to protect the services .
2 He observes that , ‘ if Parliament be in the eye of the law a supreme legislature , the essence of representative government is , that the legislature should represent or give effect to the will of the political sovereign , i.e. of the electoral body , or of the nation . ’
3 The Court of Appeal distinguished Phillips and held that s2(1) was concerned with attempts to restrict or exclude liability to the victim of the negligence .
4 Journalists who may be minded to look at court or police records should bear in mind that an official persuaded to show them a spent conviction is liable to a fine , and if they make their persuasion more persuasive by a bribe , or obtain access to the record dishonestly , they themselves are liable to imprisonment for up to six months .
5 Thus , while marrying the father was the most likely outcome of an extra-marital conception in 1970 ; by 1988 , single women were more likely to terminate the pregnancy or give birth to the child without marrying the father ( Figure 2 ) .
6 The Telecommunications watchdog , Oftel , has ordered BT to cut its prices and installation charges considerably or face referral to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
7 Now clearly we are not going to join the need to exercise , because Chairman no one has mentioned or drawn attention to the fact that the preamble to the budget paper contains a very distinct warning , that in addition to the estimated resource gap in nineteen ninety four
8 But the double oxymoron in line 13 suggests that they are already foes , that the poem has either been written to try and restore a lost harmony , or to draw attention to the fact that it can not be restored .
9 A bitter wind form the Elburz Mountains sweeps around two 707s parked in front of the low , white , thickly carpeted Imperial Pavilion where , in happier days , the Shah of Iran welcomed or bade farewell to the monarchs and statesmen who came to pay him court , nurture his ambitions and ask for alliances , money or other tokens of his kingship .
10 It is just possible that , given the choice , they might prefer the risk of an occasional torn ear or scratched nose to the certainty of a totally sexless adult life .
11 This book is essential reading for any researcher new to the subject or requiring access to the myriad techniques used and studies undertaken .
12 A parent may , for example , give or withhold consent to the adoption or marriage of a child in care although in the case of marriage , the local authority 's consent is also required .
13 While very young children can differentiate the past from the present , many have considerable difficulty in differentiating between two periods in the past , or giving precision to the concept of chronology .
14 Despite Wilson 's inclination to adopt what he considered to be a conciliatory approach to the shipowners he found himself , whether pioneering new branches or giving support to the work of the union 's organizing delegates , in the role of agitator .
15 SR1 and SR2 are the send/receive switches connecting the transmitting or receiving equipment to the cable , while SS1 and SS2 are variable low resistance transmitting shunts .
16 They were supposed to be stealing cars from Hammersmith housing estates , or setting fire to the dustbins outside Harrods .
17 Once the designated approver has decided whether or not the package is to be approved , he will grant or deny approval to the package using option 1.5.3 .
18 But it is a deeply conservative trade which has resolutely resisted most attempts to bring it into the twentieth century , to make it more efficient , or to make access to the law more available to the ordinary citizen .
19 , … or to strike south to the Waste , recapture the girl — remember , they may know nothing about her — and then ride back either by the track on the other side of the Swamp or carry on direct south towards Leicester .
20 Do you need to be or have access to the railway station or to the main roads or anything like that ?
21 The next chapter will be rather different in both intention and structure , for it will not examine the work in detail of particular leaders in the field nor give attention to the teasing out of any particular principles .
22 Both stylolites and solution seams transect the cemented sediment and develop perpendicular to the axis of maximum stress , which may be either overburden pressure or tectonic stress .
23 And supplies power to the rear with a throaty roar that 's guaranteed to make you grin .
24 Syllabifying as ab-sent and drawing attention to the familiarity of sent can stop this error .
25 As we have noted , Circular 11/77 asked Regional Advisory Councils to draw up plans for the training of full-time further education teachers and to report progress to the DES by September 1978 .
26 The new nations of America will never take root in its soil until they confront what is hidden by their myths and make reparation to the survivors of the holocaust that began five centuries ago .
27 Full-time student officers are available to give advice and make representation to the University on behalf of members .
28 Full-time student officers are available to give advice and make representation to the University on behalf of members .
29 He flailed for balance , snatched at the closest tablecloth and dragged a cascade of smashing china and chinking silver to the floor as he fell .
30 Indeed , there is no doubt that control of French mainland ports was vitally important to the English , and that much diplomacy in the course of the war was concerned with securing and maintaining access to the use of their facilities .
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