Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do n't apologise to the people of that I voted with Councillor to take a hundred administration jobs out of education and direct that money to the provision of education in the schools cos that that is what running the education department is about . |
| 2 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 3 | He also pays 25 percent of that income to the Treasury in lieu of tax . |
| 4 | Of those sports where payment was permitted , there was little concession to the creation of a free market . |
| 5 | There is a large body of case law concerned with the meaning of particular expressions in particular contexts , but the drafter should bear in mind the cautionary words of Lord Esher MR : No general rule exists for the computation of time , either under the Bankruptcy Act or any other statute , or , indeed , where time is mentioned in a contract , and the rational mode of computation of time is to have regard in each case to the purpose for which the computation is to be made ( Re North , ex parte Hasluck [ 1895 ] 2 QB 264 ) . |
| 6 | This formulation enabled Althusser to theorize a decentred totality which allowed the possibility of differences without reducing each instance to the operation of an essence or a single principle , such as the dialectic . |
| 7 | They never paid homage specifically for the duchy of Aquitaine ( in particular , for that part to the south of the Garonne ) , and this partly explains how their south-western French possessions were able to survive Capetian attacks . |
| 8 | In Birmingham the planned area — all that part to the west of Snow Hill station today — was formerly the New Hall estate of the Colmore family . |
| 9 | Civilians at night , threatening little damage to the fabric of society , might be taken aback at being suddenly confronted with the majesty of the state in the form of a bored constable . |
| 10 | Less than a quarter were in favour of the government having the power to expropriate land , which offers little support to the opposition to the landed elite thesis ( Johnson 1972 ) . |
| 11 | Another clause , restricting the sellers ' liability for a consequential loss and limiting that liability to the amount of the contract price was held to pass the reasonableness test . |
| 12 | They have referred that recommendation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 13 | When the Minister reviews the business regulations will he consider extending that review to the regulation of financial institutions , in view of the problems with the collapse of Guinness III and the potential collapse of Guinness II , and in view of the serious difficulty with fraud regulation at present , particularly now that only three people will be going to gaol for a shorter time than the whole of the Guinness trial was taken , with one of them , Mr. Ernest Saunders , whose sentence was reduced because of ill health , on the national media this morning in blooming health and protesting his innocence ? |
| 14 | The preservation of the marsupials in Australia was explained in terms of the breaking of a land-bridge connecting that continent to the rest of the world before the appearance of the placental mammals . |
| 15 | Welfare as a discretionary standard contains contradictions and thus provides little guidance to the disposition of trouble cases . |
| 16 | He raised that study to the rank of a single comprehensive and independent science , and thus deserved to be reverently regarded by posterity as the eponymous hero of all the long line of later scholars " . |
| 17 | ‘ The people are really richer here than anywhere else , ’ wrote a French observer in 1747 , ‘ and they partly at least owe this advantage to the wisdom of their laws . |
| 18 | Ezekiel speaks in much the same strain , and specifically attributes this change to the Spirit of God : |
| 19 | Yet in spite of this regression to the use of Hollywood racist images , it was still applauded at Creteil . |
| 20 | In return for recognising the legality of the police practice of detaining suspects after arrest , but before charge , the Act attempts to give some protection to the suspect by imposing time limits on the period of detention , by introducing a system of review to ensure that detention remains necessary and by introducing a series of statutory rights supervised by the custody officer , and a Code of Practice on Detention and Questioning . |
| 21 | Thank you Chairman erm take this opportunity to the Committee to sub Committee erm back early erm year three . |
| 22 | in this case to the thickness of the face . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ The Attorney General should send this case to the Court of Appeal in view of the seriousness of the offences by a professional man . |
| 24 | In systems terms , there would also need to be mechanisms for taking control or corrective action based on defined measures of performance , related in this case to the effectiveness of education provision ( ie ensuring that the curriculum delivered meets the defined education requirements ) , and to the accurate provision of resources . |
| 25 | You can position this wherever you want a split — in this case to the right of column A and below Row 1 . |
| 26 | Finally , even Time magazine had to give some credence to the arrival of this remarkable undercurrent in the motivation of young people , but preferred to blame London influences rather than American . |
| 27 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 28 | On Warsaw Pact membership , Antall 's statement provided some response to the challenge of the Free Democrats , who had tabled an emergency resolution earlier in the month calling for the immediate withdrawal of Hungarian forces from the alliance 's joint command . |
| 29 | I would be grateful were you to bring this Mass to the attention of the people through your parish bulletins . |
| 30 | Tam Dalyell 's views on the Brandt Commission 's second report ( Forum , 7 April , p 40 ) are perhaps just another addition to the literature on the subject . |