Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC . |
| 2 | The practice of ‘ back-door ’ rights issues enabled companies to evade the requirements of pre-emptive rights by getting shareholders to agree to a paper issue ( an expansion of the authorized capital which , if not being sold to raise additional capital , may be used in a share swap ) for the purpose of taking over an investment trust . |
| 3 | In practice , this is unlikely to prove a problem for directors of private companies who are probably also the shareholders , but directors of public companies do have to consider whether it is in the interests of the company and the shareholders to agree to a lock-out clause at a figure which may not be the highest obtainable . |
| 4 | The decision to proceed to a currency union and accordingly revise the Rome Treaty was reached on political grounds , just as was the case with the signing of the original Treaty of Rome , the creation of the EMS and the ratification of the Single European Act . |
| 5 | A MC clause obviously sustains collusion by creating an incentive for a buyer to report to a seller keeping to the agreement prices of a seller who may be cheating on the agreement , at the same time nullifying the effect of the latter . |
| 6 | Betty was here out of the kindness of her heart to minister to a wounded human being . |
| 7 | It is not therefore possible at present for the public finance economist to appeal to a generally accepted body of theory . |
| 8 | Calling a passing taxicab , I ordered the driver to drive to a hotel quite near Lanyon 's house . |
| 9 | The union wants employers to agree to a specific date for equalising eastern and western wages , though it is willing to wait beyond 1994 . |
| 10 | The device uses an infra-red link to connect to a desktop computer or to other Personal Digital Assistants , and it will use a low-power RISC processor — Cambridge , UK-based Advanced RISC Machines Ltd 's ARM600 presumably , a 3″ by 5″ supertwist but not backlit screen and will have no other input devices except a pen . |
| 11 | Sails are kept ready rigged , ready for action , and all rigs are interchangeable with all boards — an unrivalled opportunity to try to a wide range of sails with a wide range of boards . |
| 12 | Please verify that there is sufficient disk quota and privilege to write to a file in the supplied working directory . |
| 13 | Which meant that the butis had total Community meetings to come to a ‘ synthesized accord ’ whenever the need was felt . |
| 14 | There are eight such standards of which No. 2 requires twice the exposure to fade to a given extent as No. 1 , No. 3 twice that of No. 2 and so on . |
| 15 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 16 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 17 | This clearly contravened church teaching : in II Cnut 54.1 Archbishop Wulfstan forbids a priest to minister to a man who has both a rightful wife and a concubine . |
| 18 | Was it safe for Her Majesty to go to a land which was virtually Communist controlled ? |
| 19 | pion fired on all cylinders to roar to a five under par 66 and a 36-hole total of 142 , just two strokes adrift of leader Tommy Horton , who was beaten by Brian Huggett in a play-off for the crown a year ago . |
| 20 | but er , under the nineteen forty four Act , Rentham Senior School then became Rentham Modern School and we thought we thought that the silly term to go to a school which in nineteen twenty six had been er |
| 21 | And traditional handbag makers are injecting more fun and fashion into their designs to appeal to a wider audience , while maintaining the quality which makes them so distinctive . |
| 22 | ‘ Is it any good to write to a Solicitor ? ’ he asked Hooton . |
| 23 | It only needs one horse to come to a stud or livery yard premises incubating the disease to start a large outbreak . |
| 24 | OSI enables all the different manufacturers to work to a common set of standards . |
| 25 | Bishop Konstant says : ‘ On the larger issue we will need time , information and guidance to come to a clear understanding of the morality of such situations . |
| 26 | Is it fair to assume that , in this general election year , the right hon. and learned Gentleman expects the review to lead to a cut in the Government 's minimum standards for education facilities , designed to meet the requirements of the national curriculum ? |
| 27 | It is an attempt to conform to a divine reality and standard that the soul can not ‘ see ’ at this early stage but which she has to take on faith . |
| 28 | Father Boyle stopped the car to talk to a young mechanic in overalls . |
| 29 | On Sept. 6 Mobutu announced his intention to submit to a popular referendum an alternative draft constitution based on " a semi-presidential regime " embodying the " inviolability of the President " — a reference to the April 1990 transitional charter freeing the President from political and legislative control [ see p. 37366 ] . |
| 30 | Also , the factors identified above as relevant to deciding the effect of alternative remedies may be relevant to deciding what effect to give to a statutory ouster clause which is open to more than one interpretation . |