Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | MADONNA , EMF , GEORGE MICHAEL , LISA STANSFIELD and SEAL are among artists contributing to a new AIDS benefit LP . |
| 2 | For example , if the business is heavily dependent on numerous long-term contracts , a purchaser may decide to investigate the contracts equating to a specified percentage of the turnover of the business plus one or two minor contracts . |
| 3 | Critical Path Analysis is a computer programme into which variables relating to a particular project are fed . |
| 4 | If there are special risks relating to a particular transaction which are not brought out in the Risk Warning Notice , these must be specifically disclosed . |
| 5 | It proceeds not by attempting to describe the essence of units but by arranging the sound units according to a system of binary oppositions ' . |
| 6 | There is growing public demand for increased information on food labels according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 7 | In October the price of sugar dropped to its lowest level in 20 months owing to a fall in demand from Iraq and Kuwait and the readiness of countries like India to sell sugar to raise desperately needed cash to cover rising oil prices . |
| 8 | Similar part-time courses including some in science/technology subjects leading to a University Certificate are offered by several Colleges of Further Education . |
| 9 | HARPY 's use of a finite-state grammar permitted backwards pruning since a finite-state grammar has the property that any string of words leading to a given state is equivalent to any other string leading to that state as far as future states are concerned . |
| 10 | To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach . |
| 11 | Trajectories leading to a sink and a limit cycle are illustrated in Fig. 2.1 . |
| 12 | Buskers played in the streets ; hawkers shouted their wares ; women met and gossiped ; kids played , as I had done when younger ; and of course nothing could , or would stop Glaswegians going to a match on Saturdays , especially to a game between the ‘ old firms ’ — Rangers and Celtic — either at Hampden Park or Parkhead . |
| 13 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |
| 14 | ‘ Not as much as I 'd like to , lady , ’ he retorted grimly , his lips thinning to a cruel white line . |
| 15 | Thus all the senses of mouth discussed earlier will represent lexical units belonging to a single lexeme . |
| 16 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 17 | Animals belonging to a dangerous species |
| 18 | The definition of ‘ keeper ’ for this head of liability is the same as that for animals belonging to a dangerous species . |
| 19 | As for animals belonging to a dangerous species , a camel has been held to be such because it may cause severe injury by kicking and biting , but strict liability was imposed for injuries suffered by falling off the camel because of its irregular gait . |
| 20 | More recently , in the third wave of technology the man has been removed from the responsibility for continuous control ( this is best done by computers working to a moderately flexible range of programs ) but he remains as the monitor of the system performance and a selector of the appropriate program determined by the changing short-term objectives . |
| 21 | Analysis of teachers ' responses will seek groupings of activities according to a common pattern of use . |
| 22 | Patients across the country are receiving widely varying doses of radiation during X-rays according to a report out today by the Oxfordshire-based National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 23 | Rapidly increasing livestock production around the globe is threatening the environment by promoting overgrazing , deforestation , water pollution and methane emissions according to a study by the Worldwatch Institute . |
| 24 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 25 | The project aims to investigate the methodology of establishing interactive microprocessor and large computer models relating to a wide range of topics in environmental technology decision-making and to develop representative models . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the application , that the provision in article 5(1) of the 1968 Convention conferring special jurisdiction in respect of ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ required the existence of either a contractual relationship between the parties giving rise to actual contractual obligations , or a consensual relationship closely akin to a contract and with comparable obligations ; and that , since the transactions between the plaintiffs and defendants had been void ab initio , no contracts existed within the meaning of article 5(1) ; that the jurisdiction under article 5(3) was restricted to claims based on tort , delict or quasi-delict and did not extend to claims for restitution ; that article 6(1) was not applicable since under the terms of the order of Steyn J. the restitution claims would not be heard and determined together and , in any event , any irreconcilable judgments would be subject to a final decision of the House of Lords , binding in both England and Scotland ; and that , accordingly , there were no grounds for invoking the special jurisdiction to allow the defendants to be sued in England ( post , pp. 836F , 837B–D , 838E , 840B–D , 842H — 843B , G , G–H ) . |
| 27 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 28 | The decision on this paragraph turns on the proper construction of the crucial words ‘ in matters relating to a contract , ’ it not being disputed that the place of performance of the obligation in question ( if it exists ) was England . |
| 29 | In the present case , he submitted , the House of Lords has now conclusively ruled that there is not and never was a contract , and it is thus apparent on the plain words of article 5(1) itself that these restitutionary claims can not possibly be properly classified as matters relating to a contract . |
| 30 | ( iv ) Although the claims in these actions are not made for the performance of the obligations under the contracts or as a result of their breach , they do concern matters relating to a contract , since the court is determining the consequences of the nullity of the contracts , particularly with regard to the contractual matters of total failure of consideration and payments under a mistake . |