Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers ' leaders have expressed concern in the past at the risks to which teachers are exposing themselves if things go wrong , not just the risk to life and limb , but in terms of the extent of their legal responsibility for doing work which is outwith paid requirements . |
| 2 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 3 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 4 | For example , in addition to the road-traffic offences , there are offences under sections 32 and 33 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of endangering railway passengers ; there are the offences under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 of endangering the lives of others by causing damage to property ( usually by fire ) ; the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 penalizes employers for failure to ensure that employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety ; and there are offences , such as that under section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , of selling goods in contravention of safety regulations . |
| 5 | Even so , many people are prepared to take the risks to their health , and extend these to their child . |
| 6 | The Health and Safety at Work ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1978 requires the University to ensure , as far as is reasonably practicable , that students are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 7 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 8 | * Assess risks to their employees and others who may be affected |
| 9 | Pregnant women should also be aware of the risks to their babies . |
| 10 | The risks to his person were already great simply coming down the nearly straight avenues from the Palaţul Primaverii to the Central Committee building , but the imaginary dangers threatening him in the area to the west of the hill were too great to be contemplated . |
| 11 | Arthur Koestler has commented , … every original thinker who relies , as he must , on his unconscious hunches , incurs much greater risks to his career and sanity than his more pedestrian colleagues . |
| 12 | And it might go away if he did n't listen keenly , feed it perhaps with the energy of his life , stoke it up with risks to his health and even to his sanity . |
| 13 | He admitted the strategy posed risks to his party , but said : ‘ I 've got to be prepared , to continue to be prepared , to take risky positions to keep in the game . ’ |
| 14 | NETWORK SECURITY not only highlights the risks to your system and offers live demonstrations of control systems on the market , but also discusses a cost effective security strategy . |
| 15 | However there are some risks to your health from rimming from other types of infection , e.g. hepatitis , salmonella , and some parasites . |
| 16 | But we still face grave risks to our security . |
| 17 | On the one hand we know that drinking , smoking , driving and overwork involve risks to our health , and we apparently accept them . |
| 18 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 19 | If they are serious in their intentions to offer the insights in the arts to which pupils have a right , then the latter should be able to expect a well considered programme , to achieve which requires extensive teacher preparation of which INSET is a part . |
| 20 | So those best fitted to their surroundings will be selected and be able to transmit their characteristics to their offspring . |
| 21 | They may attribute unattractive and negatively valued characteristics to their enemies or neighbours , but most certainly not to themselves . |
| 22 | We have closed our ears to his cries and left him in the shadows while we walked in the light . ’ |
| 23 | Most hurtful and unfair of all , though , he had been the butt of jokes about his appearance for as long as he could remember — everything from his ears to his hairline . |
| 24 | The creator of the ‘ miracle ’ at Sabina Park , 1989–90 , Graham Gooch has four centuries to his name against West Indies . |
| 25 | His 100th Test would be the opening match of the series in Calcutta , and he also left England with 99 first-class centuries to his name . |
| 26 | The frog had brought some other young frogs to its spot among the leaves at the edge of the world of the flower . |
| 27 | It was not only in Communist Romania that the leaders of the Party quickly adapted their lifestyles to their capacity to exploit the state . |
| 28 | A SUPERB athlete , he has eleven wins from twelve chases to his credit , including the Champion Chase at the Festival . |
| 29 | For manufactured goods , Malaysia has relied heavily on attracting foreigners to its Export processing Zones ( see below ) and letting them fight it out in the exports markets with the minimum of intervention . |
| 30 | A government decree linked the employment of foreigners to their possession of a work permit , it was reported on Oct. 11 . |