Example sentences of "[noun pl] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shelley sold tender love songs to an audience bent on destruction and revenge . |
| 2 | During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible . |
| 3 | The literary judgement contained in the phrase ‘ almost embarrassing success ’ is offered in another way when the author , writing this time under his real name of J. I. M. Stewart , led his readers to an understanding of a super-hero , spy and adventurer whose exploits were made possible because he had retained the boyhood characteristics nourished by a certain area of reading . |
| 4 | In the Mughal court great importance was always given to small details of protocol and privilege : the colour of a turban , the number of jewels in a noble 's dagger , the place he was assigned in the Red Fort : all these things had significance as subtle indicators to an omrah 's place in the ranking of the empire . |
| 5 | It is always difficult to set the bounds to an industry — to determine where one industry 's activities end and another industry 's activities begin . |
| 6 | The bridge at Goring is long and narrow ; there are two spans to an island in the middle ; one side is Streatley , the other Goring . |
| 7 | Intellectual property agreements , such as know-how licences , sometimes contain provisions referring questions about the level of royalties to an accountant , unless the issues are technical in which case they are referred to a patent agent . |
| 8 | Perhaps there is a natural reluctance to give addresses to an organisation such as CPRW which intends to write demanding time and money . |
| 9 | Perhaps there is a natural reluctance to give addresses to an organisation such as CPRW which intends to write demanding time and money . |
| 10 | 353 the parties to an arbitration had agreed beforehand that the successful party should have costs on the High Court scale . |
| 11 | Salter J. posed the question ‘ whether it is allowable to parties to an arbitration of this kind to make their own agreement as to costs , ’ and said : ‘ I am unable to distinguish the position of such an arbitrator from that of a judge in this respect , ’ and , at p. 359 , said : |
| 12 | Parties to an arbitration can agree to dispense with a hearing , but if they do not , one party can insist on a hearing : Mustill and Boyd , pp300-301 . |
| 13 | Furthermore , third parties to an appeal may raise a point even if the local authority does not . |
| 14 | This is very different from the Common Law procedure , which will never compel , or even allow ( at that time ) , one of the parties to an action to give evidence ; but it is a procedure , and the only procedure , which is suitable for trying such questions as uses and trusts , for which no open public acts , no formal documents may be available as evidence . |
| 15 | This applies in particular to such features of English High Court procedure as mutual discovery of documents by the parties with or without a court order ; orders for the service on other parties of proofs of oral evidence intended to be led at the trial ; and certain orders which may be made even before the commencement of proceedings ( disclosure of documents by potential parties to an action in respect of personal injuries or death , and orders for the inspection , preservation or testing of property which may become the subject-matter of proceedings ) . |
| 16 | My Lords , this appeal exemplifies the conflict between two principles , one that no one ought to be compelled to incriminate himself and the other that justice should be done between the parties to an action . |
| 17 | Consequently the parties to an action will not be as free to use pre-trial procedure to their own ends , delaying trials where that is advantageous . |
| 18 | In reality , it may be but it is a weapon available to both parties to an action to force production of information which is not being produced voluntarily , or with sufficient speed . |
| 19 | ( See " Parties to an action " , p. 251. ( b ) The employer may be in breach of statutory duty and the employee suffer injury as a result . |
| 20 | Practitioners should bear in mind the obligations under the rules to serve a statement of special damages with the statement or particulars of claim , as the case may be , and the Practice Note ( QBD ) ( Personal Injury Actions : Special Damage ) ( 1984 ) 1 August ( [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1127 ) which requires the service of particulars of special damage , in the form of a schedule if appropriate , so that the extent to which special damages are agreed may be indicated by the other parties to an action in advance of the trial . |
| 21 | EI and CB were parties to an agreement — the Helsinki Agreement — that related to the acceptance by traders in France of Eurocheques drawn on foreign financial institutions . |
| 22 | Whilst choice theories firmly limit the range of legal obligations to the parties to an agreement , the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory envisages a broader range of obligations owed not only to persons who have chosen to enter an agreement together but also to anyone whose interests are subjected to the risk of harm . |
| 23 | An assignment requires A and B to be parties to an agreement and A , without B's consent , to transfer rights to X. The Vienna Convention is silent on the assignment of treaty rights , but it seems an evident consequence of State sovereignty that where a treaty provides for an assignment it should be enforceable . |
| 24 | While the parties to an agreement creating a new State may have intended that rights and obligations contained in the treaty would bind the new State , it is not apparent that the new State has consented to them . |
| 25 | Hence they are pronounced illegal unless the parties to an agreement can set aside the presumption by " proving " to the satisfaction of the Restrictive Practices Court that the agreement operates in the public interest . |
| 26 | It is , however , possible to point to what might well be regarded as unreasonable and the parties to an agreement should always endeavour to check their provisions against such benchmarks . |
| 27 | If the parties to an agreement want to refer their disputes to an expert and to keep the dispute out of court , they must say so specifically in the agreement . |
| 28 | The results of these measures will for some time be inconclusive , if only because parties to an experiment must still depend on the larger part of the economy which continues to operate according to traditional principles . |
| 29 | The parties to an application for a care or supervision order are : ( a ) the applicant ; ( b ) the child ; ( c ) every person whom the applicant believes to have parental responsibility for the child . |
| 30 | The idea is that managers derive utility from spending the company 's funds to an extent beyond that necessary for profit maximisation . |