Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration . |
| 2 | A public relations executive , Subba Row was a skilful diplomat accustomed to getting his own way and his methods did not always appeal to some of the county clubs or to the elder statesmen of MCC . |
| 3 | Whichever he sues , he can not include a claim for damage done to the component or to the larger item which was supplied with the component comprised in it . |
| 4 | Bouterse claimed that Shankar had collaborated with the Netherlands government to humiliate him by failing to lodge a diplomatic protest when , on three occasions during December , he was denied access to the Netherlands or to the local press while in transit at Amsterdam airport . |
| 5 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |
| 6 | One result is that higher rate taxpayers are switching their long-term deposits to tax free National Savings or to the taxable unit trust money funds such as Fidelity Cash , which pays 9pc gross . |
| 7 | Brief details of the appropriate methods are given below , although for working details reference should be made to the collected methods or to the original papers . |
| 8 | Minimum reporting standards require that valuation reports to be issued to clients or to the relevant authorities should normally take the form of a letter which would contain the following : |
| 9 | The evident plagiarism which underlay her ‘ prodigious ’ contributions to polymer science was too obvious to require special demonstration except to the inquiring scientific minds of the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry which elected Elena Ceauşescu to its membership . |
| 10 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 11 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 12 | The owner of the foot may suffer just as much pain but is likely to be far more forgiving to the clumsy perpetrator than to the sadistic one . |
| 13 | This was a view unsympathetic to religion and to the imaginative arts ; but it was not characteristic of the leading scientists , who were often interested in all kinds of things beyond their science and continued to resist the appearance of two cultures . |
| 14 | Needless to say , the condolences of the British monarch , government and people to the President and to the American people were without limit of sincerity or depth , and a search of unexampled vigour was now in progress to identify , find and arrest the culprits . |
| 15 | Our sole function is to provide as much information as possible to our member organizations and to the general public on the environmental , social and economic impacts of gold-mining in the north Galway and South Mayo areas . |
| 16 | Environmental issues , too , promote public awareness of the need for global solutions , both to the immediate dangers arising from atmospheric ozone depletion and to the longer-term threats associated with global warming . |
| 17 | The jet was small compared to commercial aircraft and to the new , private 747s sported by the oil Sheikhs today , but it was large enough to have three separate compartments . |
| 18 | To be an acute embarrassment to Nelson Mandela and to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress . |
| 19 | It would be an acute embarrassment to Nelson Mandela and to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress . |
| 20 | They come second to his personal ambition and to the Conservative Party interest . |
| 21 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 22 | There are detailed rules relating to documentary evidence , experts ' reports , experts , and evidence in general contained in Ord 20 and the copious notes thereunder , and reference should be made to The County Court Practice and to the standard text books . |
| 23 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 24 | This has been very harmful both to the industry and to the national interest . |
| 25 | Brooke stated that a ‘ substantial part ’ of its turnover would be devoted to ‘ good causes ’ , but the Bill does not set out what proportion of the proceeds will be allocated respectively to prizes , to administration and to the said good causes . |
| 26 | The way in which Saddam Hussein still behaves is unacceptable to us , to the United Nations and to the international community , and we shall continue to keep pressure on him . |
| 27 | It is these qualities that have made our audit and advisory roles valuable to our clients and to the public interest . |
| 28 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 29 | The expanding Nottinghamshire coalfield was peculiarly landlocked with poor access to the coast and to the large industrial areas and had , perhaps , the least effective links of a major coal producing area with London — the Great Central was not yet built . |
| 30 | Indeed , the well-preserved mummies of animals , pharaohs and queens on display in many museums bear witness to the skills of the ancient Egyptian embalmers and to the remarkable preservative powers of plant essences . |