Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial judge sensibly obtained the agreement of counsel for the defendants to the case proceeding on the basis of defined issues . |
| 2 | The Boadicea Club provides an opportunity for the tables to be turned . |
| 3 | I know that a lot of youngsters gain their first experience of shooting with bolting rabbits but I do think that so much preparatory work is necessary to create the opportunity for the rabbits to be killed that the chance must not be missed . |
| 4 | It provides an opportunity for the docklands to be redeveloped as a high quality , high density part of the city itself . |
| 5 | This is at the judge 's discretion ( Ord 21 , r 6(1) with opportunity for the parties to be present . |
| 6 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 7 | The portfolio would stay in Russia until authorities have given permission for the pictures to be exported . |
| 8 | The Dresden city government gave permission for the rallies to be held , insisting that refusal might have provoked violent demonstrations in the city , which had become a centre of radical right-wing activity since the end of the East German communist regime . |
| 9 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) The provisions of section 68 of this Act shall apply to any remises or place in respect of which an occasional permission is granted as they apply to licensed premises , with the substitution of references to the holder of the permission for the references to the holder of a licence . |
| 11 | In Thomas Young v. Hobson ( 1949 C.A. ) the seller made a contract for the goods to be carried at ‘ owner 's risk . ’ |
| 12 | There will be provision for the shares to be sold free from adverse interests and with all future rights but , perhaps , with the right for the seller to receive a final pre-completion dividend . |
| 13 | Only two years earlier the Twelve had battled at epic length over increasing the EC budget for the years to 1992 from 0.7 per cent of each member state 's gross national product to nearly 1.2 per cent , with the ceiling fixed at over £30 billion . |
| 14 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 15 | Three : Paul 's prayer for the Ephesians to be filled with power ( 3:14–20 ) . |
| 16 | Yet a UK importer would still prefer to send the payment for the goods to America , either in US dollars or sterling ( or in any other agreed currency for that matter ) . |
| 17 | Under such an arrangement the electoral system in East Germany would have been that used in March for the elections to the Volkskammer ( East German unicameral parliament — see pp. 37300-02 ) . |
| 18 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 19 | an agreed departmental policy on the sizes of teaching groups appropriate for the different modes of teaching used in different subject areas and the provision of sufficient staff hours for the modules to be taught in these ways ; |
| 20 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |
| 21 | E-VALUES are the data values for the zones to be mapped . |
| 22 | The Commission takes the view that responsibility for the initiatives to be taken as regards the implementation of social rights lies with the Member States , their constituent parts , or the two sides of industry , as well as , within the limits of its powers , with the European Community . ’ |
| 23 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 24 | The protection of that model , and the benefits of legal charisma to individual clients , is the justifica-tion for the claims to power and privilege — power to determine the conditions of practice independently of the state and privilege in state protection for the monopolistic economic basis of that practice . |
| 25 | ( iii ) It is necessary for there to be a quorum of creditors for the meetings to be effective . |
| 26 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
| 27 | People say , for instance , that it 's more acceptable in Jamaican cultures for the women to be fatter . |
| 28 | The extent to which these problems will be tolerated , and the measures adopted for dealing with them , will vary from school to school , and it is accepted that it would be impossible to lay down precise rules about the steps to be taken . |
| 29 | Dropping the kids off at my mother-in-law 's , I trudged the few miles to the hospital taking the short cut through the grounds to the usual ward . |
| 30 | The Netherlands had been happy to accept the supranational principle in advance , but insisted on retaining the right to withdraw from the discussions should it prove impossible in its eyes for the ideas to be turned into economic practice . |