Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If a shipowner exercised due diligence to see that the vessel had been made seaworthy in all respects , the Harter Act exempted the shipowner from the consequences of errors in navigation and management .
2 There is no provision in the rules as there was in the 1952 Rules for searches for prior petitions in county courts to see if the debt has been paid , but the Practice Direction refers to carrying out these searches and the certificates to be endorsed on the petition of their result .
3 Erm , I think probably I would support the recommendation as it stands because I do think that we need to have a trial to see if the end performance , and I very very much support the idea of the end performance , er in district .
4 LIFESPAN ABLE will ask the user to confirm that the facility is to be terminated and , if confirmed , will terminate with an appropriate message .
5 I should like to take this opportunity to emphasise that the work on the Iraqi material is being done for the United Nations and the IAEA .
6 No immediate statement was made on whether the death of Gryschenko would alter plans to continue when the race leaves Punta , bound for Fremantle , on 28 October .
7 Once an ambulance crew has given initial aid to a seriously injured patient , a paramedic will consult a specialist at Stoke to see if the person should be taken there .
8 Except for cases of incurably ill pets , where owner and vet agree that euthanasia is best , the reasons given are as follows , in order of frequency : a ) The client wants the vet to agree that the animal is terminally ill/suffering/too old to treat .
9 ‘ If they have horses , ’ Thorfinn said , ‘ they 'll be at the Ochils by now , and at Tayside with two hours to spare before the fleet gets into the river .
10 The minimum critical union size implied by the membership equation is sensitive to two of the underlying assumptions : attitudes to risk and the specification of union dues .
11 It was nine-thirty , only an hour to go before the Dragon closed .
12 The market has now declined in importance , due to the inability of authorities to borrow and the unpopularity of the assets with investors uncertain about the future of local authority finance .
13 Under s. 1(4) , the duty is to take such care as is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case to see that the non-visitor does not suffer injury on the premises by reason of the danger concerned .
14 The union representative is looking into the case to see if the company have a negligence claim to answer , but at the moment it rather looks as if it was entirely Len 's fault .
15 It would seem reasonable to assume from this , that the length of the chains in the sample must play a significant role in determining the resistance to flow and the effect of chain length on log η , measured at low shear rates to ensure Newtonian flow , is illustrated in figure 12.4 .
16 Admittedly , it would take twenty-four hours to see if the blood on the scissors matched the sample from Nicola Sharpe and if the partial fingerprints could be matched against the elimination prints from David Parkin .
17 For the Bristol graduate Convocation represents an opportunity to see that the University has its graduates ' advice on how to preserve what is good while changing to meet the needs of the future .
18 C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use .
19 Where a teacher feels this is likely to happen it becomes her responsibility to see that the danger is avoided .
20 Initial assessment to see whether the sufferer has addictive disease at all .
21 All peers of Great Britain have retained entitlement to sit since the peerage was instituted in 1707 as have peers of the United Kingdom since 1801 .
22 Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers .
23 Sometimes the volume quoted by the manufacturer is wrong by as much as 25 per cent , so press the salesman to confirm that the volume is at least 200 litres .
24 In Belgrade ( the Serbian as well as the federal capital ) tens of thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins held a vigil on Jan. 30-31 outside the Federal Assembly building to demand that the Army be sent into Kosovo and to protest against the stance of the Slovene and Croatian leaderships .
25 ‘ Not your day , is it , Duvall ? ’ said Jimmy , and Duvall glared hard at him again with a look that spoke again of reckonings to come after the nightmare was over .
26 It is common for the articles of association of a company that is a management buy-out vehicle , a joint venture company , or which is owned by multiple shareholders to provide that the sale of the assets and undertaking of the company requires the consent of specified individuals .
27 If there are reasons to indicate that the child has visual defects , more detailed and sophisticated tests will be undertaken by an ophthalmologist to whom the child will be referred .
28 Mr. Page began proceedings in the Queen 's Bench Division to establish that the university was not entitled to dismiss him .
29 They did not appear to be engaged , nor was Madeleine sporting a ring , but Harry had had no opportunity to discover if the army captain was really her fiance .
30 It was because of this that it became so important for a buyer to establish that the seller 's representation amounted to a contractual term so that full damages would then be available .
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