Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A conference at Lancaster House in August 1979 saw the British government make concession after concession to the Black nationalists . |
| 2 | To know is to have formulated experience in reference to given categories ; to learn is to engage in the process of such formulation . |
| 3 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 4 | We posted requests for help to a cross-party selection of 15 MPs . |
| 5 | In addition , although the deputy head was clearly exhausted by the enormity of the task he had set himself , he had found the experience sufficiently valuable to recommend that all teachers should extend their understanding of curriculum evaluation and develop skills in addition to the testing of pupil outcomes . |
| 6 | If we change notes from chord to chord this weakening does not occur — the notes retain their ‘ freshness ’ . |
| 7 | The pupil can relate units of length to each other . |
| 8 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 9 | Accordingly the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for ‘ welfare ’ laid down by the Convention itself . |
| 10 | Drugged you drag grief from room to room and weep , |
| 11 | In 1958 the ubiquitous Micky Watson became President in addition to Hon. |
| 12 | Lady Braithwaite , Molly 's sister-in-law became President in succession to Kay Evans in 1983 . |
| 13 | In other words , the agreement offers privileges of protection to one group not afforded to others . |
| 14 | A tailor made programme of training to be run in-house is also under investigation |
| 15 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 16 | In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors . |
| 17 | This said practically nothing to stimulate action in relation to the systematic health differentials between social groups in Britain . |
| 18 | Once in , Barry was able to amass experience in film-making to a point where he could apply , with confidence of success , for the much-needed union ticket . |
| 19 | He also knows the stock and can discuss plans in relation to it ( as we shall see more closely in the following chapter ) . |
| 20 | Now , the suite of period rooms will adjoin galleries with mid- to late-eighteenth-century paintings , as well as a number of tapestries and decorative arts which are currently not on display . |
| 21 | By recruiting a team of specialists able to relate experience of industry to the huge market opportunities , OSO has helped firms to capture the lion 's share of a UK market worth more than £10 billion a year and branch into exports of the technology spurred by developments in UK waters . |
| 22 | The conditions of engagement show that the valuer accepts liability in tort to the borrower and the society but this has no additional consequence where the valuer is liable to the society under his contract of employment and the society would be vicariously liable to the borrower for the valuer 's negligence if it were not already liable to the borrower under a contract . |
| 23 | On demurrer it was held by the majority of the Court of Queen 's Bench that while the authorities had until then confined liability for enticement to the relation between master and servant ( which that between Lumley and Wagner clearly was not ) yet the plaintiff 's claim succeeded . |
| 24 | The national curriculum proposals form the first part of the Education Reform Bill , which also contains proposals in relation to open enrolments , financial delegation to schools , the establishment of grant maintained schools and various proposals for higher education . |
| 25 | As a student of child abuse , I regularly encountered forms of cruelty to children I hardly thought were possible . |
| 26 | The company was bound by the representation and could only rely on the exclusion clause to exclude liability for damage to beads and sequins . |
| 27 | One of the earliest and most influential attempts to relate forms of organization to wider patterns of social relations was Max Weber 's analysis of different types of belief in the legitimacy of domination ( i.e. in authority ) and the way these can be associated historically with different structures of authority and therefore different organizational forms . |
| 28 | Conversely an admiring glance , a word of praise or an encouraging smile provide rewards for conformity to social norms . |
| 29 | During the winter he will be continuing to provide projects of interest to teachers and students in both primary and secondary schools . |
| 30 | Jordan also asked for two offences of attempting to obtain money by deception to be taken into consideration . |