Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I enclose copies of letters I have been obliged to write to the Managers of InterCity , Regional Railways , and ScotRail , and I would be grateful if you could take up these issues with British Rail on my behalf . |
2 | Saltburn/Marske and New Marske parish council wants to form a junior version of its council and is to write to the headteachers at Bydales , Marske and Huntcliff , Saltburn , schools to drum up interest . |
3 | So we need to write to the police to er I suppose the thing to do is we write in a general way to the , the Chief Constable , North Wales police |
4 | Section 312 Companies Act 1985 makes it unlawful for any compensation for loss of office to be made to a director of a company in connection with the transfer of all or any part of the company , unless the nature and particulars of the proposed payment have been disclosed to the members of the company and have been approved by the company . |
5 | Any views given in writing will be disclosed to the parties to the appeal and are liable to be read out at the hearing . |
6 | Any information which is relevant may have to be disclosed to the parties in respect of any court case . |
7 | The position as to confidentiality is even clearer in the case of stockbrokers who can not be contractually bound to disclose to their private clients inside information disclosed to the brokers in confidence by a company for which they also act . |
8 | As Brightman J said in United Sterling Corp Ltd v Felton and Mannion [ 1974 ] RPC 162 " This contractual obligation of fidelity … may prevent a skilled employee from giving his assistance to a competitor despite the fact that such assistance is provided by the employee in his own time and despite the fact that no information has been disclosed to the employees in confidence " . |
9 | It was in 1975 , when she moved to the depths of the countryside in the south of France , that life and painting began to take a different shape . |
10 | Craving isolation , he moved to the depths of Herefordshire . |
11 | Upon marrying Lovebird Johnston , Juan moved to the outskirts of Kingstown , St Vincent and finally found work packing bananas for shipping around the world . |
12 | We ask of each person whether he did anything he should not have done such that he should be blamed for the deaths that followed , or whether he contributed to the accidents in such a way that , blameworthy or not , he should bear some portion of the damage or loss . |
13 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
14 | As we have already mentioned , there were many factors which contributed to the trends to ‘ total war ’ in the first half of the twentieth century . |
15 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
16 | The paper by Barrington ( 1886 ) on St. Kilda was one of those commended by Campbell ( op. cit. ) , while Gibson ( 1891 ) and Praeger ( 1897 ) also contributed to the lists for this most remote of all the outliers . |
17 | I am very grateful to everyone in the Library who contributed to the costs of this trip . |
18 | A government committed to the principles of choice , ownership , responsibility and opportunity ; committed to low inflation and low taxes ; committed to better quality and value in our public services ; committed to strong defences . |
19 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
20 | ‘ Having been brutally denied her rightful place to be an elected leader of her people , Aung San Suu Kyi remains courageously committed to the principles of freedom and democracy , ’ he said . |
21 | He remained too personally committed to the values of the Council and to a certain vaguely liberal spirit . |
22 | Modern British governments are intellectually committed to the concepts of limited government and political pluralism , but they retain their old authoritarian instincts . |
23 | Is the United Kingdom financially committed to the policies of cohesion and convergence ? |
24 | The progressive human resource management policies of the former were seen to equip these organisations with a key competitive resource : a well-trained work-force committed to the aims of the enterprise . |
25 | A government committed to the disciplines of the market had had a salutary lesson : the market did not care a damn for the long term , or strategic thinking into the middle of the next century , or , quite possibly , sustainable development . |
26 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
27 | The inclusion of this statement suggests that , while the theology faculties of Oxford and Cambridge universities remained firmly committed to the doctrines of predestination and assurance , some other Jacobeans , including perhaps James I himself , believed that the more extreme implications of these beliefs needed to be played down in order to make them more palatable to the laity . |
28 | ‘ Obviously , by background and experience I 'm wholly committed to the benefits of the capitalist system . |
29 | It is noticeable that a number of other politicians abroad have made it perfectly clear that this country becomes a more attractive place for investment — and therefore for jobs and prosperity — because we are not committed to the costs of the social chapter . |
30 | Are the membership aware of this and actively committed to the goals of the alliance ? |