Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] a [noun] to " in BNC.

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31 This poses a threat to agriculture and the food chain , and consequently to human health .
32 So if all this poses a threat to a 19-year-old getting a job , something is wrong as it 's still quite obvious that employers prefer people with no ties .
33 This imparts a rhythm to the neck even when it is straight and gives a sense of alertness and tensile strength .
34 ( c ) The charge If the conveyance or transfer does not fall within the provisions of s83 , one is thrown back on the previous stamp duty position : ( i ) conveyance or transfer on sale This incurs a charge to ad valorem stamp duty at 1 per cent unless the conveyance can be certified at £60,000 or less ( see below ) ( Finance Act 1984 , s109 and Finance Act 1993 ) ; or ( ii ) conveyance or transfer " of any other kind " In such a case fixed stamp duty of 50p is payable unless the instrument can be certified as being one within The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) .
35 This provides an exception to the no-costs rule in arbitration cases .
36 This suggests a closeness to Foucault 's notion of genealogy that the more strictly academic new historicists , whose own politics remain more carefully hidden , ignore .
37 This suggests an answer to a question which has troubled international political economists since the early 1970s : what happens when the hegemon needed for hegemonic stability begins to decline ?
38 Even in the first week of June , when potatoes were a foot high and oilseed rape was in glower , snow fell on high ground , and this makes a difference to what you can grow successfully .
39 And this makes a difference to the role of data .
40 At the present time jobs are not easy to come by , and if you 're on permanent , or rather short-term contracts renewed all the time this makes a difference to where you can get to compared with a man with the equivalent training .
41 Mentally abnormal people can not consent , though the accused has a defence to indecent assault if he did not know and had no reason to believe that his victim was defective : see ss.14(4) and 15(4) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 .
42 There there was a very substantial increase in ninet ninety ninety-one , and I 'm happy to say that , all but two of those projects have been fully funded by sponsors , and in fact , our policy now , and this is operated from the the first of April this year , is that all projects shall be fully funded by sponsors , and that includes a contribution to the overheads that erm , the projects incur .
43 Article 35 allows an obligation to be imposed upon a third State if the parties so intend , and the third party accepts it in writing.139 — The juridical basis for the third party 's obligation would appear therefore to be an ancillary ( or collateral ) agreement in writing .
44 The fact that this early lesion is intimal suggests a response to a factor or factors in the blood , and the ‘ response to injury ’ hypothesis is central to current thinking on the atherosclerotic process .
45 Each of these brings a gift to the whole . ’
46 The nurses made approximately 41 visits a day to clients with leg ulcers .
47 Pissarro 's ‘ Le boulevard Montmartre ; temps de pluie , après-midi ’ of 1897 reveals a return to his classic Impressionist brushstroke ( est. $2–3 million ; £1.33–2 million ) .
48 that distinguishes a professional to somebody who is n't .
49 A conservative could adduce , in support of this contention , the fact that in scripture God is overwhelmingly conceptualized by using male metaphors ; that God came in Christ , a male human person ; and that he chose men alone to head the church ( if one thinks that the calling of the twelve bears a relation to the constitution of the church ) .
50 Gokbilgin reproduces a for Mehmed II's complex based on the Fatih mosque in Istanbul for the year 1 Dhu " l-Ka'da 894 to the last day of Shawwal 895 ( 26 September 1489 to 15 September 1490 ) from which it is clear that Molla Arab was both muderris at the Sahn and Multi during that year ; while in a document published by Barkan , a conflation of two statements of income and expenditure for the of Murad II in Edirne , written in Rajab 896/May-June 1491 and covering the years mid-893 to mid-895 , one finds a reference to one " Mevlana Isa Halife , [ the ] Sufi , one of the disciples of Mevlana Arab , mufti " .
51 Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B.
52 Section 1 gives an introduction to the Procedural Interface , Sections 2 to 22 describe the available interface procedures and Section 23 describes the required environment .
53 Table 11.3 gives a guide to the duration of jet-lag that might be expected after a single journey .
54 Because of the finite resistance of the secondary winding it will be necessary to balance the bridge for more than one value of R 1 in order to find M. Balancing for several values of R 1 permits a graph to be drawn of the balance value of R 3 versus .
55 Part 1 provides an introduction to SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules .
56 Scottish Literature 1 provides an introduction to selected major authors from a variety of periods ( Henryson , Dunbar , Burns , Scott , Hogg , Galt , MacDonald , Grassic Gibbon , Gunn , Muir and Spark ) .
57 That means a commitment to every figure in it , a commitment to taking a risk to achieve the budgeted outputs .
58 But the idea seems a decent punt — that means a bet to us city slickers , Wolfman — ’ she smiled sarcastically — ‘ not a cockeyed Irish pound note . ’
59 And that means an end to the gripe of Northern Ireland people having to pay an ‘ add on ’ supplement to get to Heathrow or Gatwick for their intercontinental flight .
60 736 remains an authority to the class of documents with which the court is concerned in this appeal .
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