Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As you yourself informed us last night , and the lord sheriff has since confirmed , to our endless regret , and surely to yours , the young man you so beguiled is now dead , here within our walls , and shall be at our charge for the rites due to him . |
| 2 | Such a subjective process is controversial by its very nature and becomes more so when changes are introduced each year that may have important consequences for the grants payable to individual local authorities . |
| 3 | The other raises the threshold for the exemptions applicable to small and medium-sized companies . |
| 4 | Having earlier been widely dismissed as a crank — he was frequently referred to disparagingly as " Governor Moonbeam " because of his interest in mysticism and Zen Buddhism — Brown 's victory in Colorado ensured a more serious hearing for the policies central to his campaign such as the creation of a Canadian-style health care system and the adoption of a 13 per cent flat rate of income tax . |
| 5 | It will be vital to ensure that the right types of sites are available for the firms likely to be attracted , and to have the necessary back-up infrastructure in place . |
| 6 | Gramsci argued , like Banfield did some thirty years later , with a direct political aim , but in Gramsci 's case the problem was to develop a political strategy for the Communists adequate to the conditions in the rural , clerical-dominated and agricultural south , as well as to the conditions in the much more urban , secular and industrialised north of Italy . |
| 7 | Moreover , you need to know if you are eligible for the rights available to a dismissed employee , such as the right to complain of unfair dismissal or to seek a redundancy payment . |
| 8 | We will also raise the basic rate of income tax by one penny in the pound to pay for the improvements essential to education . |
| 9 | Whatever the future pattern of health care in London , it must make adequate provision for the demands likely to be made in the immediate future . |
| 10 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the mortality rates except when birth weight was included in the adjustment for the deaths due to immaturity . |
| 11 | As a system for payment and the organization of underground practice , it was undoubtedly in decline during the decades prior to the Second World War , but the historical legacy of the butty and its ramifications permeated the lives of the miners . |
| 12 | As in previous rounds of talks , the atmosphere between Israel and the Arabs was tense during the weeks prior to the start of negotiation . |
| 13 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 14 | Iraq 's invasion and annexation of Kuwait in August 1990 was a serious shock to the Israeli leadership ; during the months prior to the invasion Iraq had adopted an extremely aggressive attitude towards Israel . |
| 15 | Their only daughter Olive followed her father to an early grave as the result of the same complaint which was such a terrible scourge during the years prior to the Second World War . |
| 16 | During the years prior to the flotation , British Gas had been forced by the government to sell both its North Sea oil interests and also its half share in the onshore Wytch Farm oilfield in Dorset . |
| 17 | Thus , with respect to the income arising during the years prior to the taxpayer coming to the United Kingdom there should be no tax charge under s739 . |
| 18 | Note that , since player II receives - , if he wishes to maximise his own expected receipts , he will aim to minimise the expected receipts of I. For example , in the problem of Section 10.3 , we can re-interpret the columns of Table 10.1 as the actions available to Firm II , and Firm II seeks to choose the column with the smallest maximum entry . |
| 19 | One of the problems arising from reliance on parental contributions is that it produces wide disparities between the resources available to schools with different catchment areas . |
| 20 | The amount of the non-equity interest in shareholders ' funds should now be analysed between the amounts attributable to different classes of non-equity shares . |
| 21 | The Discussion Paper proposed that shareholders ' funds be analysed between the amounts attributable to equity and non-equity shares , and envisaged that this would be provided by analysing its component parts ( called up share capital , share premium account and other reserves ) between equity and non-equity interests ( Discussion Paper , paragraphs 3.50-3.56 ) . |
| 22 | Shares of the reporting entity are to be classified as equity or non-equity and an analysis is to be presented of shareholders ' funds between the amounts attributable to equity and non-equity shares . |
| 23 | On the lips of every child of that town was the story of the day-long battle fought there on November 21st 1921 , between the men loyal to George Tiutiunnyk and the fledgling Red Army . |
| 24 | Any press release must be agreed between the parties prior to issue . |
| 25 | There may , however , be questions in her mind about the choices open to her : how will the information in a catalogue differ from what is to be found in a monograph ? |
| 26 | I thought about the options open to us . |
| 27 | The difficulty will be to find specialists who know enough about the groups concerned to be able to single out the new one . |
| 28 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |
| 29 | In August 1895 , arising out of argument about the fees payable to the law officers , Lord Salisbury , as Prime Minister , promised Sir Edward Clarke that he would be appointed Attorney-General if a vacancy occurred within two years . |
| 30 | In the book itself he carried through this programme by asserting that theology could not be dictated to by another discipline either about the nature of its object or about the methods appropriate to its study . |