Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They watched the progress of Polaris closely , but made no bid for it because to have done so would have loaded the Naval votes with its costs at the expense of the rest of the Fleet . |
| 2 | Moreover , there is no room here to explore the comments further , to probe the reasoning behind them or to see to what extent they represent a wider consensus . |
| 3 | At his institute in Copenhagen ardent youths would arrive to lay their latest intellectual offering before him and to seek his criticism and approbation . |
| 4 | So that 's that 's the way to use that is not to talk to it but to have a silence while you 're writing er and then to stand at the side while you making the points that are that are associated with what you 've written up . |
| 5 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 6 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 7 | In that instant all she wanted was for him to take her in his arms again ; to know the sweet pressure of his mouth on hers and to feel once more the way her body had come alive beneath his hands . |
| 8 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 9 | They imported artists and artisans from Greece to carry out this work for them and to ornament their buildings ; they also imported actual sculpture from Greece for the same purpose . |
| 10 | But he warned : ‘ There is no greater challenge in rugby for me than to play against England before my own people . ’ |
| 11 | It is further the case that a father who gets his 14-year-old daughter to perform an act of fellatio on him or to masturbate him is not criminally liable . |
| 12 | The purpose of a sleeping bag is to insulate the body from the cold around it and to prevent heat from escaping . |
| 13 | The presbytery appoints the church officers of the respective parishes to make inquiry for her and to summond her to the succeeding dyets of the presbytery to be held in the isle . |
| 14 | The presbytery appoints the church officers of the respective parishes to make inquiry for her and to summond her to the succeeding dyets of the presbytery to be held in the isle . |
| 15 | As Shneidman makes it clear : ‘ While different components of the educational process aim at the development of different qualities and values , it is impossible to draw a clear distinction between them and to separate physical education from other segments of communist upbringing ’ ( 1979 , p.6 ) . |
| 16 | There is a great temptation to capture all sorts of information for the sake of it and to keep the same information in several different locations . |
| 17 | So th th th there 's , there 's a heightened need for support because of the the nature of the civil war now , and , and they are under quite substantial pressure and therefore you need to mobilize the population behind you and to get that mobilization you , you 've got to offer more struggle fruits to the peasants and absolute egalitarianism is the way to offer them the maximum . |
| 18 | The horse 's behaviour may be modified by trying to get it to have confidence in us and to like us ; and by keeping our own aggression under control , so that we do n't arouse the horse 's aggressive instinct . |
| 19 | Since even the neophyte practises on his own , there is no senior partner to keep an eye on him and to clamp down upon him if he is incompetent.s |
| 20 | It is then up to you to gauge their importance to you and to decide whether or not to comply with their demands . |
| 21 | Mark and I went down to Yorkshire on Saturday morning to stay with an old University friend of mine and to go to the Bedale Point-to-Point with a group of people . |
| 22 | It is all the more heart-warming now to be in contact with you and to receive copies of Nonesuch . |
| 23 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 24 | This agreement between the governments in London and Dublin was an attempt to promote co-operation between them and to try to find a joint approach to at least some of the problems of Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Will teachers have sufficient respect for them as to make their judgements acceptable ? |
| 26 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 27 | As Britain has a special responsibility towards her and her country , can the Minister tell the House what action our ambassador is taking to get access to her and to secure her release ? |
| 28 | So fine is the distinction that in truth the High Court has a choice before it whether to interfere with an inferior court on a point of law . |
| 29 | A sum like this , though , would eat such a hole in it as to jeopardize his ordinary work . |
| 30 | She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them . |