Example sentences of "[prep] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning said : In my opinion any behaviour , by words or conduct , is sufficient to be a misrepresentation if it is such as to mislead the other party about the existence or extent of the exemption . |
| 2 | The closed-loop input impedance is easily found as To find the closed-loop output impedance , a source , is considered to be connected to the input in which case Assuming for simplicity that the feedback network negligibly loads the output and so from which the closed-loop output impedance is If further as is often the case , |
| 3 | Section 32 enables the Inland Revenue to adjust the value at which Target 's shares are disposed of to counteract the depressant effect of this sort of arrangement , while s176 ensures that a hive-up can not be used to realise an artificial loss on the disposal of Target 's shares ( eg , when it is liquidated ) . |
| 4 | However , Japan 's colonial and expansionist policies were hardly such as to strengthen the Asian nations . |
| 5 | Natural endowments are not such as to suggest the astonishing prominence achieved by Japan in the twentieth century . |
| 6 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 7 | So ESA is having to cough up rather more than it bargained for to insure the European communications satellite that , if all goes to plan , Ariane will place in orbit on its next launch in June . |
| 8 | If the objective function in P1 had been we could have used the formulae ( 3.6 ) for to generate the extra row and then proceed exactly as before . |
| 9 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 10 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 11 | Three generations of Dowdings have run the farm and used herbicides , pesticides and the best the agro-chemical producers could come up with to get the maximum yields . |
| 12 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 13 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 14 | Typically , the teacher is called upon to implement the second order realization of new ideas in the form of teaching materials rather than to consider the ideas themselves and how they key in with his own experience of teaching . |
| 15 | In a recent case in which the courts were called upon to construe the ambiguous expression ‘ land includes land covered by water ’ in the Rights of Way Act 1932 , the House of Lords , upholding the trial judge and reversing the Court of Appeal , held that the Act did not cover the creation of rights of navigation . |
| 16 | That apart , however , the strengths and weaknesses identified by members of the library committee in the implementation of the school 's library/resource policy have much in common with themes identified in the other three schools , and these will be drawn upon to inform the final section of this chapter . |
| 17 | The locations of the hotels in Barcelona was probably the biggest form of complaint … but I 'm sure we 're not going to be called upon to tredisgn the Spanish tourist industry . |
| 18 | Traditionally the Pru was a passive investor and could normally be counted upon to favour the incumbent management in a takeover bid — under Newmarch that approach has changed . |
| 19 | Money for Russia WHERE on earth is the money coming from to help the Russian economy ? |
| 20 | Jonathan asks me to say that Mary wants these items delivered to her at , anonymously , if necessary — I 'm sure those members of the trade still in possession of their underpants after the Christmas festivities can be relied upon to do the decent thing , and not abuse this rare privilege . |
| 21 | They both felt that , as Marcus 's wife , Louisa could be relied upon to give the best advice . |
| 22 | Arsenal 's poor performances in January 1933 sparked off a minor panic among supporters , and Chapman was even called upon to deny the widespread rumour that the new West Stand was to be dismantled and re-erected at Tottenham , the ultimate ignominy . |
| 23 | The Party could always be relied upon to orchestrate the massive demonstrations whose purpose was to cow those who doubted Franco 's strength and silence allegations that the regime was not legitimated by popular support . |
| 24 | Added to this is the doubt whether , because of the wide dispersion of shareholding in the large public company , shareholders can be relied upon to invoke the legal remedies at their disposal . |
| 25 | Why , one immediately wants to ask , can the state be relied upon to foster the political interests of the dominant class ? |
| 26 | virtuous elderly senator who was prevailed upon to succeed the murdered Commodus as Roman Emperor in AD 193 . |
| 27 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 28 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 29 | The pool of officers who could be called upon to man the general Waterguard Service and selected applicants began to serve as junior trainees on the boats , literally learning the ropes as they went along . |
| 30 | Or , alternatively , homosexuality might be called upon to loosen the rigid gender identities within heterosexuality : men are permitted a ‘ feminine ’ component and ( though less oft en ) women a ‘ masculine ’ one . |