Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was especially true when he gave an impromptu lecture on the nature of matter in 1844 — the story is that Charles Wheatstone panicked and fled , leaving it to Faraday as chairman to satisfy the audience — and another on ray-vibrations in 1846 . |
| 2 | Acknowledgements : We thank the Fundaccon de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya for support to visit the University of Bilbao and the SERC for supporting some of this research . |
| 3 | Our next plan is to go for endowment to stop the roller coaster ride we 've gone on with the city ’ . |
| 4 | With school attendance , for example , it was the working class mother who was visited by the school attendance officer if her child failed to attend school , whether through inability to pay the school fee charged prior to 1891 , indiscipline , or because the child 's services were needed at home . |
| 5 | The Royal Observatory of Edinburgh has applied for funding to develop the system for use with patients . |
| 6 | It was noon by the time they reached Beaulieu , a smug little New Forest village at the head of the Beaulieu estuary , but Harry was too eager for progress to permit the halt for lunch that Mossop had enjoyed with Heather . |
| 7 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |
| 8 | His findings produced a lively press response , and questions in the House of Commons , and certainly contributed to the passage of a bill through Parliament to limit the availability of such films . |
| 9 | SCO has arranged for Chorus to do the bulk of the packaging and development work with SCO Open Desktop as the front end . |
| 10 | The hardline Russian Unity faction called for parliament to declare the president 's powers suspended with immediate effect . |
| 11 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 12 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 13 | It is for Parliament to warrant the expenditure estimated to be needed , i.e. to grant supply . |
| 14 | Here again , it seems to me that there is not only an opportunity but a necessity for Parliament to give the problem its urgent attention . |
| 15 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |
| 16 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 17 | Society will then be ready for Parliament to cut the power of the judges . |
| 18 | The decisive step had been taken , however , and the unworkability of the Homicide Act 1957 was still relatively fresh in legislative memory when the time came for Parliament to consider the continuation of abolition . |
| 19 | What is needed is for Parliament to amend the Act so that it explains exactly how far the rule-making powers go . |
| 20 | Britannia said he had asked for permission to see the flight deck and apparently made the threat while casually chatting to the captain . |
| 21 | The artillery Colonel asked for permission to return the fire , but the Prince ordered him to wait till the enemy infantry was in sight . |
| 22 | Exwaste , a company owned by Essex County Council , applied for permission to move the site gatehouse , install a weighbridge and wheel washing facility , use the former Topmix offices on Warren Lane and use parking and vehicle maintenance facilities at the site . |
| 23 | Had Koons asked for permission to use the photo , and Rogers had refused , Prutzman said , ‘ Koons could have made the same point about banality with any number of other images . |
| 24 | The first voice made a request for permission to use the campsite area for a group of boys during the next school break , and after stopping the machine she made a note of the name and address to which she would send confirmation . |
| 25 | They organised 12-car rallies around the Cambridge Fens , asking every local resident for permission to hold the event and then , when the snow caused the event to be called off , they did the same thing again . |
| 26 | In the middle of such chaos , Sir Philip Game , Commissioner of Police , telephoned the Home Secretary for permission to order the cancellation of the march . |
| 27 | Coun Shore , now mayor of Pendle , contacted Darlington 's mayor Rita Fishwick for permission to visit the school in her official capacity . |
| 28 | An extra charge of one shilling ( 5p ) was made for permission to view the house , and the £5,500 it made was added to the Queen 's charitable fund . |
| 29 | ( 9 ) When this party has selected the prospective parliamentary candidate , section ( 3 ) of this clause shall be applicable only when section ( 8 ) applies or , having received a written request from the General Committee of this party for permission to reconsider the selection of the prospective parliamentary candidate , the National Executive Committee has decided that in its opinion there are changed circumstances relating to the prospective parliamentary candidate since his or her selection , and has given authority to this party to convene a special meeting of the General Committee in accordance with regulations sanctioned by the National Executive Committee to consider a resolution that the prospective candidate selected previously shall not be the candidate at the next general election . |
| 30 | In early 1991 , Barnes trustees cited those same urgent financial needs when they petitioned the Orphans Court for permission to amend the indenture 's ban on selling works of art from the collection . |