Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 2 | Noninstrumental validations of consent are , therefore , limited to consent to the authority of a reasonably just government . |
| 3 | The solicitor is entitled to retain documents prepared by himself for his own benefit and for which no charge is made to the client and documents sent by the client to the solicitor the property in which is intended to pass to the solicitor ( eg letters from the client to the solicitor ) . |
| 4 | A contract of hire is a species of bailment and although it is readily distinguishable from sale in that general property is not intended to pass to the hirer , there are important public policy issues in a consumer hire context , which dictate that the owner be subject to similar liability to that visited upon the seller . |
| 5 | People were deemed to consent to the system of government they were born under when they came of age by virtue of the fact of their remaining within that particular society . |
| 6 | The employee 's claim was , however , effectively refused in the British Steel case because such benefits as might be expected to flow to the employer from refinements to the patented product had not ( yet ) materialised . |
| 7 | Initial deliveries are expected to go to the other announced PowerPC allies , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Thomson-CSF SA , Harris Corp and Tadpole Technology Plc , with Apple taking the lion 's share . |
| 8 | Arthur Levitt 's nomination is expected to go to the Senate shortly . |
| 9 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
| 10 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 11 | Candidates have to satisfy the examiners that they have reached a sufficiently high standard in all assessable essays before being permitted to continue to the dissertation . |
| 12 | Party leaders should be free to devise programmes designed to appeal to the electorate as a whole , and they should only have to hold themselves vaguely accountable to the people through the direct mechanism of regular general elections . |
| 13 | A two-level course for intermediate and upper-intermediate students , Streetwise is specifically designed to appeal to the teenager of today . |
| 14 | The British crown was expected to pass to the Dowager Duchess Sophia of Hanover , by virtue of the terms of the Act of Settlement , but Sophia died early in 1714 , shortly before Anne died on 1st . |
| 15 | As a result , the amount of the proceeds deemed to relate to the debt will be less than par value . |
| 16 | In general a failure to serve a committal order in due time would not be expected to lead to the quashing of the sentence of imprisonment . |
| 17 | It was expected to lead to the appointment of an impartial body to determine responsibility for the conflict . |
| 18 | It is expected to lead to the creation of some 500 new jobs , mainly at Marconi 's Stanmore and Plessey Avionics ' West Leigh sites , but also at a large number of sub-contractors throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 20 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 21 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 22 | But if the airspace is excluded from the demise , the tenant 's adviser should ensure that the tenant obtains a right to enter the airspace for the purpose of performing his covenants. ( g ) Fences In the case of wooden fences it is likely to be inferred that in the absence of freeboard the owner of land will use his land to the fullest extent ; and the fence will be deemed to belong to the person on whose side the rails and posts are placed , the palings being placed on his neighbour 's side ( Halsbury 's Laws of England , 4th edn , vol 4 , para 849 ) . |
| 23 | The Chinese hominoid has been claimed to belong to the pongine clade , but the characters are of doubtful significance , for example the enlarged maxillary sinus , which may be an ancestral hominid character , or the size discrepancy between central and lateral incisors , which , although correct , is linked with an extremely low crowned and heavily buttressed morphology . |
| 24 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 25 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 26 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 27 | Where it employs professional musicians full- or part-time it should ensure that their salaries take account of their training and qualifications as well as of the time and contribution which they are expected to give to the worship . |
| 28 | As Lord Denning said in Fraser v Evans : No person is permitted to divulge to the world information which he has received in confidence , unless he has just cause or excuse for doing so . |
| 29 | Nor had he wished to descend to the level of bureaucracy : he had hoped to succeed as a violinist , but lack of money ( and perhaps some want of talent , to which he did not admit ) had stood in his way . |
| 30 | Three projects to investigate the Solar System range from a cluster of four satellites to investigate the Earth 's magnetosphere , through a solar high-resolution observatory ( in Earth orbit ) , to a probe designed to fly to the asteroid belt and study some asteroids at close range . |