Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pleasure comes from a different source : ‘ I am obviously very conscious of what my forebears achieved and therefore it matters to me that the business has survived , remained independent and has grown . ’ |
| 2 | It 's as if Tom Robinson ( the negro ) has no say in what happens to him and a white woman has the right to push him around and refer to him as nigger , overpowering him in all senses of the matter . |
| 3 | You 're nostalgic for childhood whilst it happens to you because the dreams show you the landscape you 're passing through , but you do n't know yet that you want to escape . |
| 4 | It occurs to me that the St-Germain-des Pres scene was the first bohemia to have become an immediate media success . |
| 5 | It occurs to me that the firm 's international links can not be over-emphasised . |
| 6 | Let us say that it occurs to you that a story in which a husband kills his wife without any apparent motive would be " a marvellous idea " . |
| 7 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 8 | It sounds to me that the sort of the theology that you 're describing , Colin , and you described just now , John , is very much a theology in which religion is , as it were , getting out of the churches and into the homes and daily activities and concerns of ordinary people . |
| 9 | The trustee need not comply with any request for information where it appears to him that the request is frivolous or unreasonable or the cost of complying would be excessive or there are not sufficient assets to meet the cost of complying ( r 6.152(2) ) . |
| 10 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 11 | I read a lot , Joe , and it appears to me that every man , even every thinking man has always had a different view of the same subject ; the more I read of men and their lives and their ideas the more I realise there 's no black and white in the world ; there 's good points to be found even in the blackest , and there 's some very dark streaks in the so-called saints . |
| 12 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 13 | It appears to me that the omission from the Lautro Rules reflects an omission from the Act , and in my judgment the omission was made with a deliberation in each case which makes an implication impossible . |
| 14 | It appears to me that the omission from the Lautro Rules reflects an omission from the Act , and in my judgment the omission was made with a deliberation in each case which makes an implication impossible . |
| 15 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 16 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 17 | At the very least it appears to me that the manner in which I have construed the relevant provisions in their application to the facts in this appeal is a possible construction and that any ambiguity there should be resolved in favour of the taxpayer . |
| 18 | of the reasoning in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 with the ruling in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 it appears to me that the suggested basis of reconciliation , which is essentially speculative , is unsound . |
| 19 | But it appears to me that the whole trend of authority for over a century is clearly against permitting any such investigation . |
| 20 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 21 | Clause 25 allows employees to challenge the terms and conditions of a collective agreement the employer applies to them where the agreement appears to contravene the principles of equal treatment . |
| 22 | Supplementary pension is complicated , and to understand how it applies to you and the latest rates of payment , see the leaflets and books listed on pages 79–80 . |
| 23 | ‘ It seems to me that a new play like Shadowlands needs to be exposed to different audiences before it settles down . |
| 24 | It seems to me that a correct understanding of human evolution is very relevant to projects of this kind , but that the effect of that understanding is largely discouraging to them . |
| 25 | He writes : ‘ It seems to me that a great number of our explicit or implicit theories , our methods and preferences are heavily influenced by the very long traditions of analyzing mainly , or only , certain kinds of written language . |
| 26 | Moreover , it seems to me that a local authority is to be commended for a decision such as this , made in the light of the report of an independent person of the qualification and experience of a guardian ad litem . |
| 27 | In the first , Malone v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ( No 2 ) [ 1979 ] 2 All ER 620 , which concerned the use to which recordings of telephone conversations made with the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Office , Megarry V-C said " it seems to me that a person who utters confidential information must accept the risk of any unknown overhearing that is inherent in the circumstances of the communication " . |
| 28 | It seems to me that no grounds have been shown to justify your Lordships saying that Hoffmann J. ( in setting out his conclusion on the balancing exercise even though he felt inhibited from giving effect to it ) and the majority in the Court of Appeal erred in law in a way which vitiates the exercise of the discretion involved . |
| 29 | But it seems to me that every time I 've open a newspaper over the past two or three years , Stuart Bell , the Labour MP for Middlesbrough , has been staring out at me . |
| 30 | It seems to me that the successful professionals make their money not be selling their wares , but by selling their skills — by writing books , running courses , making videos , holding seminars and giving demonstrations — in short , by teaching others how to do it . |