Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Under the scheme , a building society would lend money to a housing association at a low interest rate to buy homes , whose former owners would become tenants of the association .
2 I visualise a matrix even more subtle to taste the most intangible fruit of the soul ; and one day men will fall heir to a Golconda of the most beautiful emotions and joys , and from being mere trappers and hunters we shall become harvesters .
3 I feel sure that this is a marvellous concept and should introduce people to a number of talented new artists .
4 Colour is also left to the printer although we can , now , automatically produce spot colour separations and , shortly , will be able to handle full process colour although this does need access to a typesetter .
5 You will probably have to consult colleagues to gain some of this information and you will also need access to a library to research the alternative delivery system you have chosen to examine .
6 Aside from the larger ectoparasites , you will need access to a microscope if you are to identify bacteria and protozoans .
7 You will need access to a lathe , bandsaw and planer thicknesser for this particular chair , though the latter is optional .
8 He says that people will nearly always give money to a cripple .
9 They ask : Why should I give credence to a life that has imposed barriers on me ?
10 These sequences may give rise to a kind of play , in which they are exaggerated , inverted or otherwise re-ordered in such a manner that a regular pattern or rhythm emerges in the finished product .
11 Although staff may have been appointed to a post With fixed hours and work schedules , a change in circumstances may give rise to a request for change .
12 The seller will be deemed to have received proceeds equal to the capital element ( that is , exclusive of the income element ) which may give rise to a capital gain or , more likely perhaps , an allowable loss .
13 A transfer of other real property , such as the holiday home to the wife , will give rise to a capital gains liability if at the time of the transfer , as is more than likely , the parties are separated in such circumstances as are likely to prove permanent or are separated under a court order ( see p16 ) ( see , for example , Aspden v Hildesley [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 264 where a transfer of property which had never been the husband 's main residence was made to the wife six years after the parties separated ) .
14 For all of these types of capital allowance , where , on sale , the disposal proceeds exceed the cost of the asset less the allowances claimed , the disposal will give rise to a clawback of allowances equal to the smaller of the excess and the allowances claimed .
15 Each of the duties referred to , once established , is capable of being enforced by injunction and the breach of it will give rise to a liability in damages .
16 The duty of the council has been established and is capable of being enforced by injunction and any breach of it will give rise to a liability in damages .
17 If the Purchaser shall be in receipt of any claim , or any fact or circumstance comes to the notice of the Purchaser which might constitute or give rise to a liability pursuant to any of the warranties the Purchaser shall forthwith notify the Vendor giving full details so far as practicable and shall not make any admission of liability or settle or comprise any such claim without the prior written consent of the Vendor such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ( subject to being indemnified and secured to its reasonable satisfaction against all costs and expenses incurred or for which it may become liable ) ;
18 ( 10 ) Acceptance of the cash underwritten alternative and the consequent disposal of the consideration shares might give rise to a liability to capital gains tax depending on the individual circumstances of the accepting shareholder .
19 Or it may give rise to a level of customer price-sensitivity which was hitherto absent in the target market segment .
20 ( e ) there was widespread agreement amongst those who opposed the proposal , that a solicitor who wished to act in the circumstances outlined in the question ought nevertheless to be under an obligation to disclose to the lender any personal , family or employee interests attaching to the transaction which might give rise to a conflict .
21 An invisible barrier put up between different departments in a financial organisation , preventing them from discussing matters which could give rise to a conflict of interest .
22 For example , posing the question ‘ What happens if the stationery replenishment procedure fails ? ’ could give rise to a variety of answers .
23 For this purpose , ‘ contingent liabilities ’ includes all transactions guaranteeing , underwriting , or pledging assets as collateral security for , obligations of a third party and ‘ commitments ’ includes every irrevocable commitment that would give rise to a credit risk .
24 The change in a , may well give rise to a change in savings behaviour ( savings being influenced by the degree of regression to the mean ) , and this may modify the conclusions .
25 The Government could scarcely have been more out of touch with the people at large , and was still , in any case , terrified that Jacobinism might even then give rise to a revolution at any moment .
26 Although the pejorative term ‘ correlational sociolinguistics ’ is sometimes used by non-practitioners of the subject who appear to make this assumption , Labov himself has expressed the fear that his methods might give rise to a flood of replicated ‘ correlatory ’ studies of little theoretical value .
27 Failure to comply with that instruction might give rise to a charge of obstructing the police in addition to that of obstructing the highway .
28 If the husband elects that his " new " home is to be treated as his main residence , then the disposal to the wife of the former matrimonial home ( or his interest in it ) will give rise to a charge to capital gains tax ; this will be on the gain accruing in respect of the period from when the matrimonial home ceased to be his main residence until the date of the court order or date of agreement between the parties .
29 Any number of circumstances may give rise to a fluctuation in workload thus upsetting staffing predictions .
30 The important molecular property connected with Raman spectra is therefore the polarizability , and a vibration will give rise to a Raman line if it leads to a change in the polarizability of the molecule .
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