Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the congress would prefer this idea to impeachment . |
| 2 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 3 | Adopters , however , do not make this transition to parenthood : they do not know when the child is expected , find it too distressing to attend standard parentcraft classes with pregnant women and may lack basic childcare knowledge . |
| 4 | You do need some space to work , though ; the AccuCard needs clearance of around two inches , which may take up the adjacent slot . |
| 5 | The paranoid ( and quite understandable ) reaction is to wonder how any pond fish can survive these threats to health . |
| 6 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 7 | We will ensure that access to literature , religion and the creative arts is limited to those few children who are capable of appreciating them , and whose parents can afford to pay the extra costs involved . |
| 8 | The question is whether he can discharge that responsibility to Parliament without being in day-to-day charge . |
| 9 | It will normally make an identical claim against the other member with whom it dealt — ie , against the selling member if , as one might perhaps expect , the claim against LCH is made by a buying member — and it will refer that claim to arbitration . |
| 10 | First , there should be a sentencing council , which would bring some consistency to sentencing and prevent people from being sent to prison for unreasonable periods . |
| 11 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 12 | Should we send such people to prison , so that they can learn how to become professional criminals ? |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing would do more damage to job prospects … across Europe , than the imposition of further tax or regulatory burdens on employers . |
| 14 | Eliminating skilled labour would thus give more power to management . |
| 15 | He may give more weight to pattern than to vocabulary : how to say things rather than what to say . |
| 16 | The strict rules of evidence do not apply in arbitrations ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) , Term 3 ) , but , of course , the district judge or other arbitrator may feel that he should give less weight to evidence which is hearsay than to evidence which is direct . |
| 17 | During the first year we probably did n't give enough time to training . |
| 18 | It is an aspect of self-determination : the point is conceded in the fact that suicide is no longer an offence , and it should therefore follow that consent to injury should negative any offence . |
| 19 | Indeed , adenomas and dysplastic areas may occur throughout the biliary and pancreatic tree in patients with FAP and these may predispose such patients to pancreatitis . |
| 20 | Knowledge about diet and good nutrition can offset any tendency to constipation and avoid the constipation-pain-retention cycle building up . |
| 21 | How can I claim any loyalty to separatism after what has happened to me ? |
| 22 | His aim is to be the first President of Corea and since he is 72 and has few more years left in which to realise his ambition he will use any means to hand including , if time presses , the blood of his deluded followers . |
| 23 | Surely no other vegetable can lay such claim to fame . |
| 24 | Thus , in general , most " matrimonial conveyances " should not incur any liability to stamp duty whatever the value of the property conveyed or transferred . |
| 25 | ( a ) Creation of the settlement It is unlikely that the creation of the settlement will incur any liability to inheritance tax as being a transfer for value ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s3 ) . |
| 26 | It is clear therefore that a sale of the former matrimonial home within 36 months of the husband leaving it , or a transfer of his interest in it to the wife within that period , will not incur any charge to capital gains tax . |
| 27 | Maybe a few Hollywood producers should take that idea to heart . |
| 28 | Did Marcus , did Marcus take that wine to work ? |
| 29 | Oh yeah I think so , I do n't think that I can make anything of it , I 'll take that box to school because they might be doing a |
| 30 | It would seem , therefore , that the courts would have little opportunity to sentence in cases where proof of injury was not available . |