Example sentences of "[vb infin] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Its agents , the Land Authority for Wales , told borough planning officials yesterday that if there was a third deferment of the issue , it would appeal to the Welsh Office . |
| 32 | Their style and sophistication would appeal to the discerning customer . |
| 33 | One aspect of bureaucratic life which did not appeal to the permanent secretary manqué in No. 10 was the dense committee undergrowth . |
| 34 | To presume that large lump sums payable to bureaucrats would appeal to the median voter or taxpayer ‘ requires an astonishing remoteness from political realities and culture ’ , as does the idea that the public would approve the accumulation of a portion of the savings from more efficient administration in the form of an increase in amenities ( Wade 1979 ) . |
| 35 | In the present case , if the Court of Appeal had upheld the decision of Robertson J. on the first part , it would have been unfair to deny the respondents a right of appeal to the Privy Council on the compromise issue or the cancellation issue while accepting the petitioner could appeal to the Privy Council as of right if the petitioner failed on the misconduct issue . |
| 36 | It was evident that the skilled soldiers would naturally gravitate to the tougher units , like the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , giving the Legion a regiment full of highly-trained soldiers who had received their instruction at somebody else 's expense . |
| 37 | Cynics will automatically suggest that with the market at a low point , the art celebrities of the 1980s will naturally gravitate to the obvious locus of celebrity : Tinseltown . |
| 38 | Of course theories that suggest the economy will gravitate to the natural rate of output and unemployment to some extent sanction concentration on inflation as ‘ the ’ policy issue . |
| 39 | With their rudimentary networks , Eastern Europe could leap-frog to the latest technology — though that is a daydream , given that no country in the region has the expertise or the money to do so . |
| 40 | To suppose that Europe can retreat to the pre-rigid ERM of the 1980s — to a system that has been tried and tested — is a dangerous illusion . |
| 41 | The Crown did not object to the Divisional Court looking at the materials ( see p. 237G–H ) but the court itself refused to do so on the grounds that it would constitute a breach of article 9 . |
| 42 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 43 | Lennon fans might well object to the implicit glamorisation of his nemesis , but it is clear that Dallmeyer has serious points to make about the noble ideals of the Sixties , loneliness , and the emotional abuse of children . |
| 44 | In a message to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali the committee according to the Middle East News Agency on April 9 forwarded a message from Libya : the Libyan authorities would not object to the two men placing themselves at the disposal , via the Arab League , of the UN Secretary-General . |
| 45 | ‘ Or does she object to the coloured races in general ? ’ |
| 46 | If patients wish to be treated ‘ as human beings ’ and not simply as bodies to be mended or diseases to be cured , then they can not object to the social nature of their humanity being scrutinised and its relevance to therapy assessed . |
| 47 | On Jan. 28 Uri Lubrani , Israel 's co-ordinator of government activities in Lebanon , said in an interview with Middle East Television that Israel did not object to the Lebanese government deploying its army in southern Lebanon on condition that it took action against terrorist organizations and did not support them . |
| 48 | They certainly did object to the proposed changes , but they did so in terms of where it is right that the inset boundary should be placed , and as far as I 'm aware there are no references in any objections to the wider question of whether or not the village should be washed-over or be inset . |
| 49 | That meant , above all , that America would signal to the Soviet Union that it had no intention of rubbing Moscow 's nose in its defeat . |
| 50 | The statement also opposed " the current suspect moves , led by the USA , to make the Arabs surrender to the Zionist entity through what the USA calls peace " . |
| 51 | German forces in contact with the Russians must surrender to the Red Army . |
| 52 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 53 | Companies wishing to enter the waste disposal business at this level must demonstrate to the local Waste Disposal Authority ( usually a county council , but in some cities and in Wales a more local authority ) that they can meet various criteria , although the authority may be over-ruled on appeal to the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 54 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |
| 55 | A solution presents itself : the book will not yield to the hectic temptations , the seductions of the fevered imagination . |
| 56 | It has argued , among other things , that a state 's constitutional right to raise taxes must yield to the federal government 's constitutional right to regulate international commerce . |
| 57 | Two people may suffer pain from the same apparent origin ; and yet their pain will not yield to the same analgesic . |
| 58 | All the above rules of construction will yield to the overriding importance of making the lease work . |
| 59 | The elderly woman opened it , but she must have thought I was a thief or a beggar , because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies . |
| 60 | He wondered if he should speak to the other man but , not knowing the system 's etiquette , he stayed silent . |