Example sentences of "to raise [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I HAVE long been impressed by the number of careless references in the Scriptures to the faithful blithely taking it upon themselves to raise houses to the Lord . |
| 2 | It probably dates back only to 1984 when the Democratic presidential nominee , Walter Mondale , promised to raise taxes on Americans to curb the US budget deficit and was promptly beaten by Ronald Reagan . |
| 3 | The Congress had rejected the legislation on May 31 , having already defeated in mid-May the government 's attempt to introduce emergency measures to raise taxes on financial transactions ( to restrict the expansion of credit ) and to cut the wages of public employees covered by statutory job security . |
| 4 | But Mr Clarke indicated he preferred to raise taxes on spending — such as widening VAT — rather than putting up income tax . |
| 5 | Mr Clarke allayed some Tory fears of a rise in direct taxation , indicating he preferred to raise taxes on spending — such as widening VAT . |
| 6 | THE stock market took the election of Bill Clinton in its stride despite his pledge to raise taxes on foreign companies operating in the United States . |
| 7 | Pecham was equally ready in 1290 to raise taxes for a king who had followed up his crusader 's vow with the expulsion of the Jews . |
| 8 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 9 | The agreement was described by the Financial Times of May 16 as " designed to remove any need to raise taxes during the politically sensitive phase of completing reunification " . |
| 10 | One was the ‘ ship money ’ controversy , which was the question of whether or not the King had the authority to raise taxes without the permission of parliament . |
| 11 | Last year Mr O'Neill was obliged to raise taxes by $1 billion and to cut both spending and staff ( though the state 's budget deficit is still expected to rise above $90m this year ) . |
| 12 | Despite Labour 's plans to raise taxes by £6.8 billion in a full year , the analysis says it would be unable to fund its election spending promises beyond initial moves to raise pensions and child benefit and a modest recovery programme . |
| 13 | However , if as a pure value judgement the government considers that this distribution of income-earning potential is inequitable , the government will need to raise taxes from some people in order to provide subsidies for others . |
| 14 | Wilson , who was not due to face a gubernatorial election until 1994 , but whose position as a possible future Republican presidential candidate was already damaged by his decision to raise taxes in 1991 , had been adamant that the deficit should be rectified through public expenditure cuts rather than by further tax increases . |
| 15 | THE National Institute of Economic and Social Research , a leading economic think-tank , has added its voice to those urging the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , not to raise taxes in his March Budget . |
| 16 | I made no protest for the simplest of all reasons — that I shared the Chancellor 's judgment that it was necessary to raise taxes in the Budget . ’ |
| 17 | Up in Doncaster my mum and dad had set up a stall in the car-park of the local Asda in an effort to raise signatures for a rolling petition . |
| 18 | What raises Eliot above the entrapping circles of city and savage is what for him has continually to raise words towards the Word , something made available in partial revelations . |
| 19 | Nor is it ‘ negative ’ to raise doubts about whether Mr Kinnock and his team would confine themselves even to these immodest proposals . |
| 20 | In the first study , carried out by the Institute of Manpower Studies and the RNC , researchers have concluded that the experience of PRP for nurses in the USA has produced ‘ sufficient evidence to raise doubts about the efficiency of monetary incentives in raising employee performance in the public sector ’ . |
| 21 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 22 | It was merely a passage ( sufficiently relevant to be acceptable to the judge as a subject of cross-examination ) that could be used to raise doubts in the minds of those in Court as to your ability to pronounce on the matter under trial . |
| 23 | Generally , toys made and given to raise funds at a local fête or bazaar would not be considered as being a ‘ business ’ , unless , like Mrs Rees of Moor Farm , Walwyns Castle , you live in the vicinity of Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire . |
| 24 | The funding was organised by Brigitte Schafer from Frauenkulturhaus in Frankfurt who managed to raise funds through the Green Party in Germany in order to pay all the European representatives to attend . |
| 25 | This situation where current pensions are paid for out of current income does not present a problem for governments , as they should always have the power to raise funds through taxation . |
| 26 | A company seeking to raise funds through a bond issue , for example , will pay a coupon rate ( a rate stated on the bond ) that corresponds to the current market rate . |
| 27 | ‘ I will be thinking of you all and wishing you continued good fortune with your worthwhile venture , ’ said Sharron , who was the star of a promotional video used to raise funds towards the pool reopening . |
| 28 | Prokofiev , in the final piece of the evening , showed what to do with that kind of thing : his Overture on Hebrew themes , written in 1919 for a group pretending to raise funds for a conservatory in Jerusalem but in fact trying to feed themselves , just sets the tunes in a concise sonata form , and preserves all their humour and charm with hardly a suspicion of the composer intruding . |
| 29 | Smith , born Down Under but with Irish grandparents , leads Oxford against a World XV in a match to raise funds for GOAL , an Irish-based international charity which provides financial assistance to the Third World . |
| 30 | The aim of the shop is to raise funds for an Eagle Lodge in the Principality . |