Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | With the failure of the Ruddock action , our attention now reverts to the legislation which the Government was compelled to introduce to meet the demands of the European Court of Human Rights in the Malone judgment . |
2 | The rules of a society and the trusts which bind its property will , in many cases , fetter its freedom of action and the application of its property , in a way very similar to the restrictions which the doctrine of ultra vires imposes on a corporation ; and in the case of some unincorporated societies , such as registered Trade Unions and Friendly Societies , which have received a peculiar status by Statute , the rule of ultra vires has been held directly applicable . |
3 | If questions are put to the text which the particular passage was not written to answer then wrong conclusions can easily be drawn . |
4 | Cultural cosmopolitanism at Cyrene meant that its connections ran across to the rest of the Greek world , not down to the natives whom the Greek colonists had displaced or overrun . |
5 | " Advancing to the river which the barbarians thought impassable Plautius sent his Germans , who were accustomed to swimming , across , surprising the enemy , however this time the British fought bravely , the battle raging for two days . " |
6 | Montrose , however , finding himself in such an impasse , and with the prospect of recurring battles before him , for the collector held office for only a single year before having to seek re-election , had his own solution to the difficulties which the office entailed for such as himself . |
7 | They argue that the ban is a disproportionate response to the mischief which the Home Secretary seeks to control , and is in breach of the right to free expression guaranteed by the European Human Rights Convention . |
8 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
9 | Also throughout this period some members of the House of Commons , though their numbers steadily decreased , owed their election to the influence which the Treasury and Admiralty were able to exert over certain constituencies . |
10 | 2 Immediately upon receipt of the Selling Notice , the Company shall give notice in writing ( a " Compulsory Sale Notice " ) to each of the members ( other than the Seller ) giving the details contained in the Selling Notice , requiring them each to sell to the Proposed Purchaser at Completion [ all of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] / [ such proportion of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] as is equal to the proportion which the Selling Shares bears to the total holding of [ shares in the Ordinary Share Capital/ " A " Ordinary Shares ] held by the Seller ( including the Selling Shares ) ] . |
11 | Well well , Co Cover Master , would erm , would would give , it would provide it up to the indemnity which the er , |
12 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
13 | Aspects of the speaker 's assumptions about his hearer 's knowledge must also be considered in relation to the elements which the speaker does make explicit in his contribution . |
14 | An example of the latter was Banff in Alberta , and of the former the great gateway to the Orient which the CPR built in Vancouver . |
15 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
16 | This language is to the deaf-mute what the German language is to the German , or French to the French . |
17 | Calum MacDonald , the Western Isles MP , has tabled an amendment to the bill which the Government has conceded would wreck the treaty . |
18 | A gradation system which fails to afford adequate recognition to the horror which the community may feel about certain forms of rape lays itself open to attempts at circumvention . |
19 | Secondly , the appointment of an Accreditation and Training Officer gave a focus to the work which the Division is undertaking in the Assessment of Work Based Learning . |
20 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
21 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
22 | The bonus of an £11,000 car to a winning rider going clear on all four horses was not awarded , but Whitaker said : ‘ I think it should have gone to the winner whatever the scores . ’ |
23 | Organisational metaphors have varied from the primitive tribe with its constituent hunting bands , to the ship with its crew , to the biological organism , according to the emphasis which the writer wished to put on particular aspects of organisational life . |
24 | Have you any view Mrs as to the contribution which the road layout , the layout of the lanes , and the characteristics associated with those roads and lanes , make to the medieval centre of Skelton ? |
25 | On a grander scale , the dog-toothed vault of Crowland Abbey arches like the jawbone of a mighty whale above the Lincolnshire fens , a monument to the riches which the monks harvested from the marsh . |
26 | On the walk from the village station to the camp itself the mousy man finally collapsed . |
27 | Perhaps she was confusing Massis — as he referred to Great Ararat — with the volcano far to the south which the Turks called Sippan Dagh . |
28 | I think it 's necessary to stress this since a number of representations have referred specifically to the constraints which the locational strategy embodied in policy I five on the ability to deliver the proposed structure plan on employment land allocation . |
29 | You could hear glass smashing , and now pieces of broken glass were added to the missiles which the wind flung along the scoured pavement . |
30 | Explain at once to the speechreader what the mistake was so that he can share the joke , otherwise he may feel uncomfortable and puzzled by the reactions to his remark . |