Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no provisions corresponding to the ‘ guarantees ’ of Articles 15 and 16 of the Hague Convention , but there is a provision as to non-commitment to recognition of a judgment based on the Inter-American Convention . |
| 2 | If the Secretary of State has considered a proposed merger and made a decision as to clearance or otherwise in respect of it a fee will also be payable even if no application for clearance has been made . |
| 3 | The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests . |
| 4 | Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks . |
| 5 | Common Law would treat a provision in a contract as to time as being ‘ of the essence of the contract ’ , meaning that if a certain act was not done by one party within a certain stipulated time , he should lose all rights under the contract ; Equity treated such a provision in general as not being of the essence of the contract , but as giving a right only to damages . |
| 6 | It should be apparent from this case that in assessing what damages are recoverable ( i.e. within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale ) for breach of a term as to quality , one does not ask simply ‘ What type of damage could the seller at the time of the contract have predicted ? ’ |
| 7 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 8 | Treaty a cross-undertaking as to damages should have been given . |
| 9 | Only an expert may give an opinion in evidence , although a witness as to fact , who is also an expert in the relevant field , may be asked to express an opinion . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) That the fact that the competent minister of a member state had a power to dispense with the nationality requirement for an individual on the ground of his length of residence in and involvement in the fishing industry of that state could not justify , in regard to Community law , a rule under which registration of a fishing vessel was subject to a nationality requirement or a requirement as to residence and domicile ( post , pp. 341H — 342A , 343D–E ) . |
| 11 | This part of the question essentially asks whether the fact that the competent minister of a member state has the power to dispense with the nationality requirement in respect of an individual in view of the length of time such individual has resided in that member state and has been involved in the fishing industry of that member state can justify , in regard to Community law , the rule under which registration of a fishing vessel is subject to a nationality requirement and a requirement as to residence and domicile . |
| 12 | Consequently , the answer to be given to the national court must be that the fact that the competent minister of a member state has the power to dispense with the nationality requirement in respect of an individual in view of the length of time such individual has resided in that member state and has been involved in the fishing industry of that member state can not justify , in regard to Community law , the rule under which registration of a fishing vessel is subject to a nationality requirement and a requirement as to residence and domicile . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) The fact that the competent minister of a member state has the power to dispense with the nationality requirement in respect of an individual in view of the length of time such individual has resided in that member state and has been involved in the fishing industry of that member state can not justify , in regard to Community law , the rule under which registration of a fishing vessel is subject to a nationality requirement and a requirement as to residence and domicile . |
| 14 | ‘ With regard to the discretion of a judge as to costs , which is given by Order LXV , r. 1 , of the Rules of the Supreme Court , it is , I think , common practice for parties to make their own agreements as to the costs … and such agreements are perfectly valid and enforceable . |
| 15 | So , although there is an irrational element to eroticism , it ought , I am arguing , not to be so irrational a process as to violate the other 's autonomy . |
| 16 | The prosecutor presents the facts fairly and cogently to the judge who , after hearing the defence submissions , reaches a conclusion as to sentence . |
| 17 | Similar considerations have to be given to ballets on a theme and to ballets that interpret music where the composer 's own structure should inspire the design ( see page 41 ) . |
| 18 | The definition also covers a deception as to law . |
| 19 | ( If this is not so , there will be a deception as to fact within the definition . ) |
| 20 | The definition excludes a deception as to opinion but " fact " is a wide term . |
| 21 | ( c ) The definition of deception covers a deception as to facts . |
| 22 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 23 | I 'm not so addicted to a television as to need that , oh far from it . |
| 24 | It is not analogous to sewage dumped in a river or to soot from a smoking chimney . |
| 25 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 26 | that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and |
| 27 | A mistake as to consent should therefore be required to be a reasonable one , although in assessing reasonableness , any physical or mental disabilities of the defendant should be taken into account . |
| 28 | In most cases , a mistake as to quality will be treated as a breach of one of the implied obligations under the SGA 1979 . |
| 29 | Hence a preference as to dividend will not imply a preference as to capital ( or vice versa ) . |
| 30 | Hence a preference as to dividend will not imply a preference as to capital ( or vice versa ) . |