Example sentences of "to [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so may incriminate that person or the wife or husband of that person of an offence under this Act — ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property , for the execution of any trust or for an account of any property or dealings with property ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in any such proceedings ; but no statement or admission made by a person in answering a question put or complying with an order made as aforesaid shall , in proceedings for an offence under this Act , be admissible in evidence against that person or ( unless they married after the making of the statement or admission ) against the wife or husband of that person . |
2 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so may incriminate that person or the wife or husband of that person of an offence under this Act — ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property , for the execution of any trust or for an account of any property or dealings with property ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in any such proceedings ; but no statement or admission made by a person in answering a question put or complying with an order made as aforesaid shall , in proceedings for an offence under this Act , be admissible in evidence against that person or ( unless they married after the making of the statement or admission ) against the wife or husband of that person . |
3 | ‘ Why , he was with me when I brought order to that chamber of savages . ’ |
4 | More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ . |
5 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
6 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
7 | And that 's beginning to show er up in the chemistry of the lakes and streams , some recovery of some lakes are already recovering in response to that reduction of emissions , but not all by any means . |
8 | Remarried women contributed a third to that increase in births . |
9 | The first exemption , which is most pertinent to takeovers , is contained in s103(3) , which provides that a valuer 's report is not required where the allotment is made in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in the company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) . |
10 | If the argument mentioned in relation to s89 is correct in respect of that section then it should be equally applicable to s131(1). ( 3 ) Section 103(3) provides that s103(1) ( requiring a valuation in respect of shares allotted by a public company for a non-cash consideration ) does not apply to " … the allotment of shares by a company in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in that company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) " . |
11 | If the earning potential of an asset goes up , people will be likely to switch to that asset from others with a lower earning potential . |
12 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
13 | It is sad that the Labour party has already shown indifference to that form of arts funding . |
14 | ( 5 ) Where any property transferred under an agreement to which this section applies has passed to a third party the references to that property in subsections ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above shall be construed as references to its value at the time of its transfer under the agreement . |
15 | I ca n't see that little managerial fumble looking too good to that bunch of number-crunchers Upstairs . |
16 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
17 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |
18 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
19 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
20 | Each species ' range is determined by the area within which it can outbreed potential rivals because it is better adapted to that set of conditions : |
21 | The concert hall capacity is 320 , filled nearly to that figure at weekends or on special occasions but usually it stands empty on weekdays . |
22 | He was sitting on the edge of the desk used to interrogate Jimmy Devlin earlier , having retired to that room for explanations . |
23 | Away from the human-made cacophony of towns and cities , elephants call to each other through kilometres of dense forest using sounds too low for us to hear . |
24 | If we 'd nut spoken to each other for years and he died it would make all the difference to have someone say he was still fond of me . |
25 | It took me a lot more years , and even more boyfriends , to cotton on , by which time most of the occupants of the back rows had been married to each other for years and were on their second spin dryer . |
26 | Two people have not spoken to each other for months and during that time the sun has gone down day after day upon their anger with each other . |
27 | One difficulty is that there is evidence indicating that hot spots can migrate with respect to each other at velocities of up to 20 mm a k This means that both hot spots can move under ‘ stationary ’ lithosphere and that the lack of motion of the African Plate is thrown into doubt because its past positions have been in part determined with respect to a reference frame of supposedly fixed hot spots . |
28 | ‘ Have you ever noticed that we seldom talk to each other at meals normally ? ’ |
29 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
30 | The narrative consisted of generative acts , and the history was a world-view , a tale of rights and duties , in which Zuwaya linked events to each other as examples of the working of principles . |