Example sentences of "to [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clearing banks , which are deeply sceptical about the commercial value to them of the loans scheme , have used the changed political climate to demand a higher price for their participation . |
| 2 | He is lead to changes of the dosing of remedies because the ‘ variety among patients as to their irritability , age , spiritual and bodily development necessitate a great variety in their treatment and administration to them of the doses of medicines ’ . |
| 3 | When word came to them of the Macleans , three galleys off the Rubha Aird Druimnich , they just sat and waited quietly for their enemies to arrive . |
| 4 | They were under no obligation to employ any of the prize-winners , who should be ‘ fully satisfied by the payment to them of the liberal premiums awarded to them ’ , and they considered that it would be , |
| 5 | Greet the wise one , and talk to them of the fears that you wish to overcome . |
| 6 | On one occasion he complained to them of the insubordination of two of the officers . |
| 7 | Lamech takes two wives , and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain . |
| 8 | ‘ Mrs. Bihi and the party she represents do not call for payment out to them of the sum presently in court . |
| 9 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a hotel licence , restricted hotel licence , or restaurant licence is held and to any premises for which a public house licence or refreshment licence is held and in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been granted under Schedule 4 to this Act if the licence-holder gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with the provisions of section 58(1) of this Act , and the effect of the application of this section to those premises shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in section 58(3) of this Act , the permitted hours on Sundays shall be extended by , the addition to them of the hours between five and half-past six in the evening , and subsections ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) and ( 8 ) of that section shall apply accordingly . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a public house licence is held and to which section 59 of this Act applies if the licence holder gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) of section 59 of this Act , and the effect of the application of this section to those premises shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) of section 59 of this Act , the permitted hours on Sundays shall be extended by the addition to them of the hours between five and half-past six in the evening , and subsections ( 5 ) to ( 7 ) of that section shall apply accordingly . |
| 12 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
| 13 | It is an important point of reference to banks because it is probably the best indication to them of the cost of raising immediate marginal funds . |
| 14 | It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought . |
| 15 | In a more serious vein , the attribution to me of the statement that Super-SARA was a tremendous hindrance to negotiations for a LOFT consortium was a surprise to me and , I submit , to anyone who knew that the funds for Super-SARA had already been set aside . |
| 16 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 17 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 18 | Nothing remains to me of the pleasures and possessions of my old life , which you now enjoy at my expense . |
| 19 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
| 20 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 21 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 22 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 23 | In discussion of the proposal to Islamicize Libyan law , both old and young took their turn at the microphone , the older men serious , sometimes passionate , arguing both sides : they set their approval of particular measures — the prohibition of alcohol , for example — against their fear of further state interference in religious affairs , derived from unstated resentment of Qaddafi 's arrogation to himself of the power to determine what Islam might be . |
| 24 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 25 | The Assemblies never approved military intervention in Lebanon ; the small contingent of Libyan troops there was said to consist of volunteers , and the decision as to which of the groups within Lebanon they should support seems to have been reserved to Qaddafi . |
| 26 | Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt . |
| 27 | Centred on one Sir Colenso Rigeon , a caricature of Wright , it concerned the decision as to which of the two men should be saved from death — a sixpenny doctor ( ’ an honest decent man , but is he any use ? ’ ) or a scoundrel of an artist ( ’ a rotten background , but he 's a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things ’ ) . |
| 28 | In the case of Irish union the pre-existing parliaments are nowhere expressly abolished ; on the other hand , it is nowhere stated , or implied of necessity , in any of the union legislation , that one of the pre-existing parliaments was continued under a new style and , indeed , if this view were to be adopted , one is left with the question as to which of the two pre-existing parliaments it is which has survived . |
| 29 | But for the moment his comments revealed that there was no longer the least doubt as to which of the contending voices on the Reichsrundfunk had acquired the title and character of Lord Haw-Haw . |
| 30 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |