Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6.5 Where is obliged to make a payment to under this clause which attracts sales , use , excise or other similar taxes or duties , shall be responsible for paying such taxes and duties . |
| 2 | Oh , Jessie , of all the people you could have taken a fancy to in this world you 've got to go and pick one of the Feltons . |
| 3 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 4 | This addition to our already extensive legal provision will give a right to at least 14 weeks ' maternity leave and protection against dismissal on grounds of pregnancy . |
| 5 | We consider that a child in care has a right to at least as good an education as any other child . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've a right to at least a third , maybe more . |
| 7 | Well we come round to what happens in a moment to As and Bs . |
| 8 | I 've seen them taken to the sea too and er have a job to round them up . |
| 9 | Just before the formal toasts and after the famous and highly informal ‘ toast to the Divisions ’ was a presentation to by Vice President 's lady , , on behalf of the ladies . |
| 10 | The highlight of the round was the eagle three at the 410-yard ninth , where Davies hit a wedge to within a yard of the hole . |
| 11 | I guessed that in the absence of a sign to In Salah the lads would have kept going towards Hamouda , so I followed . |
| 12 | Still , perhaps I shall get a chance to at least pass my regards to young Mikhail while I am here . ’ |
| 13 | In the past 10 years , the average number of kidney transplants in Japan has risen from less than one a week to about one every day . |
| 14 | You seen that story , what is it , one paper er if you get the letter of the week you can take part in the draw and get a flight to from Stanstead to Dusseldorf . |
| 15 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
| 16 | ‘ Can you give me a lift to beyond the Mohaka River ? ’ |
| 17 | An attempt to annex nearby Epizephyrian Lokri was put a stop to by Hiero in 478 . |
| 18 | I have , on more than one occasion , managed to entice a badger to within a few feet , simply by scratching my head , the inquisitive animals searching for this new ‘ badger ’ grooming in the shadows . |
| 19 | She returned to her room , giving herself a talking to along the lines of , what else had she got to do that day anyhow ? |
| 20 | Does one have to be a Scrooge to by cynical about pleasures which are derived from escaping reality rather than embracing it ? |
| 21 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 22 | If however , you had been mistaken about the location of and and the assignments had been reversed , the effective starting-points would be and and the movement towards equality would involve a loss to and a gain to of , yielding a net gain of 83-10-9 as by construction . |
| 23 | As reported on March 23 , the leader of the Medellín drug cartel Pablo Escobar Gaviria , in a letter to UP president Diego Montana Cuellar , " emphatically denied " government charges that he had ordered the killing , claiming that it was the work of the government itself . |
| 24 | ‘ The person in New York you sent a letter to on Beatrix 's behalf-could her name have been van Ryneveld rather than van Ryan ? ’ |
| 25 | Changes in company policy , new products and services , financial results , staff appointments , sponsorship news , factory openings — in fact almost any " happening " or change within your company or organisation will probably merit a release to at least a few papers or radio stations . |
| 26 | Unfortunately they say one thing , but they do exactly the opposite and whereas local authorities are in a position to in the main to provide rental accommodation , the government are stopping them . |
| 27 | To remove charitable status , at a cost of some five million pounds a year to Save The Children Fund , to relegate us to the status of a quango , is absolute rife nonsense . |
| 28 | It 's a year to within two days since he put the brave Londoner into a coma , from which he is only now slowly recovering . |
| 29 | Highly qualified medical men , now earning significantly less than their ambulance drivers , are leaving the much vaunted health care system in droves , looking for jobs ( sometimes two or three ) which offer a passport to at least temporary insolvency . |
| 30 | In other instances one finds a tendency to over elaborate , and a heaviness of design ( or an empty , lifeless stylisation ) is the result . |