Example sentences of "to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home care Coordinator , Margaret Gillies , currently has a team of 20 volunteers from a variety of churches providing practical help to a number of clients already referred . |
| 2 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 3 | The plight of children infected with HIV was recently highlighted by Princess Diana when she presented a report by the National Children 's Bureau to a London conference on the impact of AIDS on family life . |
| 4 | Since 1987 it has been possible to ask your employer to deduct regular sums from your pay through the PAYROLL GIVING SCHEME up to a maximum of £600 per annum ( not all employers offer their employees this facility ) . |
| 5 | From lst October 1990 , there is also a new scheme called GIFT AID which allows you to give sums of £600 or more to a charity tax-effectively ( with a maximum of £5 million for your total charitable donations in any one tax year ) . |
| 6 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 7 | Do I need to go to a lawyer ? |
| 8 | The net payment is equivalent to a gross sum of £1,000 . |
| 9 | The intention of a Gift Aid scheme is to encourage giving without the donor being tied to a particular charity for this length of time . |
| 10 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 11 | Thus the transfer of an asset to a charity e.g. a work of art , will not qualify ( although there are other ways for a charity to obtain tax relief on the gift of an asset ) . |
| 12 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 13 | To help provide a local response to a global problem . |
| 14 | Over the next twelve months we will be providing support to a growing number of new and existing local programmes , identified as a result of an extensive survey we have just completed . |
| 15 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 16 | Increased official emphasis on speedy investigation and sentencing in death penalty cases is likely to have further undermined the rights of defendants to a fair trial . |
| 17 | Two AI delegates were recently invited as guest speakers to a week-long conference in Colombo on trade unions and human rights . |
| 18 | Such knowledge could , however , continue to be useful when used in a regional context , which is what the RANs do , enabling members to react to a wider range of human rights violations in any given region . |
| 19 | The authorities said that Hong Song-dam was not imprisoned merely for sending his paintings to North Korea and books to Koreans in Germany , but because his paintings and contributions to a magazine Art Movement were aimed at promoting a Marxist-Leninist revolution . |
| 20 | In September 1990 the Supreme Court dismissed the charges of espionage and returned the case to a lower court . |
| 21 | He was denied access to a lawyer for over three weeks . |
| 22 | However in October 1974 this message — addressed to a former inmate — was smuggled out of the infamous prison , Cuatro Alamos , on the inside of a cigarette packet . |
| 23 | By the 1850s the tradition had declined , so that Baudelaire was seeking to give new life to a decayed literary genre . |
| 24 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 25 | The internal politics of Surrealism were complicated by rivalries and ideological disputes ; in the case of André Breton 's association with Dali , his earlier support gave way to a denunciation of the artist , who was expelled from the group . |
| 26 | Fénéon possessed a dry wit , honed to a sharp edge by journalism ; he was a specialist in the sort of notes usually titled as ‘ News in brief ’ , but in France called ‘ faits divers ’ ( Sundry facts ) . |
| 27 | A committed critic writes from a social , nationalist or political conviction , which interacts with an aesthetic response to a work of art . |
| 28 | Art was subordinated to a social theory , and the result was ‘ Socialist Realism ’ , the realistic portrayal of heroic workers and everyday life in a representational style . |
| 29 | Gombrich 's scholarly work includes many papers on meaning and interpretation in the visual arts , so that the broad but thin scope of his story of art is instructive ; by writing a survey he inevitably limited himself to a narrow range of comment . |
| 30 | In 1964 Peter Murray wrote an introduction to a new edition , in which he made an observation about the passage on Bernini 's St Teresa , the sculptural group in Rome which is a key work of the Baroque : |