Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then , there is a good case for bringing it before a court so that each side is heard and specific boundaries are laid down . |
| 2 | ‘ For these reasons I think there is a fairly strong case for marketing it as a health product but it will also probably be considered a luxury , ’ Mrs Rowan added . |
| 3 | The poems may almost be considered as examples of literary collaboration , and , though her own attempts at verse were not successful , the originality and freshness of perception in the Journals and her letters make a clear case for assessing her as a ‘ poet ’ in her own right . |
| 4 | proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this , to allocate , to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order , we think that 's inappropriate , If we 're putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done , so I 'm at all , or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that , that money . |
| 5 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 6 | THE development of Britain 's atomic power programme could be resurrected under plans being considered by British Nuclear Fuels which is looking at the feasibility of establishing itself as a major player in the post-privatisation electricity market . |
| 7 | Any response which is offered as a result of reading it in a work of literary criticism would be unacceptable . |
| 8 | It contains religious admonition despite announcing itself as a secular ordinance , and many chapters are about the promotion of Christianity and the welfare of the church , while some of the secular material reflects the ecclesiastical desire for justice , public order and the protection of the weak . |
| 9 | The first , noted by Labov with respect to the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies , is that however good the data there is no way in the absence of a supplementary broader study of locating it in a wider sociolinguistic context . |
| 10 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 11 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 12 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 13 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 14 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 15 | Workers at the Heeley Urban Farm in Sheffield have spent several days collecting seeds from these flowers with the intention of growing them as a crop , eventually to sell the seed as an urban flower-mix . |
| 16 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 17 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 18 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 19 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 20 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |
| 21 | The rationale here is colourfully illustrated by Lord Ellenborough 's dictum in Gardiner v Gray ( 1815 ) 4 Camp 144 to the effect that a person does not buy goods simply for the pleasure of depositing them on a dunghill . |
| 22 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 23 | ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse . |
| 24 | During the months of recuperation and the months of rediscovering himself as a changed person , a quick-tempered , irritable person , nervous and hypochondriacal , Tom thought of sex and love as remote concepts that were not for him , that were ridiculous for him to consider . |
| 25 | He then returned to the bedroom and carefully folded his socks , underwear , jeans and other casual wear before putting them in a drawer by the bed . |
| 26 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 27 | A private motorist who ‘ clocks ’ his car before selling it to a car dealer , may well find that he is guilty under section 23 , since it may well be his act which causes the car dealer to commit an offence under section 1 , Olgiersson v. Kitching ( 1986 D.C. ) . |
| 28 | It was the RSPCA 's intention to try and sedate the animals before taking them to a sanctuary . |
| 29 | The Directors of Craigendarroch Country Estate have great pleasure in inviting you to a luxury weekend in Royal Deeside . |
| 30 | It is worth discussing your child 's needs in detail and having a few rehearsal sessions before committing yourself to a job . |