Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] for a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the usual carpetbaggers , liars and opportunists had been discounted , there was a heart-lifting common thread , a real desire to work for a paper promising to lift them out of the cynicism and virtual despair of the current newspaper scene . |
| 2 | In my judgment the judge was wrong in holding that on an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order by a person other than the child concerned , the child 's welfare is the paramount consideration . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) In granting or refusing an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order , the court is not determining a question with respect to the upbringing of the child concerned . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 5 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 6 | Time to yearn for a botty beautiful |