Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where you have missed the time limit for presenting an unfair dismissal application ( the normal limitation period for bringing an action for breach of contract in the civil courts is six years , rather than the strict three-month time limit for pursuing an unfair dismissal claim ) ; |
| 2 | My constituent , Mrs. X , who is still suffering badly , had been treated in a less than fair way by those who conducted the criminal investigation and also by those who decided that there were no grounds for bringing the perpetrator in front of a court martial . |
| 3 | ALEX HIGGINS escaped suspension but was fined £3,000 yesterday for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 4 | They were banned and fined £500 for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's me fined now for bringing the game into disrepute . ’ |
| 6 | As mentioned earlier , the HMIs took an altogether more sophisticated view of the relationship of education to society and to social change , and like the Education , Science and Arts Committee ( 1981 ) saw a conflict between transmitting the values of society and preparing young people to change those values . |
| 7 | The outcome of these processes is that the official portrait of crime and criminals is highly selective , serving to conceal crimes of the powerful and hence shore up their interests , particularly the need to be legitimated through maintaining the appearance of respectability . |
| 8 | Tax avoidance The court may refuse to approve the scheme if its principal purpose is to avoid tax or stamp duty , but not usually where there are other justifiable reasons for using a scheme of arrangement . |
| 9 | It may report an update to software or inform users of specific procedures for using a piece of software . |
| 10 | The Packs contain 16 pages of cardboard to be cut up into picture , word , letter , and number cards , together with a Teacher 's Guide offering instructions for using the cards in conjunction with the Activity Books . |
| 11 | There is , of course , a considerable difference between enjoying a passion for fashion and being a spendaholic . |
| 12 | Social workers and SSDs walk a tightrope between maintaining the spirit of partnership and creating a new , relatively unaccountable means of taking children away . |
| 13 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he had been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 14 | ( d ) Warnings Section 2(4) ( a ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he has been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 15 | Their method has been designed for recovering a GEM from water — not easy because any bacteria in it are much less abundant than , say in soil . |
| 16 | Likewise the debate over the relative merits of landfill gas and incineration as options for recovering the energy in waste is brief . |
| 17 | We suggested in the last chapter that in some situations you might think about producing a lecture on video instead of recording it as it happens . |
| 18 | According to a new book called PubWatching , there 's nothing uniquely human about enjoying a drop of alcohol . |
| 19 | Besides this , we asked about contacting the police for help . |
| 20 | On the one hand , this is an argument for preferring an analysis of style which has a sound linguistic basis over one which merely uses ad hoc categories . |
| 21 | He is more hesitant , however , about including an aptitude for leadership among the prerequisites for a successful captain of industry . |
| 22 | Type B jobs are where the responsibility is for maintaining a level of competence and efficiency in an on-going activity , a departmental management role . |
| 23 | A third mechanism for maintaining the threshold between conflict and war is what is generally termed ‘ presence ’ . |
| 24 | The economy 's heavy reliance on trade combined with government responsibility for maintaining the value of sterling , made the balance of payments a central issue of the political economy of the period [ Beckerman , 1972 ; Dornbusch and Fisher , 1980 ] . |
| 25 | On June 10 Zenawi criticized the previous regime for accepting a payment in connection with the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel [ see pp. 38174-75 , which , he said , " should have been handled as a humanitarian problem " . |
| 26 | The normal reason for accepting a piece of advice is that it is likely to be sound advice . |
| 27 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 28 | I take the view that the right to register a fishing vessel , as a precondition for pursuing the activity of fishing in another member state , likewise constitutes an element which is inseparable from the right of establishment in the sea-fishing sector and , on that basis , falls within the sphere of application of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 29 | And to be honest I said it was n't worth wasting a lot of time on them . |
| 30 | In this situation the kin network operates not only as a means of finding work but also for assisting the process of migration . |