Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ALEX HIGGINS escaped suspension but was fined £3,000 yesterday for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 3 | They were banned and fined £500 for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's me fined now for bringing the game into disrepute . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Social workers and SSDs walk a tightrope between maintaining the spirit of partnership and creating a new , relatively unaccountable means of taking children away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 . |
| 9 | Likewise the debate over the relative merits of landfill gas and incineration as options for recovering the energy in waste is brief . |
| 10 | A third mechanism for maintaining the threshold between conflict and war is what is generally termed ‘ presence ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In this situation the kin network operates not only as a means of finding work but also for assisting the process of migration . |
| 15 | Our principal method for gathering the information about care programming which we report here was direct interviews with practitioners , but this could not give any indication of the applicability of our findings to other areas . |
| 16 | He has also been a member of the actuarial profession 's working party on AIDS and developed a model suitable for forecasting the number of AIDS cases in the UK . |
| 17 | In recent years the CAP has been attacked in popular publications for encouraging the loss of landscape features and habitats . |
| 18 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 19 | I would also be responsible for financing the trip with respect to fuel , ferries , extra food and insurance , though several regimental charities gave donations . |
| 20 | However , Lord Marshall 's letter says that because of the Government 's commitment to introduce competition into electricity supply as quickly as possible ‘ alternative arrangements for protecting the security of supply ’ would need to be made , involving a ‘ capacity deficiency scheme ’ . |
| 21 | By examining all aspects of innovation prior to major expenditures on development — such as market need , technical , production and marketing requirements , and a basis for protecting the product from competition — the product solution can be found . |
| 22 | New techniques for tackling the problem of osmosis . |
| 23 | Ironically , one requirement to become a civil patrol commander , directly accountable to the army for keeping the community in line , is literacy . |
| 24 | One former senior official of the Korea Development Institute recently admitted : ‘ Old formulas for keeping the economy on track , usually technocratic solutions developed in a political vacuum , are no longer appropriate . ’ |
| 25 | Dressing for television is covered at length ( ties made from madder silk and with an Olney knot at the best for keeping the microphone in place ) . |
| 26 | FIGURES 1 and 2 : models for explaining the relationship between care programming and care management in mental health . |
| 27 | Wesley 's model for explaining the nature of faith is the model of perception . |
| 28 | The worsening of the crisis has led many politicians concerned about keeping the country from anarchy , to look for a stronger defence minister . |
| 29 | Former club chairman Brian Hillier , who last year served a prison sentence for cheating the taxman over cash payments to players , told the jury at Bristol Crown Court , Tobin had tried to blackmail him 2 years ago , demanding £2,000 to keep silent about cash payments . |
| 30 | The inventions of Lancashire men for mechanizing the production of cotton goods gave rise to the familiar industrial landscape of this part of England ; the tall brick-built mills which made ‘ King Cotton ’ the pride and joy of Victorian Britain . |