Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are allowed to read out agreed statements in libel cases in the High Court and to act as advocates in Crown Courts at committals for sentence or at appeals against conviction or sentence from a magistrates ' court if they took part in the original hearing . |
| 2 | Under the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 , a hotel proprietor may in certain circumstances be liable to make good any loss of or damage to a guest 's property even though it was not due to any fault of the proprietor or staff of the hotel . |
| 3 | Forced back on a policy of self help , the RCM soon discovered that the public responded best when appeals were made of behalf of specific projects — £40 to support one boy in a course of agricultural training , say , or £60 for a year 's schooling . |
| 4 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 5 | The aim is to allow emergency expertise to be summoned from other regions or countries at a moment 's notice to help combat any natural or man-made disasters , such as oil spills or fires . |
| 6 | To test this hypothesis , measures of perceived similarity or difference between situations are required which may subsequently be related to measures of similarity or difference in a person 's behaviour across the same set of situations . |
| 7 | At the same time remind a seller or buyer of anything you still need ( eg last receipts , or particulars of a seller 's building society whose loan is to be repaid and who can give you particulars of your client 's title ) . |
| 8 | The more heritable a predictor is , the less it reflects the advantages or disadvantages of a student 's environment , and no predictor of potential academic ability is as heritable as the scores on intelligence tests and their close correlates , the aptitude tests . |
| 9 | Tickets will cost £5 or £6.50 with a ploughman 's lunch . |
| 10 | We must never again allow , now that we 're all too painfully aware of the consequences any company to cheat and swindle any working man or woman after a lifetime 's toil from the right to a happy and dignified and financially secure retirement . |
| 11 | a receiver or manager of a company 's property ; or |
| 12 | That relationship can be affected if the scale or seriousness of a student 's compulsory assignments ( knowledge of the literature , a capacity for critique and argument , ability to design a project and to collect and analyse data ) is in any way diminished . |
| 13 | Thus , where a husband leaves the matrimonial home while still owning it , the usual capital gains tax exemption or relief for a taxpayer 's only or main residence would be given on the subsequent transfer to the wife , provided she has continued to live in the house and the husband has not elected that some other house should be treated for capital gains tax purposes as his main residence for this period . |
| 14 | As with Building Regulations , changes in the Wiring Regulations are not retrospective and are intended for new installations , but substantial additions or alterations to a house 's wiring may mean making changes to an existing installation . |
| 15 | Can we use them to gain knowledge about the size or scale of a state 's economy ? |
| 16 | The Soviet of the Republics would have 20 deputies delegated from each republic 's Supreme Soviet , and one from each autonomous republic or region within a republic 's borders . |
| 17 | If the discourse of psychoanalysis is read in the light of the uncertainty principle , it becomes evident that a reconstruction or aetiology of a patient 's illness is impossible , for , like the ‘ biogram ’ in Out , the analytic process itself would alter the unconscious memories and phantasies that constitute traces of the origin of an illness . |
| 18 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 19 | Despite differences in wealth , or in occupation , Shetlanders assume that evaluations of a person 's worth should be a result of his or her behaviour , not according to what an individual ‘ has ’ or ‘ is ’ . |
| 20 | Gran Gelato Ltd v Richcliff Group Ltd held that misstatements by a landlord 's solicitors in replies to inquiries could not result in an action ( of negligence ) against the solicitors , but that such replies were given on behalf of the landlord . |
| 21 | But other European car makers produce less than 30% of a car 's value , which suggests that German firms have more out-sourcing to do . |
| 22 | It has been held that payments to a bankrupt 's accountants were not a preference under s 340 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( p 101 ) . |
| 23 | But lead is n't the only life-threatening substance that issues from a car 's exhaust . |
| 24 | It appears , in fact , that the speed and reliability of a bee 's flower memory at least roughly corresponds to the degree of variability it is likely to encounter among flowers of the same species in nature ( including variation from day to day of an individual blossom ) . |
| 25 | A maximum of £3,300 for a perimeter board facing the television cameras and £2,600 for a season 's worth of full-page advertisements in the match-day programme . |
| 26 | To put this more concretely , there can be legitimate arguments about the nature , quality and function of a listener 's response to the actual sound and structure of , say , an Elvis Presley or Bing Crosby song ; what is not legitimate is to move this ‘ thrill ’ , however defined , bodily across the theoretical topography so that it sits wholly under the sign of commodity-fetishism . |
| 27 | [ Hilary Spurling , Ivy When Young , 1974 , and Secrets of a Woman 's Heart , 1984 ; A Conversation between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain , Orion : a Miscellany , vol. i , 1945 ; personal knowledge . ] |
| 28 | If repatriation is not possible , the United Nations considers that integration and settlement within a refugee 's region is the next best alternative . |
| 29 | To have to sit there and take his abuse was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer 's chair . |
| 30 | He could foresee , that even at best , many godly ministers would not agree with their proposals , and part of a bishop 's work would then be to ensure these men were silenced . |