Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says they 're a matter for the politicians . |
| 2 | Gloucesters , can I help you ? erm Monday through to Friday , nine to five Basically we 're a shop for the soldiers to buy erm clothing , any sort of items they need for everyday life in the army . |
| 3 | Now erm in the main the most the people who go and talk , if they talk genuinely to their their other half or I always say partner instead of , nowadays that 's politically correct I think , erm then they so they 're they 're a lot of the times they 're talked out of it . |
| 4 | They 're a lot of the problems in tend to be directed towards or because of the flats . |
| 5 | " I am a member of the Friends of the Tourist Organization , " he said . |
| 6 | I am a friend of the Communists , because the Communists are revolutionary people ! ’ |
| 7 | Sukarno made it clear where his Nasakom doctrine was leading ( 17 August 1964 ) : ‘ I am a friend of the nationalists , but only the revolutionary nationalists ! |
| 8 | ‘ I am a supporter of the railways , ’ he insists . |
| 9 | But scientists in the commission argue that Britain 's opposition since the start has been a factor in the delays . |
| 10 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 11 | In a slightly different context , that of the attitude to be adopted by an appellate court where there has been a change in the circumstances of the plaintiff since the trial at first instance , Harman LJ enunciated the principle that , " the court should never speculate where it knows " : Curwen v James [ 1963 ] 1 WLR at p753 . |
| 12 | There has been a change in the genes , which alters the genetic programme . |
| 13 | Another consequence of modern farming has been a change in the types of farm buildings , which may have affected Barn Owl and Swallow numbers by the loss of sites as traditional Sussex barns disappear . |
| 14 | For this meeting has always been a bonfire of the vanities — not just an encounter to earn the right to progress further in Europe , but one of national pride . |
| 15 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 16 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 17 | ‘ There has always been a welcome in the hillsides for Englishmen in love with the Welsh rhythms and landscape , just as many people from Wales found jobs and homes in the flourishing towns and cities of industrial and commercial England . |
| 18 | Yet once she had been a favourite with the below-stairs staff . |
| 19 | This requirement has been a feature of the Companies Acts since 1900 . |
| 20 | Investment is certainly widespread but this has always been a feature of the docks . |
| 21 | There has been a fall in the numbers of beef cows receiving the hill cow subsidy in Scotland from 459,000 in 1975 to 442,000 in 1978 . |
| 22 | There has n't been a word in the papers nor any hint of a rumour around town , so that 's it as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 23 | It can offer something different from both NATO and the European Communities , in the case of the former because it can concentrate on a European rather than a trans-Atlantic perspective , and in the second because since 1973 neutral Ireland has been a member of the Communities . |
| 24 | He had been a member of the Leaders ' Meeting from its inception . |
| 25 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 26 | He has been a member of the Pensioners ' Committee , the Council of the Institute of Bankers and a Trustee of Bank of Ireland Pension Fund . |
| 27 | It was pointed out in argument that , pursuant to regulation 7 of the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , tax which was due but not paid on or before the due date could have been the subject of an assessment on Woolwich under paragraph 4(2) or ( 3 ) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 ; but for the reasons I have already given any such assessment would , in my opinion , have been a nullity in the circumstances of the present case . |
| 28 | Secondly , mirroring the extension of the law 's concern to notions of social harm has been a widening of the conceptions of deviant and enforcer to include not only individual actors but also organizations . |
| 29 | Do n't forget , there is not a rabbit warren in the land where they show sex education films and yet this has never been a problem for the rabbits of the world . |
| 30 | Having decided that the rude manners and customs of an outback community ‘ are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors ’ , he examines first how they regulated themselves traditionally ; then , the introduction and enforcement of the country 's general body of legislation — for instance , theft of cattle from drovers had long been a problem in the Highlands ; now their passage was growing safer . |