Example sentences of "in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elaine Moss 's daughter , Alison , fell in love with a little picture-book that one might find among the painting-books and the ‘ join-the-dots ’ books in a newsagents , but not in a ‘ proper ’ bookshop . |
| 2 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 3 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 4 | It would prevent our living in a fools ' paradise of false prosperity . |
| 5 | To pretend as the sister said , that because she and another sister share lesbian sexuality , that that is the only thing , I think is living in a fools paradise . |
| 6 | Walter gave crack sprinter Sheikh Albadou a spin yesterday morning and he flies to New York to ride the horse in a pre-Breeders Cup race on Saturday week . |
| 7 | Ernst & Young has offered to pay compensation to Sound Diffusion investors who took up shares in a rights issue seven months before the electrical equipment company collapsed . |
| 8 | In 1987 the bank raised £700m in a rights issue , only to use it to make provisions of £1.02bn against sovereign debt , a move that pushed the Midland into its first ever loss . |
| 9 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 10 | In a rights issue , of course , there is no loss to the company , investors or underwriters , unless the rights price becomes negative ( for example , because of a substantial general decline in share prices ) . |
| 11 | In a rights issue the purchaser offers to its existing shareholders the right to subscribe in cash for such number of shares in proportion to their existing holdings as will raise a sum ( after deduction of the rights issue costs ) equal to the consideration needed for the acquisition . |
| 12 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 13 | The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court . |
| 14 | Through a curious loophole in the present law Hart was able to plead guilty to motoring offences that can be dealt with in a magistrates court — and was jailed for only four months . |
| 15 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
| 16 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
| 17 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 18 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |
| 19 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 20 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
| 21 | Representation is currently available for almost all cases in the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal , the High Court and county courts ; the Employment Appeal Tribunal ; the Lands Tribunal ; the Restrictive Practices Court ; and certain proceedings in a magistrates ’ court . |
| 22 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 23 | At least once a week I also like to sit in a Magistrates or Crown Court observing different dramas of life — and sometimes death . |
| 24 | Establishments that do not comply with this code face heavy penalties and fines of up to £2000 in a magistrates court and unlimited fines in a crown court . |
| 25 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
| 26 | Public law proceedings must be commenced in a magistrates ' court unless there are already public law proceedings pending in a county court or the High Court or the application is made by a local authority following a s37 direction to investigate made in family proceedings in either court ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) . |
| 27 | This applies whether an application for an emergency protection order is heard in a magistrates ' court , county court or High Court . |
| 28 | But every week , thousands of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers across the country take comfort from spending an hour in a divers ' de-compression chamber . |
| 29 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 30 | Yes so all this time were you still living in a nurses home ? |