Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) . |
| 2 | Even if you 've got lots of expanded memory left unused , you ca n't use it once your conventional memory fills up , that 's it . |
| 3 | Well , that is , he did n't give it to me , but he said I could use it until its rightful owner turned up . ’ |
| 4 | The medium had also told him that he had a gift , but he did n't discover it until my older brother , just after the war , contracted polio and was discharged from hospital with a paralysed arm and leg . |
| 5 | Your cervical screening card will tell you when your next smear is due . |
| 6 | They could not leave it because their reproductive processes depended on it . |
| 7 | The answer is that we can , without using intuition , speculation or hearsay concerning Z , prove that Z , C and M are logical consequences of the axioms A1 through to I. Now whilst algebraists do not regard it as their prime duty to reduce all such sets of axioms to a minimum size , it is part of an algebraist 's function to investigate consequences of axioms such as those just referred to . |
| 8 | It is change of this kind which is more likely to surprise and challenge you when you first return . |
| 9 | ‘ Can I help it if your debauched skills have turned me into a … a strumpet ? ’ |
| 10 | How could she deny it when her own body was betraying her ? |