Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £4,000 million Action for Cities programme underlines the Conservative commitment to our inner cities and the people who live there . |
| 2 | The claim that its concentration on things material meant a neglect , or even a denial , of things spiritual , a forgetfulness of God , was a common one . |
| 3 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 4 | The Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider the best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK . |
| 5 | An attachment of earnings order requires a debtor 's employer to deduct monies direct from the debtor 's wage packet and pay off the debt over a period of months . |
| 6 | In Britain in 1978 , the Protection of Children Act extended the scope of the earlier Indecency with Children Act 1960 to cover indecent photographs , still or moving , of children under the age of 16 . |
| 7 | Each case of cattle theft has the same value as the murder and the gang robbery . |
| 8 | But whether the separation of powers doctrine implies the existence of that degree of checking or controlling which has come to be known as judicial review in the American sense is not easy to decide . |
| 9 | At lower levels , too , cost-centre managers have been given more flexibility with personnel management providing a greater link between performance and promotion ( Thorpe |
| 10 | This , as we have seen , is very much at odds with the philosophy of writers like Ross and Witkin , who have emphasized the need for arts education to address the problem of aesthetic development , or what Witkin terms the ‘ intelligence of feeling ’ . |
| 11 | Each year in early July , the John Clare Society holds a festival in Helps ton to celebrate the poet 's birthday . |
| 12 | It was a plaintiff in the landmark 1969 US Court of Appeals decision to deny a Mississippi television station license renewal because of racial discrimination in its programming . |
| 13 | I believe the denial of the PSI report and the furore it caused occurred precisely because it managed to get beneath the surface of police culture to explore the deep structures of belief and to comment adversely about their influence on police activities . |
| 14 | Super slick grooming with a hint of colour from Partners Hair using the Schwarzkopf range |
| 15 | This relative concept of liberty undermines the claim of interests theory to don the mantle of a liberal theory of contract . |
| 16 | Any change in medical practice or the use of beds will had an impact on nursing services . |
| 17 | Our Invention consists of an improvement on the Invention relating to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways which forms the subject of a previous application for Letters Patent dated the 22nd April 1896 , No. 8501 . |
| 18 | Henry had lost count of the number of times Beamish began a sentence with the words ‘ I notice … ’ or ‘ I observe … ’ |
| 19 | Specifying the number of days treatment allows the pharmacist to work out the exact number of tablets required , rather than the doctor having to do it . |
| 20 | The balance sheet provides a " static picture " of the financial position at a point in time ; the profit and loss account and source and application of funds statement show the flows which have occurred during the accounting period . |
| 21 | These require an explicit opinion or statement as to whether or not the source and application of funds statement gives a true and fair view and what accounting convention ( historical or current cost ) has been adopted for the presentation of the accounts . |
| 22 | For two years the League of Nations Society led a modest existence , discussing ideas , publishing proposals and keeping in touch with like-minded organizations in France , Holland and , significantly , the United States , where a League to Enforce peace had been established in 1915 . |
| 23 | Section 2(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a contract of sale of goods as : ‘ a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration , called the price . ’ |
| 24 | Section 61(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a warranty as ’ … an agreement with reference to goods which are the subject of a contract of sale , but collateral to the main purpose of such contract , the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages , but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated . ’ |
| 25 | The general principles just outlined apply in sale of goods , for although there are sections of the Sale of Goods Act governing the assessment of damages , those sections do little more than embody the general principles . |
| 26 | The rising star of Windies cricket hit an unbeaten 95 not out to spur his side to a five-wicket victory in the rain-affected match . |
| 27 | Joseph Colucci , and executive director of research at General Motors , says that a consortium founded last summer in low-emissions technology offers the best match between the administration 's goals , the capabilities of the federal laboratories and the industry 's priorities . |
| 28 | The mechanism of natural selection can indeed be beautifully expounded in a metaphorical language which treats organisms as designed by their constituent genes in accordance with the mathematics of games theory to serve the egoistic projects of each of them . |
| 29 | I. The grounds for interception The Interception of Communications Act had a promising start . |
| 30 | The American system of police accountability bears no relationship to its British tripartite structure . |