Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backs hold key to All Blacks ' demise |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal said that the attempt to keep the group afloat by recourse to both companies ' assets was a reasonable commercial judgment in the circumstances and was not unfairly prejudicial . |
| 3 | The 32-year-old Londoner has yet to secure a contract with the team for 1994 , and after finishing second to fellow Williams ' driver Alain Prost in yesterday 's opening qualifying session , said : ‘ I have had a fantastic opportunity with this team and I believe they will be the team to beat again next year . |
| 4 | But the Japanese attitude to other countries ' war graves is not winning them any friends . |
| 5 | There seemed little awareness of how the mainstream activities of the housing department are of relevance to social services ' role in enabling independent living . |
| 6 | It prevents proceedings being transferred for this reason unless it can be shown that no other method , including transfer to another magistrates ' court , is appropriate and that delay would seriously prejudice the child 's interests . |
| 7 | We aim to guarantee every woman in employment the right to 14 weeks ' maternity leave on full pay , and to give fathers paternity leave , bringing Britain into line with the better provision in the European Community . |
| 8 | This research will be extended by examining 10- to 16-year olds ' perceptions of advertisements for alcoholic drinks . |
| 9 | After a five-hour trial Bao was sentenced by the People 's Intermediate Court to five years ' imprisonment for " inciting " counter-revolutionary activities and to four years for " divulging state secrets " . |
| 10 | A leading member of the ETA command , Santiago Arróspide Sarasola " Santi-Potrosó " , was on July 4 , 1990 , sentenced by a French court to 10 years ' imprisonment for belonging to a terrorist organization and for illegal possession of arms . |
| 11 | Silke Maier-Witt , a former member of the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) arrested in east Germany in 1990 [ see p. 37828 ] , was sentenced by a Stuttgart court to 10 years ' imprisonment on Oct. 8 for her part in the 1977 murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer [ see pp. 28743 ; 28920 ] and in the 1979 attempted assassination of Gen. Alexander Haig [ see p. 29913 ] . |
| 12 | Harry Tisch , the former chair of the East German Free German Trade Union Federation ( FDGB ) , was sentenced on June 6 by a Berlin court to 18 months ' imprisonment on charges of misappropriation of union funds for personal benefit . |
| 13 | Gerd Honsik , the neo-Nazi publisher of an extreme right-wing magazine Halt , was sentenced by a Vienna court to 18 months ' imprisonment on May 5 for 14 neo-Nazi offences including the denial that the mass murder of Jewish people had taken place under the Third Reich . |
| 14 | On Dec. 14 Sergei Parfyonov , the former deputy commander in Riga of the Soviet Interior Ministry troops , the OMON , was sentenced by a Latvian court to four years ' imprisonment in a corrective labour camp for " exceeding his authority " during events in Riga in January 1991 [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 15 | Nicolae Andruta Ceausescu , the younger brother of executed former President Nicolae Ceausescu , was sentenced by a military tribunal of the Supreme Court to 15 years ' imprisonment and demoted . |
| 16 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |
| 17 | In November two former Army officers , Adolfo Padilla and Gustavo Díaz , were sentenced by a civilian court to seven years ' imprisonment each for participation in a failed coup attempt on May 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36653-54 ] . |
| 18 | Werner Lotze , 38 , a Red Army Faction extremist , was sentenced on Jan. 31 by the Bavarian state court to 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | In the light of the Committee 's hesitancy , it is not surprising that the Sexual Offences Act 1985 , which raised the penalty for indecent assault to ten years ' imprisonment , did not also divide the offence into two degrees . |
| 20 | Sentencing Serjeant to five years ' imprisonment , Lord Lane ( the Lord Chief Justice ) said : ‘ The public sense of outrage must be marked . |
| 21 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 22 | Jomeo is endearingly accident-prone and forever unsuccessful with females ; Gigi , by contrast , is wildly popular with the opposite sex and has made up for her childlessness by becoming a universal aunt to other females ' babies . |
| 23 | By comparison the CMHTs were a readily identifiable and costed group of specialist development staff covering all aspects of the developmental process ; they had to rely on gaining access to other organizations ' resources ; and they intentionally eschewed traditional residential care — especially private residential care . |
| 24 | His co-defendant , Rudolf Ernst , who was resident in New York , was sentenced in his absence to two years ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | These have occasionally given rise to strange sea-farers ' tales of ‘ floating islands ’ . |
| 26 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 27 | In addition to these beginners ' courses , introductory classes are available in Celtic , German , Italian , Russian and Spanish . |
| 28 | Although there were famous instances of resistance to individual officers ' claims , some people who protested suffered reprisals . |
| 29 | A recent discovery has shown that some North American cliff swallows actually carry eggs from their own nest to other swallows ' nests nearby . |
| 30 | After concluding the deal through an intermediary , John H. Ross , Collins arranged to have the case transferred from another judge and then sentenced the man to 42 months ' imprisonment despite a recommendation of eight years by the probation officer . |