Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [that] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is by no means true that an ad which everyone notices is necessarily good — it may be noticed for reasons which are totally irrelevant to the strategy . |
| 2 | It is of course well-known that a customer 's overall impression of a hotel often depends on small details such as the speed at which a light bulb is replaced or a television repaired . |
| 3 | At a meeting in Bath ( UK ) on Sept. 5 , EC Economy and Finance Ministers and central bank governors reaffirmed their agreement of Aug. 28 that a change in the present structure of central rates " would not be the appropriate response to the current tensions in the EMS " , declared that they stood ready to intervene to counter tensions in the exchange markets , and also welcomed the fact that the Bundesbank ( the German central bank ) in present circumstances had no intention to increase German interest rates . |
| 4 | It is clear from the terms of Form 2 of Schedule 1 that a requirement for the receipt is that it should be signed by the superior or his agent . |
| 5 | This theory brings in the element of comparison such that an individual will compare his/her ratio of input ( effort ) to output ( pay ) with a similar ratio for some other relevant person . |
| 6 | In that case , the House of Lords concluded that a bank giving information as to the liquidity of one of its own customers to another bank so that the latter could show the information to one of its customers could be liable to that customer , even though the first bank did not know the identity of the second bank 's customer , the ultimate recipient of the information . |
| 7 | In Helby v Matthews [ 1895 ] AC 471 , the House of Lords decided that a hirer under a hire purchase agreement who was entitled to terminate the hiring agreement at any time , was not a person who had agreed to buy the goods within the meaning of s9 of FA 1889 , so confirming the nemo dat rule ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 8 | B.B.C. the House of Lords decided that a valuation court was not a court of law , the proceedings of which might be protected from outside influence by the law of contempt . |
| 9 | However , in Smith v South Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 165 the House of Lords held that a clause in a contract for services requiring the contractor to indemnify the employer against " any loss , claim or proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in the course of the execution of the order " did not apply to require an indemnity in respect of injuries caused by the employer 's negligence . |
| 10 | v. Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants the House of Lords held that a union registered under the Trade Union Act 1871 was enough of a legal entity to be sued in tort . |
| 11 | Thus , in R v P ( a Father ) [ 1991 ] 3 All ER 337 , HL a criminal case , the House of Lords held that a court was allowed to hear evidence of a father 's sexual abuse of one child to support an allegation of sexual abuse against another . |
| 12 | But , nevertheless , the House of Lords held that a manufacturer who sold food or medicine or the like in containers of a nature that the distributor or ultimate purchasers or consumers could not discover the defect by inspection is under a legal duty to the ultimate purchaser or consumer to take reasonable care that the article is free from defect likely to cause injury to health . |
| 13 | The House of Lords held that a provision in the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 that required track owners to provide available space for bookmakers on the track , was passed for the benefit of the race-going public rather than bookmakers ( Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium [ 1949 ] AC 398 ) . |
| 14 | In other contexts the courts have taken a broad , purposive approach to the interpretation of the 1977 Act ; thus in Smith v Eric S Bush ; Harris v Wyre Forest DC [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords held that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report , which purported to prevent the surveyor owing a duty of care to the recipient of the report , was subject to s2 of the Act and was required to be reasonable . |
| 15 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 16 | In July 1990 , the House of Lords held that a byelaw prohibiting entry to the Greenham Common military bars was invalid because it infringed rights of common . |
| 17 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 18 | The price has doubled since Iraq invaded Kuwait and now it 's going up fast though with traders convinced that a war in the Gulf is inevitable . |
| 19 | President Havel proposed in March 1991 that a referendum should be held to settle the issue of Slovak secession . |
| 20 | However , it was in March 1917 that a fighting body was founded in Italy , led by Mussolini , called Fascists , who were avowed anti-communists and anti-socialists . |
| 21 | Training officers who noted that they were able to spend their full time on training were very rare , although it was noted in Chapter 4 that a training officer or more ‘ training officer time ’ was the most commonly wanted further ‘ resource ’ to expand or develop existing training programmes . |
| 22 | Recall from Chapter 12 that an allowance has to be made for the fact that a given sum of money to be received in the future is worth less than the same sum received now . |
| 23 | Recall from Chapter 6 that an equilibrium is said to be a stable one when economic forces tend to push the market towards it . |
| 24 | During the discussions on the Marshall Plan , Norway proposed in July 1947 that a committee ought to be established to consider possibilities of economic cooperation . |
| 25 | ‘ Nevertheless , it was not until September 18 that a decision was made that a section 105 investigation should be recommended by the Minister and the submissions to that effect did no reach him until October 13 , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 26 | And what are the constraints on possible perceptions : for instance , is it in principle possible that a creature able to perceive the motion of an individual object might be able to perceive the object 's shape ? |
| 27 | The Pakistani Prime Minister , Mohammad Khan Junejo , and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain agreed in April 1987 that a peace settlement for Afghanistan should include a commitment to establish ‘ a neutral non-aligned ’ regime in Kabul . |
| 28 | In the same way as discussed in section 3.1 that a plane can be found which is tangential to a curved two dimensional surface , a Minkowski space can always be found to match space–time locally . |
| 29 | It was announced in June 1989 that an opposition front , the Moslem Unity Front ( Angkatan Perpeduan Ummah — APU ) , consisting of Semangat " 46 , PAS and Berjasa ( Barisan Jama'ah Islamiah Semalaysia , which left the National Front to join the APU ) , had been established . |
| 30 | It was on March 7 that a helicopter carrying Tanay , accompanied by his family and a number of Afghan generals , landed near the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |