Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 2 | Individual householders , faced with the prospects of a water rate , showed as little enthusiasm for the benefits of water ( and with it sewage disposal ) in the home , so that when the Empire ended only half the city 's houses had running water . |
| 3 | Although doubt has been cast on that finding by the results of the national survey ( see Parker 1982 : 90 ) , McGoldrick and Cooper 's research was conducted after the national survey and it has helped to encourage a view that attitudes towards early retirement are changing significantly and that it is being regarded more and more favourably by older workers ( see for example , House of Commons Select Committee on Social Services 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Here the money was paid by a third person , and I have no doubt that , upon the acceptance of that money by the plaintiffs with full knowledge of the terms on which it was offered , the debt was absolutely extinguished . |
| 5 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 6 | The Party has long been dominated by members of the Sunni Arab minority , who have shown little patience with the Kurds of the north or the Shiite Arabs of the south . |
| 7 | Now that we have a little experience in the joys of simple kite flying , it 's time to look deeper into the whole subject and to understand more about those ‘ Modern Materials ’ which have emerged since the 1970s . |
| 8 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 9 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 10 | Now it 's not fair on those others that are in the other room doing their exams there , and they 're just making all that noise from the typewriters in the other room . |
| 11 | ‘ Goodness of fit ’ is measured by matching the spectral characteristics of each segment to the templates in the graph , and at each point marking the template with the highest acoustic match probability . |
| 12 | As the two treatment groups were not identical in severity of disease at the start of the trial , an analysis of covariance , with corresponding confidence intervals , was used to compare each measure between the groups after treatment , making adjustments for the differences in severity of disease before treatment as measured by the corresponding baseline measurement . |
| 13 | It also focussed attention at each level on the measures of performance required for effective monitoring and control , and the information dependencies of all subsystems . |
| 14 | Professional standards have traditionally played little part in the accounts of central government . |
| 15 | The customer must be notified or warned of the following where applicable : ( a ) That collateral will not be registered in his name ; ( b ) That that part of the proceeds of sale of his collateral that exceeds the amount owed by the customer to the firm will be subject , on the firm 's default , to the pooling rules under the client money regulations . |
| 16 | Clauses 5.9.6 to 5.9.11 could be amended as follows : [ 5.9.6 That each and every permitted underlease shall be granted without any fine or premium at a rent not less than the then open market rental value of [ the Premises ] [ that part of the Premises to be underlet ] such rent being payable in advance on the days on which Rent is payable under this Lease and shall contain provisions : |
| 17 | Held , ( 1 ) that section 18(1) and ( 2 ) authorised an order for payment by the board of that part of the costs of the proceedings determined in the defendant 's favour incurred by him personally at any time when he was not receiving legal aid and was thus an unassisted person ; that , accordingly , the House had jurisdiction under the section to order payment by the board of the defendant 's costs incurred before the issue of his legal aid certificate ; and that the appropriate course was to adjourn the defendant 's application under regulation 143 of the Regulations of 1989 for him to pursue his claim in accordance with regulation 147 ( post , pp. 199G , 201A–B , E , H — 202A , 203B–D ) . |
| 18 | This faith could be said to rely , at least to some extent , on that part of the teachings of the Old Testament which claims that a ‘ god ’ had promised sovereignty over the Promised Land , or what is now Palestine , to the descendants of Abraham . |
| 19 | Having considered the four judgments in Walker 's case , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 I have concluded that they do not demonstrate the application to the facts of that case of the principles of the law of negligence . |
| 20 | Long-term monitoring of a section across the northern end of the Trough has shown little change in the properties of LSW since 1975 ( D. J. Ellett , manuscript in preparation ) . |
| 21 | After the initial nationalisation programme carried out by the post-war Labour government , there was relatively little change in the frontiers between the state sector and the private sector . |
| 22 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 23 | In fact such behaviour constitutes an act of discrimination and it should be noted that discrimination on the grounds of nationality , for example giving a preference to British goods as opposed to French goods rather than treating them on their merits , is an offence under Article 7 of the Rome Treaty . |
| 24 | However , the cautious pragmatism espoused by Sharif in line with Iran 's Rafsanjani , finds little support in the streets of Pakistan . |
| 25 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 26 | He is now , however , imparting that experience to the managers of tomorrow by his active involvement in a whole range of educational pursuits . |
| 27 | Many of us remember that experience from the days of the Labour Government , many of whose Ministers are now in another place . |
| 28 | At that time , Punch ( 1979 ) pointed out ( in a comparison of facilities in Britain and Holland ) that research into the police in Britain is not easy and |
| 29 | It was important , therefore , to compare the conclusion of that research with the results of the After Redundancy study which was based on contrasting socio-economic groups . |
| 30 | Mr Des Wilson , the Liberal Democrat campaign manager , played down the racial element in the vote that defeated Mr Taylor , saying : ‘ We won that seat on the merits of our campaign , not because a few votes for the Tory may have been influenced by the colour of their candidate 's skin . ’ |