Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearce v Foster indicated why it was that if the original affidavit or a copy made by the employee had been sent to the solicitors , that would not have been privileged from disclosure by the first and second defendants , although sent to the solicitors for the purpose of advising them on their position against the employee . |
| 2 | Address trading and other organisations on Trading Standards issues as related to the functions of the Department . |
| 3 | It is an inescapable fact that , despite all the care taken in passing legislation , some statutory provisions when applied to the circumstances under consideration in any specific case are found to be ambiguous . |
| 4 | The conclusion seems most sensible when applied to the displays between rivals for a mate , for food or for territory . |
| 5 | That definition differs from that contained in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 , as applied to the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 6 | Here Gibson is shown attending to clients , whilst to the left of the shop can be seen two painted hatchments of the type offered up on the house of the deceased , with two smaller shields above of painted canvas mounted on black velvet , as applied to the palls of the nobility and others entitled to bear arms . |
| 7 | Examples of this kind of analysis as applied to the types of activity are shown below ( Fig. 2.4 ) for : |
| 8 | What is an old woman 's heart when compared to the joys of dancing half naked down a catwalk while the world watches ? ’ |
| 9 | These injuries , severe and painful though they were , are only a small part of the story when compared to the effects of the severe closed head injury . |
| 10 | Clearly it happens to er underline the fact that the United Kingdom economy is in much better shape when compared to the economies of our principal European competitors . |
| 11 | in unemployment black spots , when compared to the levels of 2 and 3 per cent . |
| 12 | Gustason ( 1983 ) reports progress in reading performance , as measured in a test of syntactic abilities after a period in a programme using Signing Exact English , as compared to the norms for deaf children . |
| 13 | He was still seen as tied to the ranks of the bourgeoisie by an umbilical cord that he had failed to sever . |
| 14 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 15 | The unfolding of the divine purpose was not , however , identified with the course of human history as known to the inhabitants of Iran . |
| 16 | This is because the repayment of tax is treated as being made in respect of the accounting period in which the surplus ACT arose ( as opposed to the periods in which it was offset ) ( s 825(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 17 | It is the quality that characterizes biological objects as opposed to the objects of physics . |
| 18 | In language use ( as opposed to the drills of formal language practice ) we almost always have some sort of knowledge about the senders or receivers of the discourse . |
| 19 | Likewise , it was common ground that faulty administration contemplated the procedures by which decisions are made as opposed to the merits of the decisions . |
| 20 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 21 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |
| 22 | So the work remains , in some sense , circular : but what is more important to our understanding of the poem , as opposed to the misadventures of the poet , is that there has also been a change of genre . |
| 23 | An attempt to identify those social properties which pertain to objects as artefacts , for example , as opposed to the properties of words as discovered by linguists , or dreams as discovered by psychologists , can only be achieved through a balance between two procedures . |
| 24 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 25 | The debate which followed Hartog 's motion took the form of a " heated controversy " over the relative merits of grammar , philology , and literary detail as opposed to the contents of great works . |
| 26 | I must remind her that , to judge by the performance of the last Labour Government as opposed to the promises of the present Labour Opposition , Londoners can look forward only to cuts in the investment required . |
| 27 | Marvell is so much taken with the love he has of nature he even proposes to cut out the names of the trees in their own bark , as opposed to the names of lovers . |
| 28 | These traps were known as putchers , a small basket with a large weave designed specifically for salmon , as opposed to the Kipes at Purton , huge baskets with a five foot diameter mouth and a small weave , designed to catch anything . |
| 29 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 30 | ( 8 ) For the expenses of members of boards as opposed to the expenses of the boards themselves , see 5.3 . |