Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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1 | We met His Worship Mayor Camilien Houde in the anteroom , about a dozen of us , and walked through a passageway under the bleachers to the side of the rink . |
2 | On a preliminary issue as to whether the High Court had jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review of a decision of a visitors to the Inns of Court : — |
3 | On 17 September 1991 Rose J. , directed that a preliminary issue be determined as to whether the High Court has any jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review of a decision of the Visitors to the Inns of Court . |
4 | It seems certain that over the next few years the returns for all the work done did not satisfy Taylor , who wrote again in 1840 to the acting agent Moser , asking for a reduction of the Royalties to one-fifteenth . |
5 | Mr. Secretary Newton , supported by the Prime Minister , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. Secretary Brooke , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lilley , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. Nicholas Scott and Miss Ann Widdecombe , presented a Bill to make provision for requiring , in certain cases where interest on a loan secured on land is payable by a person who is entitled , or whose partner , former partner or qualifying associate is entitled , to income support , the applicable amount in respect of which includes a sum in respect of that interest , that a part of the benefits to which any of those persons is entitled under the enactments relating to social security shall be paid directly to the lender and applied towards the discharge of the liability in respect of the interest ; and for purposes connected therewith : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed . |
6 | He was fun with the children when they were younger , too , telling them stories about life in the countryside , taking them out — ‘ go all over the place with him , yes ’ — and seeing them to bed : ‘ he always give us a piggyback up the stairs to bed . ’ |
7 | In Thomas Young v. Hobson ( 1949 C.A. ) the seller made a contract for the goods to be carried at ‘ owner 's risk . ’ |
8 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
9 | This probably reflects a change in the children to be placed . |
10 | By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court . |
11 | Will Kinnock be offering a seat in the Lords to the former Labour Foreign Secretary ? |
12 | A study of the signatories to the 1642 Protestation Returns shows that the proportion of illiterate males varied from 53 to 79 per cent across the country and averaged 70 per cent . |
13 | But if even if one was late from for school , he had a monitor on the doors to the outside world and when the whistle went for nine o'clock that door was closed and there The boys marshalled in the yard to er get in the lines and marched to the classes . |
14 | Where Basque and Catalan nationalists agree , at least in private , is in preferring a deal with the Socialists to one with the People 's Party , even though both are themselves fairly conservative . |
15 | A review of the assessments to date shows we can not claim total success . |
16 | An applicant for such a grant requires to lodge with his application a plan of the premises to which the application relates and to display a notice intimating his application at the proposed premises ( subss. ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) ) . |
17 | ( 2 ) On any application for the renewal of a licence , the licensing board may require a plan of the premises to which the application relates to be produced to it and lodged with the clerk . |
18 | In ones and twos they jumped or fell from upper windows , some to death or injury and surrender ; others , more fortunate , were still fit to make a run for the woodlands to the north . |
19 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
20 | So he took a young lamb , whose mother had died , and carried it in a basket across the fields to Mrs Hurst 's house . |
21 | There is a reference among the additions to the chronicle of Prosper preserved in a Copenhagen manuscript to a Frankish attack on Bordeaux in 498 . |
22 | But it seems a waste of the resources to er have er , ten different meetings for thirty cases we that 's , that 's my view but , I would like to see another report at the next meeting so as we can compare . |
23 | I was told that the local authority were still maintaining an open mind about the possibility of placing the children with the father and that the choice of foster parents made in October was intended to cover the possibility of the children being returned to the father , but also to cover the possibility of a need for the children to be with foster parents for some longer time , in the event of the assessment of the father proving unsatisfactory . |
24 | The advantage of this income and converted payments method over the full accruals method is that personal creditors accounts do not have to be maintained ( why keep a record of the individuals to whom you owe money — they will tell you soon enough if you do not settle ) and the bookkeeping effort is reduced . |
25 | The notion of a learned non-correlation fails for a rather different reason — it can accommodate the facts but largely because it attempts little more than a redescription of the facts to be explained . |
26 | Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return . |
27 | You get the feeling that this is a film made as a gift from the writers to Brando , who probably fancied the idea of a few laughs before it 's too late . |
28 | You get the feeling that this is a film made as a gift from the writers to Brando , who probably fancied the idea of a few laughs before it 's too late . |
29 | Medics and educationalists were keenly aware that the best way of inculcating the laws of health was through a stress on the pleasures to be gained from PT . |
30 | We had to spend a night off the approaches to the West Solent and Poole as a result of information about local fishing boats coopering . |