Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , of course , no doubt that a payment made in response to an unlawful demand under duress or compulsion may be recovered . |
| 2 | The authorities became worried about the threat to public order and decided at last to act against both fascist paramilitary provocation and anti-fascist counter-violence , a decision influenced by deputations to the Home Secretary from the London Labour party and the Manchester watch committee . |
| 3 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
| 4 | His sheer presence seemed to inspire a side threatened with relegation to Division Three to only their seventh away point of the season . |
| 5 | As a rule , a term used in contrast to " semantically " ie practising the form rather than the meaning . |
| 6 | Lou Macari 's attempts to wed a club steeped in sophistication to the long-ball game have brought him unpopularity in the dressing-room which will soon spread to the terraces if results do not improve . |
| 7 | a contradiction that is entailed in their uncritical importation of a methodology developed in relation to another subject matter entirely . |
| 8 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 9 | The lord 's power to remove the inhabitants of a village varied from place to place . |
| 10 | At one point in Maus II , Vladek 's wife Anja plays a murderous game of hide-and-seek , chased up and down the bunk beds of a vast , empty Auschwitz barracks by a guard reduced in close-up to a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout ( Poles are pigs in a world where Jews are mice efficiently exterminated by German cats ) . |
| 11 | Thus , his willingness to enter budgetary talks without preconditions — a point made by Bush to congressional leaders on May 6 — was welcomed by many Democrats as evidence of a new realism on the part of the administration when compared with the use of accounting manoeuvres and optimistic forecasts which had characterized the 1991 budget proposal . |
| 12 | In her sleep , she saw a body slashed from breast to navel . |
| 13 | In 1831 the Rothesay Castle , a passenger-steamship bound from Liverpool to Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey foundered with the loss of a hundred men , women and children . |
| 14 | It was a tool used by farriers to Pare the hoof of a horse and known as a butteris , buttress or buttrace . |
| 15 | In the final of the Deodhar Trophy , South Zone ( 158 for 7 ) beat Central Zone ( 122 ; Arshad Ayub 5 for 23 ) at Calcutta in a match reduced by rain to 35 overs-a-side . |
| 16 | Subject to the payment of a fee prescribed from time to time by statutory instrument , any person is entitled to inspect and to obtain copies of ‘ any records kept by the registrar for the purposes of the Companies Acts ’ ; no distinction is drawn between the rights of members and inspection by other persons . |
| 17 | the status of X Ltd being materially different from that as disclosed in the Information memorandum , then we should close the assignment and I would render a fee based on time to date at our scale rates . |
| 18 | Immigration R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Khalid Hussain ; CA ( Lloyd , Glidewell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 5 Oct 1989 Under r 18 of the Immigration Appeals Procedure Rules 1972 , the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal considering whether or not to hear oral evidence to determine whether there were compassionate reasons for a person convicted of murder to be given entry clearance was a matter of discretion and could only be attacked on Wednesbury principles or other recognised rules . |
| 19 | This may be a particular sum or a price determined by reference to a formula or other basis ( s166(6) ) . |
| 20 | For example , if a breach were to affect the profitability of the Business , it would be unfair to compensate the Purchaser by simply paying back the lost profits when the Purchaser has paid a price calculated by reference to a multiple of profits . |
| 21 | Several buses a day run from Vojvodina to Szeged , packed with visiting mothers and girlfriends . |
| 22 | Built initially around 1511 , it was extended to its present shape in the early 1540s when Henry 's religious policies had given added risk to the policy of a invasion based on claims to the English throne . |
| 23 | Hic Mulier is not only shameless but , as Sandra Clark has recently pointed out , she suggests that shame itself ‘ is a concept framed by men to subordinate women to the dictates of arbitrary custom ’ ( ‘ Controversy ’ , 175 ) . |
| 24 | It is a role passed from character to character , each of whom makes different use of it . |
| 25 | A WOMAN accused of cruelty to her baby daughter has vanished with the child . |
| 26 | A woman slashed from jaw to groin found floating in a ditch . |
| 27 | Fazekas de St Groth calls his system ‘ ascites without the mouse ’ ; it is based on a method used for decades to Brow bacteria in suspension . |
| 28 | The plaintiff was remunerated by a commission calculated by reference to the premium paid by the insured persons introduced by him . |
| 29 | Yu was a new recruitment campaign ; a rallying call ; a word passed from lip to ear ; a look , perhaps , between two sympathetic to the cause . |
| 30 | Should rainforests be used for hamburgers ? — trees destroyed for cattle ranches — is the question asked by Takeaway , which combines music , dance and action in a show devised by nine- to 20-year-olds of Cambridgeshire . |