Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 2 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 3 | ‘ But they were going to wait for Floy to get back ! |
| 4 | ‘ They are n't going to wait for Floy to come back , ’ said Caspar . |
| 5 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 6 | But Ramsden 's ( illustrated ) did n't have to wait for television to make its name . |
| 7 | This unexpected development was accompanied by a White House statement which said that " the nation can no longer afford to wait for Congress to act " on proposed legislation to allow inter-state banking . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've got to wait for Doctor to come along and give you permission . |
| 9 | A trade agreement provided for a reduction of customs duties on goods traded by the two countries ( thus extending most favoured nation status to the Soviet Union and improving the competitiveness of each country 's goods in the other 's markets ) ; the agreement also provided for better copyright protection for US companies and for reductions in the time US companies would have to wait for approval to begin commercial operations in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Such is my concern for the liberty of the subject that I am prepared to allow a contemnor who ought to be punished for contempt to go unpunished ; and that is so , notwithstanding that Parliament envisages that I could consider imposing a just punishment . ’ |
| 11 | The system distracted them from their own businesses and led many of the richest families to ruin , punished for failure to fulfil the Tsar 's expectations . |
| 12 | The Melrose saga began earlier this year when he was one of several players , including former Wallaby Mitchell Cox , who applied for reinstatement to play the game . |
| 13 | Our next plan is to go for endowment to stop the roller coaster ride we 've gone on with the city ’ . |
| 14 | The following paragraphs focus upon the right to cancel for failure to comply with the requisite formalities , as this is likely to be most important in practice . |
| 15 | Where the nuclear scientist in Seven Days to Noon is shot , and the engineer in The Sound Barrier ends the film a shattered man , the scientist in The Net is rescued from danger and goes off home to resolve his marital problems . |
| 16 | It had been courteously framed , but Goibniu had arranged for Balor to go with them and Floy had known — and everyone had known — that it had not really been a request but a command . |
| 17 | While she wandered the earth all the crops withered , and Zeus , so that men would not starve , arranged for Persephone to return to her . |
| 18 | SCO has arranged for Chorus to do the bulk of the packaging and development work with SCO Open Desktop as the front end . |
| 19 | It is intended that such a timetable should be updated and agreed for circulation to staff each April . |
| 20 | The fullerene-road mechanism seems to have a similar failing ; there must still be sufficient small radicals around when the smaller fullerenes have developed for growth to continue . |
| 21 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 22 | Enough change for regulation to give way smoothly to sufficiently widespread positive management by public agency or private occupier in partnership to obviate the need for enforced protection . ’ |
| 23 | Faced with such evidence , supermarkets are clamouring for information to label their goods ’ environmentally sound ’ , and there is an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for a ’ chlorine free ’ paper industry ( Sweden already makes 95% of its soft paper without the aid of chlorine ) . |
| 24 | Part or all of the aedeagus is held by some authors to be of a secondary , non-appendicular nature but others consider it to be formed by the division of the gonapophyses of the 9th abdominal segment , the two median halves fusing during development to form the penis while the lateral halves constitute the parameres . |
| 25 | At this point apparently , Pliny became unwell ; he lay down on a cloth spread out for him and twice asked for water to drink . |
| 26 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 27 | News on Sunday asked for money to produce a dummy newspaper , which would then be market-researched , and the results wrapped into a feasibility study . |
| 28 | Officials asked for money to help the Middlesbrough club survive after a series of fires at their Normanby Road ground . |
| 29 | When the Society heard in July 1861 that the Board was to remove the Bondgate bubbler the cattle fountain that was turning the highway to mire it asked for permission to replace it . |
| 30 | A young , newly-arrived Guards officer asked for permission to spend his first weekend at the home of a retired service officer in Co . |