Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to secure such a reduction , national guide-lines were issued in October 1990 , which identified a number of offence-specific factors that would justify a committal , but only where a magistrates ' court feels that its sentencing powers are insufficient . |
| 2 | This does not apply where a magistrates ' court declines to hear a case because it could be dealt with more conveniently in another court ( s94(2) ) . |
| 3 | Where a teachers ' class list has not yet been brought up to date for 1981/82 her list is enclosed with these notes . |
| 4 | A defendant 's costs order may be made in favour of an acquitted defendant by the Crown Court or a magistrates ' court . |
| 5 | Certain powers of the court may be delegated to a single justice or a justices ' clerk . |
| 6 | In urgent cases an application for directions may be made orally and ex parte with the leave of the court or a justices ' clerk . |
| 7 | In the family proceedings court a summons may be issued by a single justice or a justices ' clerk ( FPCR , r33 and MCA 1980 , s97 ) . |
| 8 | Certainly this is envisaged in the procedural rules which allow a single justice or a justices ' clerk to grant repeat applications for interim orders where all parties consent and the terms of the order are unchanged ( FPCR , r28 ) . |
| 9 | You can go to the housing department of your local authority or new town , or a Housing Aid and Advice Centre , or a Citizens ' Advice Bureau , and ask for a copy of an explanatory leaflet and registration form about the Tenants Exchange Scheme . |
| 10 | A voluntary winding up may be a members ' winding up or a creditors ' winding up . |
| 11 | Once a week guests are offered a candlelit dinner , also a barbecue if the weather is fine , or a farmers ' buffet at which Austrian specialities are served . |
| 12 | These departments will needless to say be answerable direct to the main body of partners but , for administrative convenience an additional tier will usually be introduced in the form of a managing partner or a partners ' management committee as a more efficient method of control and a useful filter to ensure that the partners as a whole are spared the necessity of dealing with anything other than matters of real importance . |
| 13 | Another international , who preferred to remain anonymous , claimed that two thirds of the top 24 would have gone on strike had they been asked , and that a players ' union will soon be formed to help deal with matters such as prize money , rankings , training and selection . |
| 14 | Another international , who preferred to remain anonymous , claimed that two thirds of the top 24 would have gone on strike had they been asked , and that a players ' union will soon be formed to help deal with matters such as prize money , rankings , training and selection . |
| 15 | As a safeguard , they recommended that a magistrates ' court should be required to sanction any detention after twenty-four hours and that the suspect should be legally represented at this stage , so that his or her point of view could be put across . |
| 16 | He was one of the first to seek evidence in the field for the concept of natural selection held by Charles Darwin [ q.v. ] , maintaining ( then heretically ) that a species ' behaviour was as characteristic of it as any morphological feature . |
| 17 | The sorry plight of an ailing club continued with the news that a supporters ' coach had been involved in a crash and that only 12 youngsters could be rounded up to take on Leicester in a youth match . |
| 18 | The last time that a scolds ' cage is recorded as being in use was when two Looe ladies , Hannah Wit and Bessy Niles , both being of ‘ fluent tongue ’ and having , over some dispute ‘ exerted their oratory on each other ’ , at last thought it prudent to leave the matter in dispute to be settled by the mayor . |
| 19 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
| 20 | These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research . |
| 21 | Fatter than a Weight-Watchers ' enrolment evening . |
| 22 | If she is over 60 when her husband dies , she will usually receive a retirement pension rather than a widows ' pension . |
| 23 | For a producers ' rather than a consumers ' perspective on agendasetting see Hetherington , 1985 ; Blumler and Gurevitch , 1986 ; Blumler , Gurevitch , and Nossiter , 1986 and 1989 . ) |
| 24 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 25 | Bankruptcy of a registered proprietor , and the interests of creditors , are protected by a Bankruptcy inhibition and a creditors ' notice respectively . |
| 26 | Yet the bed looked clean-sheeted and felt comfortable ; and there was a lavatory just along the corridor ( the lady had said ) , a bathroom one floor down , and a Residents ' TV Lounge beside Reception . |
| 27 | When New Lanark was a unique industrial settlement , with over 2 , 000 workers , the weaving-mills of David Dale and his son-in-law Robert Owen , the community was revolutionary in character , with a school , a ‘ company store ’ , and a works ' canteen , the first in the world . |
| 28 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 29 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 30 | Looking to the longer term , the Company has outline plans for a later phase of developments which will include platform improvements and a visitors ' viewing gallery in the workshops but at the moment all efforts are focused on phase 1 . |