Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 2 | And the motion by Councillor Jack Newell went further … also demanding protection for the families of murder victims . |
| 3 | But a regular inspection every four or five years can not by itself be sufficient protection for the parents or the children ; nor can it provide enough information by which to judge the effectiveness of a school . |
| 4 | The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client . |
| 5 | I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order . |
| 6 | It argues that protection for the birds is unnecessary as they are not threatened by current control practices . |
| 7 | It was one of CI5 's many ‘ dirty tasks ’ to afford protection for the lives of exiles , visitors from repressive Governments , and the representatives of Governments with which Britain maintained the most reluctant and tenuous of diplomatic relations . |
| 8 | This is an important time in the development of financial institutions across the community and we are determined that the actuarial professional should play its part in laying the proper foundations , to ensure the most effective protection for the rights and security of the ultimate consumer |
| 9 | There must be protection for the rights and aspirations of groups and communities . |
| 10 | This was a considerable improvement , providing good visibility and protection for the eggs as well as being sturdy enough to withstand machine-filling . |
| 11 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 12 | In the end the police decided not to seek to ban the march but to police the route and to provide protection for the marchers against the violence which had been threatened by opposing factions . |
| 13 | The local federation of ecologists , FEPG , hopes to win official protection for the baboons , who appear to have started to breed . |
| 14 | There was no such protection for the spinners , who were often exploited . |
| 15 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies . |
| 17 | But we will examine ways of introducing further protection for the police . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 19 | Ways must be found to provide women with additional pension protection for the years of domestic responsibility when they are caring for children , handicapped or elderly relatives . |
| 20 | The police , accused of inaction in the face of warnings of a possible attack , stated that an offer of police protection for the mourners was refused by the ANC . |
| 21 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 22 | Our members have had enough of repressive Tory employment laws that give too much power to unscrupulous employers and no protection for the workers . |
| 23 | The underground petrol tank was used as a mass grave for the bodies of those judged to be tainted by Western decadence . |
| 24 | Six days after the killings , Laing was seen digging a deep grave for the bodies in his girlfriend 's garden in the pouring rain , using a pickaxe and shovel , said Mr Stuart Moore . |
| 25 | again which they 've had have n't they ? , for how many weeks in the year do you actually attend cos I said that you do n't get grant for the holidays and it stipulates the term |
| 26 | A board can only refuse a provisional grant for the reasons specified in 5.17(2) , and there is a right of appeal against such a refusal to the sheriff in virtue of s.17(4) , and also against the refusal of a board to affirm a licence under subs . |
| 27 | for a grant for the toys because we got the original grant from Children In Need |
| 28 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 29 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 30 | The Independent of Aug. 28 said that members of the ISI and of the United States Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and the head of Saudi Arabia 's military intelligence , Prince Turki al-Saud , had met in Islamabad on Aug. 26 to discuss a common strategy in preparation for the talks . |