Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the influence over the culture and literacy of the majority of the population of an " unpropitious environment " and " alternative cultural media " , Bantock claims that attempts through education to impose a " book culture " on this majority merely inflict upon them an unacceptable " strain " . |
| 2 | Absenteeism will account for some gaps , and temporary vacancies for inability to state a clerk 's name . |
| 3 | Many of us saw this as an opportunity for mankind to make a small gesture of recompense to the cetaceans ( the whale family ) for the abuses we had inflicted upon them . |
| 4 | Fold in flour and baking powder then add enough milk for mixture to have a soft dropping consistency . |
| 5 | There was also growing support for legislation to impose a seven-day waiting period to enable checks to be made on prospective gun purchasers . |
| 6 | Clearly , total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all because of wilful default will not be reasonable under s 3 . |
| 7 | Equally , total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all because of circumstances beyond the control of the party in default ( ie reasons of force majeure or an act of the other party ) will conversely be reasonable in nearly all circumstances . |
| 8 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 9 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 10 | Marketing initiatives are currently under way in the food industry where legislative change is creating opportunities for WCUK to deliver a range of extended services designed to assist clients in this sector to manage and implement change . |
| 11 | So , if an actress and a doctor are having coffee , say , the processor may use the different stereotypical activities associated with these sorts of character to specify a contrast between them . |
| 12 | It makes a great deal of sense to include a reference on all business letters . |
| 13 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 14 | Just prior to this I was under a great deal of pressure to complete a computer program , and went in to work while I was suffering from the flu and not sleeping very well . |
| 15 | It takes a great deal of time to embroider a sampler in silks or wools , but it is a much swifter process when using pressed flowers . |
| 16 | The question of whether those taking part actually had sufficient command of BSL to make a conscious decision to withhold that form of signing is rather debatable , since virtually all those involved had difficulty with the deaf people 's signing which they had to translate . |
| 17 | It may be the result of inability to maintain a constant frequency of electrical control activity and this may be due to the effects of muscle disease on groups of muscle cells producing populations with altered frequencies . |
| 18 | On 19th August , 1856 , Hall sent identical letters to Clarendon and Panmure , saying that he had directed Hunt to prepare the instructions for the competition , and asked the Secretaries of State to appoint a representative from each of their departments to give Hunt the ‘ extent and kind of accommodation required ’ . |
| 19 | To understand this , it is necessary to distinguish between the areas of defence , law and order , and social policy — where the motive of government policy appears to be the concentration of authority to build a ‘ strong state ’ — and full employment , incomes policy , industrial policy , and public ownership from which the government has withdrawn to create ‘ a free economy ’ . |
| 20 | It shovelled snow and food into its maw , turning to confront Fierce Eyes and Dreamer , too torn between the delight of meat and the fear of attack to make a move . |
| 21 | ‘ The fear of failure to gain a personal award , or a self-promotion which is linked to an outdoor pursuit , can be fraught with danger and detract from the ethics of basic mountaineering . |
| 22 | In describing the differences in anxieties about sexual function , Fromm describes the man 's as a fear of failure to pass a test , whereas the woman 's lies in that of being ‘ left alone ’ , of not having control , of dependence on the man . |
| 23 | ( c ) dishonestly obtains any exemption from or abatement of liability to make a payment ; he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 24 | The service may be asked , for example , to provide the exact wording of a piece of legislation to support a tribunal hearing , to clarify confusing items or to point to where in the information system an item may be found . |
| 25 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 26 | The land is very cheap here — you can buy a piece of land to build a small town on , for a few thousand dollars . |
| 27 | It was also decided that the burning of rubbish did constitute a ‘ process ’ within the meaning of s.1(5) of that Act , despite the argument that there was insufficient continuity of activity in the burning of rubbish to constitute a ‘ process ’ , . |
| 28 | This was done in response to the invitation from Faber-Castell in conjunction with the Royal College of Art to do a painting of my choice using the Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer crayon watercolour range . |
| 29 | The report in 1977 was valuable but rather theoretical , and shortly afterwards the BLR&DD commissioned the Royal College of Art to produce a library guiding manual which would aim to give librarians practical advice on designing and implementing library signing systems which would be effective , attractive , quick and economical to produce and easy to maintain and update . |
| 30 | The effect of failure to resolve a factual problem will vary with the circumstances , but their Lordships need not decide how in this case they would have viewed such failure , seen in isolation . |