Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time |
| 2 | It is quite anomalous therefore that SI 1991 489 regulation 3(c) makes specific provision for any person to sue for breach of Core Rule 28 ( or a comparable SRO insider dealing rule ) . |
| 3 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
| 4 | His remedy was to sue for breach of contract . |
| 5 | A Kenyan chartered accountant threatened to sue for loss of business . |
| 6 | Pollock C.B. regarded the power to sue for defamation with reference to certain imputations of criminal conduct to be excluded because of the inability of a corporation to commit crimes such as murder , or incest , or adultery , or corruption . |
| 7 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 8 | However , this does not mean that they will become invalid — they will remain as evidence of achievement in their own right . |
| 9 | We should discuss timing the leaflet : on the one hand , it would be good to wait for consultation on course content , but there is also some urgency . |
| 10 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 11 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 12 | As for the speed of the machine I can not comment as lack of time with the machine did not allow us to perform our usual tests . |
| 13 | It is not obvious how this can be guaranteed by bureaus competing for business in quasi-market conditions . |
| 14 | The tide flows strongly in favour of the populist , the valueless public library … the Library service has lost its soul and , desperately seeking some justification for its existence , veers between pop-marketing in imitation of the big chains — the McDonald 's and Burger Kings of the printed word — and trying to be a sub-branch of information processing . |
| 15 | The card has been developed through co-operation between Bank of Scotland and the University 's Development Office . |
| 16 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 17 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 18 | He applied for job after job , unsuccessfully , for weeks : he was in his early fifties , and this was the era of ‘ too old at forty ’ , let alone fifty . |
| 19 | The coal torpedoes had a powder charge inside a hollow cast iron block that was disguised as coal with tar and coal dust . |
| 20 | ‘ It is not necessary to suggest that there will be conscious unfairness ; but it is , I submit , possible that such judges will , particularly in cases where the liberty of the subject is concerned , find themselves unconsciously biased through over-appreciation of executive difficulty … |
| 21 | Although Margaret knew I would not support her , I was on reasonable terms with her-so much so that during the battle for the Leadership I attended her constituency annual dinner and dance as guest of honour . |
| 22 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 23 | Reports indicated that it included strong guarantees of fundamental human rights , but that a number of clauses gave rise to heated debate , including proposed provisions allowing for detention without trial and for the postponement of local elections for five years . |
| 24 | A communiqué issued on July 4 at the end of a five-day meeting of the central committee of the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) announced agreement on wide-ranging political reforms , specifically ( i ) broadening membership of the party ; ( ii ) abandoning Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state ; ( iii ) separating the functions of party and state ; ( iv ) ending the one-party system ; and ( v ) strengthening existing mechanisms allowing for freedom of expression , of the press , and of association . |
| 25 | The disadvantage ( occasionally overwhelming ) is the capital cost , even allowing for relief in respect of interest charges and capital allowances for new buildings and other improvements . |
| 26 | That programme included the development of more accurate telescopes , together with auxiliary theories required for their use in astronomy such as those providing adequate means for allowing for refraction of light in the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 28 | It is in everyone 's interest that the sale agreement contains an express statement as to whether prior knowledge is a defence or whether prior knowledge will not prejudice the purchaser 's ability to claim for breach of warranty if the material fact is not disclosed in the disclosure letter ( see clause 13.4 of the standard sale agreementAppendix III ) . |
| 29 | A further clause provided that the plaintiff would not be entitled to claim for breach of warranty if the material matter had been fairly disclosed to the plaintiff in the disclosure letter but that no other information of which the plaintiff had knowledge would prejudice any claim by the plaintiff under the warranties . |
| 30 | These included Donald Kalpokas , the VP 's general secretary , who was sacked as Minister of Education and Foreign Affairs , together with Home Affairs Minister Iolu Abbil , Lands Minister William Mahit and Trade Minister Harold Qualao . |