Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity .
2 The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion .
3 I was either being kerb-crawled or a bunch of Quo fans were after the jacket .
4 expressed the opinion , concurred in by the other members of the court , that a contractual right of one party to an action to have the costs of the action paid by another party to the action could not override the discretion as to costs given to the court by Ord. 62 , r. 3(2) and section 51(1) of the Act of 1981 , but that where an order for payment of the costs was sought , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised so as to reflect the contractual right .
5 Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ?
6 For most people imitation of appearance , or topographic realism , is what art is , that or a sentimentalisation of that .
7 That or a jug of cold water full in the face .
8 I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so
9 So long as this is done where improving the outcome is more important than deciding for oneself this acceptance of authority , far from being either irrational or an abdication of moral responsibility , is in fact the most rational course and the right way to discharge one 's responsibilities .
10 Under a joint project with the Saudi Arabian Banking Industry , Salisbury , Wiltshire-based Racal-Transcom Ltd is to supply the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a credit-debit card payment system based on its TCL200 terminals ; the specially customised terminals can print receipts in Arabic , English or a mix of the two and will also use personal identification codes for added security ; over 1,000 terminals will be installed in shops this year with a target of 10,000 terminals aimed for by the end of 1995 ; no value for the order was disclosed .
11 There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used .
12 Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet
13 And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’
14 So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension .
15 It should be noted that it follows from this that an action in respect of a public law wrong can be a private action for present purposes if it is against a non-governmental body .
16 And it follows from this that an acceleration of this replacement will have the same effect as if there had been an increase in fixed capital .
17 But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded .
18 While both these objections have truth to them , it is also clear that a range of critical writings which share more preoccupations than differences has emerged and that it can be contrasted to other forms of writing about texts and history .
19 I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass .
20 The law makes it quite clear that a member of a local authority may not be employed by that authority .
21 The Government have made it clear that a decision on the site would be premature at this stage .
22 As the Court on Oct. 13 shifted attention to the body of documentary evidence brought before it , it became clear that a decision on summoning the final witnesses , including Gorbachev , would be postponed until after the document stage .
23 Moreover , it is clear that a verdict of death aggravated by the lack of care may be a ‘ free-standing ’ verdict .
24 The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it .
25 Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . "
26 Firstly , it is clear that a transfer of responsibility has taken place between the different forms of provision .
27 We can develop in Europe only within the guidelines set out by Central Government , a Government quite clear that a joining of the attitudes and minds is desirable , not federalism .
28 Putting the question this way makes clear that a justification in terms of wealth relies on a trade-off : corporate decision-making power should be accepted as the price of efficient wealth creation .
29 Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured .
30 Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured .
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