Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal . |
| 3 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 4 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 5 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 6 | Computer hardware , if it is sold , will be subject to the Sale of Goods Act 1979 whereas an agreement for specially written ( " bespoke " ) software will be within the scope of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 7 | All of a sudden several unpleasant consequences of spending a large amount of time alone with fitzAlan , without so much as a spit-boy for chaperon , rose forcibly to her mind . |
| 8 | Different constituents will move through the system at different rates and one time-step in the simulation could represent a day for mobile salts but as much as a millennium for a relatively immobile element such as aluminium . |
| 9 | A representative sampling of Osiris Management Services ' clientele was there , beefy ballocky blokes who prized the rugby scrum of life as much as an opportunity for putting the boot in as for winning the ball . |
| 10 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
| 11 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
| 12 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 13 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 14 | The Wedding Present are seen by many as a victory for the ordinary and in a perverse way , their lack of image has become their image . |
| 15 | So the wireless is not as good as a lead for that sound . ’ |
| 16 | For example , military pressure-group activity and other involvement in policy-making in liberal democracies may well seem less drastic than mounting a coup , but the implications of less overt forms of military intervention may sometimes be almost as great as a coup for the political process . |
| 17 | But Thomas Carter was from Philadelphia , and his love for Oxford and for England was a pure boyish enthusiasm as innocent as a passion for preserved railways or real ale . |
| 18 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 19 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 20 | Mrs Hughes , who waited more than a century for some of the most exciting times of her life , passed away peacefully in her sleep at the St David 's Nursing Home , Redcar , Cleveland . |
| 21 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 23 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 24 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 25 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 26 | Climbing has to be more than a race for E points , pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected , sweaty limestone , or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel , studded with artificial holds , floodlit for a ‘ quick-fox ’ titillation of the idle masses . |
| 27 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 28 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 29 | Moreover , Lord Cross 's appeal to the meaning of the word rape in common usage and the ordinary man 's understanding of rape is no more than a pretext for introducing his own view of what rape means . |
| 30 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |