Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third party coming into possession of confidential information is accordingly liable to be restrained from publishing it if he knows the information to be confidential and the circumstances are such as to impose on him an obligation in good conscience not to publish . |
| 2 | Aware that society has been constructed by able-bodied people in ways which serve and perpetuate their own interests , these people have used our consequential marginalisation and dependence not as a starting-point for developing with us a struggle for social change and equal opportunities , but as a handy and convenient fact to justify the development of all the inappropriate disability services with which we are now so familiar . |
| 3 | Those might be , for example , early stages of the retraining of walking in which a subject could still access and change the order of muscle movements . |
| 4 | Beverley Beech from AIMS ( the Association for Improvement in Maternity Services ) believes this success rate is low , and says , ‘ There is a lack of understanding about what a ‘ natural ’ vaginal birth is . |
| 5 | Elf had arranged that Jackie take me around Monaco and the experience — of living through what a grand prix driver lives through every time he races — remains engraved on my mind . |
| 6 | I was a little disappointed with the film ; I would like to have seen it erm more analytical , a little more hard hitting in terms of looking at what a local radio station does . |
| 7 | It 's just sort of looking at 'em a bit . |
| 8 | After a week of caring for them a bond had been formed . |
| 9 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 10 | Erm so I may sort of look into it a bit more maybe get a bit more experience |
| 11 | She had suggested to him , although of course not in words , that it would be a good idea to alter their pattern of lovemaking to something a little more adult , but he had moved away : shrunk , dwindled , and moved away . |
| 12 | and then start writing but sort of go over it a bit more , do a lot more talking first before |
| 13 | Between 1945 and 1970 there were five : in 1948–9 into questions of possible bribery of ministers , chaired by Mr Justice Lynskey ; in 1957–8 into leakage of bank rate , chaired by Lord Justice Parker ; in 1959 into allegations of police assault on a boy , chaired by Lord Sorn ; in 1962–3 into a case of spying in which a minister 's moral behaviour might have been involved , chaired by Lord Radcliffe ; and in 1966–7 into the responsibility for the Aberfan disaster , chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies . |
| 14 | Erm greeting and appropriate sociability fine , you were a little bit nervous so you tended to sort of talk over me a little bit but that 's not a problem , it probably would n't happen in real life . |
| 15 | The National Council of the League passed a resolution in March 1933 urging the Labour party and TUC to arrange " a meeting with the representatives of the Co-op movement , the ILP and the CP for the purpose of proposing to them a basis for United Action " . |
| 16 | Oh we left and oh we were all excited about going on what a great big boat and it was in fact only a small water boat . |
| 17 | Or rather , he could make them , but just did n't feel like abiding by them a few hours later . |
| 18 | This concerns being fair with regard to what a belief actually claims . |
| 19 | David Blunkett MP showed himself most committed on the issue , protesting at the sheer chutzpah of the Tories in purloining for themselves a concept of essentially socialist origin . |
| 20 | ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . ) |
| 21 | A director was precluded from diverting to himself a maturing business opportunity which his company was actively pursuing even after his resignation where the resignation was prompted or influenced by a desire to acquire that opportunity for himself . |
| 22 | The tale begins with a retarded youth , Robin , whose mother succeeds in arranging for him a marriage with a beautiful young woman , Mahaut . |
| 23 | ‘ Now , ’ he said coaxingly , ‘ how about slipping into something a little more festive ? ’ |
| 24 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 25 | He measured the number of turns along his spiral by passing along it a fine stiletto , each winding making an audible ‘ ping ’ . |
| 26 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 27 | Only the United States had no state airline , and believed that airways should be open to free market capitalism : ‘ In general , the Chicago conference can be described … as an attempt by the United States to capitalise on its overwhelmingly strong bargaining position in international aviation by securing for itself a near monopoly of long-haul air transport . ' |
| 28 | This attitude has provoked strong reactions from various gallery holders who have benefited by the system , some of whom accuse Mr Job de Ruiter , the chairman of the Arts Council , of wanting to dictate the taste of the public by forcing on it a type of art it simply does n't want . |
| 29 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
| 30 | It aims at winning over a man by the power of love and gentle persuasion and by arousing in him a sense of justice rather than forcing him to submit out of fear and embarrassment . |