Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [indef pn] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No costs are allowed after receipt of such notice of proving anything the admission renders it unnecessary to prove ( Ord 9 , r 16 ) .
2 For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose .
3 Theists grow impatient with what they see as the reductionist behaviour of atheists , whom they accuse of disproving something the theists never claimed to believe in .
4 In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous .
5 In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous .
6 Would we , for example , be happy with giving someone the right to administer corporal punishment to us ( in public ) ?
7 ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’
8 This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it .
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