Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mood of that enquiry was romantically scientific , so to speak , impelled by a search for technicality based on a confident assumption that science had provided the arts with a lasting model of analytical objectivity . |
| 2 | Actually I am still in two minds about mibbe squeezing in a quick Hughes or a Heaney somehow . |
| 3 | The usual qualification required for admission to study for a research degree and for some taught postgraduate courses is a first degree with an excellent or very good classification ( first or upper second class honours in the UK ) . |
| 4 | The MIT-originated Sparcle CPU project described at Hot Chips ( UX No 395 ) proved to be an old LSI single-execution 40MHz Sparc CPU simplified for fine-grain multiprocessing in a highly parallel MIT system called Alewife . |
| 5 | All of the opportunities which exist for course monitoring in a monolithic , longitudinal course structure also exist at field level in the Modular Course . |
| 6 | Both the tempo and the degree of success of man 's striving for freedom depend upon a host of political , cultural and moral as well as economic factors . |
| 7 | It is now settled law that railway companies do not warrant the absolute safety of passengers : all they undertake with regard to passengers is a duty to carry with due and reasonable care , and their liability is for negligence arising from a breach of that duty . |
| 8 | The point , however , that the inquirer should bear in mind is that these exemptions and exceptions have been granted because the organisations concerned have demonstrated that either they are already regulated by other statutes or are subject to a reporting procedure through branch returns to a central body which itself reports to the Charity Commission . |
| 9 | In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong . |
| 10 | It is even rarer for Parliament to resolve against a measure . |
| 11 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 12 | The company is also hoping for permission to develop on a nearby abbatoir site . |
| 13 | After hearing two days of legal argument at the Court of Session on whether relatives could sue for damage caused to a foetus , the judges said they wanted time to prepare a ruling . |
| 14 | A builder will therefore not be liable under the Act for damage caused by a defect in the building because it was badly built , e.g. because the foundations were inadequate , though he might be liable under some other legal provision ( e.g. negligence or the Defective Premises Act 1972 ) . |
| 15 | The basic principle of the CPA 1987 is stated in art 1 of the Directive , namely , " The producer shall be liable for damage caused by a defect in his product " . |
| 16 | and if you 're for instance dealing with a purchaser who 's interested in buying around about December what was the system that you had about saying what the service charges might be ? , |
| 17 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) If the claim is for money secured by a mortgage or charge , legal or equitable , judgment may be entered only on application to the district judge on notice to the defendant ( Ord 9 , r 7 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The claim was for money paid for a consideration which had failed . |
| 20 | ‘ The claim was for money paid for a consideration which had failed . |
| 21 | ‘ The claim was for money paid for a consideration which had failed . |
| 22 | The subsequent demoralisation in evidence throughout British coalfields has been mitigated to some degree in South Yorkshire by blame for defeat focusing on a clearly identifiable minority , who in response have developed a set of parallel social institutions . |
| 23 | FEARS that the Mersey Ferries are heading for closure led to a demand for an inquiry today … |
| 24 | He had also opposed the complete privatization of state industries and instead proposed temporary protection for industry to allow for a process of revitalization , through exports and improvements in agriculture ( especially increased foreign aid for crop substitution programmes to replace cocaine-producing coca plants ) , mining and fishing . |
| 25 | Another urgent call for action came from a Newmachar farmer , Sandy Buchan , who revealed that an unacceptable level of nitrate pollution , probably from agricultural sources , in the Ythan catchment and estuary was about to become a subject for discussion and action in Europe . |
| 26 | The demand for action comes in a week when John Bond has been advised to stay away from his former club , Burnley , for Shrewsbury 's FA Cup tie this afternoon because of fears of reprisals from angry Turf Moor fans . |
| 27 | The setting for Adieu consisted of a couple of pillars and a couch that was all too obviously a crude wooden structure draped with material , giving the clear impression that the ballet had been mounted on the cheap . |
| 28 | If one is to present a credible case for investment planning as a progressive development one has to consider the problems raised by the choice of criteria of operation for a national investment bank . |
| 29 | My arguments concerning the broad possibilities and constraints given by the present structure of capitalist property are not supposed to have the status of a ready-made political programme , and in discussing the possibilities for investment planning as a fruitful avenue for socialist argument I make no pretence to have identified the means of conversion of ‘ social reason into social force ’ ( to use Marx 's formula ) . |
| 30 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |