Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb -s] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Postings to specialist courses are made by the Personnel Management Centre , for which recruits can apply to be nominated after one year in the service .
2 But encouraging and rewarding reliance are not always of decisive importance ; it is sometimes better to leave some matter unregulated by convention in order to allow the play of independent judgment both by judges and by the public in anticipation of what judges might do .
3 They sometimes put these dramatic claims in the form of semantic theories : some of them said that propositions of law are synonymous with predictions of what judges will do , or are only expressions of emotion and so not really propositions at all .
4 The new European Company may well prove to be the Eurochicken into which EEIGs will hatch , if the Commission succeeds in its renewed efforts to overcome the various problems currently inhibiting its birth .
5 While all the selection of text upon which commands may operate is done from within the window , only character and paragraph formatting commands , and ‘ toggle ’ commands ( page 5 ) , operate within it .
6 Capital comes in two forms — debt and equity — so there are two areas in which costs could differ .
7 The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology .
8 This is the sort of case in which judges must exercise the discretionary power described a moment ago , to use extralegal standards to make what conventionalism declares to be new law .
9 A resolution of the 20th international conference of the Red Cross at Vienna in 1965 affirmed the minimum principles to which states must conform :
10 This is , indeed , often said to be a presumption to which judges should have regard in interpreting statutes .
11 Practice changed in response to arguments made in the context of adjudication , as arguments about what judges should do in particular cases , not in special miniconstitutional conventions .
12 We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly .
13 The peace movement can not ignore international law , not merely because many existing provisions tend to provide legal support for the claim that the use of nuclear weapons would be illegal , but also because , in theory at least , it provides the means by which states can bind themselves to restrict the manufacture , storage and use of such weapons ( non-proliferation treaties and regional nuclear-free zones are examples of this ) .
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