Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 2 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 3 | Section 2(3) states : " Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . " |
| 4 | Of course a child 's comments need not always be explored but are of themselves tremendously important in giving an indication of his stage of thinking . |
| 5 | Guidance is given for recognising the existence of such circumstances , including of course a member 's breach of the LCH regulations . |
| 6 | Of course a horse 's physical needs have to be satisfied to avoid psychological distress too . |
| 7 | ‘ Michael 's been reading his book of Things a Director 's Supposed to Say again , ’ a voice murmured somewhere above her ear , and Shannon turned with a grin to the tall blonde woman at her side . |
| 8 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 9 | For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into . |
| 10 | A national minimum income can be achieved through integrated tax and benefit systems that take into account a person 's total net income — taking all factors into account . |
| 11 | For example a day 's course at Sion College , in Central London , costs £95 plus £70 for the participant 's partner . |
| 12 | It appears to have escaped Berkeley 's attention that not all imaginary things , for example a drunkard 's pink rats , are voluntary and lack the vivacity of the real thing , and also that , when I set myself to imagine something , I can make my ideas as orderly and coherent as I like . |
| 13 | The new system will not only provide subscribers with up to the minute , page-ready results but will offer cricket coaches a means of analysing players ' performance — for example a batsman 's record against certain bowlers . |
| 14 | The new system will not only provide subscribers with up to the minute , page-ready results but will offer cricket coaches a means of analysing players ' performance — for example a batsman 's record against certain bowlers . |
| 15 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 16 | Minton 's largesse was attractive : Bernard still recollects how , at a time when he was earning £2 10s a week , in a timber yard off Greek Street , Minton astonished him with a gift of £10 , in effect a month 's wages . |
| 17 | In Laos a people 's democratic republic was established in December 1975 following the abdication of King Sayang Vatthana and the formation of a new government led by the Lao People 's Revolutionary Party . |
| 18 | In Britain a party 's first-category candidates somehow find themselves adopted for seats they are all but certain to win , second-category candidates for marginals and third-category candidates for seats they have no hope of winning . |
| 19 | Atkinson demanded for universities a ‘ self-renewing library of limited growth ’ ( or ‘ steady state library ’ ) , which meant that beyond a certain point in size a library 's acquisitions would be largely offset by the discarding of obsolete material . |
| 20 | Indeed , the divergence in background among the different groups of rebels may reasonably raise the question whether the rising of 1381 is best described by its traditional name , whether it was in fact a peasants ' revolt . |
| 21 | Speaking at the league 's annual meeting in Walsall , McKeag added : ‘ There was very little detail involved and we are not in a position to investigate in detail a club 's financial situation nor would we be able to impose any sanctions against a club which was not in breach of regulations . |
| 22 | Philosophy can , for example , bring to light a discipline 's tests for truth , and the criteria by which truth claims are normally evaluated . |
| 23 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 24 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 25 | At 3pm all standing fans are urged to stage a minute 's peaceful sit down ; those already seated should stand up and ( as it were ) be counted . |
| 26 | At colectomy a Dukes 's A cancer was found on a background of total colitis . |
| 27 | At marriage a woman 's legal identity was submerged in that of her husband . |
| 28 | His criticism of Oesterley 's work makes it clear that for Eliot a ritual 's origins may be as meaningless as is its present form . |
| 29 | By contrast a child 's bedroom seems safe . |