Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year the Countryside Commission called for an inquiry to decide whether recreational vehicles should be banned on Sundays and Bank Holidays on the stretch between Streatley in Berkshire to Overton Hill . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 3 | By order of Master Miller dated 2 November 1990 the following point of law was ordered to be tried as a preliminary point before the trial of the action , namely whether the council could maintain an action for libel for any words which reflected upon the council as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund , and whether , if not , the statement of claim disclosed a cause of action . |
| 4 | ‘ whether the plaintiff … can maintain an action for libel for any words which reflects [ sic ] upon the said plaintiff as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund … |
| 5 | I would allow this appeal and in answer to the first question raised by the preliminary point of law declare that the council can not maintain an action for libel for any words which reflect upon it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund . |
| 6 | One possible temporary solution could be acceptance of a reduction in membership fees for Scotland in contrast to the rest of the United Kingdom , to satisfy demands for Scotland 's distinct nature to be recognised . |
| 7 | Voters on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba on Oct. 21 elected Salmin Amour , a former minister , as President of Zanzibar in succession to Idris Abdul-Wakil , who was not seeking re-election . |
| 8 | The joint chiefs held that General MacArthur should have sufficient resources to provide for the occupation of part of Korea in addition to his principal task of occupying Japan . |
| 9 | This reflected the experience of the Law Society of Scotland in relation to their members . |
| 10 | I am greatly honoured to have been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland in succession to Mr Michael Strachan , who retired in November 1990 after 16 years ' service . |
| 11 | Interestingly , previous studies have shown that site-specific dephosphorylation in the C-terminal region of c-Jun in response to mitogenic stimuli converts the protein from a form that can not bind DNA to a form that can ( 15 , 16 ) . |
| 12 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , who has a full-time job as Governor of the Bank of England in addition to being Lord Lieutenant of Kent , sits on an estate of 2,400 acres . |
| 13 | Moreover , the use of Tradeco in relation to the property transactions would afford a degree of personal protection to the members of the church council as regards limited liability , which is an important factor in the context of land transactions . |
| 14 | Are you not by adopting that view , Mrs , abandoning the concept of the importance of the character of Skelton in relation to the setting of historic York ? |
| 15 | In 1263–4 he was one of four men who administered the county of Yorkshire in opposition to its royalist sheriff . |
| 16 | Since there is no plain disposition in favour of Seia in addition to the share to which she is instituted , it is to this clause that the jurist resorts in his interpretation . |
| 17 | The first example pertains to the failure , of Catholic Christians in particular , to contextualize the words and actions of Jesus in relation to the circumstances of the world in which he lived . |
| 18 | In alternate years from 1813 he held the office of coroner for the sheading of Rushen in addition to his ordinary occupation . |
| 19 | Its full title was Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners or a Brief and Faithful delation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ to His Poor Servant , John Bunyan . |
| 20 | He was even a youthful cricket author , telling the story of a tour of Australia in Trip to ‘ Kangaroo ’ Land ( published 1909 ) . |
| 21 | The strategic position of Egypt in relation to the Arabian Peninsula was decisive for American crisis planning under the Carter Doctrine . |
| 22 | This was true of Uruguay in relation to the war between Somalia and Ethiopia . |
| 23 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 24 | Japan , it was said , sought the benefit of Asia as a whole and had a national mission to lead and coordinate the nations of Asia in resistance to the West . |
| 25 | Cedd , who acted as interpreter at the council , died in this plague ( HE 111 , 23 ) , probably on 26 October 664 , and so did Tuda , appointed bishop of Lindisfarne in succession to Colmań who returned to Iona after Oswiu had given his decision at Whitby in favour of the Catholic Easter ( HE 111 , 27 ) . |
| 26 | He gave the monastery of Cookham in Berkshire to Christ Church , Canterbury ( CS 291 : S 1258 ) , indicative of control also of this area . |
| 27 | In 1261 Fitzjohn , as part of the abortive attempt to prevent the overthrow of the Provisions of Oxford , the revolutionary programme imposed in 1258 , became sheriff of Bedfordshire–Buckinghamshire in opposition to the sheriff appointed by the king . |
| 28 | But the corridor that links the Serb enclave of Krajina in Croatia to Serb territory in Bosnia and to Serbia proper is vulnerable . |
| 29 | Does the Attorney-General agree that the defence of using the treaty of Rome in relation to breaches of the Shops Act 1950 is pretty flimsy and slender ? |
| 30 | With her films The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman in addition to ten years at Covent Garden , she had , I think , done as much as anyone to help put British post-war ballet on the map . |