Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 expressed the opinion , concurred in by the other members of the court , that a contractual right of one party to an action to have the costs of the action paid by another party to the action could not override the discretion as to costs given to the court by Ord. 62 , r. 3(2) and section 51(1) of the Act of 1981 , but that where an order for payment of the costs was sought , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised so as to reflect the contractual right .
2 There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used .
3 ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ .
4 ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman .
5 There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory .
6 Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) .
7 ‘ But this if the Firth of Clyde , ’ he said to himself .
8 According to Lord Diplock it is improper to do this if the meaning of the statute is plain .
9 It is best not to attempt to write this until the rest of the piece is fairly complete .
10 Yeah this geezer who 's doing this cos a lot of his songs are like , it 's like vocal , like the vocal version to these sort of like stuff about Jamaica throw away your guns and sort of
11 you know just because of this cos the French on the right left of centre you know .
12 Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase .
13 and sought advice , and we were told in fact that we were unlikely to get this because the headmaster of the particular school which he attended
14 Is this because the construction of racialized identities depends on the existence of the Other , while at the same time it is this ‘ alien presence ’ which is seen to be such a threat to identity that its total annihilation is required ?
15 The Church does this because the will of Jesus is that all people should be whole in body , mind and spirit .
16 It can do this because the capacity of an input neuron to activate any of the output neurons increases every time the ‘ output pattern generator ’ activates the output neuron simultaneously with external activation of the input neuron .
17 We can tell this because the light from their stars is reddened , in the same way and for the same reasons as the noise of an ambulance siren or a car engine seems to change pitch downwards as the vehicle passes you .
18 It can not resolve the problem one way or another because the nature of the problem is itself ill defined .
19 In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown .
20 I think it 's necessary to stress this since a number of representations have referred specifically to the constraints which the locational strategy embodied in policy I five on the ability to deliver the proposed structure plan on employment land allocation .
21 All this while the company of the Cid were preparing all things to go into Castille , as he had commanded before his death ; and his trusty Gil Diaz did nothing else but labour at this .
22 The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 …
23 Richard disputed this before the king in 1247 , and was still in pursuit of justice in July 1248 .
24 Then Jessamy made a desperate attempt to put an end to this before the tension between them reached an even more dangerous level .
25 For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order .
26 I was probing around with my tongue and trying to decide about this when the phone by my bed rang .
27 It has also raised some practical difficulties in making a transfer of assets from one party to another when a portion of those assets consists of a pension which is not payable for many years to come .
28 The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government .
29 But my clinical experience tells me that for many of you , there 's no choice — other than the possibility of celibacy — for as you 've developed , you 'll have gradually realised that your sexual orientation is homosexual and that you can no more change that than the colour of your eyes .
30 With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president .
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