Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | a child in utero is to be treated as already born thereby having a right to sue for damages for the death of his father . |
| 2 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 3 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 4 | They continue to mourn for years after the death or loss of their love but their loneliness was just as real when their partner was alive . |
| 5 | My parents went to visit the Rajput States while we boys continued to go for rides in the mornings and picnics in the afternoons . |
| 6 | But now they will be much more human beings like the people we meet in our lives than those stock response , cut-out figures like the Vamp and the Villain ( to go for examples to the world of Hindi films ) . |
| 7 | Life became difficult in the erstwhile happy home and the unfortunate girl was only allowed to go for walks in the company of her parents . |
| 8 | the Board considers the B R employe employees who transfer involuntary involuntarily to the private sector should return an indefensible right to remain as members of the joint industry |
| 9 | If there is an express prohibition on assigning the benefit it is important to distinguish between the benefit of the contract , namely the right of each party to have a contract performed in accordance with its terms , and the benefits which arise under the contract , namely those rights which arise incidentally from the performance of the contract and are sometimes known as the fruits of performance such as the right to claim for damages under the contract . |
| 10 | The wildlife departments of the governments concerned are to appeal for funds at the March meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 11 | Nothing daunted , Havelock Wilson , having just returned from his foreign travels , accompanied by Tom Mann , recently released from gaol following a term of imprisonment for inciting troops to mutiny , set off to visit four or five provincial ports , not only to appeal for funds for the London men , but also to persuade workers at these ports to join in and make the strike a national one . |
| 12 | Professor William A. Cassidy , of the University of Pittsburg , listening to Shima 's tale , resolved to search for meteorites on the other margin of Antarctica , near the US base on McMurdo Sound . |
| 13 | To search for meteorites among the dark cobbles and boulders of dolerite that abound in such areas would indeed be an unrewarding task . |
| 14 | A tour of great interest to walkers who like to search for holes in the ground , but having no appeal to others who do not , is provided by a visit to the Allotment , an area of moorland adjacent to the Gaping Gill complex . |
| 15 | The signalman went down the steps to search for signs of the visitor but there was no one about . |
| 16 | While Laura unpacked the picnic , before joining Emma and Sophie to search for shells along the shore , Ross managed to find enough driftwood to build a small fire . |
| 17 | Zeno 's head was lifted as if to search for scents on the air . |
| 18 | Ronald Flowers , a director of NIREX , revealed that , despite last month 's vote at the London Dumping Convention against the dumping of nuclear waste at sea , he thought that ‘ it is reasonable to plan for continuations of the UK operation with some increase in quantities disposed of ’ . |
| 19 | So , ending on a positive note rather than a pessimistic note , what would you like to see for universities in the future ? |
| 20 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 21 | Tom Watson , for example , resigned from a Kansas City Club because a Jewish businessman was unsuccessful with his application for membership , while the Augusta National has been obliged to accept a black member in order to continue as hosts of The Masters . |
| 22 | That was said by the Secretary of State and by the Prime Minister , who said that the Government ’ attach particular significance to support for families through the provision of increased child benefit ’ . |
| 23 | Sometimes it seemed that those who had profited most successfully form the bonanza that he Shah had unleashed were the first to go -with members of the Pahlavi dynasty leading the rush tot he exit . |
| 24 | Maybe he 'll tell you how he gets to know about murders in the city before you do . ’ |
| 25 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 26 | He replaced seven ministers , most of whom were thought to be planning to stand as candidates in the legislative elections due in the first half of 1992 . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , in order to accommodate the monarchist lobby , when the first local government elections since the Civil War were held , in Madrid , in November 1954 , Franco allowed a group of monarchists to stand as candidates alongside the official list . |
| 28 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 29 | It is a particularly useful method of sailing in gusty conditions where the hips can move in and out to compensate for fluctuations in the wind without moving the sail . |
| 30 | The Commission rightly made the point that ‘ there is a concern that voluntary effort is being used to compensate for deficiencies in the public services . ’ |