Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total communication situation where you 've got you might you 've got use of body language you 've got use of language you 've got use of tone of voice and you 're making you 're getting the message across . |
| 2 | Last July , when recovery of the bronzes was taken up with Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , an MP was told that Britain ‘ has existing channels for international co-operation to help trace stolen works of art ’ . |
| 3 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 4 | You may have heard talk of retaliation but it 's too early to talk about that , ’ says a spokesman . |
| 5 | Such detailed planning would have provoked snorts of derision from Sir Keith . |
| 6 | A Careers Officer would have developed skills in counselling pupils and have a broad knowledge of local industry . |
| 7 | WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof . |
| 8 | You may have forsaken chips in favour of baked potatoes but what about that weakness for crisps ? |
| 9 | Assume that the income generated in the trust by the £100,000 would have been , say , £10,000 and that therefore X , a 40 per cent taxpayer , would have received £6,000 after income tax . |
| 10 | Numbers of large mammals , including elephants , will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines . |
| 11 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 12 | Accordingly the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for ‘ welfare ’ laid down by the Convention itself . |
| 13 | He was apprenticed as a monumental mason and so must have added literacy in English to his native Manx . |
| 14 | Oliver had reassured her that Sir Thomas could not possibly have committed suicide through anguish at her rejection and she was now prepared to enjoy the rest of the week immensely , even if it did involve a murder investigation . |
| 15 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 16 | The case brought the diocese , and the parish , and its bishop , a little unwelcome publicity ; but not much ; for the world was tired of ritual quarrels , whereas sixty years before there would have come questions in Parliament . |
| 17 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 18 | The owners might have claimed damages in arbitration against the yard with all the inherent unavoidable uncertainties of litigation , but in view of the position of the owners vis-d-vis their relations with Shell it would be unreasonable to hold that this is the course they should have taken : see Astley v. Reynolds ( 1731 ) 2 Str. 915 . |
| 19 | Previously , this would have included chats at coffee breaks , in corridors or writing rough notes for someone 's consideration . |
| 20 | He was not a country man himself , and I think must have suffered torments of loneliness and boredom . |
| 21 | Safer method would have saved pair in petrol tragedy |
| 22 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 23 | If you work regularly on beaches with your detector , you will have seen bait-diggers at work . |
| 24 | But David , he 's not proving a very good father is he , because er , I 'm sure many , many people will have seen pictures on television on Wednesday night , of how these sanctions are really hurting the Iraqi people . |
| 25 | Lancret may have seen Blaise in action and reproduced his image retrospectively . |
| 26 | Properly speaking , Aunt Tossie should have presented Nicandra at Court , which she would have greatly enjoyed doing . |
| 27 | In other words , while the court would not have imposed liability in respect of the decision itself ( except if it had been perverse ) failure to go through the preliminary steps of obtaining essential information could have grounded liability . |
| 28 | It is extremely doubtful if Tudor monarchs would have conceded sovereignty to Parliament , at all events in any real and substantial sense . |
| 29 | MPs voted by 187 to 175 against the McNamara Bill , for the protection of wild mammals , which would have made acts of cruelty to wild animals a criminal offence . |
| 30 | They could not have made change of land use profits . |