Example sentences of "[art] [noun] for the proposition [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 2 | There was , however , no support for the proposition that establishments with a dominant market position or insensitive to their competitors " pricing behaviour were less likely to use temporary workers . |
| 3 | If the purpose of this part of the chapter is to provide a platform for the proposition that , to use the Report 's own words , management generally should ‘ involve employees in decision-making , rather than impose decisions on them without consultation ’ , then it is as persuasive as is any declaration in favour of obvious good . |
| 4 | I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice . |
| 5 | According to the applicants in the main proceedings , paragraph 13 of the judgment in the Pesca Valentia case [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 83 , 107 constitute a fair description of the effect of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 but no argument for the proposition that member states might define the conditions for registration without reference to basic principles of Community law . |