Example sentences of "set a precedent for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I 'm waiting for right , is for somebody to set a precedent for for erm doing people for manslaughter because of secondary lung cancer then you 're fucking history sonny . |
| 2 | It could also set a precedent for other governments — like Thailand and Malaysia — which have both pushed boat people back out to sea . |
| 3 | Companies and auditors are not discussing with the UITF , before finalising their accounts , proposed accounting treatments that could set a precedent for other companies . |
| 4 | If they do not , it will be for their auditors to discuss the matter with the Task Force , on a no-names basis , if they have misgivings about the acceptability of a treatment proposed by a client which hovers in the often grey border area between good and bad practice , and which might set a precedent for other companies . |
| 5 | CAHAG claims it will set a precedent for other authorities , allowing it to challenge other authorities which are failing in their duty . |
| 6 | To do so will effectively set a precedent for other dischargers who will soon discover that McDonald 's is operating at an advantage . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies . |
| 8 | The greater involvement of the Security Council in matters pertaining to disarmament had reportedly been resisted by India , a non-permanent member , on grounds that it would set a precedent for future intrusive inspections and controls by the UN . |
| 9 | However , its closure , ordered under new legislation which insists that the best available technology be used to combat pollution , may set a precedent for hundreds of other incinerators across the country . |
| 10 | Conservation organisations are hoping that the New Forest decision will set a precedent for similarly sensitive areas such as the South Downs , the North Pennines and the Cambrian Mountains . |
| 11 | If the UN can set a precedent for peacemaking in the Balkans we will have a real peace dividend . |
| 12 | The head office golf society has a big season lined up this year , so are hoping that the wet weather on March 31 at Langley Park will not set a precedent for its forthcoming dates . |
| 13 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 14 | The commission had no choice but to expel City from the League for , as League President John McKenna explained , to have allowed the club to continue would have set a precedent for other clubs to withhold their books . |
| 15 | If Wandsworth Council had succeeded it would have set a precedent for councils to take the NASUWT to court . |
| 16 | ‘ Had we let this one pass without action it would have set a precedent for others to follow and that can not be allowed to happen . ’ |
| 17 | The scheme is being widely debated within television because it sets a precedent for other companies . |
| 18 | The decision sets a precedent for the interpretation of legislation generally by referring to ministerial statements at the time the relevant legislation was introduced . |
| 19 | The grant explicitly excluded the royal forest of Inglewood , but this was probably only to avoid setting a precedent for future sheriffs . |
| 20 | The grant explicitly excluded the royal forest of Inglewood , but this was probably only to avoid setting a precedent for future sheriffs . |
| 21 | But more recently , TI is gaining a reputation for its disclosures over and above the requirements that , in the words of one analyst , ‘ set a precedent for other companies to follow ’ . |
| 22 | Federation officials had been concerned that the scheme , part of the proposed £1 million Citywatch crime prevention campaign for the city , would cut across traditional police duties and set a precedent for a privatised police force . |