Example sentences of "[prep] [art] consequences " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Wally Watmough had called Frankie 's mam a gypsy-woman and his dad a little black man , and the smaller boy , enraged , had attacked him without thought for the consequences . |
| 2 | Near the end of Hakim 's disturbing testimony — bakhshish , back-scratching , dedicated bank accounts — Senator Trible of Virginia said he found it ‘ part James Bond and part Jimmy Durante , and it would be very laughable , but for the consequences for people and policy . ’ |
| 3 | We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences . |
| 4 | But the reasons for that are in the general principle that people are responsible for the consequences of their actions . |
| 5 | The Fallacy of Carpe Diem is a falsely reasoned argument which concludes that it is best to enjoy the momentary pleasure , and have no thought for the consequences it may bring . |
| 6 | Once expressly absolved , then by operation of the general principle of the right to self-determination , the other would incur no liability for the consequences of the absolution . |
| 7 | In decision making lack of adequate time means that you will make choices without sufficient thought for the consequences . |
| 8 | And his disregard for the consequences of such a terrible sin was horrifying , horrifying . |
| 9 | People who buy houses next to pubs must be prepared for the consequences . |
| 10 | In many cases it must be the parents who are letting their children use their car without a thought for the consequences . |
| 11 | But since it did , since it changed your life and the lives of at least four other people , all you can do now is go on paying forever — one way or another — for the consequences . |
| 12 | What we do learn , however , from the article and the use of it by Hildyard and Olson is something of the ideological nature of recent claims for the consequences of literacy . |
| 13 | The claims which they make for the consequences of literacy belong to the same tradition . |
| 14 | Olson 's claims for the consequences of literacy refer only to the essay-text form of writing , as though this was what is generally meant by ‘ literacy ’ . |
| 15 | Although within Goody 's own terms they do provide a challenge to his claims for the consequences of a shift from oral to literate culture , they do not provide an unambiguous or ‘ scientific ’ starting point from which to test those claims . |
| 16 | But what the example also indicates is that Goody 's claims for the consequences of Greek literacy , for all the qualifications that he and Watt make , do lay themselves open to more general and misleading applications . |
| 17 | Again , however , the precise definition of literacy , and its location in that particular society , tends to get forgotten in grand general claims for the consequences of ‘ literacy ’ itself and in the general distinction between ‘ literate ’ and ‘ non-literate ’ societies . |
| 18 | A recent work on political theory in ancient Greece has pursued this question more explicitly than has traditionally been the case in classical scholarship and provides a further check to our ready acceptance of Goody 's grander claims for the consequences of literacy in classical Greece . |
| 19 | But what we are now faced with more clearly than in his other claims for the consequences of literacy is an argument based on socially relative judgement and ideology . |
| 20 | Couched in these terms , where the political nature of the interpretation is not hidden behind the language of ‘ cognitive ’ structures and ‘ intellectual ’ abilities , the argument for the consequences of literacy appears less absolute , less ‘ technical ’ and more obviously dependent on ideologically-based assumptions . |
| 21 | Reference is constantly made to the president 's budget and the chief executive is held responsible for the consequences of budgetary policy , especially by members of the opposition party in Congress . |
| 22 | Whatever the outcome , the government is bound to have to pay dearly for the consequences of a utopian scheme , which , whatever one 's opinion of the welfare system , was one of its most generous and uncritical offshoots . |
| 23 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 24 | Rather , it is an expression of the rights and liabilities generally held to attach to ownership : more exactly , the right subject to the general law to determine whether and how the assets and resources owned will be used , and the liability in certain circumstances to answer for the consequences of that use . |
| 25 | In a number of cases in England defendants have conceded a liability for the consequences of injury before birth : Williams v. Luff , The Times , 13 February 1978 ; Whitehouse v. Jordan [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 246 ; McKay v. Essex Area Health Authority [ 1982 ] Q.B . |
| 26 | Not only in Victoria and Quebec , but in South Africa and in every American state liability has been established in negligence for the consequences of pre-natal injury — though not always on the basis of the same reasoning or principle . |
| 27 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 28 | Unlike the Harter Act , however , unseaworthiness did not deprive the carrier of immunity for liability for the consequences of errors of navigation and management because COGSA required that the alleged unseaworthiness be the cause of the loss . |
| 29 | v. Stanford said that the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher does not extend to making the owner of land liable for the consequences of the escape of a dangerous element brought on the owner 's land by another person , not for the purposes of the owner but for the purposes of that other person . |
| 30 | The amount of compensation payable may be reduced by reason of the fault of the plaintiff , ‘ but only if , and to the extent that , the causing of that injury or damage is attributable to the act of [ the plaintiff ] committed with the intention of causing harm to his person or property or with reckless disregard for the consequences of his act . ’ |