Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A letter came from the President of the Poor Law Unions ' Association , asking for support in opposition to a Bill which had been introduced on behalf of Bradford Corporation . |
| 2 | Truman had to learn through experience in office without a period of gradually accumulating knowledge in a subordinate position . |
| 3 | There have also been changes in the length of a ‘ generation ’ and the overlap between generations in families as a result of changing patterns of marriage and family formation . |
| 4 | ( e ) documents available for inspection in conjunction with a circular issued to shareholders ; and |
| 5 | Then , on the anniversary of the July 1936 rising , he appealed to the Captains-General for unity in view of an international masonic plot which would destroy Spain . |
| 6 | I like to explain the need for unity in terms of a heavy sack which has to he lifted . |
| 7 | A , who has an interest in property held by B upon trust for him , may hold that interest upon trust for D , or transfer it to C upon trust for D. ) If , however , an attempt is made to create a trust by transfer to a trustee , but the transfer itself fails from a defect in form — where land , for instance , is transferred by unsealed writing , or the transfer of shares in a company has not obtained some necessary consent of the Treasury — the trust also will fall , unless the transaction is one made for value , a term which includes settlements or agreements for settlement in consideration of a contemplated marriage , but not of one already celebrated . |
| 8 | On March 1 the Libyan Secretary for Foreign Affairs , Ibrahim Bishari , said after a meeting in Cairo with the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev that Libya " is ready to hand over the two suspects for trial in front of a neutral court in any neutral country " . |
| 9 | These same tests should be satisfied before a magistrate commits anyone for trial in relation to a libel which has not appeared in a newspaper or periodical . |
| 10 | It is important to recognize that an identical project promoted at the present time would not offer good value for money in comparison with a new-build scheme . |
| 11 | The group now work as Artists in Residence in a joint scheme between the University and Conservatoire . |
| 12 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 13 | The ubiquitous shellsuit will , however , retain its popularity as a leisure garment , although buyers will be opting for designs in fabrics with a softer handle , such as that achieved by special finishes such as acid , stone or garment washing , which can be applied to both woven and knitted cloths . |
| 14 | Con Tours ( the big London-based travel agents ) have an arrangement with the hotel by which they receive preference bookings during June/July/August in exchange for an undertaking to take up a minimum number of bookings for the ‘ 'shoulder ’ months of May and September . |
| 15 | The crisis deepened when Nigel Lawson resigned as Chancellor in October after a disagreement with Professor Alan Walters . |
| 16 | Carter dutifully pose for snaps in front of a scaled-down Houses Of Parliament and toy with the idea of burning the wooden model to the ground . |
| 17 | The assertion by Pollock C.B. quoted above that a corporation could not sue for libel in respect of a charge of corruption , because a corporation can not be guilty of corruption , appears to have been the foundation for the decision by a Divisional Court in Manchester Corporation v. Williams [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 , but more fully reported in 63 L.T. 805 . |
| 18 | He too repeated the assertion that a corporation could not sue for libel in respect of a charge of corruption because it can not be guilty of corruption , but this assertion was unnecessary for his decision in the case and was obiter . |
| 19 | The Divisional Court in Manchester Corporation v. Williams [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 held , on a preliminary point , that Manchester Corporation could not sue for libel in respect of a charge of bribery and corruption since a corporation was unable to be guilty of corruption , following the dicta of Pollock C.B. in the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case . |
| 20 | The political embarrassment that such admissions created for the Bolsheviks were smoothed over by presenting the necessity for NEP in terms of an analogy with the Brest Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in 1918 , that is , as being a breathing space . |
| 21 | We explain the importance of unity in front of a common enemy . |
| 22 | Gilli Davies brings us a taste of Easter in Cyprus with a traditional Easter luncheon . |
| 23 | In the case of investments in companies with a capitalisation of under £5m , 3i has reduced the discount applied from 40% to 30% . |
| 24 | The undergraduate body also contains two students from the university of Catania in Sicily on an Erasmus exchange , while there are two graduate Soros scholars , a neuroanatomist from Hungary and an astrophysicist from Poland . |
| 25 | Tension was further heightened on May 6 when a young Macedonian soldier was killed by shots from the crowd ( reportedly from a Croatian policeman ) when tens of thousands of Croatians demonstrated outside naval headquarters in the coastal town of Split in protest at a continuing army blockade of Kijevo . |
| 26 | And for teachers already using ( or wanting to adopt ) the approach described here , it acknowledges and reflects their wider concerns , offering a framework which allows for the possibility of building in collaboration as an integral feature of teaching and learning across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 27 | It thus lends support to the materialistic view that it makes sense to think of objects in abstraction from a mind which perceives them . |
| 28 | Sources in Hong Kong say the British Government is finalising its package giving key Hong Kong people the right of settlement in Britain as a form of insurance in anticipation of the consequences of the Chinese takeover in 1997 . |
| 29 | ARMED police yesterday searched a number of houses in Dundee after a shooting in which two men were slightly injured . |
| 30 | What matters is simply a profession of faith in Jesus as a manifestation of God , and such a profession of faith is in itself sufficient to ensure salvation . |