Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 2 | The World Cup series slalom at Holme Pierrepont on May 30th–31st will be the most important British slalom for some years and will draw a very high class field of paddlers ahead of the Olympic Games . |
| 3 | Cos if they were trying to get peasant support and erm showing the importance of peasants instead of the United Front they would 've made it public . |
| 4 | The Special Commissioner found that the taxpayer was entitled to elect for the amount distributed to be reduced by the allowable expenditure in accordance with s 74(4) , since , as a matter of construction , the provision applied to all capital distributions in respect of shares regardless of the relative amount . |
| 5 | They are questions about the procedural advantages which could be derived from the extraordinary procedure , and which might have influenced the use of trusts instead of the parallel institutions of the civil law . |
| 6 | In the rush to meet the first deadline on hours much of the spirit of the new deal has been lost . |
| 7 | But if the resources of husband and wife were not to be aggregated , and each had a right to claim benefit independently , the Commission would be paying allowances to almost all wives who are unable to work or have the care of children regardless of the husband 's income . |
| 8 | On Jan. 27 the Chilean Supreme Court agreed to submit questions on the Letelier case to US President Bush ( head of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) at the time of the killings ) , following allegations by Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , the former head and chief of operations respectively of the DINA secret police during the 1973-90 Pinochet regime , that the Letelier attack had been carried out by CIA agents infiltrated into the DINA , in order to discredit the Pinochet regime . |
| 9 | Jacobs and Kinsella makes it clear that the consideration which courts must now take into account is not whether a custodial sentence was necessary to protect the public from offenders generally of the same type , but whether it was necessary to protect the public from a particular offender . |
| 10 | When the newly formed Grand Union Canal Company resumed work in 1810 , Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) suggested the construction of a set of locks instead of the tunnel . |