Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 2 | HCIMA is today an integral part of an international industry and it needs a magazine which will reflect that status . |
| 3 | All of these studies emphasised the same , fundamental point : that rehabilitation had led to the sacrifice of justice in favour of an alternative goal that it had manifestly failed to achieve . |
| 4 | In practice the question of the duration of the disability imposed by the springboard doctrine does not frequently arise because most cases concerning confidential information do not come to trial following the grant of an interlocutory injunction and it can therefore be assumed that either the parties settle the action or that interlocutory judgment is treated as final . |
| 5 | But Nagel himself is content to take for granted that other creatures do have experiences , and he does not require of an objective phenomenology that it provide a philosophical proof of this presupposition . |
| 6 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 7 | This new album , in particular , is so imbued with the loss of an ebbing innocence that it can be hard to believe they were written by another person . |
| 8 | For the defaults of his servants in the course of their employment , the occupier is of course liable ; he is also liable for the negligence of an independent contractor unless it is entirely collateral ; for the folly of a lawful visitor in tampering with a potentially dangerous machine provided for his amusement ; and it may well be for the misconduct of any member of his family on the premises , for he has control over them . |
| 9 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 10 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 11 | Then it rose through clinging cloud , curving gracefully outward like an upturned trumpet until it was truncated by a plateau fully a quarter of a mile across . |
| 12 | The requested authority is required by Article 10 to apply the same measures of compulsion against an unwilling witness as it would do under its internal law in local proceedings . |
| 13 | It 's not up an awful lot but it is still up a bit . |
| 14 | And both concluded with an inner shrug that it was the right thing for the job in hand ; anything else could wait . |
| 15 | It , too , was nearly dead , but he was persuaded to release it in a bay long enough for it to be filmed with an underwater camera as it swam slowly above the bottom . |
| 16 | He fed it lots of oil and wiped at it all the time with an oily rag so it shone . |
| 17 | The atmosphere in the room became rapidly charged with an unmistakable effluvium and it was clear that Cedric 's unfortunate malady had reasserted itself . |
| 18 | Dot 's heart began pounding , first with anxiety , then with an irrational hope that it just might be Mr Brown who was back . |
| 19 | Now on the agenda are proposals to widen and realign the Woolmer Road , together with an improved junction where it joins the A325 north of the village . |
| 20 | One campaign by a leading washing powder manufacturer went into schools with an educational programme because it was an effective way of reaching the mothers who were its prime target . |
| 21 | This is easiest with an electric beater as it takes twice as long as you expect . |
| 22 | My stuff seems to get into an awful pickle when it 's translated . ’ |
| 23 | The slump in stock prices put Japanese creditor banks under an additional pressure because it simultaneously eroded their own capital bases . |
| 24 | As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due . |
| 25 | Those are the ones that are really going to matter , it 's too late to talk about an existing gear once it 's in production , |
| 26 | Thus land development was important for capital when North Shields was being put together as an industrial town and it seems to be important again when its industrial base is being taken apart . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal held that the supplying was insufficient as an unlawful act because it was not ‘ directed at ’ V. Subsequent decisions are unclear whether the ‘ directed at ’ test remains good law , and a better approach to the facts of Dalby would be to hold that the supplying of drugs did not cause the death because V took them himself . |
| 28 | The underlying assumption has been that bureaucracy is desirable as an organizational principle because it attempts to clarify authority and accountability while depersonalising their application . |
| 29 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 30 | The Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies is closely tied to the LL.M. and M.Sc. , although it can stand as an independent qualification when it consists of study and examination in three courses selected from the LL.M or M.Sc. |