Example sentences of "such a [noun sg] was [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a vision was of course racist , patriarchal and antidemocratic . |
| 2 | The agreement to stop production of chemical weapons , and to eliminate all but 5,000 tonnes of existing stockpiles , was intended as a catalyst for an agreement on a worldwide ban on the development , production , use and possession of chemical weapons currently under negotiation at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva [ see p. 37224 ] , and both sides undertook to destroy all their stocks once such a ban was in force . |
| 3 | But this in itself did not lead to Worcester being an obvious target for government to focus attention on , since such a reduction was in line with predictions for other hospitals . |
| 4 | It appeared to the Commission that , aside from certain cases involving fantasy or malice , a request for service forwarded abroad met a precise need , and it could be presumed that such a request was in compliance with the procedural law of the forum , since this step would otherwise make no sense . |
| 5 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 6 | Between the hearing before Waite J. and the hearing of the appeal , such a consultant was in fact found , namely B. , a professor of child health at a third London teaching hospital medical school . |
| 7 | But such a definition was in effect very vague and blunt and was notoriously difficult for the Church to apply : it followed that many harmless groups were confused with heretical ones by the authorities in their attempts to control what was going on . |
| 8 | No doubt George Dempster was correct when he wrote that ‘ the true spirit of our constitution ought to make it criminal in a member of Parliament to offer any constituent the smallest personal favour ’ , but such an opinion was at variance with the facts of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century life . |