Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 we were assured there was no , absolutely no , case for electrifying between Edinburgh and Glasgow : . |
| 2 | My solicitor and barrister came and saw me , and explained about parole and remission , and told me there was no point in appealing . |
| 3 | Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop . |
| 4 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 5 | ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female . |
| 6 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 7 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 8 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 9 | A car manufacturer does not design for failure because he believes that his cars will not fail . |
| 10 | Obligations undertaken through consent or respect are voluntary or semi-voluntary obligations . |
| 11 | It was in response to what Lord Penzance called ‘ sensational cases of cruelty ’ that the first law giving working class wives an opportunity to sue for separation and maintenance was passed in 1878 . |
| 12 | Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract . |
| 13 | I suspect that the reason why the right has been so little asserted or used is because of the established right of individuals , who are personally libelled by a false attack upon a local authority , to sue for damages and because those in control of local authorities have sensibly left the issues to be resolved in those proceedings . |
| 14 | Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development . |
| 15 | You may also be able to sue for damages if your employer , past or present , fails to take care to ensure that his comments are based on correct information . |
| 16 | Such a corporation , it was held , should have the same power to maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured as the law allowed to a corporation at common law , and the power to sue for libel or slander for the protection of its reputation in the carrying on of its business . |
| 17 | Where freedom of speech is at stake , it is unsatisfactory to make the grant of an injunction hinge upon whether the plaintiff happens to sue for libel or breach of confidence . |
| 18 | They , if defamed , will have the right to sue for libel and , in the case of a libel upon the authority 's officers acting in the course of their duties , it may be that the authority will subvent their actions . |
| 19 | Equally the buyer will not be able to sue for non-delivery unless he was ready and willing to pay or else it had been agreed that he could have credit . |
| 20 | She was compelled to sue for peace and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was disarmed on the Black Sea . |
| 21 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 22 | In order for the company to know who took the document , to sue for recovery and damages , ‘ disclosure is necessary in the interests of justice ’ . |
| 23 | Have you heard about Dean and |
| 24 | He had just heard about Baldric and his party leaving , and was speaking entirely in the vocative . |
| 25 | I 'm sure you 've heard or have you heard about priests when say a priest has a vocation , a call from God ? |
| 26 | Erm I know , like you do these and er I mean I , I 've heard about Alan and Sue for a long time , I know they 're having a lot of bother , you know with the decorating and all that . |
| 27 | Given what we have heard about Eli and his sons , and in the light , also , of those dark prophecies of doom , what message do those words convey as Israel goes into battle with Philistia ? |
| 28 | Have they heard about babies and bathwater ? |
| 29 | ‘ I had n't heard about Doug but in a case of murder , nobody close to the victim gets overlooked . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |