Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was compelled to sue for peace and under the terms of the Treaty of Paris was disarmed on the Black Sea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Their loving was wild and tempestuous , with no time to spare for tenderness or softly spoken promises . |
| 15 | We 've all had to wait for doctors and dentists , yeah ? |
| 16 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 17 | She did n't have long to wait for illumination as he moved swiftly to front her , grabbing her roughly by the shoulders , holding her firmly as if he suspected she was about to take flight . |
| 18 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 19 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 20 | I look at r.s.s. every Saturday from about noon local time ( 5.00 pm Leeds time ) in the hope of getting the results asap and I normally have to wait for ages until info arrives . |
| 21 | It is working with Intel on the project but has to wait for silicon before it attempts to actualise the product and turn it over to LSI Logic for manufacture . |
| 22 | Similar decisions were reached in the cases involving hole in the heart babies who had to wait for treatment because of a shortage of trained specialist nursing staff . |
| 23 | For a few seconds they encouraged the dogs to sniff and lick the blood — to reaffirm their hunting instinct — then , shouting and waving their arms , they sent them scurrying back to the shadows to wait for bones and other bits of debris . |
| 24 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 25 | On the facts of Modupe the accused was guilty of inducing his creditors to wait for payment when he had obtained credit by stating that he owned property when he did not and by exaggerating his employment status . |
| 26 | Older children were less inclined to wait for attention than younger children . |
| 27 | East Germans now have to wait for weeks or even months for replies to their applications for visas to Hungary , through which more than 31,000 have escaped since August . |
| 28 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 29 | They would have to wait for Bert and Jasper to help him . |
| 30 | ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’ |