Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] honest " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the careful and conscientious journalist or broadcaster , the legal meaning of " malice " provides vital protection for honest comment , the more so , because the burden of proving that malice was the dominant motive rests on the plaintiff . |
| 2 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 3 | Compare that with the fence-sitting gutlessness of Honest John Major , our very own world leader and ‘ EC President ’ who refused to take part in the French TV debate for fear of upsetting Tory rebels . |
| 4 | Finally , in lighter vein , modern scientists would have no difficulty in exposing the falsity of an entry in honest Kepler 's notebook , following observations through a Galilean , telescope , which reads , ‘ Mars is square and intensely coloured ’ . |
| 5 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 6 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 7 | Johnstone has confronted his fall from grace with the kind of honest self-awareness that is rare in habitual drinkers . |
| 8 | The defence of honest belief that a girl is over 16 is likely to have a far greater impact than the defence of honest belief in consent in the context of rape . |
| 9 | The defence of honest belief that a girl is over 16 is likely to have a far greater impact than the defence of honest belief in consent in the context of rape . |
| 10 | The defence of honest comment would not have availed him . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , it is convenient for corporate officials to pull the cloak of honest ignorance over their heads and proceed under its darkness to stumble blindly and unwittingly over the thin line between what is condoned and what is condemned . |
| 12 | The products of prisons are seen as taking over the market for the products of honest working men . |
| 13 | By offering pre-service training we can surely do no worse than act as honest brokers in a fairly honourable profession . |
| 14 | Correct forms are regular and simple , e.g. the English language usage by which straight is a metaphor for honest and crooked a metaphor for dishonest . |
| 15 | The full effects of the theological liberalism which had been at work since the nineteenth century came into their own in the English-speaking world after the publication of Honest to God ( Robinson 1963 ) . |
| 16 | For Mrs Whitehouse , the publication of Honest to God , although it was only one — albeit significant — event , was a key moment in the emergence of what both she and John Robinson described as ‘ the new morality ’ . |
| 17 | His own political standpoint remained obscure and he wisely campaigned on the broad issue of honest government . |
| 18 | But she would rather have had a handful of honest reviews . |
| 19 | Alive with the sound of honest toil . |
| 20 | The Attorney-General had been astonished at the verdict and came to the conclusion that the jury had viewed Leese as a stupid crank with honest convictions who should not be convicted of the serious charge of seditious libel . |
| 21 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 22 | Their fiercely preserved notion of honest , controlled friendship had moved sharply into an expression of mutual love — symbolized , as Helen insisted in all this early correspondence , by the purity and truthfulness of their 26 Edward Thomas kisses . |
| 23 | The common people thinke them a race Of honest and familiar Devills , For they do hurt to none , unlesse resisted ; They seldom take away , but with exchange ; And to the poore often give , Returne the hurt and sicke recover 'd , Reward or punish , as they do find cause . |
| 24 | I have come across not one company which incorporates the pursuit of honest profits with social awareness , which provides a vision for themselves and their workers . |
| 25 | ‘ By the indefatigable exertions of honest industry he acquired an ample fortune which his large but discriminating generosity rendered serviceable to the encouragement of virtue , by diffusion of knowledge and the relief of the afflicted … . ’ |
| 26 | And the John Lee iconography has come with that — the thick shades and the cool suits from Honest John of Oakland , and the funky homburg and the loafers and the shiny rings . |
| 27 | The disjunction between honest attitudinal expression and impression-management is again expressed in van Dijk ( 1984 ) when discussing the linguistic devices involved in the denial of prejudice . |
| 28 | Rhetoric was a thing he would gladly have murdered ; and he had already carried out his theory of honest thinking at the expense of considerable financial and perhaps emotional sacrifices . |
| 29 | She hated even more the absence of honest dealing with her mother . |
| 30 | What amounts to urgency is incapable of precise definition , and would be open in many cases to honest and reasonable differences of opinion . |