Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having considered the intrinsic nature of the problem presented in this appeal , and having consulted the relevant authorities , my conclusion … is that an action lies in negligence for damages in respect of purely economic loss , provided that it was a reasonably foreseeable and direct consequence of failure in a duty of care . |
| 2 | The last is of interest to parents who wish to know where their child stands in relation to others of about the same age and also , at various levels of aggregation , to teachers , heads , LEAs , the Government and the wider community . |
| 3 | The two December marches by right-wing women were important public relations exercises in support of hardliners in the government . |
| 4 | The fourth merit of Johnson 's approach is that it allows for mobility of jobs between categories , although he does not attach as much significance as Hughes ( 1958 ) to the efforts of the ‘ professionals ’ themselves in this regard . |
| 5 | Interested groups are informed on a weekly basis which allows for feedback from areas like Lagos site , potential fields expertise , the Vietnam group and line management . |
| 6 | Alternatively , it can refuse to accept the whole risk — this is common in car insurance and it happens in practice after thefts in which a considerable mess is created . |
| 7 | As for the requirement for the owners , charterers , managers and operators of the vessel and , in the case of a company , the shareholders and directors , to be resident and domiciled in the member state in which the vessel is to be registered , it must be held that such a requirement , which is not justified by the rights and obligations created by the grant of a national flag to a vessel , results in discrimination on grounds of nationality . |
| 8 | Such hydration expansion commonly occurs in response to changes in relative humidity which , since they are closely related to temperature , may be diumal . |
| 9 | As for banking services , at the time of writing there is no agreement on the draft Investment Services Directive which deals with trade in services in the securities field . |
| 10 | The letter ends with gossip about rehearsals for the opera season in Cape Town ( ‘ It really is pathetic ’ ) and about people with whom he had dinner and drinks . |
| 11 | Robert Cecil 's total benefits from office in terms of influence and contacts probably brought him more than Sadler 's £2,600 ; but , once again , the increase was not huge when set beside the rise in prices . |
| 12 | BRITISH TELECOM ENGAGES IN BATTLE OF WORDS WITH AT&T |
| 13 | Many of the younger recruits are regarded by older hands as extremely idealistic , a quality deemed more vice than virtue since too passionate a commitment to controlling pollution leads to aggressiveness in dealings with dischargers . |
| 14 | Talcott Parsons argues that this inevitably leads to inequality in terms of power and prestige . |
| 15 | This is not good practice as it leads to confusion amongst users with an increased possibility of errors that may lead to the very problem the procedure was trying to avoid . |
| 16 | In the third , simple monetarist mechanism exemplified in the Cambridge equation for the demand for money ( see equation ( 7.13 ) above ) aggregate expenditure varies in proportion to changes in the real value of the money supply . |
| 17 | An important distinction is between bonds which carry a fixed ( coupon ) rate of interest and floating-rate notes ( FRNs ) where the rate of interest varies in line with movements in a designated short-term rate . |
| 18 | The field of the sheet varies in accord with variations in the solar wind , though of course the dipole field does not . |
| 19 | The tone of his correspondence varies from self-mockery to flights of fancy , and the handwriting changes almost as much : angular or rounded , neat or sprawling . |
| 20 | After going around edge of large bay ( ignoring path descending to beach ) , path keeps to edge of fields on seaward side and crosses three stiles ; |
| 21 | For a wide range of input and output patterns this system responds to removal of neurons in a surprisingly robust fashion , showing little degradation of function until a large number of neurons have been removed . |
| 22 | The agreement , under which the government expected to save $1,000 million , included options for the creditor banks ( i ) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure ; ( ii ) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level ( thought to be $26 per barrel ) ; ( iii ) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them ; or ( iv ) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts ( estimated to be 60-65 per cent ) should the banks be willing to take the loss . |
| 23 | Like the theories Brooke-Rose criticizes in 1958 , this view conceives of metaphor in terms of semantic property to be fought over and captured . |
| 24 | More generally , as linguistic stability consists in agreement on patterns of variation and on the social functions of the variants , linguistic change will appear as changes in agreement : as older patterns of agreement recede , so new patterns of agreement will emerge , and in the interim stage there may be some apparent randomness ( or lack of agreement , or conflicting patterns ) in the distribution of variants . |
| 25 | October 25 : Gibraltar lawyer James Levy appears in court on charges of conspiracy involving the use of false accounting departments . |
| 26 | The same argument applies in principle to studies of metabolic activity . |
| 27 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 28 | But that Act only applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , that is to say 22 July 1976 . |
| 29 | ‘ This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; … |
| 30 | It should be remembered that , unless it is extended by SFA , the foreign business carve-out only applies to business with customers in the UK if the overseas person exemption would have applied if the non-UK branch had been a separate person ; apart from checking that the activities concerned fall within the exemption , the SIB 's restrictions on cold calling , therefore , also have to be complied with . |