Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other safeguard arises at an earlier stage of the proceedings , and provides an additional protection for persons who are abroad and not able to be served with proceedings in this country in the usual way . |
| 2 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 3 | The Draft Directive provides for copyright protection for collections which , by reason of their selection or arrangement , constitute the author 's own intellectual creation ( similar to the German standard for copyright protection generally ) . |
| 4 | But he told his bosses in London who have now provided him with round-the-clock protection for fear he could be in the sights of an IRA killer gang . |
| 5 | He pointed out the sloping white stripes on the walls , whose incline indicated the nearest of the niches providing protection for plate-layers who otherwise might end up under the wheels of one of the expresses which thundered over these rails , bound for famous foreign cities . |
| 6 | In preparation for winter it will be busy putting on fat by eating all the wild fruit that it can find , and by making a nuisance of itself feeding on produce growing in the kitchen garden . |
| 7 | On the desirability of travel as a preparation for diplomacy there was virtual unanimity . |
| 8 | Thank you , yes , I think in a course of er , er explanation that 's been given this morning , there was a reference to H G V eight diversion , now I 'm concerned that if in fact that means that er H G Vs are increasingly using the route through Culford there are two very severe right angle bends on that road and I should erm like to see the police take some action to persuade H G V to ban that route er I mean can we do a ban on the early section of it with in particular to like angle bends are ? |
| 9 | The Rustins have written ( 1987 , p.2 ) that all the modern writers of fiction for children they examined ‘ are concerned , in one way or another , with issues of emotional development in children ’ . |
| 10 | well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years . |
| 11 | In S5 and S6 there is ample opportunity for pupils who did not choose a technical subject in S3 to return to one and many senior pupils opt to do this . |
| 12 | So , in my experience certainly down in the Sussex area , there 's , there 's great opportunity for people who have something worthwhile saying , who understand how to repackage what they 're saying in such a way that it will keep local radio audiences listening , and who are prepared to learn the minimum techniques and skills necessary to come across reasonably well . |
| 13 | What we see is a brand new opportunity for OSF which , after all , offers the only large-scale alternative for a vendor-independent Unix-like operating system . |
| 14 | The public good defence for performances which were proved to be ‘ in the interests of drama , opera , ballet or any other art , or of literature or learning ’ omitted the words ‘ or other objects of general concern ’ , thereby rejecting the so-called ‘ therapeutic defence ’ according to which pornography was claimed to be ‘ psychologically beneficial ’ to some persons ‘ in that it relieves their sexual tensions and may divert them from anti-social activities ’ . |
| 15 | Conrad used the adventure story for purposes which stretched it perhaps beyond its technical bounds . |
| 16 | to refuse planning permission for development which is a potential odour emitter near to residential property ; or |
| 17 | to refuse planning permission for development which would be affected by and sensitive to existing odour emitting uses . |
| 18 | Regarding the type of development mentioned in ( b ) above , only a few planning authorities seem to consider odour emission to be a major factor when deciding whether or not to grant planning permission for development which would be sensitive to any existing odour emitting use . |
| 19 | The ultimate accolade caps a dramatic rise for Platt who was rejected by Manchester United before establishing himself in the game with Crewe , then joining Taylor at Aston Villa and then going onto Juventus via Bari . |
| 20 | By bourgeoisification , Taylor is referring to the increasing emphasis within the game on comfort and entertainment manifested in such developments as the reconstruction of grounds as commercial stadia ( with covered stands , seats and floodlights ) , the payment of large transfer fees and the freedom of contract for players which enabled them to command large salaries . |
| 21 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 22 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 23 | It should be remembered that any contract for sale which provides for the purchaser to obtain vacant possession on completion now implies a provision that the vendor will procure before completion the cancellation of a registered Class F Land Charge ( Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 , s4(1) ) . |
| 24 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 25 | But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way . |
| 26 | Once the inner city is defined as a suitable case for treatment it becomes the logical social laboratory for any and all political , economic and social projects which can be presented as palliatives for the urban crisis . |
| 27 | When the local excise officers , oppressed by smugglers and low pay , persuaded him to present their case for improvement he was dismissed and left for America . |
| 28 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 29 | ( An obvious example of this phenomenon is where parents make special provision for children who are handicapped . ) |
| 30 | The Open University runs courses with special provision for people who have impaired hearing . |