Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | trustees comprise persons for the purposes of income tax ; 2. they comprise a separate entity liable to tax on monies they receive or which they are entitled to receive ; 3. the main inroads into that separateness and liability are of a restricted nature as explained in the Reid 's Trustees case ; these inroads are : ( a ) in certain cases ( but not all ) where a trustee mandates income direct to a beneficiary the trustee will not be liable to tax ( Williams v Singer ) ; ( b ) in the case of a life interest trust a see-through or conduit approach is adopted for identification of source purposes so that the origin and parentage of the income is not changed by virtue of its journey through the trust ( Archer-Shee v Baker ) ; ( c ) if income arises to the trustees of a life interest trust ( subject to deductions for expenses ) it is taxable upon the life tenant whether or not he actually takes the money ( Spen 's case ) . |
| 2 | He made little attempt at conversation and showed no surprise that he should be asked to drive to Boulogne in the middle of the afternoon to pick up a well-dressed but grubby Englishman . |
| 3 | Organisations are reassessing their priorities , says Price Waterhouse consultant Nick Cherrie , and , if they are not convinced that a project can offer a quantifiable and speedy payback , they are likely to shelve it . |
| 4 | His habitual greyness faded into a bleached and waxen pallor . |
| 5 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 6 | Steve and I had climbed to the end of the Double Corniced Crest , a hateful and difficult section with all the solidity of a haystack on edge , balanced on a skyscraper . |
| 7 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 8 | Its statement spelt out the process : the release of other political prisoners , the return of political exiles , the lifting of the state of emergency and other political restrictions , and negotiations on a peaceful transition to a non-racial and democratic South Africa . |
| 9 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 10 | The term " guilt " is another word which has a connected but dual meaning . |
| 11 | He was thinking of a dark-haired and scarred soldier whom he had cuckolded and impoverished , a soldier who had sworn to kill him in revenge . |
| 12 | US officials said the general would fall quickly , but he has proved a resilient and cunning opponent . |
| 13 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
| 14 | Both have contended with disease and suffering , and have been seen as near-saints by a grateful and admiring public . |
| 15 | To take David Lewis ' example ( D. Lewis 1973 ) , ‘ if kangaroos had no tails , they would topple over ’ ; it is of course always true that they might not topple over — they might be given crutches by a grateful and tourist-conscious government . |
| 16 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 17 | They left the cottage , leaving a grateful if sad couple who were quite amazed at the way in which their problem had been solved . |
| 18 | Space does not allow a full description of Harry 's successful progress from Brussels ( as Jean Henri de Smat , a deaf and dumb basket maker ) and then through France , to Switzerland , which Harry eventually reached on 14 October 1943 . |
| 19 | Both deaf and hearing actors play to a deaf and hearing audience . |
| 20 | I fell in love with a deaf and dumb man and I planned to spend my life earning and loving and teaching and praying , all on his behalf . |
| 21 | The Rev. John Kingdon , the Baptist minister , had two other ceremonies to perform that day , as he also officiated at the burials of Mary Whiting , aged 77 , and a deaf and dumb girl of 45 years , Christiana Yerbury . |
| 22 | A DEAF and dumb teenager found wandering the streets of Paris has startled police with a series of sinister ‘ life story ’ drawings . |
| 23 | A DEAF and dumb teenager found wandering the streets of Paris has startled police with a series of sinister ‘ life story ’ drawings . |
| 24 | A DEAF and dumb teenager whose drawings of witchcraft have stunned France may be identified , thanks to TODAY . |
| 25 | The United States had been introduced to the combined system by Laurent Clerc , a deaf and dumb immigrant and former pupil of the Abbe de l'Epee . |
| 26 | The original proposal for this clause , which had led to disagreement , read : Any deaf person , or any hearing missionary , or superintendent of a deaf and dumb mission and society , who is a resident of the United Kingdom shall be eligible to ordinary membership of the Association . |
| 27 | There 's a couple up here at number twenty , a deaf and dumb couple . |
| 28 | And he spoke for three hours About ivory towers And warlords in armoury suit And the traveller sat And stared into his hat Because he was a deaf and dumb mute . |
| 29 | So many abandoned dogs are being treated in the hospital section of the Canine Defence League kennels at Evesham in Worcestershire , that one of them , a deaf and blind poodle , is living in the operating theatre because there 's no other room left . |
| 30 | The first seven members of the Roseberry co-operative had been unemployed for an average of five years and seven months when they began working on the Langridge Crescent site , and their growing band of colleagues has continued to include those frequently bypassed by mainstream employers in the construction industry : a deaf and dumb carpenter , a former labourer with a history of heart trouble , a young woman training to be a painter and others . |