Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 In this a weak input which can not sustain LTF in its own right may be encouraged to do so if combined with a strong stimulus arriving from a second pathway .
32 The effect of these agency principles is that a ‘ sleeping ’ partner may find himself liable to meet the financial obligations incurred to a third party by an active member of the partnership .
33 What they have in mind here is the common situation that , while hunting , the quarry is first wounded by one hunter 's spear but ultimately brought down by another spear thrown by a second huntsman .
34 It 's a world of fantasy grafted onto a 16th century Herefordshire Manor House .
35 United 's return begins with a first round tie against , with the opening leg away , while Rangers start at against .
36 Washington 's key economic gauge faltered for a second month in September .
37 In July work on a second dormitory will be completed , and in September the dining and kitchen areas will be renovated .
38 In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) .
39 CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry .
40 Michael Martin , the Felsted captain , and William Cooper shared in a second wicket partnership of 239 , both scoring centuries , before Martin declared half an hour after lunch at 246 for one .
41 Next Brook asked for a second volunteer .
42 Part of a town centre was sealed off and buildings evacuated after a second World War Mortar Bomb was discovered at a charity shop .
43 Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with .
44 Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers .
45 5.2 Miscellaneous It will be no breach of confidentiality to disclose documents on discovery in the course of litigation even if they are held subject to a duty of confidence owed to a third party .
46 The emergence of task-oriented behaviour in the group leads to a second pattern of behaviour — the socio-emotional or maintenance behaviour .
47 A refreshing and tangy Mango Sorbet followed as a second course for both .
48 Forty four year old Michael Byrne from Westlea in the town fell from a first floor window in the multi-storey ward block .
49 For example available information was not being sent ; there was reluctance to put certain items in writing ; telephone messages left with a third party could be distorted ; there was incomplete information ; there was a lack of feedback .
50 The US state of Louisiana defaulted on a nineteenth century loan and was still unwelcome to bond markets a century later .
51 The peace process continued in a fourth round of bilateral negotiations in Washington last week .
52 Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens .
53 The move that Barthes makes to a second order signification has important methodological implications .
54 Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith .
55 ( b ) List 5 important items of information which should appear in a letter of application written by a person applying for a first job .
56 This study , carried out in an Italian series of patients accurately selected for the absence of other known aetiologic factors , and the presence of well established serum markers of autoimmunity , confirms previous observations made with a first generation ELISA that a wide overlap between the two above conditions does occur .
57 At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes .
58 The novel finding , of central importance here , comes from the behaviour shown by a third group of subjects .
59 Their 1st runs at the end of 1981 were witnessed by scenes not seen since the end of steam when literally thousands either embarked on farewell trips or crowded platform ends for a last glimpse of the 3,300hp machines that were as popular as the LNER Gresley steam Pacifics they replaced .
60 In her foreword to Ordinary Justice , Mrs Sally Oppenheim-Barnes , chairman of the National Consumer Council , said the Council wanted all consumer debts ( even up to £25,000 ) dealt with in county courts , and the threat to seize goods used as a last resort rather than a first step in the enforcement process .
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