Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 2 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 3 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 4 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 5 | Wexford switched off the light and for a moment the room seemed very dark . |
| 6 | Roland 's stag night was planned the same Saturday but after a week the best man realized that he was going to be skiing then ! oops . |
| 7 | That afternoon the convener communicated his version of the story to the shop steward 's committee and within an hour every department was buzzing with the news . |
| 8 | Answer guide : An asset gives a future benefit whereas with an expense the benefit is used up . |
| 9 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 10 | The Aridians , locked in their own war for survival against savage Mire Beasts , are in no position to oppose the Daleks and for a time the TARDIS crew are their prisoners . |
| 11 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 12 | The people began to recover from the horrors of the long war with Chaos and for a while the population grew . |
| 13 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
| 14 | The need for training in the area was identified through the Ballybeen Estate Strategy Steering Group and as a result a ‘ Training and Education Working Group ’ was established . |
| 15 | Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished . |
| 16 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 17 | Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced . |
| 18 | ‘ The notion that without a monopoly the country will be without universal service , for example , is just not true , if you look at the US , Sweden [ and ] the UK ’ he pointed out . |
| 19 | Holden battered the free-kick against the wall and after a scramble the ball fell to Henry , who struck a low shot from more than 30 yards past Lukic . |
| 20 | The Committee of Management took the advice and went to the High Court and as a result the proposal was stopped . |
| 21 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 22 | The background changes and in a way the background is about things like the visual aids , flipcharts and er the use of video and er even these peripherals you can put on a on a overhead projector now that plug into a computer . |
| 23 | Some socialisation takes place on an extremely particular level : for example , individual families will in many respects differ from each other and as a result the content of much of the socialisation characteristic of each will be correspondingly variable . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose you ought to , but , ’ Jack gave an unexpected grin and for a moment the atmosphere of gloom lightened a little , ‘ let's make sure we keep Dora and Dieter apart or we 'll have a third death on our hands ! ’ |
| 25 | Monetary values depend on the size of the organisation but for a company the size of Lucas Automotive the potential savings from each review have generally run into hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 26 | In 1990 Hungary 's defence budget was reduced by 30 per cent in real terms and as a result the Hungarian Army , 106,000 strong in 1988 , was to be reduced to 80,000 by 1991 . |
| 27 | In Northamptonshire , four such tutors were appointed by the District and as a result the number of courses increased from thirty-two in 1942–43 to fifty-two in the following year . |
| 28 | Metroprolol was then added and titrated against heart rate until within a week a final dose of 25 mg thrice daily was attained , resulting in a resting heart rate under 80 per min . |
| 29 | Emma sketched her husband ON BOARD THE HEATHER BELL while on a summer a trip to Ryde and round the Isle of Wight . |
| 30 | In Dekker the employer had tried to argue that the refusal to hire was not on the grounds of pregnancy but on the ground of adverse financial consequences the firm could not pay for a replacement during the period of maternity leave needed by Ms Dekker and as a result the firm would be short-staffed . |