Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg .
2 In accordance with general practice in Jamaica the prosecution disclosed to the defence the depositions of those witnesses taken at the committal hearing , but not their earlier statements to the police ; they did not disclose to the defence before or during the trial a statement made to the police by the deceased 's husband and two statements made by the deceased 's sister , relating to incidents not covered in their depositions , which were inconsistent with their evidence at trial .
3 Please do keep telling us of any complaints or suggestions you have either about the Journal or about the way the Society is being run .
4 it is not restricted to conduct causing or intended to cause injury or damage but includes any other violent conduct ( for example , throwing at or towards a person a missile of a kind capable of causing injury which does not hit or falls short ) ( Section 8 ) .
5 Save for one matter , to which I shall refer later , there is no criticism of the judgment or of the order the judge made on the material that was available to him at the time .
6 ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards .
7 In Chapter 6 we shall find that it is a matter of perplexity where along the chain the fixity sets in which determines a particular result on a particular occasion .
8 Or in the end the crisis may become a fact of life .
9 If you fancy a tour today or over the weekend the mansion and its famous gardens are still open .
10 Where on an arbitration an award has been made against a party in his absence , the award can be set aside , but , in this instance , by the arbitrator only ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) ( Term 6 ) ) .
11 A 'sham " has been defined by Diplock LJ ( as he then was ) in Snook v London and West Riding Investments Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 QB 786 ( at p802 ) to include : [ A ] cts done or documents executed by the parties to the " sham " which are intended by them to give to third parties or to the court the appearance of creating between the parties legal rights and obligations different from the actual legal rights and obligations ( if any ) which the parties intend to create .
12 The Rentcharges Act 1977 prohibited the creation of further rent-charges , and provided also for the extinguishment of all existing rentcharges at the end of sixty years starting on 22 July 1977 , or on the date the rentcharge first became payable , whichever is later .
13 In truth Emily did have dreams that one day in a park or on the street a talent scout would stop and see the perfect features and flawless skin of this child and come to the house begging on bended knees to transform her life .
14 The whole question of national health is bound up with that of efficiency and output and it is impossible to rank as a ‘ burden ’ on industry or on the community an outlay which safeguards wellbeing and ( to put it no higher ) conduces to the efficiency of the machine .
15 On the Brother , if the Part button nearest the knitting is in , or on the Toyota you 've chosen the Empty control nearest the knitting , or on the Knitmaster the side lever nearest the knitting is forward , then the NEXT row will slip .
16 Whether his witness against a background of hate because he told we look at the Paraclete 's role in the world or among the disciples the answer is the same .
17 The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked .
18 Where by the order a party is first ordered to do the act , and there is then added a clause in the order that in default of so doing specific consequences will follow , the part that directs the act to be done must use one or other of the above forms of wording .
19 ( Except for the Baptists the influx did not lower the trend towards a more educated ministry : the total of all Baptist ministers without any formal higher education was only eighteen per cent by 1901 .
20 The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire .
21 Horror coursed through Grainne , so that for a moment the stone room tilted all about her .
22 Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak .
23 It is assumed that for every action the operator has a purpose , the choice of the particular action at the particular time or point in the sequence is triggered by some other event , usually the successful completion of an action is indicated by a particular information presentation which also is noted on the chart .
24 It is estimated that for every pound a farmer spends on fertilizer on his fields , he can expect the rain to wash away a good fifty pence-worth .
25 There is no doubt that for the fathers the Devil is the Enemy , and on the whole most of them stress this even more than did St Paul himself .
26 Cecil recalls that for the tour the crew members were drawn from various squadrons from 5 Group .
27 The rejections , and the manner of the rejections , ensured that for the future the Church would take no notice of what the House of Commons thought about the way in which the Church of England worshipped .
28 W.J. White confuses matters more by saying that ‘ the body of Elizabeth I was so poorly embalmed that during the funeral the coffin exploded , owing to the accumulation of the gaseous products of decomposition ’ .
29 A letter sent to shareholders by the club 's legal adviser , Gordon Marshall , makes it clear that during the action a number of concessions had been obtained from the Deans family .
30 Suppose that the customer has expressly requested a visit for one purpose ( say , a possible purchase of kitchen fitments ) and that during the visit the trader talks the customer into buying something else , say a television .
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