Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for reasons of litigation strategy or for a total failure to address the question , an available remedy was not tried , then the claim would be inadmissible . |
| 2 | A third route could be to permit vertical relationships and restraints between domestic producers , or domestic producers and distributors , which made it difficult either for a foreign firm to set up production and gain essential supplies , or for a foreign firm to get access to existing distribution networks . |
| 3 | Their action let stand a decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond , Virginia , that property lost at sea can be abandoned only through the failure of insurers to appear in court or through a written statement relinquishing title . |
| 4 | The coincidental publication of the Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct during a major test of professional practice can be viewed as a piece of misfortune or as a superb opportunity to affirm the stature of the profession by using the Code to support the Library Association 's case . |
| 5 | The abandonment of the 1956–62 IRA military campaign was highly ambiguous and from outward appearances it was possible to interpret republican actions as either preparation for a renewed onslaught or as a delicate operation to keep the movement together while its direction was fundamentally changed . |
| 6 | German may be taken for one year , as part of an MA(General) curriculum or as an outside subject for a degree in another honours group ( perhaps English , or History , or Philosophy ) , or as a progressive course lasting for two , three or four years within the MA(Honours) or the MA(General) . |
| 7 | Suppose that , similarly , the effect of a hot bath depended on , say , our emotional state , rather as whether we feel an icicle down our backs as an icicle or as a red-hot dagger depends on what we have been led to expect . |
| 8 | As an insistent talker in a railway carriage who was carrying a viper in a cardboard box or as a thin man bewailing his bad luck at being unable to apply for the job of fat man at the fair , he provided great amusement largely by the assumption of odd accents and the pulling of extraordinary faces . ’ |
| 9 | Some of these were too hard to be blown , in which case he cut with the point of a penknife or of a small knife adapted for the purpose , an oval-shaped piece of the shell out of the side , emptied the egg , and replaced the shell . ’ |
| 10 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 11 | Neither in the production of variations nor in the elimination of disadvantageous variations is there any reference to an ‘ end ’ of producing ‘ fit ’ or successful species : the probability of variations occurring , or of a particular variation occurring , is independent of the need for change to produce a better ‘ fit ’ between organism and environment , or of that variation being successful . |
| 12 | The word unbelief is usually used of a wilful refusal to believe or of a deliberate decision to disobey . |
| 13 | The most common example of breaches of this duty are the use or disclosure of a former employer 's client list or of a secret process belonging to him . |
| 14 | To put it another way , if the principal element is an E , then the complex produced by such an extension remains an E ; and if the main element is a P , then the complex is a P. Qualification has the effect of indicating that the subordinate element is to be used in the identification of a single entity or of a single property corresponding to the complex as a whole . |
| 15 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 16 | At first I thought of these ideas as jewels formed in a matrix of rock like a diamond or like a fragile vase fired in a kiln at Ching-Te-Chin — an emperor 's gift . |
| 17 | Paragraph 5 of the rule was directed not only at enforcement of a judgment in favour of a claimant who had obtained judgment in his favour but also at preventing , by means of the principle of res judicata , relitigation of the same case by a person who was properly represented by a claimant against whom judgment had been given dismissing the claim , whether that person tried to pursue his claim against a named defendant sued in his own right only , or against a named defendant sued both personally and as a representative of a class , or against a member of that class . |
| 18 | COOK OVER A HOT BARBECUE FIRE OR UNDER A MODERATE GRILL TURNING FREQUENTLY AND BASTING WITH THE MARINADE FOR 15–20 MINUTES . |
| 19 | Take Three people at a special time in their life , or with a personal story to tell … then equip them with a video camera . |
| 20 | Political responsibility for broadcasting ( the RDF-RTF ( lay directly with the Prime Minister ) ‘ President du Conseil 's ) or with a junior minister delegated to that end — often the Information Minister ( such as Mitterrand in 1948 ) . |
| 21 | They can be bought direct via a stockbroker , or via a managed fund set up for the purpose . |
| 22 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |
| 23 | There would be no possibility of the second use of ‘ Here ’ in a non-spatial world , or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings . |
| 24 | There would be no possibility of it in a non-spatial world , or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings . |
| 25 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 26 | No defence is available in respect of statutory nuisances within s.92(1) ( a ) ( b ) ( e ) or ( f ) , or to a private individual causing a statutory nuisance under s.92(1) ( c ) or ( d ) . |
| 27 | The system can also be pre-set to cook and hold while no one is in the kitchen and , in these cost-conscious times , food can be cooked overnight or on a half-power setting to take advantage of cheap electricity periods . |
| 28 | Lie down on the floor or on a firm bed supported by pillows if desired — one under your head and another under your knees which will support your lower back . |
| 29 | Proportionality between the alleged offence and the penalty imposed is one such principle ; and consistency , in the sense that an individual should be entitled to rely upon a declared policy , or on a specific representation made to him , appears to be another . |
| 30 | ‘ Where a person , having sold goods , continues , or is , in possession of the goods or of the documents of title to the goods , the delivery or transfer by that person , or by a mercantile agent acting for him , of the goods or documents of title under any sale , pledge , or other disposition thereof , or under any agreement for sale , pledge or other disposition thereof , to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of the previous sale , shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same . ’ |