Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ [ Subject to section 63(A) ( b ) ] where in any year a person is employed in director 's or higher-paid employment and — ( a ) by reason of his employment there is provided for him , or for others being members of his family or household , any benefit to which this section applies ; and ( b ) the cost of providing the benefit is not ( apart from this section ) chargeable to tax as his income , there is to be treated as emoluments of the employment , and accordingly chargeable to income tax under Schedule E , an amount equal to whatever is the cash equivalent of the benefit . |
| 2 | It was the path from my cottage , and I remembered the little cove called Halfway House , a cove where in any weather a boat might tie up safely and its owner make his way round to Taigh na Tuir . |
| 3 | At each school the headteacher ( or in one school a representative ) and at least one other member of staff were interviewed . |
| 4 | In the past the GDR had never established diplomatic relations with Israel , partly because the regime refused to admit that the GDR was responsible for war crimes or in any way a successor to the Third Reich . |
| 5 | Valuation reports must be sent at least monthly ( whereas in non-derivative portfolios only a six-monthly statement is required ) although in each case a customer may advise the firm in writing that he wishes to receive them less frequently . |
| 6 | It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it might be said that in criminal law a company can authorise transactions only for its own benefit . |
| 8 | For instance , suppose that in criminal law a question consists of a chain of short problems on insanity numbered ( i ) , ( ii ) , ( iii ) , etc . |
| 9 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 10 | Mr Globe alleged that in one incident a woman customer was seized in the National Westminster Bank in West Derby Road , by White who held a gun to her head as he ordered the cashier to hand over money . |
| 11 | The only thing that unites these three arrangements is that in each case a minority class rules and takes the surplus away from the producers . |
| 12 | It is also possible that in this continuum a tumour increases the amount of large cells and develops higher grades of malignancy transforming low grade into high grade as occurs in nodal counterparts . |
| 13 | She looked at Fand , seeing the white arms shake , and knowing that in another moment a spear would go home and Fand would die ; because of me , she thought , all because of me . |
| 14 | Some friends of mine are staying in the parish house for a holiday in my absence and in real need a key to the church may be obtained from them — but , please , only in real need ! |
| 15 | There are stories of gangs of roughs waylaying cyclists and pelting them with stones , and in one case a South London cowboy was brought before Lambeth court for lassoing cyclists — ‘ a kind of horseplay that must be stamped out at once ’ said the magistrate , with good reason . |
| 16 | On the other hand , those might turn out to be right who think that man is responsible for but a very small part of the destruction of fish that is constantly going on ; and in that case a boat starting with equally good appliances and an equally efficient crew would be likely to get nearly as good a haul after the increase in the total volume of the fishing trade as before . |
| 17 | In 1731 he was appointed to minister in Tunbridge Wells at the meeting house in Little Mount Sion , and in that year a tract attributed to him — Divine Benevolence : Or , An Attempt to prove that the Principal End Of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of his Creatures — was published by John Noon . |
| 18 | The marriage primarily affects the parties thereto ; but in the second degree it may be an object of interest with a near relative , and in that sense a benefit to him . |
| 19 | And in that silence a whisper , hardly more than a breath : ‘ Isabelle 's daughter . ’ |
| 20 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 21 | A gift of £250 from Sir Alan 's will went towards the making of tennis courts , and in due course a Trust Fund was established , of which the School has been a great beneficiary over the years . |
| 22 | The accomplice becomes an enemy , and in due course a victim , at which point he can only salute the irony of his being executed on All Souls , Day : ‘ This is the day wherein I wished to fall/By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ’ ( V.i . |
| 23 | And in another case a man was banned from using his local swimming bath in Gwynedd because he was HIV-positive . |
| 24 | He certainly enjoyed perfect health , helped , he claimed , by being a teetotaller and in later life a vegetarian . |
| 25 | They show a girl who failed to understand that when you marry a man , you also marry his family and in this case a family uniquely different from any other . |
| 26 | Secondly , and in this case a matter of particular importance , was the fact that the duchy of Aquitaine was held by a king who , for purposes of this treaty , had become a vassal of another king . |
| 27 | In 1990 Glasgow was selected to be the European City of Culture and in this connection a sponsorship programme was devised including a performance by the world renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra , an exhibition of a selection of the of Camille Pissarro at The Burrell and a number of other events . |
| 28 | Borrowers are often obliged to provide security for the repayment of their debts and in this respect a company is no different from any other borrower . |
| 29 | The delicacy of the children seems to have been passed on to them by their mother , and in any case a succession of pregnancies had very probably weakened her own constitution severely . |
| 30 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |