Example sentences of "[noun] attached to a " in BNC.

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1 John McLellan , coachman to L. McLean of Islay House was killed when breaking in a young horse attached to a cart .
2 Failure to take formal action under the relevant legislation or unjustifiable delay in doing so , in respect of obnoxious odours which amount to a statutory nuisance or for breach of a condition attached to a site licence for waste disposal , may be deemed to amount to maladministration if they cause injustice such as injury to health or depreciation in the value of property .
3 The most keenly felt was a condition attached to a large scale loan from the International Monetary Fund in 1976 requiring a reduction of £1 billion in public expenditure to support the external value of sterling .
4 ( 4 ) The holder of any licence or any employee or agent of his shall be guilty of an offence if he commits a breach of any byelaw or any condition attached to a licence by virtue of a byelaw .
5 Each organ consists of sensitive hairs attached to a jelly-like rod , which bends in the direction of any water movement .
6 It was one of the earliest examples anywhere of a ballet faculty attached to a university , and that affiliation meant that students of white and non-white races could be accepted together .
7 The Mechrolab osmometer , shown schematically in figure 9.3 , consists of a solution + solvent cell of volume approximately 1 cm 3 , with the solvent side connected to a reservoir attached to a servo-driven elevator .
8 He flew on to the stage on wires attached to a harness which , she said , ‘ is terribly painful for chaps .
9 Three keys attached to a metal disc had been found in the pocket of the woman 's coat .
10 The first stage after tribal society is the ‘ Asiatic ’ mode of production , where a central state bureaucracy attached to a monarchy or priesthood organizes villages ' economic activity and expropriates the farming surplus .
11 For example , an archaeologist in a museum attached to a university may also lecture to students , as well as direct research excavations for the university , and thus perform many of the functions of all three types of professional archaeologist .
12 The first successful self-filling pen was the Conklin : it had a rubber sac , which was squeezed by a bar attached to a crescent of metal protruding through the side of the pen .
13 The government on Dec. 15 won by 309 votes to 256 with one abstention a vote of confidence attached to a bill on regional aid to the south .
14 Until now , Gemma 's had to be fed through her nose , using a naso-gastric tube attached to a pack which she wears on her back for 16 hours a day .
15 Using either a solid roller or a special Supamix roller attached to a broom handle , roll the dampened surface lightly .
16 Here is a further example , this time of identifying theme , from The Independent ( 8 November 1988 ) , article attached to A Hero from Zero .
17 A saw cut in the end of each 1½ × ¾in ash runner has the effect of reducing the thickness of each piece to be bent , in effect allowing a laminated curve attached to a solid straight runner .
18 When pH was outside the calibrated range ( 6.838 to 7.382 ) it was recorded manually by a glass electrode attached to a standard pH meter ( PHM 82 , Radiometer , Copenhagen ) and calibrated by standard buffer solutions at pH 4 , 7 , and 10 .
19 Others died in destitution for fear of the shame attached to a pauper funeral .
20 On one occasion I learned the Morse code and , with a hand-made press-switch attached to a light bulb , flashed messages to Willard Hamilton holding a similar device , perched on the roof of his house on Oxford Street .
21 PREVIOUSLY uncatchable fish are being suckered into grabbing baits and flies attached to a new ‘ invisible ’ line .
22 I recently found about 30 dead flies attached to a weed ( Chenopodium sp . )
23 So there are occasions when it is important to check the meaning attached to a particular word .
24 The latter is concerned with the duties and rights attached to a particular job title .
25 This comprises a thin metal-wire pad attached to a battery and bell .
26 Your name attached to a message , Admiral , is a guarantee of remarkably quick service .
27 N.B. It should be noted that in Austria twin beds often consist of two separate mattresses attached to a single frame or headboard and they can not be separated .
28 On the climb-out at 100 ft there was a loud explosion and a lump of metal attached to a control wire whipped round and caught me in the groin .
29 But not all admitted claims were to be met , even where loss of development value was caused by refusal of planning permission or by conditions attached to a permission .
30 Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator .
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