Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires expert' financial or accounting knowledge . |
| 2 | An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 . |
| 3 | A MAN assaulted his girlfriend after a discussion turned sour , magistrates were told . |
| 4 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 5 | General Accident is supporting this request and have taken the decision to continue with payment of benefit when a claimant attends such a course . |
| 6 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 7 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 8 | Ive come to learn there little/no point hoping to get a report of the match when a side wins 3 or 4 nil , because its immediately a one sided contest and all you hear is a one sided report . |
| 9 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 10 | Having set facilities unavailable , LIFESPAN will not accept any further transactions from users , and the user image will report a transaction failure when a user attempts this . |
| 11 | The game , if game there had been , had broken the constraints of rule , and there is nothing more reminiscent of chaos and old night than a game become uncontrolled . |
| 12 | The closure was ordered last night after an engineer discovered one of two vertical pins holding up one of the bridge supports had developed a six inch crack . |
| 13 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 14 | That there is more to his writing than an ability to recount individual anecdotes is increasingly being acknowledged . |
| 15 | What she is really saying , after all this time , is that it is more important for a woman than a man to look good . |
| 16 | And it was proving almost impossible to secure any exhibition for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning until a booking became available at a London showcase cinema , and the audience turnout proved this was a film with legs . |
| 17 | When tests are given to adults , it may increase co-operation if a test has high face validity . |
| 18 | Length is stored as exact length ±1 , so for example if a word has 5 letters , then bits 4 , 5 and 6 will be set . |
| 19 | Euro competition chief Sir Leon Brittan has been pushing for the guide since a survey found British cars were an average 59 per cent dearer than the cheapest Continental prices . |
| 20 | POLICE in East Cleveland issued an alert after a man tried three times to indecently assault a 10-year-old girl . |
| 21 | in a beautiful valley where a kloof gave abundant water . |
| 22 | Accordingly he disappeared into the upward-travelling lift , while she waited for one to take her down a floor where a corridor linked this building to the next one , in which the twenty-four-hour blood bank was located . |
| 23 | To return again to the earlier period , however , one finds that once the was enrolled he waited his turn until a post fell vacant . |
| 24 | TEAMS of workmen yesterday cleared oil-covered shingle from Calshot Spit ( above ) , a nature conservation area , as part of a big clean-up operation after a tanker spilled 6,000 gallons of heavy Middle East crude into Southampton Water . |
| 25 | The rule has no application if a plaintiff becomes bankrupt ( Ord 5 , r 14 ) , when s 49 of the 1984 Act will apply enabling the trustee to elect to continue and give security for the costs . |
| 26 | According to this controversial doctrine , it is theft of confidential information if an individual uses nonpublic information for his own personal benefit in breach of any duty . |
| 27 | There is no redundancy : all systems in a configuration can be active — linking multiple NCR System 3000s so that one system might run a mission-critical application while a second runs lower-priority tasks . |
| 28 | Sir John Harvey-Jones is fond of saying that there is no such thing as a business standing still . |
| 29 | It 's hoped that up to four hundred civilian staff will be offered new employment when an airbase closes next year . |
| 30 | In principle all children , regardless of sex or parentage , were entitled to equal shares of property when a landholder died intestate . |