Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a criminal offence for the directors of a bank to withhold information to which the Bank is entitled as supervisor . |
| 2 | Evidence of Taiwan 's desire to improve relationships with mainland China was also apparent in the government 's less than enthusiastic support for the activities of a propaganda radio ship Goddess of Democracy , sponsored by a French magazine and supported by a Paris-based group of Chinese exiles . |
| 3 | In all other cases it would seem that the union 's responsibility for the acts of an individual are to be determined by the general law of master and servant or agency . |
| 4 | ‘ In order to be made liable as principal for the acts of an agent the principal must at least consent to or adopt his appointment . |
| 5 | However the settlement leaves open the question whether member States can be found liable under international law for the debts of an organisation which has entered into transactions in its own name . |
| 6 | In the ex-French territories of North Africa the sudden removal of Frenchmen from all senior and technical posts caused severe problems for the railways for a period after independence . |
| 7 | Gudok reckoned that there would be only two to three days ' reserve for the railways as a whole . |
| 8 | In 1980 , for example , Stephen Kellert at Yale University surveyed a random sample of more than 3,000 Americans for the preferences from a list of 33 different animal species . |
| 9 | In place of the requirement to debit debt charges to individual operating statements , the law now requires that the local authority makes a ‘ minimum revenue provision ’ for the accounts as a whole . |
| 10 | An account of Sir Kenneth Cork 's contribution to the accountancy and charitable bodies reads flatly without some attempt to record , among other things , his involvement in the International Year for the Disabled and his encouragement to me when I instituted fro Accountancy the ( now ) annual award for the Best Report for the Accounts of a Charity ( writes Colin Cassie , former associate editor of Accountancy . ) |
| 11 | This limitation does not apply to any transaction for the Firm 's own account or for the accounts of an Associate provided that such transactions : |
| 12 | Therefore , if someone develops a new form of layout for the components in a computer or a new configuration for printed circuit boards , these are unlikely to be granted patents . |
| 13 | In this way it is possible for the divisions of a text using the drama base ( for example ) to consist of speeches and stage directions , while those of a text using the dictionary base will consist of lexical entries . |
| 14 | The new rule is also a clear victory for the environmentalists against a proposal by the Bush administration that would have eliminated any waiting period . |
| 15 | The policy of the defendant was to fix rents for the houses as a whole at an aggregate sum necessary to balance the cost of the loan capital and repairs ; there was no differential applied whereby tenants paid rent according to their means . |
| 16 | His departure was recognition that his unpopularity had become a liability for the Conservatives in an election year . |
| 17 | However , the shortening of the hole made more room for the crowds at a bottleneck . |
| 18 | Experience is required for the connections from an eye to continue to control its fair share of cortical neurons , and joint experience is required for joint control ( adapted from Hubel and Wiesel , reference 5 and Hubel 1988 : see Further Reading ) . |
| 19 | Having discussed the above ideas for the sites in an area , various analyses can then be tried out to examine the relationships between settlements which could have interesting and important implications . |
| 20 | The Committee has continued to press for a sensible Charter for the Courts as an adjunct to the Citizen 's Charter and meetings have been held with officials in the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 21 | Mr Lear also put his energy into encouraging young people to enjoy the outdoors and was a commissioner for the scouts for a number of years . |
| 22 | However , despite the teacher 's independent authority to discipline pupils , the test laid down in the case of R v Rahman by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane for the limits to a parent 's right to detain his/her child probably offers a guide to teachers . |
| 23 | They shall be developed further and expanded , taking into consideration the interests of all parties concerned and having regard for the principles of a market economy as well as the competence of the European Communities … |
| 24 | As for complaints that employers falsely claimed bad workmanship or embezzlement of materials to deduct fines from wages , even William Temple , an ardent polemicist for the clothiers in a dispute with the West Country weavers in 1727 , admitted knowing one clothier who stopped wages " in a most base and flagrant manner " , despite which he became a JP . |
| 25 | In this world pop music is isolated and exploited as a younger , sexier version of traditional showbiz , where culture tycoons like Maxwell of the Mirror or Murdoch of the Sun fight for the services of a man , John Blake , whose gossip columns reinforce pop music 's most banal surfaces . |
| 26 | For as Breton and Wintrobe show , if there is a fall in the demand for the services of an information distorting , budget maximizing bureau , it will not be able to deliver any output for a price that citizens and politicians are willing to pay and will probably disappear . |
| 27 | For fifty years the precise form of the subsidies varied : that of 1513 combined a tax on rank for the nobles with an income or property tax for commoners ; that of 1514 taxed wages as well as landed incomes and property ; in 1540 only those with landed incomes or property above £20 had to pay . |
| 28 | It calls for the qualities of a fighter , for only with those qualities can we win through the constant traps and barriers laid by the forces that would block our path and drag us down . |
| 29 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 30 | There was a list of bands that might be interested in doing an album ( a musical tone-scale running all the way from Yes to Genesis ) , and a sheaf of sketches for the sets in a stage presentation . |