Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane pressed hard , the pennies fell with a clatter and a voice said , ‘ Fenton Bishop 220 . ’ |
| 2 | A well broken , loose and particulate soil will have characteristics different to a uniform and unbroken film of the same type . |
| 3 | I shall have to keep my eyes open for a millionaire while I 'm here , ’ she joked . |
| 4 | Order 26 , r 5 applies where any change has taken place after judgment by death , assignment or otherwise , in the parties entitled to enforce a judgment or order or in the parties liable under a judgment or order . |
| 5 | He kicked his feet free of a vine and rolled into the water , the drag of the rope almost strangling him . |
| 6 | The 1968 Act , however , made all planning permissions subject to a condition that development is begun within five years . |
| 7 | There 's nothing worse than arriving fifteen minutes late for a lecture or laboratory practical to find out that other students have stolen a march on you . |
| 8 | Instead of having the machine score the various positions that could be reached after one play , it could generate and then evaluate all the positions possible after a play and a reply , or a play , a reply and a counter-reply . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) To provide a solution to other legal difficulties which can not be overcome by the ordinary powers available to a bidder or target company . |
| 10 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 11 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 12 | Cover for cancellation of your arrangements due to an accident or illness affecting you or your family should be £1,000 to £3,000 . |
| 13 | The minimum energy path for such growth incorporates at each step the maximum number of pentagons consistent with a rule that each pair of pentagons should be separated by a pair of hexagons . |
| 14 | It is also noticeable that many incidents of prison disorder — especially the popular form of demonstration on the prison rooftop — are clearly motivated by the very desire to make prisoners ' grievances and allegations visible in a way that would never normally happen . |
| 15 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 16 | There are some large 4 bedded rooms suitable for a family or friends . |
| 17 | Mills of the Oldham type were usually five storeys high with a warehouse and conditioning room in the cellar . |
| 18 | One plays upon a pipe or reed like Pan , another drinks from a crystal bowl while behind them another leaps with an arched back and arms outstretched into a cloud or white birds . |
| 19 | For example , enterprises may agree to refrain from raising prices prior to an election or from publicly criticizing a policy with which they disagree in return for approval for expenditure . |
| 20 | The major work , ‘ Friendship Quartet ’ , conveyed the feelings between two women friends involved in a disagreement and subsequent reconciliation . |
| 21 | There are self-catering holidays available in a cottage and a chalet . |
| 22 | This month 's increase in the numbers unemployed for a year or more is certainly extremely unwelcome , but the long-term unemployment level is about half what it was five years ago and long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds is also half that level . |
| 23 | The court also overturned an Oct. 19 decision by Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , taken following a public outcry , to postpone the closure of 21 of the pits subject to a review and to close the remaining 10 after 30 days of consultation . |
| 24 | Most observations support the generalization that the first type of transition occurs in shear flows adjacent to a wall or walls ( boundary layers , pipe flow , etc. ) and the second type in shear flows away from any wall ( ‘ free flows ' such as jets , wakes , etc . ) . |
| 25 | Inspector Berret stood up and questioned the doctor : ‘ Are the injuries consistent with a jemmy or case opener ? ’ he enquired . |
| 26 | Index of model letters useful as a prop and exercises based on them also encourage creativity in letter writing . |
| 27 | In 1976 he joined Sears Holdings Ltd as a director and Sears Engineering Ltd as chairman . |
| 28 | On the few occasions where constructed data is used as illustration ( of a paradigm , for example , in Chapter 4 ) , it is inevitably directed towards accounting for the range of formal options available to a speaker or writer . |
| 29 | When the research knowledge is sufficiently conclusive , we can use findings to construct checklists , scales and indicators which can ensure that practitioners consider all factors pertinent to a situation and alert us to danger signs . |
| 30 | In sum , it should be possible to draw up a list of factors relevant to a decision whether to embark on re-investigation . |