Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It should not be assumed as a matter of course that such use of part of a dwellinghouse necessarily involves a material change of use requiring permission .
2 Hauser not only has a twenty-acre estate at Livingstone Manor .
3 The findings included caesium 134 which , as it only has a half life of two years , indicates that it must have originated in recent tests .
4 Saddam apparently approves a PLO plan including possibility of a referendum in Kuwait on union with Iraq .
5 No it 's just the plant , it 's just like it just produces a gold kind of coloured dye .
6 Biersteker , on Nigeria , argues that : ‘ Indigenization thus encourages a comprador role for local business in a society already plagued by strong comprador tendencies ’ ( 1987b , p.272 ) and that ‘ foreign capital has not been seriously threatened by the indigenization exercise ’ ( p.275 ) .
7 Only a few reports concerned the fate of oesophagitis , and then with relatively short follow up , although the typical patient is young or middle aged and thus has a life expectancy of several decades .
8 Sadly , for a fine newspaper , The Independent accords cricket their ‘ Royal family ’ treatment , and scarcely has a cricket correspondent at all .
9 South Africa-based Transatlantic already holds a majority stake in CapCo but the deal will allow it to make an application to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange .
10 Mr Goult 's nephew , John Goult , who already has a guard dog at his home in Esthwaite Avenue , St Helens , said : ‘ They were an inseparable pair .
11 At present , the US army intends to build incinerators at each of its eight chemical weapons storage sites — it already has a pilot unit in operation at Johnston Island in the Pacific .
12 The facility expands the shipping line 's operations because Coastal , bought by the MDHC in the summer of 1991 , already has a Belfast terminal for its successful daily lift-on lift-off container service to Liverpool .
13 At the time we took up the , the secretary took took up the matter and I got him to send us er a copy of the reply , and it , it appears that , as you know it 's all voluntary and , and it relies charity for individuals , but I noticed , I only got this from Ron yesterday , paragraph here says , where the community demonstrates it 's active support for such adventure , then there is an increase likelihood of the establish of a service , although it has to be said that there already exists a waiting list of communities eager to re receive P D S A support .
14 Our view then , which is undiminished today and is at the centre of the debate , is that it ought not to be the function of the social security system to support students , not only because of the administrative burden placed on the Department 's local benefit offices and local authorities , but because there already exists a maintenance system for those in full-time education .
15 Even SCO insiders are speculating on the possibility that Novell could pick up where USL left off or that Microsoft Corp , which already owns a minority piece of SCO , could come back for more .
16 It can not be compared with the ‘ big six ’ national brewers ( Allied , Bass , Courage , Watneys , Whitbread , and Scottish and Newcastle ) , and it is significantly smaller than the main ‘ regional ’ brewers ( i.e. Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons ) , but it nevertheless retains a market niche as a regional brewery specializing in distinctive , good quality beers .
17 State House already houses a recruiting office for the Royal Navy and Marines , and visitors must apply for a temporary security pass at the ground floor entrance .
18 This nurse may first see the patient in the Outpatient Clinic prior to admission and usually offers a counselling service for as long as necessary post-operatively .
19 A drug smuggling conviction usually produces a life sentence in Thailand .
20 Company 1 still has a cost margin on which to fight , and , if it chooses to do so , it could later reap the ‘ cash cow ’ benefits .
21 BA still has a marketing agreement with United , which it is keen to preserve and the appointment last week of Sir Gordon White of Hanson Industries to the BA board is seen as improving the airline 's negotiating skills in the US .
22 Kung fu always has a back-up movement in readiness in case a technique fails .
23 She always has a log fire in the hearth , summer and winter .
24 Note that this saving throw is not strictly speaking because of armour , and the Orc always has a saving throw of 6 even if he is struck by a weapon that would normally have a saving throw modifier .
25 Incessant monomorphic VT is another common form of proarrhythmia ; this arrhythmia is often the result of class 1c antiarrhythmic agents and usually has a QRS complex with a very long duration so that it appears ‘ sinusoidal ’ in contour .
26 This is a great advance over the rate achieved by earlier machines , but it still allows a routine lookahead of only four moves .
27 When he goes abroad , he always buys a return ticket to the airport a ) because he thinks this will save three milliseconds in a fortnight 's time ; b ) because he knows he 's coming back ; and c ) in case fares go up in the interval .
28 She gets bored , disturbs his concentration , and surreptitiously changes a plus sign into a minus to upset his calculations .
29 When faced with a hostile situation , or when sparring , a good kung fu student always presents a side-on target to his adversary .
30 Whatever the situation , with the ready-to-fly or the home-built sport kite , there still remains a set sequence of assembly , common to almost every type .
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