Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 One possibility is for the purchaser to provide that part of the purchase price will be reduced and repaid to the purchaser if certain material consents are not received or if only a proportion of material consents are received .
2 the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production .
3 the fact that scientific method , in the sense of a critical and sceptical approach to enquiry and a readiness to test hypotheses , enters at many points into so-called arts subjects , and that equally the spirit of speculative enquiry , the exercise of creative imagination and the capacity for making value judgments are important in the activities of the scientist and technologist .
4 compared with the Minister 's adjusted figure , and that even the Association of Yorkshire and Humberside Chambers of Commerce is now calling on the Government to do something about a sinking economy ?
5 Several authorities have stated that malignant hypertension ( implying the presence of arterial fibrinoid necrosis and usually a diastolic blood pressure <140 mm Hg with retinal changes such as haemorrhages , exudates and papilloedema ) is rare in diabetics and that generally the degree of hypertension tends not to be severe ( Drury , 1983 ) .
6 The plaintiffs sought to enforce the clause but Scott J dismissed the action for he found that on its true construction the employment agreement was a contract of employment of the defendant by the two partners , that the dissolution of that partnership within the term of the employment constituted a breach of the contract of employment and brought it to an end and that accordingly the restraint of trade clause ceased thereafter to be binding upon the defendant .
7 Many of our partners and allies take the position that they do not recognise governments and that therefore no question of recognition arises in such cases .
8 The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained .
9 It stated that he had seen an advertisement in the papers asking for designs for the redevelopment of the whole area between Downing Street and Great George Street , yet Hall knew the Cabinet had decided against this large scheme and that only the purchase of the Fludyer Street area would be completed .
10 Indeed , there is much evidence to suggest that many collocations found in natural text are domain-independent , and that only the analysis of a sufficiently large and general corpus will provide coverage of such structures .
11 An examination of Figure 4.4 shows that it is expected that UK car production will increase in the next ten years ( largely as a result of Japanese investment ) and that consequently the share of car imports in the British market will decline , as will the motor industry trade deficit .
12 Surveys had shown that X-ray doses vary by a factor of 20 or 30 between different hospitals , and that about a quarter of all hospitals had been giving patients unnecessarily high doses .
13 Other evidence suggests that many of these were marched towards Maribor to the east or Celje to the south and that subsequently the mass-slaughter of many thousands of Croats took place .
14 Relations with Austen Chamberlain were never quite the same and although only a handful of MPs refused to sign the memorial they included personal friends of Law like Amery and Aitken .
15 This is because chemists ' experiments last for years not thousands of millions of years , and because only a handful of chemists , not thousands of millions of chemists , are engaged in doing these experiments .
16 In the Ladies , where they went to explore and while away the length of time a restaurant meal always took , Miranda began , ‘ Who 's that man then ? ’
17 The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally .
18 Despite such setbacks , the Germans continued their infantry frontal attacks with supporting parachute infantry outflanking Allied positions , and after nearly a month of confused fighting the Independent Companies were withdrawn through Bodö along with elements of the 24th Guards Brigade and Norwegian troops .
19 In fact they needed little breaking in and after only a couple of long walks they were very comfortable indeed .
20 ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’
21 Gradually they gained the upper hand and after almost a week of savage fighting the Germans began to fall back .
22 Thank you Chairman I I think er as far as I twelve 's concerned the County Council 's er reasonably happy with that er er policy as it stands , and I think most people erm not all but but certainly the majority of people who er commented on that , commented in a sort of an affirmative way , erm again the provisions of the policy as they are hopefully reworded will er promote the same sort of flexibility and generosity that erm policy I five .
23 But as yet no feature of parenting has been convincingly established as being a causal factor in the first onset of the disorder despite observations by numerous investigators that parent-child relationships are often atypical in a number of ways .
24 Representations have been made to Mr Forth , but as yet no reply of any substance has been received .
25 The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate .
26 But as long the rent of £10,000 a year continues to be paid , council officers are n't bothered if Mrs Maxwell lives there or not .
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