Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 2 | Not only does Dame Sirith advertise her professional ability to repeat the trick , or to obtain for a man the woman he wants in the way he wants , and thus anticipate her ability to star in an extended series of fabliaux that the poet may tell , but the language and prosody convey certain points that lie at the heart of the fabliau perspective . |
| 3 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 6.03 in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1989 and 12 March 1991 sent business letters relating to its investment business without bearing the legend ‘ Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business ’ contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.02 and in that the firm at Shipley between 9 September 1988 and 1 October 1989 entered or required its Principal to enter into an association or arrangement with a person which might result in the defendant being constrained or induced to refer or introduce a client to a person who was not an independent intermediary with a view to that person giving investment advice contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.03 and in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1986 and 31 October 1989 failed before recommending or effecting for a client a transaction in units in an authorised unit trust or a recognised collective investment scheme , to take reasonable steps to establish that other more advantageous or suitable policies or units were not available contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.11 and in that the firm at Shipley between 1 November 1989 and 16 October 1991 having given advice to a client which was such that when acted upon it resulted in commission being received by the defendant , failed to notify the said client in writing of the amount and terms of such commission as soon as that information was available , contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.32 was reprimanded , fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 4 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 5 | The Society forbade any member to hold office or take as a spouse an individual who might invite or arouse the curiosity of the press . |
| 6 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Gen. Blagoje Adzic , the hardline JNA Chief of Staff , vowed in a television appearance on July 2 to establish control and bring to an end the war which he said had been forced upon the army . |
| 8 | The new eukaryotic cell was porous , and surrounded by a membrane a few ten-millionths of a millimetre thick . |
| 9 | In the near distance to our rear the guns had started shelling the German positions , the shells uncomfortably low as they rushed overhead and crashed into an area a short distance away . |
| 10 | If a person criticizes the criminal justice system and uses as an example the handling of his case , are his opinions to be considered opinions ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? ’ |
| 11 | But , incredibly , it stayed on the line and came to a halt a mile further on , dragging the mangled seats beneath the engine . |
| 12 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 13 | He quickly devoured a few fragments and stuffed into a bag a lot of miscellaneous food which Irina was evidently leaving behind . |
| 14 | Such control will promote tight intra-system nutrient cycling and obviate to a degree the need for artificial fertilisers . |
| 15 | We have suggested techniques for creating continuity through the different sections of your essay , by linking together and signposting for a reader the various points you make . |
| 16 | Where this method is used care must be taken to avoid leakages and to keep to a minimum the concentration of residual ozone remaining at the end of the reaction , as it is quite toxic with a Threshold Limit Value of 0.1 ppm . |
| 17 | The onset of drought in the 1970s simply compounded and brought to a head a situation that was almost inevitable from its inception , the root of which was fuelled by European interests to counteract competition from soya bean imports from the USA . |
| 18 | He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister , and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu 's crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels . |
| 19 | This opposition , she felt , was orchestrated by the ‘ homosexual/humanist/intellectual lobby'-adding homosexual to the usual list — who were well organised and united in a way the Church was seen not to be . |
| 20 | The hardships he accepted with a kind of satisfaction would benefit others and do their work a power of good , he said , and cited as an example a painter friend at The Hague , Theophile de Bock . |
| 21 | Ace caught it , almost pulled Defries from her perch , released it , and rolled to a stop a few metres further down the slope . |
| 22 | A young , red-haired man , dressed simply in a leather jerkin , leggings and boots , came up to Corbett and spoke in an accent the English clerk could not even hope to follow . |
| 23 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | Drawing the wallet from his pocket , he separated the one of Breakspear from the rest and studied for a moment the view of the college it presented . |
| 25 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |
| 26 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 27 | As all things in life fade and come to an end the poet realises so must he . |
| 28 | Assigns and saves in an array a set of measures corresponding to a set of consecutive integer exposure values . |
| 29 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the gap between movements of this kind ( which have sometimes been called ‘ pre-political ’ ) and modern social movements remains large , for the latter exist on a vastly greater scale , are more directly involved in political conflict , are influenced by more rigorous and elaborate ideologies , and have as a rule a more enduring , less ephemeral , character . |