Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riding to hounds , taking fences and obstacles along a route dictated by the fox is a very skilled activity . |
| 2 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 3 | Employees may , for example , receive flat-rate payments , allowances based on a percentage of their salary , or a payment based on a number of weeks ' salary . |
| 4 | Unless the workers employed in a producers ' co-operative are the final custodians of its affairs , the bonus — or better , the bounty — remains a payment made as an act of grace ; and the co-operative is not properly so-called . |
| 5 | In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement . |
| 6 | Walton J. did not purport to decide the case on the basis of a payment made under a mistake of law and I agree with the doubts expressed by Romer J. in Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , as to this being a true case of money paid under a mistake of law having regard to the plaintiffs ' expressions as to their understanding of the law at the time of the payments . |
| 7 | The procedure originated to deal with circumstances where parties wish to set up machinery for determining a price without negotiations , often where the obligation to make a payment arises in the future , as with options . |
| 8 | So observed income in period is a reflection of a base earning from an individual 's raw uneducated ability or talent and past investments times their rates of return minus any current investment ( which usually is in the form of forgone earnings ) . |
| 9 | At the bottom of the forge was a water trough whilst some two feet in front of this stood the anvil , on a base cut from an elm trunk some three feet in diameter and two in height . |
| 10 | The surroundings , however , are bleak , and interest is confined to the wide expanse of Loch Ewe , an inlet of the sea of considerable extent , commissioned into service during the war as a base to assist in the passage of convoys , when there was a submarine boom across the entrance . |
| 11 | A base acts as an installation supporting the operations of a military force and serves as its point of origin . |
| 12 | An option is , typically , a contract , a deed or a provision made by a testator in his will by which one party grants to the other the right to buy property , from him or his estate , at a future date . |
| 13 | Gentlemen , this is a clause based on a provision recommended by the Charity Commission . |
| 14 | They were only a matter of metres away but , due to the insulation which separated every portion of dock superstructure — a provision designed as a safeguard against just the kind of occurrence which had threatened Rostov — both had been safe from danger . |
| 15 | Then , to add a chart linked to the table into your document , just choose Add Chart from the Options menu , tell the package where you want it , and away you go . |
| 16 | This track offers a splendid high-level walk free of traffic ; it finally descends to Dent by way of Flinter Gill after passing below a hilltop crowned by a group of old cairns known as Megger Stones . |
| 17 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 18 | The inspector from the education department who could be such a trial came to the opening ceremony . |
| 19 | In 1860 the scandalous situation at the Agapemone was exposed in a trial heard in the Court of Chancery , Nottidge v. Prince , when a former member of the Abode of Love sued Prince for the return of her property . |
| 20 | While the Labour conference was taking place the Prime Minister had a trial run with the televising of Parliament . |
| 21 | In the next room , Francie tuned his fiddle and Aunt Margaret made a trial run on the flute . |
| 22 | I had also learnt not to waste energy making excuses , and to recognize the signs and symptoms of a sister suffering from an attack of acute haema-dementia . |
| 23 | By that time there were brothers and a sister playing about the floor of the nursery in Hampstead , and now and again a new baby in the cradle . |
| 24 | A morgue appeared on the left like a reason . |
| 25 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |
| 26 | Additionally , the horses were usually fed their dinner of oats in a bucket placed inside a motorcar tire ( so that they were less likely to spill it ) . |
| 27 | Homer is refreshingly critical about his chosen subject and questioning about the motivation behind such works as the truly horrible ‘ The Agnew Clinic ’ of 1889 which depicts a mastectomy performed in an operating theatre crowded with doctors . |
| 28 | Burston 's village sign — taking the form of a maypole surmounted by a wheatsheaf — a symbol of the village 's association with the land and milling . |
| 29 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 30 | The dive from a cradle secured from a crane earned Liz £650 in sponsorship money which went towards her local sea cadet organisation . |