Example sentences of "a [noun] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 2 | These bets would be handed over to a runner and signed with each man 's racing nom de plume , be it his nickname or any other name he considered lucky . |
| 3 | On Jan. 28 this founding congress suffered a split and walkout by some 100 delegates led by Tadeusz Fiszbach , who criticized the attempt to create a successor party without a sufficiently clear break with the communist past . |
| 4 | But since ‘ obtaining the possession by any trick ’ amounts to a taking for the purpose of larceny , it is notoriously difficult to draw any logical distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and to decide whether a particular case amounts to the one offence or the other . |
| 5 | An important point , with a view to interpreting the Act of 1968 and understanding comments , both judicial and academic , which have been made about it , is the fusion in clause 12 and section 15 of larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 6 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 7 | 373 , 377b ) that both larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences involved ‘ consent ’ by the victim , because what is involved is consent to two different things . |
| 8 | I have cited these passages in order to illustrate the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and the important , if obvious , fact that the owner 's consent to transfer the property prevents the offender from being guilty of larceny , although the consent was obtained by fraud and , in the words of Megaw L.J . |
| 9 | II , Professor J. C. Smith discusses the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and continues , at p. 20 , para. 38 : |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal in that case thought that the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences depended on the presence in the Larceny Act of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ and , as these words do not appear in the definition of theft , the distinction is gone ; all cases of obtaining by deception , contrary to section 15 , are also theft . |
| 11 | The BT–13 could be reworked as the Val with major modifications , while Canary cleverly envisioned mating the forward fuselage section of the AT–6 with the aft fuselage of a BT–13 and splicing in two fuselage plugs to create the elongated Kate fuselage . |
| 12 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 13 | Well I could maybe yes , that 's why we need a few more to last than you possess I 'll go out and have a look and see about these . |
| 14 | When he started at Balmain he was hired as a sketcher and worked with six other people in the bureau de dessin . |
| 15 | Occasionally , when manpower allows , men from the sections are assigned to beat duty and can walk anywhere within the Easton district in order to show a presence and look for minor crime . |
| 16 | At a rally orchestrated by a housewife and inspired by last weekend 's IRA bombing in Warrington , a series of speakers echoed pleas for an end to more than two decades of terror . |
| 17 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 18 | Hilton was certainly conscious of writing for a wide monastic audience , but The Ladder is ostensibly written for a nun , who was enclosed in a convent and bound by traditional monastic disciplines , but who also seemed about to begin a more solitary life . |
| 19 | Do n't you dare I 'm in charge of this interview and erm and erm and erm what 's caused this and why discussion what has caused this change to try and find out and put him off Horrible feeling you see two people shouting at each other two people shouting at each other get the impression that the other party is actually doing an impression of a goldfish and going like that . |
| 20 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 21 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 22 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 23 | Strain the cooking juices into a saucepan and simmer for 2 minutes . |
| 24 | He asked me to take a seat and listen to some music he would put on . |
| 25 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
| 26 | Let us recognise that there is a figure and settle for that . |
| 27 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 28 | One of the partners in the scheme was Robert Southey , at that time a poet and rebel against established ideas like Coleridge himself ; married couples were needed for the venture , which of course fell through , leaving Coleridge rather unsuitably married to Southey 's sister-in-law . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the obvious undesirability of verbal agreements for the sale or purchase of land , no transfer of land can be validly achieved in France other than by an acte de vente , which is a notarial document prepared by a Notary and signed by all parties or their Attorneys before him … |
| 30 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |