Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal held that the expression " transfer of assets " in TA 1988 , s670 covered such a case and thus the income derived from the assets so transferred was taxed upon the settlor . |
| 2 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 3 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 4 | They first had found a foot and then the body of a man , but he was dead . |
| 5 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 6 | It is extraordinary that only last week the Leader of the Opposition confirmed that the Labour party is still wedded to bodies such as the national enterprise board , despite the fact that , of the 102 companies in which that body invested , about 35 went bust , 38 were sold at a loss and only the remainder managed even to return taxpayers ' money . |
| 7 | If Mr. Tully has good grounds for exercising the privilege against self-incrimination , then his refusal to comply with the orders for disclosure and discovery made by Buckley J. may have the effect of assisting Mr. Tully to escape prosecution and punishment for a crime and also the effect of assisting Mr. Tully and others to keep money which belongs to Abbey . |
| 8 | He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep . |
| 9 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've no reason to worry , I 'm not a child and anyway the fare is dear enough for one of us , let alone two . |
| 11 | In 1794 she published her Collection of Poems and Fables , by which time she had suffered a number of domestic calamities , including the death of a child and apparently the imprisonment of her husband . |
| 12 | Expected inflation , can be defined as once again , this follows from the fact that p is defined as a logarithm and hence the difference between the expected logarithm of the price level in period t and the logarithm of the actual price level in period t - 1 is a measure of the expected rate of change of actual prices between the two periods . |
| 13 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 14 | For example Barthes 's account of French amateur wrestling asserts that it is not a contest but a spectacle and so the outcome ( who wins ) is not a significant point in the event . |
| 15 | This can only be done through a committee and then the information will be sent to all members of the committee . |
| 16 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 17 | Therefore , the fourth way to underline effectiveness is to slide forwards slightly on the front foot , drawing the rear foot up an equal distance if there is a danger that otherwise the stance will stretch out . |
| 18 | In this respect , s14(5) of the SGA provides : The preceding provisions of this section apply to a sale by a person who in the course of a business is acting as agent for another as they apply to a sale by a principal in the course of a business , except where that other is not selling in the course of a business and either the buyer knows that fact or reasonable steps are taken to bring it to the notice of the buyer before the contract is made . |
| 19 | The amalgamation between two companies may take the form of merger proper ( when both companies cease to exist ) and the new company becomes the general successor in title of the two companies so merged , or it may take the form of a take-over when only the company so taken over ceases to exist . |
| 20 | I sat there in the darkness for a moment and then the grill slid open . |
| 21 | We saw it for a moment and then the match went out . |
| 22 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
| 23 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 24 | It is a pledge that only the Conservative and Unionist Party can give . |
| 25 | Other materials such as blown mineral wool and blown polystyrene beads do not have this disadvantage if expertly installed , but the beads can be a nuisance if ever the wall needs to be pierced . |
| 26 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 27 | erm from yesterday er I think meself personally I 'm very methodical sort of person and I felt what was most important the revelations meself was thought patterns and the use of most structured structured in a presentation and also the importance I could n't believe how that using them made such a difference actually to yourself when you 're standing there and the audience participation erm thought patterns well I 've always used that was just a revelation I mean I 've never |
| 28 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 29 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Canada , the court ruled that the man concerned was not in the business of being a thief and so the cash he had stolen was not ‘ income ’ for the purposes of the law . |
| 30 | After a minute or so the plastic card split where it bent , and Forester had to pull it out carefully . |