Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A function converting a real number to the lower integer . |
| 2 | ( But see Murphy v Culhane [ 1977 ] QB 94 for a case involving a criminal affray where the plaintiff got more than he bargained for and it was stated that the defence could apply . ) |
| 3 | Ex parte Handscomb was a case involving a discretionary life sentence , and on 23 July 1987 the Secretary of State made a further policy statement explaining some modifications to the procedure . |
| 4 | Similarly in a case involving a French corporation , an order for depositions and document production at the offices of New York attorneys was not regarded as in conflict with the Convention ; all that was to happen on French soil was ‘ certain acts preparatory to the giving of evidence ’ , the selection of appropriate employees to travel to New York and of relevant documents to be disclosed in New York . |
| 5 | So , for example , natural justice was excluded in licensing decisions ( Nakkuda Ali v. Jayaratne ( P.C. , 1951 ) ) as a licence was a privilege and not a right , and in the case of a board exercising a disciplinary function ( ex p . |
| 6 | The same principles need to extend throughout community care , so that the medical approach to disability becomes just one part of a response involving a whole range of agencies , professions and interests . |
| 7 | It is quiet , pleasant , unexciting , but there is a good walk near the end of it where , from the farm of Inverchoran , a path goes up a side glen to reach a ridge giving a splendid view across the desolate Glen Orrin to Sgurr Fhuar-thuill and companion heights of Glen Farrar . |
| 8 | Hawk had sent him a parcel containing a bisected apple : red outside , white inside . |
| 9 | It was designed for use with a computer having a spare ROM ( or RAM ) location and for which read/write control is performed by a single line producing a write pulse . |
| 10 | Brian Pendreigh explores the many arguments which lay the blame on television and films , and Audrey Gillan reports on a computer playing a vital part in the search for the Merseyside murderer |
| 11 | This will normally be wider and higher than the range associated with the valuation since the likelihood of a buyer seeking a subsequent price reduction during the negotiating process will need to be anticipated . |
| 12 | A MAN who tried to grab a briefcase containing a substantial sum of cash from a man in North Ormesby market-place , Middlesbrough , is being hunted by police . |
| 13 | The Office of Fair Trading already looked into this in 1982 and offered a judgement giving a guarded acceptance of the closed shop . |
| 14 | A kindly looking lady doctor arrived , followed by a porter towing a saline drip apparatus . |
| 15 | Nor was Wilkins a layman championing a secular cause . |
| 16 | Our belief is that if there is any change it is likely to be a change requiring a certain proportion of the grant to be spent in the domiciliary day care area rather than the residential area to enforce this wish of developing those sort of services . |
| 17 | By this close reading Gurr could claim that ‘ the phrase ‘ your image ’ in 59 becomes ‘ thy image ’ ’ in 61 , in a change marking a distinct chill in the relationship' . |
| 18 | The program could then corporate a rule which prevented a move into a cell containing a non-zero code . |
| 19 | The distinction between a statute creating a public right and a statute prohibiting what had previously been lawful is not a satisfactory one as it does not appear to be based on any particular principle . |
| 20 | A statute empowering a public body to dispense with a hearing will , for example , be interpreted to allow oral hearings to be omitted ; courts will lean against allowing a tribunal to decide a matter without giving the individual a chance to see the opposing case and have his own considered . |
| 21 | According to folklore if a traveller on horseback leaves a horse needing a new shoe together with a coin , the horse will have been shod when they return to the spot . |
| 22 | We lunched in a cafe overlooking a five-tiered pagoda temple , tall and slender like a square bullet . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , choose a seat facing a blank wall , rather than one facing a pinboard with pictures , recipes , messages and other seductive images . |
| 24 | A figure carrying a hooded lantern moved among the barrels , laying the powder train that on the morrow , once it was fired , would send king , princes , bishops , judges , lords and commons to their reckoning in one gigantic blast intended to ‘ have ruined the whole estate and kingdom of England . |
| 25 | This regular pattern only continues for a short time , and after about eight hours , the embryo is a blastula comprising a hollow ball of about 1000 cells . |
| 26 | Erm , it 's only a trapper taking a short cut . |
| 27 | But no Gytrash appeared she says , just a trapper taking a short cut . |
| 28 | At present I 'm still working like a pianist controlling a small group and that means I constantly have to keep my mind on what 's holding the song together as I play . |
| 29 | The Chinese and the Japanese call China ‘ the middle country ’ , a term denoting a long-standing view that China was the centre of the civilized world . |
| 30 | He made the most fundamental error possible in tournament golf , signing a card containing a wrong score . |