Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shareholders enjoy an additional layer of protection with regard to gratuitous payments , in that in order to show that a payment is authorised by the company 's memorandum it will usually be necessary to establish that it is reasonably incidental to the company 's business purposes , in essence , that it is for the company 's benefit , which is an objective question . |
| 2 | Out of the West : A prince is found in the quartet of ex-presidents |
| 3 | A kitchen is positioned at the opposite end of the dining saloon . |
| 4 | A case is cited by the Rev. John Warton in his Death-bed Scenes and Pastoral Conversations . |
| 5 | He published a paper by ex-sapper Kenneth Koop , in which a case is made for the alignments being the remains of an early survey of Britain . |
| 6 | When a case is transferred to the county court from the magistrates ' court , the county court must immediately consider whether further transfer to the High Court would be appropriate ( FPR , r4.6(4) ) . |
| 7 | The length of coverage is taken to be the number of days that a case is mentioned during the search stage . |
| 8 | So every time a bit is put in the horse 's mouth it can trigger the fear of being hurt . |
| 9 | A MUM is appealing for the return of a much-loved pet . |
| 10 | Such a direction is made by the planning authority but has to be confirmed by the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | Input is coded and a decision is made about the possible characters it represents ( Frishkopf and Harmon , 1961 ; Munson , 1968 ; Tappert , 1982 ; Wright , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Our director 's secretary Campbel Ogilvie is over for the draw and he will stay until a decision is made on the situation . ’ |
| 13 | The dry store at Torness , on which a decision is awaited from the Secretary of State for Scotland , should also help reduce costs . |
| 14 | The timetable proposal is currently under investigation by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and a decision is expected before the end of 1989 . |
| 15 | A decision is expected by the end of the year . |
| 16 | A decision is expected in the next fortnight . |
| 17 | The standard of a course is reflected in the pace and the treatment of the material , which makes it appropriate for graduates , but other managers of equivalent ability but who are not graduates are also eligible for selection . |
| 18 | For him , the sense of a sentence is determined by the sorts of situation we count in favour of the sentence being true , in such a way that the sentence with that sense ( i.e. as we understand it ) can not be false if the sort of situation we count as making it true occurs . |
| 19 | This is the author 's own statement of intent in the Introduction : Ryan sees the essence of fictionality as an act of " recentering " , whereby the world of reference of a text is shifted from the actual world to an alternative possible world , which functions as the actual world of the universe projected by the text ( Chapter 1 ) . |
| 20 | This provision shall not be taken as prejudicing a finding to the effect that a person 's occupation of any land is by implied permission of the person entitled to the land in any case where such a finding is justified on the actual facts of the case … |
| 21 | In this case it was held that when a lease is made with a Minister in his or her capacity as such , it is made with the Crown ; and that a building is occupied by the Crown even if it is occupied by civil servants from a department other than that of the Minister named as lessee in the lease . |
| 22 | On a drum-scanning system the map to be digitized is laid on a rotating drum and a sensor is passed across the map ; one pass of the sensor generates one line of the raster . |
| 23 | In [ 12 ] , the adverbial with a click is placed before the rest of the sentence , perversely making us aware of the " click " before the " shutting " which caused it ( see 7.7.1 ) . |
| 24 | If a correction is made for the amount of ammonium cations ( |
| 25 | To allow for the mass present in a mountain range above the reference surface the theoretical pull of the rock , based on an assumed average rock density , is subtracted from the free-air anomaly ( or a correction is made for the presence of sea water if the point is over the ocean ) . |
| 26 | Our experience of a drug is shaped by the interplay of three factors — the pharmacology of the drug , the mind-set of the user , and the setting in which the drug is used . |
| 27 | If a hypothesis is falsified by the empirical evidence then it has to be changed to explain that evidence . |
| 28 | No doubt it is open to the objection that it presupposes the very point in issue , namely the law which is to be applied , but such a solution seems just as sensible in this context as the rule that the law governing the validity of a contract is determined by the law which would govern the contract if one assumed it to be valid . |
| 29 | Where a contract is made on the footing of the existence of a licence , and it appears that the licence is subject to qualifications , the contract can not be enforced : Modlen v. Snowball ( 1861 ) 4 De G.F. & J. 143 . |
| 30 | Suppose that a contract is made for the provision of a network to link individual computers together , a term in the contract stating that the network will support at least 16 microcomputers . |