Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Southwood , phytophagy arose from both saprophagy , the consumption of decaying or at least dying plants , and from feeding on fallen propagules including spores and pollen grains , which led to living on the strobili themselves , a route followed by the extinct insect orders , Dictyoneurida and Diaphanopterida . |
| 2 | The reason is quite simple : it is not a route to do on a single rope . |
| 3 | Glamis Castle is most famous for its association with Macbeth , and Shakespeare 's hero is said to still bemoan the murder of King Duncan , appearing to walk on the roof , taking a route known as The Mad Earl 's Walk . |
| 4 | Furthermore , a payment made on the same basis as that in the case of Adams v G K N Sankey Ltd mentioned in Chapter 16 would probably also fall within the second category . |
| 5 | A payment made by a third party to a company 's employee , but taxable under Sch E as arising from his employment , was subject to deduction of income tax at source under the PAYE Regulations , according to the High Court in Booth v Mirror Group Newspapers plc [ 1992 ] STI 662 . |
| 6 | As their search became more frantic they found themselves aided by Bismarck , who in February 1869 gave his support to a Prince belonging to the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 7 | They drove down to Causeway Bay where his junk was waiting , and were taken out to it in a sampan owned by an ancient Chinese in a lampshade hat . |
| 8 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
| 9 | This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Anything done … or having effect as done , under a provision reproduced in the consolidating Acts has effect as if done under the corresponding provision of the consolidating Acts . |
| 11 | One such arose from a technicality associated with the Copernican system . |
| 12 | Judging a shoe merely on technical specifications or on a trial fitting in a retail shop is never totally satisfactory . |
| 13 | The pilot study is a trial run on a small number of ‘ guinea pigs ’ who should be as like the true respondents as possible in age , intelligence , social class , etc . |
| 14 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 15 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 16 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 17 | A UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( Minurso ) would then have support from 2,900 civilian , police and military personnel in overseeing the registration of voters ( based on a census compiled by the Spanish authorities in 1974 ) , the political campaigns , and voting in a referendum , to be held by January 1992 . |
| 18 | In R v Birmingham Juvenile Court , ex pG [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 726 , a case decided under the old law , it was held that a local authority should always consult the guardian ad litem before applying for leave to withdraw an application . |
| 19 | In R v Plymouth Juvenile Court , ex pF and F [ 1987 ] 1 FLR 169 , a case decided under the old law , the court recognised that a solicitor would find it difficult to carry out the necessary close investigation of the facts without the aid of a guardian ad litem . |
| 20 | In R v Sunderland JC , ex pG [ 1988 ] 2 FLR 40 , a case decided under the old law , the Court of Appeal held that the guardian ad litem 's report should not be disclosed to an independent social worker instructed by a parent unless it could be shown that the evidence of the independent social worker would assist the court . |
| 21 | If the child has already been removed from home under an emergency protection order it may be construed to refer to the period immediately before the emergency order was sought ( see D ( a Minor ) v Berkshire County Council [ 1987 ] 1 All ER 120 , a case decided under the old law on a similar point of interpretation ) . |
| 22 | In R v Manchester Justices , ex pBannister [ 1983 ] 4 FLR 1977 , a case decided under the old law where residence had to be " habitual " rather than ordinary , the court held that a child resides where it eats , drinks and sleeps . |
| 23 | The Marshall case also serves to show how a case decided in the European Court may become a force to bring about change in national law within member states . |
| 24 | The agreement , reached after two years of negotiations , was made possible after the European Court of Justice ( the EC 's judicial body ) had changed a previous position and ruled--in a case brought by a Belgian village seeking to stop the dumping of Dutch waste-that waste was not a " commercial good " and could therefore by implication be exempted from the principle of free movement of goods enshrined in the European single market due to be introduced in 1993 . |
| 25 | He said the Commission had rejected a case brought by the late Upper Bann MP , Harold McCusker , and Edith Elliott , regarding the IRA 's murder of her husband , George , at Ballybay , Co Monaghan . |
| 26 | In judgment of a case brought by the European Commission against Greece the European Court of Justice on Sept. 24 , 1989 , had ordered the Greek government to pay court costs and a fine of 620,000,000 drachmas ( representing the EC 's lost revenue plus interest ) . |
| 27 | The Supreme Court is soon to deliver a verdict in a case brought by the Independent Insurance Agents of America . |
| 28 | Tiring of the distant ceremonies and speeches and festivities , so at odds with the gangrenous suffering inside the city — climax to so much other death on Stalinvast — Jaq opened a case keyed to the electronic tattoo on his palm and removed a small package of flayed , cured mutant skin . |
| 29 | He also seems to have donated his belt and hose , as a twelfth-century account of their treasures lists a girdle made from the one and an alb decorated with gold thread from the other . |
| 30 | He 's a bit worried about the Old Man . ’ |