Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , the value of such a provision would depend upon the availability of distributable reserves following the breach . |
| 2 | Less easy for ( and possibly of less interest to ) preclinical staff is dealing with a case study for the new pathway ; such a case might start with the pharmacology of tetracyclines , pass through their therapeutic use in general , and end on a debate about whether oxytetracycline should be used as prophylaxis for traveller 's diarrhoea in Mexico . |
| 3 | Any applicant who is aggrieved either by a refusal or a condition on a permission can appeal to the Secretary of State who , in effect , considers the whole application afresh . |
| 4 | In public debate , who pays what is invariably presented in marginal tax terms — that is , what a taxpayer will pay on an additional pound in income . |
| 5 | Keynes maintained that such a reduction would lead to a more or less equiproportionate reduction in the general level of prices . |
| 6 | His opinion was that such a reduction would act as a stimulus to further development work , and recommended its immediate implementation . |
| 7 | Every few minutes a shell would swish over the rooftops to explode with a roar in the docks ; and more Syrian troops — nearer to the explosions and silhouetted against the sea — could be seen running beside the harbour wall . |
| 8 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 9 | Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment . |
| 10 | Although this is contemplated by the European Court of Justice in the San Giorgio case , it is evident from Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 that the point is not without its difficulties ; and the availability of such a defence may depend upon the nature of the tax or other levy . |
| 11 | A PC can work as an X terminal on a network or connected to a minicomputer host , without sacrificing access to DOS programs . |
| 12 | The success and profitability of a contract will depend on the ability of a contractor to manage and control time , cost and quality effectively . |
| 13 | Unless the centre or SCOTVEC identifies a need for an earlier date , a contract will operate for a fixed period , after which a further Quality Audit will take place . |
| 14 | A technique used to test for the autonomy of cell development is to see what happens to cells if their neighbours are killed-off by a fine laser beam . |
| 15 | Moreover , a parliament will benefit from a thriving political culture and critical scrutiny and debate in the media and , conversely , suffer from public apathy . |
| 16 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 17 | A salesman can go to a customer , write in an order and download it to his company 's main computer at the end of the day . |
| 18 | A difficulty may occur in the interpretation of metabolite concentrations and pain response . |
| 19 | He was appalled that such a story should appear in a newspaper , and the council , he said , would meet to determine what should be done about it . |
| 20 | Certainly the number of offspring that a male may sire as a result of reciprocating coalitions will be greater than if he did not participate , while his lifespan is probably only slightly affected by such activity . |
| 21 | Similarly , a male may crouch like a female and perform pseudo-female behaviour , being mounted by another tom . |
| 22 | It also lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module . |
| 23 | The following lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module : |
| 24 | Prior to COGSA unseaworthiness was determinative of liability ; after COGSA a carrier could rely on the Harter Act derived exemptions for errors in navigation or management , even though the vessel was unseaworthy as long as the unseaworthiness was not the cause of the loss . |
| 25 | Quantum mechanics puts me in the position of a canny bookmaker who can calculate the odds that a horse may win in the course of the season but not in the position of Our Newmarket Correspondent who claims to be able to forecast the outcome of a particular race . |
| 26 | It is obvious that a horse will run from a stick , spurs or fear of the rider , but it is hard to accept that he will try to pull on the bit if that very action increases the pain . |
| 27 | Sometimes a term can start as a condition , become a warranty and then revert to a condition . |
| 28 | Sexism is a term used to refer to a whole range of justifications which supposedly make acceptable the inequalities in income , in job statuses , in promotion chances and in access to power , for example , from which women suffer . |
| 29 | External pressure for change is seen as mediated through the ‘ micro-politics ’ of school life , a term used to refer to the conflicts and struggles between various interest groups within schools . |
| 30 | The new rules reduce the amount of ACT a non-taxpayer can reclaim from the Inland Revenue from 25 to 20 per cent , beginning with dividends paid after 6 April . |