Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] or a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The products are good enough to need little in the way of revamping and apart from the odd addition to the range or a change of packaging little of any interest happens to the product . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure if I 'm meant to send a sharp note of warning to the Princess or a letter of sympathy to her step-mother . |
| 3 | Bandsaw out the seat leaving a couple of ‘ ears ’ to screw it to the floor or a baseboard . |
| 4 | And few of the people who hit the glass ceiling are inclined to go through the additional pain of a complaint to the government or a court case . |
| 5 | But , second , it was held that different principles applied in cases where the Crown brought a law enforcement action , in which an injunction was sought to restrain a subject from breaking a law where the breach would be harmful to the public or a section of it . |
| 6 | This contrasts with the racial hatred offence , where the distribution must be to the public or a section of the public . |
| 7 | ‘ References in this Part to the publication or distribution of written material are to its publication or distribution to the public or a section of the public . ’ |
| 8 | ( 2 ) In this Part , ‘ recording ’ means any record from which visual images or sounds may , by any means , be reproduced ; and references to the distribution , showing or playing of a recording are to its distribution , showing or playing to the public or a section of the public . ’ |
| 9 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 10 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
| 11 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 12 | At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home . |
| 13 | A decision by a court to refuse costs , in whole or in part , to a mortgage litigant may be a decision in the exercise of the section 51 discretion or a decision in the exercise of the power to fix the terms on which redemption will be allowed or a decision as to the extent of a mortgagee 's contractual right to add his costs to the security or a combination of two or more of these things . |
| 14 | Irrespective of whether an agreement or arrangement has been notified to the Commission or a complaint made , it is open to the Commission to launch its own investigation in relation to any agreement , practice or other activity which it may suspect infringes the competition rules . |
| 15 | If any cash is transferred from the office to the bank or a cheque is cashed for office use a contra entry is made , which means an entry is made on the debit and credit side of the cash book showing the transfer and c is written in the folio column . |
| 16 | This right he can enforce not only by action , but also by a form of self-help known as distress , the seizure of any goods , whether belonging to the tenant or a stranger , which may be found on the premises . |
| 17 | Subsection ( 2 ) of that section says that ‘ equity security ’ means ‘ a relevant share ’ in the company ( other than one taken by a subscriber to the memorandum or a bonus share ) or the right to subscribe for or convert into ‘ relevant shares ’ in the company . |
| 18 | You may have forgotten to add a LIFESPAN header to the file or a package may reference one of the files contained in a foreign set rather than the foreign module header itself . |
| 19 | Only a tiny percentage of students I have ever met have been to a seminar or a lecture . |
| 20 | In England any road leading to a port or a market was a royal road , and this indicates that royal interest was not confined to providing roads for the movement and provision of royal armies , but was concerned with trade and markets . |
| 21 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 22 | LADY DAVERS:Where can the difference be between a beggar 's son married to a lady or a beggar 's daughter made a gentleman 's wife ? |
| 23 | The fact that the dead wood has been shaped for use as a building material is of no consequence to a fungus or a beetle . |
| 24 | It is not always as simple as following the chain back until we come to a name or a noun . |
| 25 | Here the example might be a UK bank lending sterling to a person or a company living or located in the US . |
| 26 | Most of the various pattern practice drills force the learner to make a grammatical or semantic choice in response to a question or a call word . |
| 27 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 28 | There are also in many languages forms reserved for authorized recipients , including restrictions on most titles of address ( Your Honour , Mr President , etc. ) ; in Tunica there were pronouns that differed not only with sex of referent , but also with the sex of the addressee , so that there were , for example , two words for " they " , depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman ( Haas , ibid . ) . |
| 29 | After that you need to type it either on to a computer or a typewriter and provide a free translation to go with it . |
| 30 | Whether she was talking to a pauper or a peer of the realm her interest in the other person was genuine . |