Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of a personnel file , the list is likely to be sorted into an order that depends on some major key — in this case , usually alphabetic order or personnel number . |
| 2 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 3 | There are also adjustable tins which enlarge or reduce in size or , as in the case of a numerals tin , can be altered by moving around squares to create different numbers . |
| 4 | Once the offer period has commenced , dealings by the offeror or the target ( or any of their associates ) in the target 's securities and ( in the case of a securities exchange offer only ) the offeror 's securities must generally be disclosed by 12 noon on the business day following the dealing ; details of the prices paid for the securities must also be disclosed ( Rule 8 ) . |
| 5 | Similarly , under Rule 37.4 , if the offeror buys-in or redeems its own shares , this has to be disclosed as a dealing under Rule 8 and in the offer document in the case of a securities exchange offer . |
| 6 | A careful balance of commercial and passenger vehicles resulted in the choice of a bakers van , butchers cart and fire engine representing commerce and public service , with a brougham , hansom cab and pony phaeton all for passenger service . |
| 7 | Surely Co Armagh 's quarter final victory over favourites Slovakia warranted more than two lines in the middle of a Rangers match report . |
| 8 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 9 | Therefore the new information contained in the price of a futures contract , over and above that contained in the current spot price , is the value of the cash flows from owning the index between now and time T ( Carlton , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Easter Day 1945 found him in the darkness of a cattle truck in a German railway tunnel ; there was a true resurrection moment when prisoners were allowed out in to the sunshine and flowers of the railway cutting . |
| 11 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
| 12 | There is nothing new in the idea of a parents charter . |
| 13 | The Indian kids would n't matter , but the Yuppie type might get half an hour in the back of a police car checking the pavements and the pub car parks for some sign of his attacker . |
| 14 | But the element caused difficulties in Lewis v. Cox A friend of the defendant was arrested and placed in the back of a police van . |
| 15 | There would again be an increase in the ability of a elements to overshadow c elements , but in addition the reduction of the number of c elements activated by A would mean that relatively few of them would be capable of acquiring associative strength in the first place . |
| 16 | Place your other arm on the floor for support and lift your leg up in the air in a scissors action . |
| 17 | All patrol units must have a buddy patrol notified and present in the event of a police matter . |
| 18 | A local publican in Rathmullan said he had been told that the vodka had been contaminated by poisonous substances in the water from a plastics factory situated near the Russian manufacturing distillery . |
| 19 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio who can spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |
| 20 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio , able to spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |
| 21 | Such beliefs are very difficult to change , but once changed , may have a massive knock-on effect in the rest of an individuals framework of reference . |
| 22 | In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’ |
| 23 | But with a third crew , in the shape of a freshmen 's eight , participating for the first time , the race was restarted and the freshmen were beaten by the surviving senior eight by just over two lengths from Putney to Mortlake . |
| 24 | Attention has quite justifiably been drawn to the fact that we have not had anything in the way of a Teachers ' Forum for some years . |
| 25 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 26 | Things have gone er , better for women they have , in the restoration of a women publishers and there were n't any in last century , you know i er things go they seem to swing backwards and forwards all the time . |
| 27 | Thus in the film industry it is inefficient to aim to equate private marginal cost and private marginal benefit , the efficient outcome in the absence of a meals tax . |
| 28 | Hence the monopolist will produce exactly the same output as in the absence of a profits tax and , facing the same demand curve , will charge the same price as before . |
| 29 | Even after the abuses of the Star Chamber had been curbed the magistrates , who in the absence of a police force had some of the functions of a modern juge d'instruction , had power to interrogate the accused before trial . |
| 30 | Even after the abuses of the Star Chamber had been curbed the magistrates , who in the absence of a police force had some of the functions of a modern juge d'instruction , had power to interrogate the accused before trial . ’ |