Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aw for gawd 's sake give that bloody tongue of yours a rest will yer ? ’ |
| 2 | A s8 order may regulate the child 's residence , contact with any named individual and any other matters which a parent would normally decide ( see 8(d) below ) . |
| 3 | In addition , the local authority has the power to determine the extent to which a parent may exercise his or her parental responsibility but may only exercise this power where necessary to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s33(3) ( b ) ( 4 ) ) . |
| 4 | Other rights , duties , powers and responsibilities which a parent may have in relation to the child and his property under other legislation are also preserved while a care order is in force ( s33(9) ) . |
| 5 | So information obtained in the pursuit of welfare , with which a parent may wish to co-operate , may be used in the context of justice , where a parent may wish to dispute the facts and their interpretation . |
| 6 | Even so , it demonstrates the way in which a response can be recorded and how with further probing and more extensive elicitation less obvious aspects might be investigated . |
| 7 | … ( 6 ) Schedule 12 to this Act has effect for the purposes of this section and , in that Schedule — ( a ) Part I prescribes the matters for which provision must be made by a scheme if it is to be a scheme which qualifies for recognition for the purposes of this section ; ( b ) Part II prescribes the matters action in relation to any of which must be subject to investigation under a scheme if it is to qualify for recognition for the purpose of investigations in relation to that matter ; and ( c ) Part III contains other requirements to which a scheme must conform if it is to be so recognised . |
| 8 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 9 | Behavioural and sound signals seem to be used to communicate sexual interest , and among the toothed whales , with their great acoustic sensitivity , receptivity to sex may be communicated by something which a dolphin can ‘ see' ’ or ‘ ‘ hear' ’ with its sonar . |
| 10 | The remaining features of context which Hymes discusses ( in 1964 ) include large-scale features like channel ( how is contact between the participants in the event being maintained — by speech , writing , signing , smoke signals ) , code ( what language , or dialect , or style of language is being used ) , message-form ( what form is intended — chat , debate , sermon , fairy-tale , sonnet , love-letter , etc. ) and event ( the nature of the communicative event within which a genre may be embedded — thus a sermon or prayer may be part of the larger event , a church service ) . |
| 11 | The USA had taken the dissenting and somewhat paradoxical view that it would not be proper to prohibit the use in war of a gas which a state might ask its police to use against its own people . |
| 12 | Any one , or a combination of these , may be chosen as the basis for choosing the work-places from which a sample can be selected . |
| 13 | For any given orbit , there is only one speed at which a satellite can travel and remain in that orbit . |
| 14 | It is made of ½-inch oak , unlined and with simple iron ring handles , those at the angle of the shoulders being sufficiently high up to fit over a pierced hasp protruding from the lid through which a padlock might be fitted , thereby rendering the contents safe from body-snatchers . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , it is not clear how to characterise those contexts , like the following , in which a hyponym can be more normal than one of its superordinates : |
| 16 | She entered a cocoon from which a butterfly would emerge on the wedding night . |
| 17 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 18 | There must exist proven facts from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace . |
| 19 | There seemed to be no dark corners left , no little cupboards and half-hidden shelves through which a boy could hunt for evidence of his lost mother . |
| 20 | It is a means by which a relationship may be maintained with objects which are at the same time always potentially alienable . |
| 21 | In contrast , trust is like the precious soil in which a relationship can grow and put down secure roots . |
| 22 | And the sort of reason which a trader might give ( ‘ We assign numerical values to all the factors given in application forms , on the basis of past experience of credit-worthiness , and in your case these values fell below the limit we require for credit applicants . |
| 23 | I am , I fear , betraying the confidence which a banker ought to respect for his customers , but I have thought deeply about it and decided that I must . |
| 24 | There are several different approaches which a government may adopt when deciding on its merger policy . |
| 25 | The only possible way in which a government might try to use its ability to affect aggregate demand , in order to influence the level of aggregate output , would be to introduce random movements in its policies and hence random movements in aggregate demand which , as we have shown above , would produce deviations of aggregate output away from its natural level . |
| 26 | In fact , if one understands government growth to refer to the increase in the degree to which government affects the nature of the society in which it operates , it is possible to derive a variety of measures according to the different ways in which a government can influence its environment . |
| 27 | The Select Committee on the Obscene Publications Act had stressed the importance of considering the " dominant effect " of the whole work : The contrary view , under which a work could be judged obscene by reference to isolated passages without considering the total effect , would , if taken to its logical conclusion , deprive the reading public of the works of Shakespeare , Chaucer , Fielding and Smollett , except in expurgated editions . |
| 28 | They agreed to meet for three or four sessions , after which a session would be held with her parents in order to assess progress and to help Pamela further improve her communication with them . |
| 29 | Indeed we no longer employ the word with full assurance , or are confident of what we mean by philosophical ‘ materialism ’ , now that we are forbidden to think of atoms as little balls out of which a universe could be constructed ; twentieth century physics has less substantial entities which would slip through one 's fingers . |
| 30 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |