Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were nearly always fly-front affairs ( occasionally black or non-fly ) & a uniform developed around it : navy Crombie with red pre-folded ( & stitched onto cardboard ) pocket-square stick-pinned in ; black & white check B. Sherman , open necked ; Levi 's Sta-Prest ( probably black or white ) ; red socks , black shoes . |
| 2 | In d'Abreu ( Arthur ) v IRC [ 1978 ] STC 538 , it was held that where a parent released and assigned a right to income , which she had under a trust , for the benefit of her children , there was a sufficient disposition to come within s663 . |
| 3 | Accordingly he disappeared into the upward-travelling lift , while she waited for one to take her down a floor where a corridor linked this building to the next one , in which the twenty-four-hour blood bank was located . |
| 4 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 5 | Then there was Foul Syke , where a man called Lance Sowerby lived . |
| 6 | The two of them looked towards the little wooden table outside the sick bay , where a bottle labelled ‘ Dr MacLaren 's Stomach and Bowel Mixture ’ stood , together with a large spoon . |
| 7 | Our destination was constituency 54 , Teland Usan , the remote rainforest home of Kayan and Penan peoples , where a Kayan called Harrison Ngau was campaigning in the Sarawak state elections on a controversial anti-logging ticket . |
| 8 | First , that where a matter paid and accepted in satisfaction of a debt certain might by any possibility be more beneficial to the creditor than his debt , the court will not inquire into the adequacy of the consideration . |
| 9 | In Racal the House of Lords held that where a statute provided that the decision of a High Court judge should ‘ not be appealable ’ , it could not be reviewed or appealed from . |
| 10 | It might , therefore , be open to a court to find liability where a defendant committed a statutory offence as the vehicle for the deliberate infliction of harm upon the plaintiff . |
| 11 | The car drove in through the dusty , bleached stone gates to the stone courtyard where a fountain played and cicadas buzzed noisily in the palms and jacarandas moved softly in the hot sea air . |
| 12 | Where a cash underwritten alternative has been offered , but closed early to save underwriting costs , the offeror will , in order to take advantage of the compulsory sale procedure , need to find the cash itself in order to pay minority shareholders ( see paras 13.4.3 and 13.3.5 below ) . |
| 13 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 14 | If this definition is applied when reviewing surveillance studies the result is that cancers found earlier than eight years from onset or found in left sided colitis or a cancer found at colonoscopy performed for any reason other than surveillance ( such as rectal bleeding ) , can not be regarded as a success . |
| 15 | This can be an estimate or a calculation based on the actual workload of the Offline System , displayed by option 9.8.0 . |
| 16 | The figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit ; it is used to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds . |
| 17 | This figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit . |
| 18 | Children under one must be in an approved infant carrier designed for the baby 's size and weight , or a carrycot restrained by straps . |
| 19 | Besides , works can gain by the company they keep in a museum collection , a landscape being in a group of works of similar date and intentions , or a portrait seen among contemporaries . |
| 20 | What he produced was a gen-u-ine statement of skin ; a document to be placed alongside other such documents , delivered with the same How's-your-father flourish as a graffiti slogan on a council estate wall or a boot planted through an Asian 's shop window or a gallon of petrol poured through the letterbox of a Bengali family 's home . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) The period of 48 hours referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above shall not include a day which is a Sunday , Christmas Day , New Year 's Day , Good Friday , a bank holiday , or a public holiday , or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning . |
| 22 | What is the monetary value of a Saxon church or a life saved from a preventable road accident ? |
| 23 | In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing . |
| 24 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 25 | An option is , typically , a contract , a deed or a provision made by a testator in his will by which one party grants to the other the right to buy property , from him or his estate , at a future date . |
| 26 | However , " on-exchange " is ; it means a transaction on , or subject to the rules of , a recognised investment exchange ( RIE ) or a designated investment exchange ( DIE ) , or a transaction matched and identified as matched with such an exchange transaction ( unless prohibited by the exchange ) . |
| 27 | ‘ foreign lawyer ’ means a person who is not a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales or a barrister called to the English Bar but who is a member , and entitled to practise as such , of a legal profession regulated within a jurisdiction outside England and Wales ; |
| 28 | They preached the lessons of moderation , cleanliness , simplicity , self-denial and humility with an admirable thoroughness , low-church to the core ; not an angel or a lily disfigured their pages . |
| 29 | In days when martial valour was appraised , They loved a duel or a standard raised ; But now Hypocrisy and Humane Cant Transform the honest soldier 's blows to rant . |
| 30 | The occasional cry of laughter , or a voice raised in anger , seemed shocking , like a violation . |