Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All expertise in a particular technique or on a certain topic can be gathered together in one place , and the level of collective knowledge can then be ascertained , supported and made available . |
| 2 | For ease of access and feeding , it may be more convenient to store in a building or under a lean-to roof . |
| 3 | There are also management implications if there is more than one tenant in a building or on a floor . |
| 4 | Joint honours in Agriculture , Forestry and Rural Economy can be taken as a degree in Agriculture or as a degree in Ecological Science . |
| 5 | an aerial socket and an audio/video socket for a video recorder , camcorder or for a satellite link |
| 6 | A limited amount of post-production editing can , however , be carried out on the original recording , either on the camcorder or on a second VCR depending on the facilities available . |
| 7 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 8 | Sometimes pleasant mental images will be suggested — perhaps a walk in a country lane or along a seashore . |
| 9 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |
| 10 | Whether the nurse gains clinical experience in the ward as an apprentice or as a student-observer , the main aim is still to provide the best nursing care possible for the patient . |
| 11 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 12 | In these circumstances , we can not guarantee that private management will be efficient unless it is subject to effective competition and challenge , either from other competitors in the market-place or from a tough and watchful regulatory body . |
| 13 | In upholding Peck 's committal order , Judge White said Mancroft was not protected from arrest under Parliamentary privilege or as a peer of the realm in a situation where the courts were exercising their punitive disciplinary powers . |
| 14 | Application can be made to the local planning authority ( either as part of an application for planning permission or as a separate application ) for a ‘ determination ’ as to whether a proposed operation constitutes development and , if so , as to whether planning permission is required . |
| 15 | At the moment , a SuperSparc comes stand-alone or in a system-ready Mbus module consisting of a single Viking on a standard Mbus plug-in board or with a Multi-cache Module Controller and 1Mb of expansion cache memory which can operate in the Xbus mode for large-scale multiprocessing . |
| 16 | Special provisions have been made for death-bed marriages , marriages at home for the housebound , marriages in prisons , hospitals and places of residential care for disabled people , and for the celebration of the marriages of members of the naval , military , and air forces and their daughters in chapels licensed by the Admiralty Board or by a Secretary of State . |
| 17 | Specific topics addressed will include the attitudes of staff towards complaints and complainants , the degree of consistency in their responses , and the extent to which departments ‘ learn ’ from complaints for example , by reviewing policy or practice after an individual case or as a result of recognising patterns . |
| 18 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 19 | The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter . |
| 20 | 1.30 In a serious personal injury case or in a fatal case the initial calculations of loss of earnings or dependency may be made very soon after the accident , based on wage rates provided by the employers at that time . |
| 21 | It will be stowed either in the carrying case or within a plastic container . |
| 22 | In a case where liability is not disputed or is resolved during the course of the case , either by an admission or on a summons for judgment , try and obtain some costs from the defendant . |
| 23 | The LFS distinguishes between temporary workers who describe themselves as having " seasonal , temporary or casual jobs " and those with " jobs done under contract or for a fixed period of time " . |
| 24 | The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract . |
| 25 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding this provision , it is often of some reassurance to a purchaser from the husband if the wife is joined as a party to the contract or to a separate consent to sale form ; this confirms that she knows that vacant possession is to be given and the land charge is to be cancelled and can contain a specific release by the wife of her rights in the property as from the date of sale . |
| 27 | The promise to waive may be embodied in an express contract or in a contract implied by the conduct of the parties . |
| 28 | Mr. Tecks submitted that the European Court of Justice authorities , cited below , show that the crucial words refer to obligations which have their basis in contract or in a closely similar nexus such as that existing between an association and its members , so that the matters in question must be contractual or closely akin to contractual . |
| 29 | If you live in a bungalow or in a mobile home , you should fix an alarm in a corridor between the living and sleeping areas . |
| 30 | It is no help to the sufferer or to a solution of the mind-body problem to propose that mind and body are engaged in battle from which the mind should always emerge as victorious . |