Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R 2 denotes RR which is a 180° turn and R 3 denotes RRR , also written R — 1 or R ′ , denoting a 270° turn clockwise or a 90° turn anticlockwise . |
| 2 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 3 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 4 | This is possible where a target 's management are bargaining on behalf of their shareholders . |
| 5 | It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity . |
| 6 | Whether you 're a sales assistant or a customer , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the product on sale . |
| 7 | Instead of seeking to contain royal power they were preoccupied with gaining the favour of the Grand Prince , or control of the government when the monarch was personally weak or a minor . |
| 8 | I was either being kerb-crawled or a bunch of Quo fans were after the jacket . |
| 9 | Be ready to open the airbrakes fully as it touches down to stop any bouncing or a gust lifting the glider into the air again . |
| 10 | The problem can be very acute where a UK intermediate holding company holds shares in foreign companies , and dividends are paid to the foreign parent . |
| 11 | And if I ca n't , can I begin to entertain the thought that teaching may not be for me ( as a substantial number of new teachers do ) without feeling guilty or a failure ? |
| 12 | Private generation remained economic where a firm had complementary process steam requirements ( and could use back-pressure sets to produce both steam and electricity ) , where waste heat from another process could be used , or where investment incentives ( not available to nationalised industries ) or local property taxation ( for which the Electricity Boards were more highly rated ) gave an artificial subsidy to private firms . |
| 13 | Lovely , now me , I 'm an ex-M A T S A member , I 'm in the security industry , at the moment I have n't got a section , so what am I a Bosnian , a Serbian or a Croatian I do n't know . |
| 14 | She said Naomi appeared to live in a world of her own and was either on a high or a low , adding : ‘ She was a lovely child . ’ |
| 15 | Under a joint project with the Saudi Arabian Banking Industry , Salisbury , Wiltshire-based Racal-Transcom Ltd is to supply the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a credit-debit card payment system based on its TCL200 terminals ; the specially customised terminals can print receipts in Arabic , English or a mix of the two and will also use personal identification codes for added security ; over 1,000 terminals will be installed in shops this year with a target of 10,000 terminals aimed for by the end of 1995 ; no value for the order was disclosed . |
| 16 | A local authority may therefore bring proceedings : ( i ) to prevent parents from removing a child accommodated by the local authority under voluntary arrangements where a return home is likely to harm the child significantly ; ( ii ) to protect a child who has been significantly harmed in the past where this is likely to happen again because , for example , a parent is known to abuse in certain recurring circumstances ; ( iii ) to protect a child who has never been harmed where the family history clearly places him at risk , eg a new born or a child reaching an age at which other children in the family have been harmed . |
| 17 | He had in mind a Brookner , a Lively or a Colegate ; a Pym ( Barbara , not Francis ) would be a comfort ; anything but Martin Amis . |
| 18 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |
| 19 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 20 | He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian . |
| 21 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 22 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 23 | Each volunteer pays £4 per day , £3 if retired , unemployed or a student . |
| 24 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 25 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 26 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 27 | The Court ruled that , even if the agencies staff were instructed to print out what they deemed to be records , the electronic material are ‘ quantitatively different than a copy printed out in paper form and , therefore the Defendants ’ record keeping system violates ( the statute ) because it does not save all the information contained in these electronic records . ’ |
| 28 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 29 | There comes a time in every project , he wrote , when it becomes clear that a head is no match for a wall . |
| 30 | The case of Donson & Frudd v Conoco Ltd , 1973 IRLR 258 , also makes it quite clear that a conviction does not permit the employer unlimited freedom in dealing with employees . |