Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 2 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 3 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 4 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 5 | Movements for industrial democracy have been similarly discouraged , and even socialist governments , whether reformist or revolutionary , have shown little enthusiasm for a devolution of their powers which would permit a greater involvement of ordinary people in the direction of their everyday economic activities . |
| 6 | This done , I set each processor to a different effect and balanced the quantity of each effect coming into the Quad-FX with the four trim pots . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose when you spend all that money on a girl you do n't want to spend the evening wheezing into your hankie , do you ? |
| 8 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 9 | Well then if you 're just paying that money into a building society and you 're paying , obviously you ca n't write out as many cheques as what you would normally d do in a bank and have a standing order so therefore it 's got ta be paid by cash . |
| 10 | ‘ The plan is to use that money as a launching pad for further funds that could eventually result in major building work , ’ he said . |
| 11 | You know , I think erm rather than they paying all that money for a caravan . |
| 12 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 13 | ’ The value of an air ambulance service remains uncertain , compared with the use of that money in a different way . |
| 14 | This followed claims by Lorraine Osman , former chairman of the London subsidiary of Bank Bumiputra , that money from a collapsed Hong Kong company , Carrian , might have financed the opposition campaign in the general election in October . |
| 15 | Join the highest point of each strip with a chalk line to form a curve . |
| 16 | The real difficulty for insurers is that settlement of a claim for provisional damages is significantly more difficult than for an ordinary action . |
| 17 | There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’ |
| 18 | Raoult 's law is a useful starting point and defines an ideal solution as one in which the activity of each component in a mixture a i is equal to its mole fraction x i . |
| 19 | whether they 're correctly or incorrectly go through it , each each bit at a time , show me how you 're checking it . |
| 20 | each bit at a time . |
| 21 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 22 | This was a condition not easily achieved at the Physic Garden because , Miller added , ‘ we have very little loam within a favourable distance ’ . |
| 23 | Rotate that bit through a hundred and eighty degrees where 's it go ? |
| 24 | She did n't say why , but went on : " Seeing you two with that bit of a tree 's made me feel like celebrating . |
| 25 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know , I feel happier now your dad 's had that bit of a do with that bloke , cos I feel that we can go to him |
| 27 | if you see what I mean , right I 'll re-draw all that bit in a minute this is all gon na be sort of black . |
| 28 | What did a boy still at university , with no prospects yet of any sort of career , what did someone like that want with a massive country house ? |
| 29 | Without any disrespect to them , we appreciate that Howard Wilkinson is n't the sort of a manager to make that decision without a lot of thought . |
| 30 | Because no one can know at this stage what those conditions might be , it would be unwise for anyone now to decide irrevocably to take that decision at a future date . |