Example sentences of "[prep] a [num ord] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four other consultants did not reply even after a second letter and phone calls to their secretaries . |
| 2 | They said that James Salperton had turned down the offer of a fifth series and the producers were unwilling to continue without him . |
| 3 | And now , Brian , you expect us to trust in your psychic powers concerning the entertainment level of a second half that had n't even started . |
| 4 | Boon took advantage of a second life when on six in the opening minutes as Carl Hooper spilled an easy chance off Ambrose . |
| 5 | Further major capital expenditure has now been approved and work is already underway with the installation of a second line and additional warehousing . |
| 6 | Keyboard studies remain paramount for about a third of music college undergraduates although opportunities are provided for the learning of a second instrument or singing . |
| 7 | In circumstances other than where the Director-General of Fair Trading has dispensed with a notice of cancellation in relation to certain mail order consumer credit ( s64(4) of CCA 1974 as implemented by the Consumer Credit ( Notice of Cancellation Right ) ( Exemptions ) Regulations 1983 ( SI 1983 No 1358 ) , time runs from receipt by the debtor or hirer of a second copy or notice . |
| 8 | The conference recommended increasing the chances of a second appeal as well as toughening the standards for legal representation ( there are reports of cases where people sentenced to death had been represented by law students ) . |
| 9 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 10 | Bridging loans are short-term loans used to finance the purchase of a second property before you 've sold your previous home . |
| 11 | By leaving when he does , he still gives himself the chance of a second female but he minimises the risk of being cuckolded . |
| 12 | Changing the subject , Black Agnes announced that the men must be hungry , if not tired , and led the way over the next bridge-corridor , through the vaulted basement of a second tower and over yet another bridge to the main keep of the castle . |
| 13 | In reality , he was more of a third seamer than a strike bowler , and did the job only in the absence of a faster man , but he once took 6 for 38 in Australia and at Leeds in 1957 had his best Test figures of 7 for 70 . |
| 14 | Therefore , where the vendor and purchaser are both wholly owned subsidiaries of a third company and the vendor sells assets to the purchaser at an under value , it is suggested that to the extent the value conferred on the purchaser comes out of the vendor 's capital as opposed to distributable profits , then this is treated as an unlawful return of capital by the vendor to the third party holding company . |
| 15 | The Law Society , though not the courts , will hold a solicitor personally liable ( as a matter of professional conduct ) on an undertaking given by him on behalf of a third person unless any such liability has been sufficiently and clearly disclaimed . |
| 16 | Claims ( for what they may be worth ) for indemnity from a miscreant partner will more readily be encountered in the context of fraudulent activities in relation to the misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm , to which s11 of the Partnership Act is directed : In the following cases ; namely — ( a ) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives the money or property of a third person and misapplies it ; and ( b ) Where a firm in the course of its business receives money or property of a third person , and the money or property so received is misapplied by one or more of the partners while it is in the custody of the firm ; the firm is liable to make good the loss . |
| 17 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 18 | c , Effect of a third Myc or Max plasmid on transactivation of the CACGTG reporter . |
| 19 | It will be in everyone 's interests to ensure that accounts are taken and valuations made promptly and , perhaps , if the involvement of a third party as independent valuer , arbitrator or mediator is contemplated to break any deadlock , that a time limit be imposed for agreement inter partes. ( b ) Calculation of what is due to the outgoing partner The first and obvious step in the valuation process is the taking of an account up to the date when the outgoing partner dies or leaves the firm , unless that happens or ( except in the case of a death or bankruptcy ) is made to happen at the end of the firm 's normal accounting period . |
| 20 | For this purpose , ‘ contingent liabilities ’ includes all transactions guaranteeing , underwriting , or pledging assets as collateral security for , obligations of a third party and ‘ commitments ’ includes every irrevocable commitment that would give rise to a credit risk . |
| 21 | Moreover , as a result of the defences of act of God , act of a third party and statutory authority , the courts must investigate not only the reasonableness of the accumulation , but also the defendant 's responsibility for its actual escape . |
| 22 | The money is frozen in the hands of a third party and not paid out to either side . |
| 23 | Co-operation with Europe in inter-governmental institutions was still desirable , but Bevin now rejected all idea of a third force because this could undermine the US commitment to the Continent . |
| 24 | Continue on track as it bends right then curves round edge of large field , then past a second building and up minor ridge , where it meets another track coming up from right . |
| 25 | On Wednesday , Taylor hopes they can make fools out of World Cup rivals Turkey because , with David Batty out , Palmer looks certain of an eighth cap and the chance to prove he is more than a court jester . |
| 26 | This means that for many of its black speakers as well as virtually all its white speakers , the London variety of Creole is something like a second language or dialect , learnt around the time of transition between childhood and adolescence . |
| 27 | The Premier League clubs were so unaninmous in their view against a second division that chief executive Rick Parry did not even call for a vote on the issue . |
| 28 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 29 | The action would not be an indirect method of enforcing the contract against the other contracting party because it lies against a third party and in tort . |
| 30 | There was a deep reserve of ability to be tapped , and ( whatever the improvement ) only 45 per cent of all fifteen-year-olds — including , of course , those in grammar schools — stayed on at school for a fifth year or more . |