Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Charter had a negligible effect on Britain : it was only published in Greek and French , with Warsaw being the first city for which a plan applying the Charter 's principles was drawn up . |
| 2 | It is not hard to construct a case in which a contravener induces an investor to enter into a share purchase transaction with a third party associate under which the price for the shares is paid to the third party . |
| 3 | For the second time in its history , New Scientist is attempting to move from a printing process based on solid metal type to one in which a computer stores the words . |
| 4 | The direction of time in which a computer remembers the past is the same as that in which disorder increases . |
| 5 | Any case in which a patient suffers a medical accident is a great tragedy . |
| 6 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 7 | Delegation of authority thus refers to the process by which a superior gives a subordinate the authority to carry out an aspect of the superior 's job . |
| 8 | Subject to establishing their ability to benefit , in which a reference plays an important part , they are admitted by the decision of the Co-ordinator . |
| 9 | Examples of the second type are cases such as Davies , Turner and Co v Lowen ( 1891 ) 64 LT 655 in which a clause sought to prevent an employee entering any business similar to that " now or hereafter to be carried on " by the employer ; or Perls v Saalfeld [ 1892 ] 2 Ch 149 in which a clause preventing an employee from accepting " another situation as clerk or agent " was struck down . |
| 10 | The fact that future losses from punishment have to be set against current gains to defection implies that the rate at which a firm discounts the future will be important . |
| 11 | The comprehension scales begin with items concerned with the extent to which a child associates a word or phrase with affective or situational meaning , and proceed to a point where ‘ ideational content goes well beyond the concrete evidence ’ — for example , ‘ The little boy has spilt his dinner ; what must he do ? ’ |
| 12 | In these appeals we are concerned with issues arising out of the procedure by which the Secretary of State for the Home Department decides , in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , the date on which a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life may be released on licence . |
| 13 | If society is so confused about the age at which a person becomes an adult , it is not surprising if there are differences of opinion within the family too . |
| 14 | It is similar to the process of amanuensis in which a person dictating a letter will be the author of that letter , the person who writes the dictation down is merely his agent . |
| 15 | The number of activities for which a person requires a licence are legion . |
| 16 | It is fruitful to recognise the responsibility people have for their own lives , and the material circumstances in which those lives have been lived , in considering the resources with which a person enters the last stages of life . |
| 17 | It is not clear why such a threat should be regarded as inadequate , nor does Professor Williams indicate the circumstances in which a threat to withhold a benefit to which a woman is entitled should suffice . |
| 18 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 19 | Even the elements failed to subdue him — on one occasion he persisted in declaiming from the balcony overlooking the square at Samis for more than an hour , in the course of which a downpour cut the loudspeaker system dozens of times . |
| 20 | Rey and Tirole ( 1986 ) have a model in which a manufacturer supplies a number of retailers , but can not observe a retailer 's profit or quantity sold . |
| 21 | But Stephen Fazekas de St Groth of the Basel Institute of Immunology has come up with a different method — an automated system in which a technician collects the antibodies off an ‘ anti-immunologlobulin ’ column . |
| 22 | By contrast , the shaft of Jaq 's power axe was embossed with rococo icons , the pommel of that halberd was a brass Ork skull and complex purity seals embellished the power-pack to which a cable resembling a gem-serpent ran . |
| 23 | Mont Blanc has a heterogeneity of structure not possessed by a blancmange , but it is still not complex in the sense in which a biologist uses the term . |
| 24 | The Inland Revenue Budget Press Release of 16 March 1993 dealing with the taxation of dividends , paras 24 – 29 , reads thus : 24 Where trustees of trusts in which a beneficiary has an interest in possession receive income , they pass it on to the beneficiary with a credit at the basic rate . |
| 25 | We can also enquire into the extent to which a discipline promotes an open debate . |
| 26 | At the crime prevention panel , I watched a video of a police chase through the centre of Middlesbrough , in which a 14-year-old drove a Vauxhall Astra at 90 miles per hour on the wrong side of the road , weaving in and out of oncoming traffic . |
| 27 | The Faculty of Arts offers the following degrees : MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) , in both of which a student takes a spread of subjects with some studied to an advanced level ; and the MA(Honours) , in which a student concentrates on one or two subjects in depth for most of the period of study . |
| 28 | The allusion to the famous novella in the Decameron ( 3 , 10 ) , in which ‘ to put the devil back in hell ’ was a euphemism for sexual intercourse by using which a hermit seduced a young novice , is given an application quite the reverse of Boccaccio 's warm-hearted celebration of the flesh : ‘ Yet this shall I ne'er know , but live in doubt/Till my bad angel fire my good one out . ’ |
| 29 | A decision not to prescribe or an underestimate of need , with justified caution , may aggravate or precipitate a distressing withdrawal state , which a doctor has a responsibility to prevent or relieve and may make the prisoner unfit to be interviewed . |
| 30 | Isis was usually depicted as wearing a large pair of cow 's horns — an animal which was sacred to her — between which a disc representing the moon was suspended . |