Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were fifty p each on a background |
| 2 | Are you going to concentrate on collections of herbs each with a theme ? |
| 3 | Any taxpayer paying taxes exigible under a statute which it has no reason to believe or suspect is other than valid should be viewed as having paid pursuant to the statutory obligation to do so . |
| 4 | Any taxpayer paying taxes exigible under a statute which it has no reason to believe or suspect is other than valid should be viewed as having paid pursuant to the statutory obligation to do so . |
| 5 | I would say , ‘ Exploited and humiliated brothers of the West , did we really gain anything by placing the struggle against our just grievances in the hands of a merciless and megalomaniac Georgian with a moustache ? ’ |
| 6 | This was in part due to a disability which was not realized . |
| 7 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 8 | Sufferers tend to have greasy skin due to an increase in the secretion of sebum , the oily substance from the sebaceous glands . |
| 9 | She found Colin asleep on a rattan lounger on the veranda of his cottage in Holetown . |
| 10 | Then the potential at P due to a point charge at z is |
| 11 | He still had three hours outstanding of a community service order for another offence . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's 5.15 a.m. and we have spent the last two hours asleep in a lay-by just outside Solihull and breakfast in Birmingham is the next item on the agenda . ’ |
| 13 | The slow fuse uncoiled like a snake , the assassin pulling it slowly across the floor until the end appeared under the door . |
| 14 | In the same way that the human body , for instance , is an integrated whole whose individual parts serve particular ‘ needs ’ of the system ( for example , the heart performs the function of pumping blood around the body , the bowel functions to collect and evacuate solid-waste products , and so on ) , so society comprises a system of interdependent institutions each with a contribution to make to the overall stability and continuity of the whole . |
| 15 | More than any scholar of his generation ( G. Gilbert Murray , q.v. , apart ) he kept Greek literature alive at a time when it had ceased to be a compulsory subject in many schools . |
| 16 | The first ATG in from the 5' end is located at nucleotide 234 in a sequence context favourable to translation initiation . |
| 17 | What reassurance does it give to people who might suffer damage due to a change in groundwater level when the Bill permits the Secretary of State to weaken the groundwater provisions ? |
| 18 | This form of acceptance is a legal acknowledgement of debt which provides a measure of security to the bill 's holder , as legal procedures exist in most countries to recover money due on a bill . |
| 19 | Why do n't you say to them that they each organisation I mean H M S O and have ten minutes each for a presentation |
| 20 | The aim of the holiday is to make a terrace of three one-twelfth -scale houses complete with a shop — a cake shop in Rosemary 's case . |
| 21 | Jane pressed hard , the pennies fell with a clatter and a voice said , ‘ Fenton Bishop 220 . ’ |
| 22 | The electric field due to a sheet of charge |
| 23 | The magnetic field due to a ring current ( J , H , B ) |
| 24 | One possible method is to work out the electric field due to a point charge pi dz located at z and then add the field due to all the other point charges present . |
| 25 | The values of — and — may be expressed as integrals of the field due to a point force in the comparison material and in certain cases these may be evaluated . |
| 26 | 2.4 The electric field due to a line charge |
| 27 | The Ron Bazell Silver Collar semis at Walthamstow tomorrow should provide trainer in form Ernie Gaskin junior with a double . |
| 28 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 29 | ‘ A bit raunchy for a family newspaper , ’ he said , ‘ but I expect we 'll manage somehow . ’ |
| 30 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |