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 She found Colin asleep on a rattan lounger on the veranda of his cottage in Holetown .
8 Then the potential at P due to a point charge at z is
9 He still had three hours outstanding of a community service order for another offence .
10 ‘ 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 . ’
11 The slow fuse uncoiled like a snake , the assassin pulling it slowly across the floor until the end appeared under the door .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The first ATG in from the 5' end is located at nucleotide 234 in a sequence context favourable to translation initiation .
15 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 ?
16 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 .
17 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
18 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 .
19 Jane pressed hard , the pennies fell with a clatter and a voice said , ‘ Fenton Bishop 220 . ’
20 The electric field due to a sheet of charge
21 The magnetic field due to a ring current ( J , H , B )
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 2.4 The electric field due to a line charge
25 The Ron Bazell Silver Collar semis at Walthamstow tomorrow should provide trainer in form Ernie Gaskin junior with a double .
26 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 .
27 ‘ A bit raunchy for a family newspaper , ’ he said , ‘ but I expect we 'll manage somehow . ’
28 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 .
29 The College of Arms set and maintained a rigid scale of funerary etiquette : the obsequies of a royal duke would have been more complicated — and costly — than that of an earl , whilst a viscount 's cortège would have exceeded in complexity that of a baron .
30 The first goal went to Grimsby 's Tony Rees , who left Swindon helpless with a curling drive from the edge of the box .
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