Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working Together , para 5.15.3 states that an initial child protection conference should take place within eight days of referral unless there are special reasons for delay when a maximum of 15 days may elapse . |
| 2 | Those with previous convictions will be allowed to put their case for registration before a selection committee made up of police and licensed and brewing trade representatives . |
| 3 | Great questions such as the way in which buildings may be rehabilitated , or private and council landlords forced to meet basic standards of health and safety within their properties , have been largely pushed into the field of what has been designated " Housing Law " , the latter being less concerned with providing a framework for operation than a means for intervening on behalf of the more vulnerable members in society . |
| 4 | In fact , such separable SBUs with no possibilities of synergy with other SBUs are , he says , likely to be prime candidates for divestment when a good opportunity arises . |
| 5 | An internal memo , circulated to all staff at the 850-bed Addenbrooke 's Hospital , Cambridge , lays down guidelines for action if a terminally-ill patient 's heart stops . |
| 6 | It was less a programme for socialism than a commitment to social reform . |
| 7 | That remains his only fall , and it was more a case of a slip one stride after landing than a regulation fall . |
| 8 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 9 | If such mutations should occur in the CAG cluster of the N-Oct 3 gene it might easily lead to loss of function by aberrantly expanding the bona fide transcription activation domain , or to loss of DNA-binding if a frame shift is introduced . |
| 10 | Stuck behind Patrese , Berger had to cope with high water temperatures and a loss of power until a fuel pump failure caused retirement on lap 37 . |
| 11 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 12 | I also had a stroke of luck when a Jehovah 's Witness called at the door earlier . |
| 13 | They fly through the air with extraordinary ease and in flight they are very distinctive — they have very long white wings with black tips and the tail looks more like a pointed piece of feather than a proper tail . |
| 14 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 15 | He was in the middle of smoothing one piece of earth when a shadow fell across his hands . |
| 16 | Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way . |
| 17 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 18 | He told a senior colleague there was only one place on that particular fifteen-mile stretch of road where a lorry might be expected to run off it , at a bend where the camber of the road sloped to a ditch . |
| 19 | Yet it was the same stretch of line where a two-year-old boy Mark Gilbert died just five months ago . |
| 20 | Yet it was the same stretch of line where a two-year-old boy Mark Gilbert died just five months ago . |
| 21 | The Layfield Committee received complaints about the difficulties of providing safeguards against inefficiency when a local authority is acting within its legal powers . |
| 22 | There was murder within marriage because a husband or a wife wanted life to be different and for one reason or another could find no other way to bring that about . |
| 23 | There will be no effect on competition if a natural monopoly is privatised intact . |
| 24 | A well-made television programme — ‘ Cathy Come Home ’ is often quoted — may have more effect on policy-making than a scientific assessment of alternative ways of utilising limited resources . |
| 25 | He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen . |
| 26 | If the king-duke decided to alienate the fief , the king of France 's permission ( as sovereign ) was technically required , because he was entitled to exact the feudal payment of relief when a fief changed hands . |
| 27 | General Accident is supporting this request and have taken the decision to continue with payment of benefit when a claimant attends such a course . |
| 28 | the need to plan operations as efficiently as possible for a given level of resources ( or budgeted level of income if a statutory authority is expected to largely generate its own income ) ; |
| 29 | It is the cast of mind which decrees that Henry Cotton , the most successful British golfer of the last fifty years should get an MBE rather than a knighthood , the same level of honour as a shorthand note-taker in the House of Commons or the draftsman of regulations governing haddock quotas . |
| 30 | A group is a lesser thing than a team , which performs at a higher level of cohesion than a mere group needs to ( see Teams on page 161 ) . |