Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lift and drag have been calculated for tails spread to an apical angle of 120° . |
| 2 | In each of these , the lexical clash occurs between elements locked in an intimate grammatical relationship ; in both sentences the clash can be removed by appropriately replacing either of the elements involved : |
| 3 | However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right . |
| 4 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 5 | The range of products offered by an organization is called the product mix . |
| 6 | But in the last six months his father 's image had begun to intrude on his consciousness at odd moments , in the middle of a meeting , across a boardroom table , in a gesture , the droop of an eyelid , the tone of a voice , the line of a speaker 's mouth , the shape of fingers splayed to an open fire . |
| 7 | ( b ) In English law the choice of law rules governing claims for restitution are influenced by the claim being connected with a contract , having regard to the English conflict of laws rule that the proper law of the obligation to restore a benefit , if the obligation arises in connection with a contract , is the proper law of the contract : Dicey & Morris , The Conflict of Laws , 11th ed. ( 1987 ) , p. 1350 , r. 203. ( c ) Quasi-contractual claims , at least where there is a contract involved , should probably fall per se under article 5(1) : see the opinion of the editors of Dicey & Morris , at p. 341 , to this effect , and the decision of the Scottish courts that a statutory claim to contribution falls within the article in Engdiv Ltd. v. G. Percy Trentham Ltd. , 1990 S.L.T. 617 , 621. ( d ) In the case of a claim for the return of moneys paid under an ineffective contract , there is no artificiality in deducing an implied promise to pay , even though the old theory that restitution was based on the concept of such an implied promise is now largely discredited . |
| 8 | But when built by a large firm of builders employed via an architect acting as contracts manager , £50+per sq ft . |
| 9 | The loss of amenities caused to an elderly person as a result of his injuries can be more severe precisely because he is old and has already suffered some impairment of his activities on that account . |
| 10 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 11 | A new board has been installed from a list of candidates selected by an independent panel . |
| 12 | Easterbrook 's hypothesis assumes that increases in arousal are associated with a narrowing of the range of cues utilized by an organism in performing a task . |
| 13 | A FAT little plumber called Mario caused chaos yesterday as thousands of youngsters converged on an exhibition of the latest high-tech games . |
| 14 | The house called Old Ashfield contained seventeen rooms above ground and a labyrinth of cellars built around an ancient underground well . |
| 15 | Mid-Tape prepares a statement of any delegated account on magnetic media — tape or diskette — thus providing details of transactions posted to an account . |
| 16 | What hard-pressed commercial producers must do from now on , is to make doubly sure that the terminal sires and female replacements they select , will deliver the type of lambs demanded by an increasingly discerning market . |
| 17 | A set of elements interrelated by an asymmetric , catenary relation R is a hierarchy if , and only if , it possesses the following properties : |
| 18 | The principal argument for Soviet involvement was the apprehension at the scale of casualties envisaged in an invasion of the Japanese home islands . |
| 19 | She ( 1984 , pp. 69 , 87 ) calls for the production of films structured by an alternative economy of desire , for a ‘ microanalytics ’ of cinema with ‘ effects of resistance and counterinvestment ’ . |
| 20 | Similarly credits earned on exchange or by credit transfer ( normally a maximum of four exchange credits are allowed ) are counted towards the number of credits required for an award but the marks are not used for the purposes of classification . |
| 21 | This amounts to a portfolio or collection of possibilities ranked on an agreed basis to enable decisions to be made on allocation of resources . |
| 22 | If a group of workers combined in an association of union and tried to set wages above their ‘ natural ’ level , their actions amounted to ‘ a conspiracy in restraint of trade ’ since the price level of goods would be artificially distorted and the competitive market undermined . |
| 23 | It was a day to reassure English hearts , for not only was the sequence of defeats brought to an end but the fight was sturdily fought and morale given a welcome boost . |
| 24 | Of course , it may be the case that monitoring of costs compared to an ideal is in practice very much more difficult than monitoring prices relating to costs . |
| 25 | I must point out that the 11 tries against Ireland is not the record number of tries conceded by an IB country . |
| 26 | Back and forth their bodies went , like a pair of dancers connected by an invisible bond , a bond that grew stronger each time it was tested . |
| 27 | Lord Finlay implied that the trust mechanism could be adapted for use in international law , whereby a new State could be a beneficiary of rights contained in an agreement between other States which are bound by the agreement to accord it those rights . |
| 28 | In psychology , work clustered around the ideas of Frederiksen ( 1975 ) , Meyer ( 1975 ) , Rumelhart ( 1975 ) , Kintsch ( 1977 ) , Thorndyke ( 1977 ) , and Mandler and Johnson ( 1977 ) has led to dozens of studies based on an analysis of various types of text structure and the relationship between text structure and recall . |
| 29 | The price is invariably agreed on the basis of figures submitted by an independent licensed property valuer . |
| 30 | Keith Vaz ( Leicester E ) and his fiancee Maria Fernandes are being restricted to a blessing ceremony and exchange of vows overseen by an Anglican priest , in the 13th-century chapel of St Mary Undercroft , known as the crypt chapel . |