Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An advantage of this use of directories is that it caters naturally for cases where a student 's work involves several different files . |
| 2 | For cases where an option handles a large amount of information , an index form , showing the names of all fields which are handled by the option can be used to help you through the option . |
| 3 | A distinction must be drawn between cases where a criterion of reasonableness is contained in the statute and those where it is not . |
| 4 | Football : Why Robson must discover innovation : Patrick Barclay , Football Correspondent , on England 's overriding need for understudies now a place in the Italian sun has been secured |
| 5 | It is becoming difficult to imagine that for centuries even a nun receiving daily Communion was never once in her life permitted to receive the cup . |
| 6 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 7 | A third concern , expressed above in relation to the proposals for UK policy , is that Article 86 does not provide for remedies where a market situation is not conducive to economic efficiency but the actual conduct of dominant firms is ‘ innocent ’ . |
| 8 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 9 | Having looked at the services export houses have to offer , we shall now look at a number of reasons why a manufacturer might want to use one . |
| 10 | But even when it breaks down there are all sorts of reasons why a couple could benefit by continuing to cooperate , and treating their divorce , too , as nonzero sum . |
| 11 | As Sperber and Wilson have shown , there is a variety of reasons why a hearer who was not in a position to process an utterance or block of utterances might want to be presented with a summary of it , and correspondingly , a variety of different sorts of summaries that a speaker might provide . |
| 12 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 13 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 14 | A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it . |
| 15 | Though the number of cases where a link between HIV/AIDS and child sexual abuse has been made is relatively small , the long-term implications can not be ignored . |
| 16 | Section 18 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 requires officers of courts to give particulars of cases where a disqualification order is made . |
| 17 | But they would help to reduce still further that small minority of cases where a customer is turned away when he would not have been , given careful objective reflection ; or where the customer mistakenly feels aggrieved at what is in truth a fair decision . |
| 18 | It is common ground that in a majority of cases where an order may be made under section 18 for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the costs of appellate , as opposed to first instance , proceedings , the Court of Appeal or this House will be in a position at the conclusion of an appeal on the information then before it to decide under section 18(3) what , if any , order for costs should be made against the assisted party and to form at least a provisional view under section 18(4) ( c ) as to whether it would be ‘ just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . ’ |
| 19 | WIDOW Judith Pratley only learned of her husband 's mountain of debts when a bailiff tried to repossess her home 24 hours after his suicide . |
| 20 | In 1874 Beecher 's career received a setback of sorts when a newspaper editor with whom he had worked sued him for alienating his wife 's affections . |
| 21 | This general principle is , however , subject to a number of exceptions where a shareholder may bring a derivative action on behalf of the company . |
| 22 | Mr Gorbachev could be forgiven for wishing he could plead a diplomatic cold , and steer clear of celebrations where a wake would be more apt . |
| 23 | A couple of years previously a letter had been sent to Keswick suggesting as much . |
| 24 | As I say I , a couple of years ago an authority did do that , it swapped . |
| 25 | Now a couple of weeks ago a man called Mr Lamont actually resigned I understand or was he sacked I 'm not quite sure , but when he disappeared off the scene , Mr Major said I am still keeping forward with my policies . |
| 26 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 27 | If the user only wishes to check the consistency of a predetermined set of contigs then a program contigorder may be used instead . |
| 28 | There was no message from the police captain , and he was on the point of leaving again for the City of Dreams when a rickshaw , its linen sunscreens pulled down around the passenger seat , rushed into the square and stopped by him , blocking his path . |
| 29 | MIRROR readers who lost thousands of pounds when a holiday company went bust may get some money back . |
| 30 | Hundreds of yards away a fire suddenly broke out , a bizarre sight in the midst of all this water . |