Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tenancy that is something else — that is to say , either periodic or for a term certain but described as a tenancy at will — will inevitably be caught ( ibid per Scarman LJ at 217 ) . |
| 2 | However , the applicant must pay or reimburse costs occasioned by the use of the services of a judicial officer ( officier ministérial ) or of a person competent under the law of the state of destination or by the use of a particular method of service . |
| 3 | ‘ The firm name used by a multi-national partnership shall consist only of the name or names of one or more lawyers , being present or former principals of either the multi-national partnership or a predecessor legal practice , together with , if desired , other conventional references to the firm and to such persons ; or a name approved in writing by the Council as the name of the multi-national partnership or of a predecessor legal practice . ’ |
| 4 | However , 90 per cent of the bands we sign attract us either with recently recorded product or with a record due out on release . |
| 5 | Bangladeshi babies are thought to be vulnerable , and they sleep close to other people both day and night ; at night they are either in the mother 's bed or in a cot next to it , a practice also reported by Farooqi et al . |
| 6 | Moreover , information that is filed is not necessarily reliable , or in a form appropriate for any comparative analysis ; for example , the methods of calculating depreciation differ . |
| 7 | The innocent purchaser of goods openly offered for sale in the City of London or in a market overt obtains a good title to those goods irrespective of the title of the seller . |
| 8 | The duty of the supervisor is to prevent the learner from acting unskillfully or carelessly or in a manner likely to cause danger to others . |
| 9 | ‘ For the purposes of this section , no consent is obtained where the complainant submits or does not resist by reason of ( a ) the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( b ) threats or fear of the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( c ) fraud ; ( d ) the exercise of authority . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ For the purposes of this section , no consent is obtained where the complainant submits or does not resist by reason of ( a ) the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( b ) threats or fear of the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant ; ( c ) fraud ; ( d ) the exercise of authority . ’ |
| 11 | ( c ) Connected company A company is connected with the settlement if it falls within TA 1988 , s681(5). ( d ) " Capital sum " The expression " capital sum " has the same meaning as that given in s677 and any question whether a capital sum has been paid to the settlor by a body corporate or to a body corporate by the trustees shall be determined in the same way as any question under that section whether a capital sum has been paid to the settlor by the trustees ( s678(5) ) . |
| 12 | Things were beginning to change , however , it was stated , but whether the changes were happening fast enough or on a scale appropriate to the scale of the problems was still not clear . |
| 13 | The object of a signature in or on a section 40 memorandum in writing is to identify the party to the contract . |
| 14 | First , is the deemed subletting to be at a fixed rent or at a rent subject to review ? |
| 15 | You also have the choice of bed and breakfast or half-board arrangements , taking your evening meal in your hotel or at a restaurant close by . |
| 16 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 17 | It may be taken up directly by a department ; or by a party prior to going into government ; or by a pressure group , whether an ad hoc group , a single interest group or other . |
| 18 | The mixed ESS could be realized in nature either by a population containing W÷D hawk individuals and 1 - ( W÷D ) dove individuals , or by a population all of whose members behaved as hawks in W÷D of their contests and as doves in 1 - ( W÷D ) of them . |
| 19 | It should be noted that for a person obliged to retire from business because of failing health , the maximum relief can be obtained before the age of 60 ( given a ten year period as director ) . |
| 20 | It is a fact that for a time last year , there were no statements at all being issued about Northern Ireland by the Labour Party headquarters . |
| 21 | The complainant , a partner in a small practice from south of Manchester , said that during a meeting one of the company 's representatives , Mr Hoy , effectively said that the Institute was satisfied with Channel 7 's marketing approach from an ethical point of view . |
| 22 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 23 | Under cross-examination from Alan Gore , a barrister representing one of the dead drivers , he said that as a result one of the options had been amended . |
| 24 | In 1931 Scrutton LJ said that , ‘ in many commercial matters the English law and the practice of commercial men are getting wider apart ’ , and noted that as a result commercial business was leaving the courts for arbitration . |
| 25 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 26 | On the eve of the talks the US government announced that all US fighter aircraft permanently based in the Philippines would be removed " at some point in 1991 " and that as a result 1,800 military personnel would also leave the country . |
| 27 | The thesis of this study is that through a gender aware approach , we would at least be on safer ground when issuing such invitations . |
| 28 | His role in the film was one of his most difficult because there was nowhere to hide — neither behind make-up nor behind a character younger or older than himself . |
| 29 | The implication was that with a bit more happening in the sack , hubby would n't have felt he was getting past it and tried to prove his virility by punting up the north face of the Thames . |
| 30 | ‘ She did n't do that , but I 'm sure that with a bit more time she would have . |