Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 2 | He knew the would just love to arrange a little " accident " with some spanner or brick falling from a building , or , more plausibly still , from some scaffolding . |
| 3 | This includes the cost of a monster or chariot ridden by a character . |
| 4 | This may partly explain why a speaker or writer opts for a marked theme in a given context . |
| 5 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 6 | This may well be so , but a presiding officer who , without good cause , interferes or attempts to interfere with a voter when recording his vote commits an offence ( 1983 Act , s.63 and 66(3Xa) ) and he would need , therefore , to be sure of his ground . |
| 7 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so may incriminate that person or the wife or husband of that person of an offence under this Act — ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property , for the execution of any trust or for an account of any property or dealings with property ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in any such proceedings ; but no statement or admission made by a person in answering a question put or complying with an order made as aforesaid shall , in proceedings for an offence under this Act , be admissible in evidence against that person or ( unless they married after the making of the statement or admission ) against the wife or husband of that person . |
| 8 | By section 72(3) no statement or admission made by a person pursuant to that section shall , in proceedings for any related offence , be admissible in evidence against that person or against the spouse of that person but any statement or admission may be admitted in evidence in proceedings for perjury or contempt of court . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so may incriminate that person or the wife or husband of that person of an offence under this Act — ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property , for the execution of any trust or for an account of any property or dealings with property ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in any such proceedings ; but no statement or admission made by a person in answering a question put or complying with an order made as aforesaid shall , in proceedings for an offence under this Act , be admissible in evidence against that person or ( unless they married after the making of the statement or admission ) against the wife or husband of that person . |
| 10 | Certificate under section 1(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 that point of law of general public importance involved in decision namely , ‘ In criminal proceedings under the Theft Act 1968 , is a statement or admission made by a defendant in bankruptcy proceedings admissible against the defendant ? ’ |
| 11 | CAD can , in theory , enable shapes or text shown on a screen to be altered by hand . |
| 12 | Example 2:10 Right to use passenger lift The right at all times in connection with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) to use the lifts in the building for the carriage of passengers only and their hand luggage provided that the landlord shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a temporary failure of the lifts . |
| 13 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 14 | Another factor which can have quite a major bearing on your approach is whether your video is to be edited in camera , that is recorded in the final shot order , or post-production edited into a different shot order on a copy tape . |
| 15 | Re-usable code is written in blocks , so that tasks can be divided between individuals or groups dealing with a development project . |
| 16 | They stopped outside the tall grey house in Hampstead , made subtle and mysterious today by the autumn mists ; the garden , where laurels grew with a lawn beyond , was wreathed in evanescent white . |
| 17 | In the structure of water the basic components or molecules exist in a free flowing state loosely bound together by forces of mutual attraction . |
| 18 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 19 | In this sense the committee chairman who attempts to hide behind the lack of a definition of pain will , to be consistent , need to be sceptical of the noisy contortions of a cow or sheep crushed by a tractor . |
| 20 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
| 21 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 22 | A pie chart can help the retailer or business-person see at a glance exactly where the money goes . |
| 23 | Where steps cut through a lawn , a straight edging will be needed to the flight to make mowing easier |
| 24 | Brassicas , for example , can then be netted against pigeons , or carrots surrounded by a low fence of plastic sheeting to repel root fly . |
| 25 | In addition to placing the baby on its back or side to sleep under a cot blanket , parents are advised to avoid duvets and sheepskins . |
| 26 | Reptiles and amphibians use a three-chambered heart , where blood goes into a separate part of the atrium on its way to the muscles , but the blood on its way back empties into the same ventricle . |
| 27 | Experience has shown that increases in the cost of newspapers , magazines or books leads to a reduction in sales . |
| 28 | The Act also stipulates that a manufacturer 's guarantee can not exclude liability for damage caused or loss suffered as a result of the manufacturer 's negligence . |
| 29 | Mounds might be raised or pagodas built in a flat landscape or on a hilltop plateau . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |