Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 2 | In his Introduction to the Paston Letters J. Gairdner pointed out that letters were often dated as being written on a particular day of the week , say Monday or Wednesday , before or after such a celebration . |
| 3 | Apart from the arguments for or against such a redistribution , it is clear from the breakdown of taxation given above that this is greatly over-simplified . |
| 4 | Now a significant part of that traffic will in the future or with such a road , er make use of that and would no longer have to use Road . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where a coroner is informed that the body of a person ( ‘ the deceased ’ ) is lying within his district and there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; ( b ) has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown ; or ( c ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act , then … the coroner shall as soon as practicable hold an inquest into the death of the deceased either with or , subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , without a jury . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising the coroner to dispense with an inquest in any case where there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; or ( b ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act . |
| 7 | With or without such a committee , both clergy and church musicians need to be valued and respected for their skills and responsibilities , as well as for themselves . |
| 8 | Up until that time , treatment meant a bottle of pills or at most a rub with embrocation . |
| 9 | For patients with severe hypertension and an expectation of life of months or at most a year or two , the benefits of lowering the blood pressure were soon seen . |
| 10 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 11 | Metaphor has traditionally been taken to be a one-word device , or at most a figure of several words strung together , whereas Brooke-Rose 's analyses concentrate instead on metaphor 's work at the level of the phrase or sentence . |
| 12 | ‘ In this Chapter ’ — which concerns receivers and managers in England and Wales — ‘ administrative receiver ’ means — ( a ) a receiver or manager of the whole ( or substantially the whole ) of a company 's property appointed by or on behalf of the holders of any debentures of the company secured by a charge which , as created , was a floating charge , or by such a charge and one or more other securities ; … |
| 13 | Joe Kinnear , the Wimbledon manager , was concerned that despite such a list of absentees Liverpool might be even more dangerous . |
| 14 | It seems that with such a background the theme of your thoughts during the course of these symposiums has been getting the message across , and certainly when you turn to the one that you have this time , of the media , you are really getting involved in getting the message across . |
| 15 | It claims that with such a tax incentive biofuels could eventually account for 5 per cent of overall fuel consumption in the Community . |
| 16 | Johansson estimates that under such a plan Sweden would gain $40 for every tonne of carbon it does not produce that it would have produced under market forces alone . |
| 17 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 18 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 19 | I felt that from such a pinnacle of success my reputation could only decline . |
| 20 | It is equally possible that within such a framework schools and communities could offer curricula that reflected the responsiveness and diversity that many value . |
| 21 | Although this exclusion would not be valid if it was not reasonable , it is likely that in such a contract on which the acquirer had received professional legal advice the provision would be upheld as being reasonable . |
| 22 | There is therefore no reason to believe that in such a system these two relatives are equally my mother 's husband or that they both have similar sexual rights over my mother . |
| 23 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that in such a case , given the necessary knowledge and intent , the person turning off the machine would be guilty of murder . |
| 25 | They say that in such a case you search for your mother for the rest of your life . |
| 26 | I can see that in such a case they might make a gift of paintings or other works of art for tax reasons , for example , and would n't care if they were sold or not . |
| 27 | At face value this passage asserts that in such a case the appellant/respondent is entitled to raise before the House of Lords any issue on which leave had been granted at the outset of the appeal and which was raised before but left unresolved by the Court of Appeal . |
| 28 | Directive , the court holding that in such a case the member state is obliged to make good damage suffered by individuals as a result of its failure so to do . |
| 29 | Mr. Lloyd said that in such a case the discretion to order rectification against a bona fide purchaser , such as the building society in the present case , would be very unlikely ever to be exercised . |
| 30 | The main judicial concession to the carriers ' interests was that in such a case , the burden of proving such breach was placed on the shipper . |