Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the object of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 had been to simplify the requirements for the execution and witnessing of a will ; that the complementary requirements , of a signature and of an intention that the signature should give effect to the will , demanded a practical approach ; that a written name , not being a normal signature , was capable of being a signature for the purposes of section 9 ; but that where a testamentary document was signed before the dispositive provisions had been written , affirmative evidence was necessary to show that the testator had intended the signature to give effect to the provisions ; that by writing his name and the dispositive provisions in one single operation the deceased had provided such evidence ; and that , accordingly , the will had been duly executed ; but that , on the evidence , the deputy judge had been entitled to conclude that the onus on the defendants of establishing the testamentary capacity of the deceased had not been discharged ( post , pp. 588B–H , 589B–F , 592A–C ) . |
| 2 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 3 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 4 | One must too make the qualification that where a major talent is at work , even in a politically committed situation , then something more universal may result . |
| 5 | ( v ) The traditional classification of adverbs and adverbials into adverbs of time , place , manner , frequency , etc is serviceable enough ; a more thorough and systematic classification of adverbs is given in Quirk and Greenbaum ( " 973 ) Chs 5 and 7 , where a major distinction is made between adjuncts , disjuncts , and conjuncts. ( vi ) The delaying of the main " information point " of a sentence by anticipatory and parenthetic structure is discussed further in 7.5 . |
| 6 | Leigh Spencer served 150 hours community service , after taking part in an attack where a passing jogger was stabbed . |
| 7 | Individual landowners are , however , under no pressure to sell and in fact may wish to retain land in its present use and , where a key site is concerned , may delay or prevent development of adjoining land . |
| 8 | She drew too much water , and the Bahamas , for the most part , are a shallow bank dotted with ripsaw coral heads and treacherous shoals where flat-bottomed boats might glide in comparative safety , but where a deep-keeled schooner was forced to creep with painful care . |
| 9 | a specific occasion arises such as a public speech , a customer presentation , a board meeting where a verbal report is demanded |
| 10 | This is needed for electron microprobe or back-scattered Scanning Electron Microscope work where a perfect surface is required . |
| 11 | After referring to the possibility of delay when the Convention was used , and the impact of Article 23 reservations , the court held that the interest of the German Federal Republic in the integrity of its judicial rights was ‘ less compelling in this instance than , for example , where a non-party witness is sought for deposition or where the scope of discovery sought involves more intrusive methods ’ . |
| 12 | And where a subversive message was intended , it was easily woven into any subject-matter . |
| 13 | Jaguar shareholders will be sent details of Ford 's £1.6billion takeover terms in a circular due to be posted today to shareholders in the UK and also the US , where a simultaneous offer is to be made to investors holding Jaguar shares in the form of American Depository Receipts . |
| 14 | He was looking neither to the right nor the left but out to sea , where a round ship was coming in from the south-east , her sails shuddering , her course designed to intersect with the Genoese just outside the harbour . |
| 15 | Under the present examination system , where a good memory is of real assistance , it is necessary to commit these facts to memory , and this is where the swot cards help . |
| 16 | Very soon , soccer grounds became ‘ advertised ’ as somewhere where a good fight was guaranteed , hence their appeal to the ‘ rough ’ sections of society . |
| 17 | Where a new company is used and both of the merging companies are listed , it is not usually a difficult matter to arrange for a listing of the new company 's shares to take effect upon completion of the merger . |
| 18 | Sexual jealousy may play a part in their reactions , especially where a new partner is brought into the home before marriage . |
| 19 | This was considered to be the ideal layout and was followed where a new city was planned . |
| 20 | During the first simultaneous space walk by three astronauts or cosmonauts , the 4.5-tonne satellite was snatched by hand and brought into the shuttle 's recovery bay , where a new motor was attached . |
| 21 | Where the property is to be transferred subject to a mortgage , or where a new mortgage is to be created , it will be necessary to obtain consents to such transactions from any occupants of the property aged eighteen years or over ( following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) . |
| 22 | Where a new instrument is required , it is now common to install a small tracker-action pipe organ rather than an over-large romantic one which is costly to maintain . |
| 23 | Where a dissecting microscope is used and injections are conducted in a Petri dish , it is important that the tips of the instruments are inclined at a slight angle towards the bottom of the dish so that the shoulder left after pulling the capillary does not prevent the mouth of the pipette reaching the bottom of the dish ( see Section 9 ) . |
| 24 | Where a technical problem is of great importance to a buying organisation , its visibility high and its solution difficult , any supplier who can solve it will gain immense bargaining power . |
| 25 | They are used with effect for disinfecting crockery and cutlery where a mechanical dishwasher is not available and for small items of equipment in industry and retailing . |
| 26 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 27 | Where a spoken sentence is long and complicated it is more likely to be PARATACTIC ; this means it is likely to be a string of sentences tied together with " and " , " or " , or " but " . |
| 28 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 29 | SPECIAL interpreters assisted yesterday at the opening of a unique trial at Cardiff Crown Court , where a deaf man was accused of murdering a deaf woman who had speech difficulties . |
| 30 | Karen looked sullenly down at the crazy paving , where a small ant was wending its way homeward with part of a dead butterfly on its back . |