Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an executive with a long-term career plan to protect , you may have sound reasons for leaving before a dismissal occurs or for departing on mutually agreed terms . |
| 2 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 3 | There are two principal strategies for proving that a collocationally unique item is a semantic constituent . |
| 4 | Other features include adjustable variation , steering indicator , three settings for damping and a low voltage alarm . |
| 5 | Well , I think that there is an argument of sorts for saying that a computer of the kind described does not have a theory of the external world , does not have mental states which refer , and does not therefore have thoughts in any significant sense . |
| 6 | The last two tsars intensified the Russification programme in operation in Poland since the 1860s , but hostility to Russia showed no signs of abating and a large garrison had to be stationed there . |
| 7 | Dumb bells , hours of exercising and a carefully planned diet of vegetarian food and fruit juice had completed the programme . |
| 8 | The old form of the testimonium was usually as follows : IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have caused their common seals ( for corporations ) to be hereunto affixed the day and year first before written or IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have hereunto placed their hands and seals ( for individuals ) the day and year first before written Section 1 of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 coupled with s 36A of the Companies Act 1985 have introduced changes to the execution of deeds by providing that a document shall not be a deed unless it is clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed . |
| 9 | Secondly , the council may balk at the costs of determining whether a treatment is scientifically valid . |
| 10 | A chemicals company has been fined eight thousand pounds after admitting that a fire which destroyed its factory was started when a worker used a blowlamp to unblock a pipe . |
| 11 | The problems of deciding whether a pupil has mastered a concept or skill are discussed in relation to an experiment in giving pupils the same tests in different modes but similar in content and difficulty on two separate occasions . |
| 12 | Another illustration of the importance for procedural rights of determining whether a dispute exists , and of identifying the parties to it , is Namibia . |
| 13 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 14 | Obviously the potential for entry via imports needs to be considered carefully by domestic competition authorities in assessing whether a firm is dominant and whether it is abusing its monopoly position . |
| 15 | During the post-war period , therefore , there was widening dichotomy between a desire for central planning and the pressures for decontrol and a return to a free market . |
| 16 | Situated in a tranquil area to the north of Forte dei Marmi , the spacious Villa Franchi is surrounded by well-maintained gardens with wide lawns for sunbathing and a verandah . |
| 17 | Response to art at this level demands both a willingness and a capacity to go beyond obvious and conventional ways of perceiving and a preparedness to accommodate and restructure existing concepts and patterns of relationships . |
| 18 | Will the Secretary of State consider ways of ensuring that a sky shield can be erected by the international powers over Croatian air space to stop the aerial bombardment of Dubrovnik and Vukovar and also find ways to increase humanitarian aid to people who will otherwise continue to die over Christmas ? |
| 19 | Redundant churches are safeguarded by the Pastoral Measure 1983 which provides procedures for deciding whether a church is still required for worship , and , if not , what the future of the building should be . |
| 20 | While the Guidelines are merely informative of how the Justice Department approaches merger situations , and do not bind the Department , the Federal Trade Commission , or private litigants , they are helpful to firms and their advisers in assessing whether a particular merger is likely to be acceptable to the competition authorities . |
| 21 | In valuing option contracts before maturity , we may intuitively draw the limiting boundaries by observing that a purchased call ( Fig. 7.14 ) never has a negative value so that : . |
| 22 | A judge admonished the Pennsylvania police for pretending that a Xerox copy machine was a lie detector . |
| 23 | This discovery brings together two rapidly advancing fields by demonstrating that a tumour-suppressor gene plays an essential role in the induction of programmed cell death . |
| 24 | It refused to rule out the inclusion of other factors for determining whether a borrower was likely to default or not — like disability or homosexuality . |
| 25 | But is there not a contradiction between being so fiercely hostile to relativism in history and aesthetics and at the same time asserting that there are no objective criteria for deciding whether a work is good or bad ? |
| 26 | Their breakthroughs include a burglar-proof hanging basket , an anchoring system to keep tables and chairs from wandering and a coded ignition button for lawn-mowers . |
| 27 | So there 's theoretical grounds for suggesting that a variable er variable interval erm , did I say a variable interval or variable ratio ? |
| 28 | As to section 39(11) Mr. Langley relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon and Ralph Gibson L.JJ. ) in Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 where the question was whether the defendant was entitled to refuse to answer interrogatories or disclose documents in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination , or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Act which entitles the Bank of England , inter alia , to require a person to attend and answer questions where the Bank has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is guilty of contravening various sections of the Act . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , if a creditor , with grounds for suspecting that a company is in financial difficulties , makes a search he is all too likely to find that no recent annual returns or accounts have been filed . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court held that he was properly convicted on the ground that the police officer had reasonable grounds for anticipating that a breach of the peace was a real possibility . |