Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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1 | First tonight , a bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow this week — despite calls for him to be banned following the weekend atrocity in Belfast . |
2 | A bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow despite calls for him to be banned , following Saturday 's massacre in Belfast . |
3 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
4 | The play functions as a mise en abyme of the novel as a whole . |
5 | He referred to a dinner given in honour of A. R. Orage , the retiring editor whom Philip Mairet was to replace , which was of inordinate length and at which there were interminable speeches , and where — this was represented as the ultimate horror , uttered in the tones of a cri de coeur — ‘ you could n't even get a drink ! ’ |
6 | Er I 've never had any dwindling intellectual powers er simply because I 've never had any intellectual powers in the first place , so I would agree with him that in all cases I find dealing with er matters of a er er er er of , of legislation er en enormously complex . |
7 | The union treaty also provided for the creation of a cohesion fund by Dec. 31 , 1993 , to finance environmental and transport infrastructure projects in member countries with a per capita GDP which was less than 90 per cent of the EC average . |
8 | This fund would only benefit member countries with a per capita income of less than 90 per cent of the EC average ( i.e. Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ) . |
9 | More or less all the countries in the world which are heavily dependent on cereal imports on a per capita basis are poor countries , or rich countries with relatively little arable land ( like Japan ) . |
10 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
11 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
12 | The zeitgeist expressed itself in a lively concern for the Christian faith and its implications for a modus vivendi . |
13 | The judge awarded Hoelzer $577,000 for his labours , based on Hoelzer 's calculations of a per diem rate of $1,600 a day . |
14 | So effectively we 're paying , whilst we never use the typing pool or the plan print room , we 're paying a proportion of those costs on a per capita basis |
15 | Workers at a Grand Prix racing team which is facing receivership , say they 've been betrayed by their management . |
16 | Figure 1.2 Excess of female population after the age of 45 years and males as a per cent of the total ( 1981 ) |
17 | Researchers using the Luxembourg Income Study microdata have shown that in Sweden and West Germany lone parent family incomes approximate the income of couple-headed families on a per capita basis . |
18 | ( For previous four accessions in 1987-88 see p. 36508 ; three of those four countries concerned had applied the GATT provisions on a de facto basis since the achievement of independence and were able to accede by simple declaration . ) |
19 | From the Soviet perspective , therefore , ASEAN already displays certain of the features of a de facto security alliance . |
20 | Most seem to be going for a reduction of about three quarters of a per cent . |
21 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
22 | It seems likely that this large response was assisted by the Sole Practitioners Group ( organised by Arnold Rosen ) , who provided sole practitioners with a pro forma set of answers to the questions posed in the consultative paper which they were then invited to amend as they saw fit . |
23 | The soldiers in the north were reported to be taking orders from a de facto " joint high command " of members of the gendarmerie , republican guard and police , headed by a Capt. Baraje and based in Agades . |
24 | The constitutional issues thus become not much more than flourishes to a fait accompli . |
25 | The constitutional issues thus become not much more than flourishes to a fait accompli . |
26 | Recently Colin became friends with a bona fide shaman , Davide , who gave him a dose of ‘ ayahuasca ’ . |
27 | Third , the Acropolis of Athens — a feature which , like some other masterpieces of nature or art , is so familiar that it is hard to see it with fresh eyes — was an inevitable centre for the rynoikism or concentration of Attica from a plurality of villages into a mia polis , ‘ one city ’ . |
28 | Such was Beltrami 's legal skills that he had already secured one postponement of the trial , citing Celtic 's European Cup commitments as a bona fide reason . |
29 | The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny . |
30 | The grade of the degree is assessed on the basis of the overall performance on the written papers at the end of the third year , the thesis , and the results from a viva voce examination . |