Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This shortfall arose partly because , even when difficulties could be foreseen , it was sensible to aim high and maintain manufacturers ' confidence in a sustained market growth , though , as we shall see , it also reflects a persistently poor record for the British power station construction industry on completion times . |
| 2 | The requirements on schools to publish information about pupils ' aggregated results of national curriculum testing ( see Chapter 5 ) , and the decision in 1983 to publish HMI reports on individual schools , are clearly intended to enable parents to evaluate schools ' performance through a comparison of their academic achievements . |
| 3 | Regulationists ' view of a coherent national economy with international links is , in my opinion , consistent with the 1830s/1840s crossroads . |
| 4 | The suitability of candidates is assessed , in part , by those who already sit as judges how make their assessments on the basis of the candidates ' ability as an advocate and since those advocates come , in the County Court in the main and in the Crown and High Court exclusively , from the ranks of the barristers it is they who are selected . |
| 5 | When it is passed on , the Client Money Regulations will cease to apply , although before passing the money on the firm must : ( a ) notify the exchange or clearing house that the firm is obliged to segregate clients ' money in a margined transaction bank account ; ( b ) instruct the exchange or clearing house to credit the margin into the firm 's client transaction account ( and not to its office account ) ; and ( c ) require an acknowledgement that the client transaction account may not be combined with any other account and that no right of set off may be exercised . |
| 6 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 7 | When war broke out he had to endure four months ' internment as an enemy alien . |
| 8 | It also means that the real value of the redemption payment will vary according to the rate of inflation during the last eight months ' life of a bond and so calculations of real yields to redemption can only be made on the basis of assumed rates of inflation . |
| 9 | His secretaryship of the UDC , which he held until his death , cost him his Liberal candidacy and led to six months ' imprisonment for a technical breach of the Defence of the Realm Act . |
| 10 | After concluding the deal through an intermediary , John H. Ross , Collins arranged to have the case transferred from another judge and then sentenced the man to 42 months ' imprisonment despite a recommendation of eight years by the probation officer . |
| 11 | MONCEF TRIKI : a father of four , he was held in prolonged incommunicado detention , tortured and then sentenced in August 1991 to 15 months ' imprisonment after an unfair trial . |
| 12 | Training involves a two-year residential course which leads to the Nursery Nursing Examination Board diploma , followed by nine months ' probation with a family . |
| 13 | The product of five months ' work by a specially elected Constituent Assembly [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ; 38283 ] , it was hailed on all sides as marking the opening of a new democratic chapter in the country 's history , previously marred by decades of political and drug-related violence and the domination of power by a small political elite . |
| 14 | Detention in young offender institution — offender aged sixteen pleading guilty to offence punishable with fourteen years imprisonment or more — whether wrong in principle to impose sentence of twelve months ' detention in a young offender institution |
| 15 | Sentence : 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 16 | It is now clearly established that a juvenile who pleads guilty to an offence or series of offences for which the maximum term of custody is a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution should normally receive an appropriate discount to reflect his plea , subject to the general principles governing the award of a discount . |
| 17 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 18 | Juvenile — juvenile subject to maximum term of twelve months ' detention in a young offender institution — effect of sentence in excess of twelve months ' detention in young offender institution — whether Court of Appeal may substitute sentence of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 section 53(2) |
| 19 | The appellant had been sentenced to a term of detention which took effect as a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution , and the Court 's powers were limited to declaring that that was the effect of the sentence passed by the Crown Court . |
| 20 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 21 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 22 | The principles of logarithms were discovered in the seventeenth century ; they gave a tremendous technical spur to navigation , astronomy and to the growing commercial sector , facilitating tedious calculations , like nineteen months ' interest at an annual rate of 2.79 per cent . |
| 23 | It is preferable to arrange to visit in about 6 months ' time for a general discussion on how they are getting on . |
| 24 | A staggering 52% — mostly females — said they expect rates to be higher in 12 months ' time with a consequent knock-on effect on mortgages . |
| 25 | Exporter 's $10m receipt in three months ' time under a forward contract will be worth DM40.4m . |
| 26 | Nurses living opposite said Roberts shouted to them he had served 10 months ' jail for a burglary he did not commit . |
| 27 | As the novel progresses , more and more details ( like the protagonists ' arrival at an island not marked on any charts ) are released which trigger off fears of their being the victims of conspiracy . |
| 28 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 29 | First , I accept that the inspectors ' production of an annual report and other reports on our schools is extremely valuable , as they base their advice on the inspections that they carry out . |
| 30 | Does the Minister recall the vandalism of the former Secretary of State for the Environment , his right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , who , at the very time that the White Paper was issued , turned down the inspectors ' recommendation for a tunnel under Oxleas wood ? |