Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 2 | Here the inductance L of an inductor having resistance R is found in terms of a standard fixed capacitance C 2 , a standard fixed resistance R 4 and a calibrated variable resistance R 1 . |
| 3 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |
| 4 | So far as cash is concerned , LCH relies on a right of set off , following the view upheld in Re Charge Card Services Ltd that a mere deposit of cash by way of security is not a charge . |
| 5 | The conventional form is generally convenient ; it is useful to have equal eigenvalues in groups and to the use superdiagonal ; but in particular cases it may be well to use a nonzero quantity other than a unit in the superdiagonal . |
| 6 | The capital transfer tax legislation ( [ IHTA 1984 s201 ] ) however provides that both the settlor and the trustees are liable for any capital transfer tax payable when a settlor puts assets into a settlement . |
| 7 | Two video cameras were being used in the cabin when failures occurred in the flight-mode annunciator No 2 whilst a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 was taxiing . |
| 8 | Eleven , you 've got four hundred pound , you got so it 's a good second hand one or a cheapy no , well it would be a cheapy I told him most of them around about seven hundred and ninety nine |
| 9 | Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand . |
| 10 | The Poor Law was the most comprehensive official source for the relief of poverty , administered in England and Wales as laid down by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and a succession of later amendments , in Scotland and Ireland according to different statutes and rather different principles . |
| 11 | The legislation goes hand in hand with the Food Safety Act 1990 and a major concern for caterers is the requirement to prove due diligence . |
| 12 | Like the Duchess of Argyll , you sense she is not au fait with the basic tenets of a tea bag , and , loyal souls though they may be , finds her live-in staff more than a trial . |
| 13 | Suddenly he heard the room door open and a brisk female voice addressed him as footsteps approached the bed . |
| 14 | In 1985 , Hoffman J. , in dealing with a case concerning an order under the Bankers ' Books Evidence Act 1879 and a subpoena duces tecum , distinguished cases of discovery by ‘ ordinary parties to English litigation who happen to be foreigners ’ . |
| 15 | The octamer site binds both the constitutively expressed transcription factor Oct-1 and a novel cervical octamer binding protein . |
| 16 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 17 | Alternatively , the heating of the smoke plume due to its absorption of solar energy may have been more important than the reduced surface heating such that a net warming of the lower atmosphere produced a slight enhancement of the Asian summer monsoon overall ( Browning et al. , 1991 ) or over specific areas such as the Tibetan plateau ( Bakan et al. , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | In Bolivia she had only two cameras ; her trusty Nikon and a Hasselblad CM 500 and a wide-angled lens . |
| 19 | Two Jet Ranger helicopters , two twin-engined Piper light planes , one single-engine Cessna four-seater and a six-seater Citation jet . |
| 20 | We also have concerns about how it could erm fit in to er the countryside erm of the area er with particular reference to erm paragraph thirty three of P P G three which states that erm the net effect of any new settlement will be to enhance the environmental cause only modest environmental impact , the area in Hambledon , as Mr Wincup outlined yesterday erm is occupied essentially by the vale of York , it 's an essentially flat and rolling landscape , er the intensification of agriculture 's produced a very open landscape erm in that area erm there are few erm landscape elements to reduce into visibility , erm there are no significant areas of derelict land which could be , which would be reclaimed or enhanced erm by a new settlement , erm and the Council believes that it would be very difficult to assimilate a new settlement into this landscape , and it would be er visible over extensive areas , to touch on erm the point raised by erm the panel about self sufficiency and self containment erm I think it 's recognized in the explanatory memorandum , erm to policy H two that a new settlement will need to maintain social and economic links with a city , erm perhaps from some , this statement is explicit that erm York will continue to exert considerable influence in terms of employment , social , and community links , erm and it 's unlikely that facilities which have provided a new settlement will divert much , if an , if er any , erm of this er demand for travel . |
| 21 | Replacing a roof can cost anything from £4,000 , but there is an excellent choice of roofing materials available and a new roof should last for years . |
| 22 | The genuine desire to help those with real needs can make the advice worker angry if a client appears to wish to take advantage of the system or only to insist on their rights and not to face their responsibilities . |
| 23 | Of the 102 patients positive for oncogenic human papillomavirus , 80 ( 78% ) had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III or a more severe lesion . |
| 24 | We found that 80/102 ( 78% ) patients positive for oncogenic human papillomavirus had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III or a more severe lesion . |
| 25 | In Massachusetts the contest to select the Democrat candidate to contest the governorship was resolved when John Silber , the caustic president of Boston University and a political maverick , came from behind in the polls to defeat Francis X. Bellotti , a former state attorney general and a mainstay of the Democrat establishment . |
| 26 | She fills the main space with ‘ Isthmus ’ , a tall copper box seven and a half metres in length and rising to the gallery 's ceiling . |
| 27 | Sathasivam Krishna Kumar ( " Kittu " ) , 31 , regarded as the LTTE number two and a member of its central committee , who had first arrived in the United Kingdom in October 1989 and applied unsuccessfully for political asylum there in August 1990 after the breakdown of peace talks with the Sri Lankan government , was told in early August 1991 that he had to leave the UK by Aug. 7 or face deportation , for having abused his refugee status by collecting funds and trying to procure arms . |
| 28 | Our advertising budget two and a half percent of the market the first year . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126F–G , 129E — 130B ) . |
| 30 | By a notice of appeal dated 25 November 1991 , and pursuant to the grant of leave to appeal out of time , the plaintiff appealed on the grounds that the judge erred in law in holding that ( 1 ) the defendant was at 24 December 1989 a residential occupier within the meaning of section 27 of the Housing Act 1988 and a statutory tenant within section 2 of the Rent Act 1977 ; and ( 2 ) once a possession order had been obtained against a statutory tenant it was necessary for the landlord to obtain a warrant of possession . |