Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 2 | Further the third to fifth defendants were also knowingly concerned in investment transactions entered into by the first defendant with members of the U.K. investing public in the course of and/or as a result of the aforesaid contraventions of the Act by the first defendant in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in the respects set out in paragraph 29 herein . |
| 3 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 4 | Before the master the attack on the third party notice was , I understand , based on somewhat technical issues , such as the want of particularity in the allegations made against the third party , the fact that there is no assertion that he was part of the conspiracy in which the third defendant is said to have joined and an argument that the third defendant and the third party are not on any view liable to the plaintiffs in respect of the same damage , so that the case is not within section 1(1) of the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 , which I shall mention in some detail later . |
| 5 | Under normal circumstances , third party solicitors will , in response to intimation of interest , forward a letter detailing fully their clients ' contentions in respect of both the circumstances surrounding the accident and the grounds of fault on which the third party intends to rely . |
| 6 | yeah — i talk to him the next time i see him ; - ) ( joke ! — well i stayed at the same hotel as the norw. players before our game against england and actually talked to a couple of players … the next time i will have a chat with leeds-fan rekdal ; - ) i will however forward your wishes of luck if/when i write to the supporters club . |
| 7 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 8 | The figure by which a second borrower 's income can be multiplied , or by which the two incomes added may be multiplied . |
| 9 | Thus the offensive , in support of which the last series of raids by the SAS had been carried out , was a failure . |
| 10 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 11 | This information has been taken from an article ( Saunders and Hon-Chung , 1984 ) in the Journal of Sales Management for which the first author was editor . |
| 12 | Just ring him up and have lunch with him the next day and it 'll be all right . ’ |
| 13 | Finally , it is worth mentioning the possibility that the traditional sadness and dejection with which the first crops were cut in Egypt , or the seed was sown in Greece and elsewhere originates in the same unconscious depressive complex . |
| 14 | We had moored off a deserted cay rimmed with a beach of clear sand above which the first stars were pricking the warm sky , while , beneath Wavebreaker 's bimini cover , half-moon ice cubes clinked in crystal glasses . |
| 15 | Yeah they went to work in it the next day . |
| 16 | Finally , an act of aggression is coercive and , unlike the commencement of proceedings which accords with the obligation upon States to settle disputes peacefully , involves the commission of an illegal act to which a third party must respond . |
| 17 | Yet there are certain advantages with the modern orchestra ; the violin section , for example , which often fails in an ‘ authentic ’ set-up to do justice to the importance of what the first violins , in particular , have to say . |
| 18 | Peter Rainford was unpleasantly attentive but his wife was quite happy with Felipe , and Maggie 's heart sank as they arranged to go round the Alhambra with them the next day . |
| 19 | The HAT has purchased extra land at each site on which the first phase of new houses will be built . |
| 20 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 21 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 22 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 23 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 24 | Alternatively , there can be a conveyance between the husband and the wife to which the first mortgagee is a party ( as above ) and a deed of covenant from the wife in favour of the second mortgagee to observe and perform the terms of the second mortgage , containing an indemnity in favour of the husband in respect thereof . |
| 25 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 26 | Some time before the inception of the project , the area in which the school is located was subject to a reorganisation in which the sixth form was lost to a newly created tertiary college . |
| 27 | There is always a first sentence in which the first phrase demands continuity , the second then providing repose . |
| 28 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 29 | ( b ) Allocate the total cost of the payroll to the calendar month in which the last day of the time sheet falls . |
| 30 | When asked for the authority upon which the second of these propositions was based , he replied that it was to be found in section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , and in the principles stated by the majority of the House of Lords in Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 . |