Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yesterday Senhora Rocha , the solicitor 's wife , signed a contract for a de luxe kitchen , ’ Leif revealed , after they had exchanged greetings . |
| 2 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 3 | Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican . |
| 4 | Providing a coroner has considered the result of a post mortem examination and he is satisfied that there is no reasonable cause to suspect an unnatural death , then he is entitled to proceed under section 19(1) and to decline to hold an inquest . |
| 5 | However , they continue : But it may perhaps be better understood as an analytical consequence of the Garfinkelian theory that the fit between organization and phenomena , between rules and their applications , is not determined in advance , but rather is the result of an ad hoc and context-sensitive process , performed by speakers ( by the use of shared " methods " ) , in which the recognition of the social act and the construction of interpretation of sequences of such acts are two sides of the same creative ( but nonetheless organized and accountable ) process . |
| 6 | This was the fourth murder of a Sinn Féin member since May and the 59th killing in the province so far in 1991 . |
| 7 | The foundation simply expressed its preference for a publisher , she says , with no talk of a quid pro quo . |
| 8 | is to be found in an obiter dictum of Dixon C.J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 117 , which was to the effect that he not been able completely to reconcile himself to the view that , if the weight of a de facto governmental authority manifested in a money demand , the money belonged to the Crown unless the payment was made under compulsion . |
| 9 | As she took Tessa over a house , the West Indian family in the second floor back dissolved in her mind into an au pair girl , the brass taps and greasy gas-rings in the ground-floor scullery into a row of shining white domestic machinery . |
| 10 | But in a large house , it 's often possible to convert a small bedroom into an en suite bathroom for a large adjoining bedroom . |
| 11 | Mr. Wakeham : The Refreshment Department retains the services of a qualified nutritional adviser on an ad hoc basis , whose fees are paid from the trading account . |
| 12 | For example , O supplies a car to P on hire purchase terms and P , before he has finished paying off his instalments , sells the car to a bona fide private purchaser , Q , who is unaware of the hire purchase agreement . |
| 13 | Both deals will cut gearing from 45 p.c. to a pro forma 25 p.c . |
| 14 | He appends to his article on Molla Husrev a brief notice of the life of Hizir Bey , introduced by the phrase ( " one thing calls to mind another " ) , a phrase with which he later introduces his account of Seyh Abdulkerim , the holder of an ad hominem muftilik in the reign of Suleyman . |
| 15 | I draw the line at being part of a ménage à trois . ’ |
| 16 | Nobody is surprised by the idea of spirals of black Spanish radish , forerunners of the Troisgros serpentins de legumes , as part of an hors d'oeuvre , or lettuce dressed with orange juice as well as oil and vinegar . |
| 17 | If one remembers that golf is the preferred pastime of a Grand Prix racer , one can see how such a tendency can escalate — check trousers , floppy hats and fringed white shoes |
| 18 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 19 | This provision permitted the payment of an ex gratia supplement in cases of this kind . |
| 20 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 21 | Well just say and just say that I had a bit of a ba an and I 'd like a check over that 's all just say that to them if you want alright ? |
| 22 | You 'd ha you 'd have it fixed two of them fixed like this on a a bit of a erm er straw rope . |
| 23 | I 'll fetch what we 're going to have for pudding cos it 's a bit bit of a cha er it |
| 24 | The Sinn Fein successes in the 1985 local government elections were dramatically symbolized in the election of a Sinn Fein councillor as chairman of Omagh District Council . |
| 25 | It was 20 years after the formation of the World Championship , however , before Brazil could celebrate the winner of a Grand Prix when Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1970 US Grand Prix in a Lotus . |
| 26 | AROUND 50 demonstrators gathered at Edinburgh 's City Chambers yesterday to protest at the presence of a Sinn Fein speaker at a meeting inside . |
| 27 | This can be seen as a kind of intermediate position halfway between the child as a tabula rasa with no innate knowledge of the world and the child being able to speak at birth . |
| 28 | The Court held that she was a purchaser for valuable consideration , the consideration being the withdrawal of a bona fide claim to a property adjustment order . |
| 29 | The Directors may require to be satisfied that any Share being transferred under this paragraph are being transferred in pursuance of a bona fide sale for the consideration stated in the instrument of transfer without any deduction rebate or allowance whatsoever to the Purchaser . |
| 30 | The Directors may require to be satisfied that any Share being transferred under this paragraph are being transferred in pursuance of a bona fide sale for the consideration stated in the instrument of transfer without any deduction rebate or allowance whatsoever to the Purchaser . |