Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are worth bearing in mind as at least a partial explanation of some aspects of credit use , so as to avoid the risk of misinterpreting those aspects as a purely a matter of individual consumer choice . |
| 2 | The overall situation is unsatisfactory and it is impossible to give precise guidance as to how a firm can resolve mismatches between fiduciary and regulatory law , other than by always complying with the more onerous obligation where the inconsistency between fiduciary and regulatory law is not direct . |
| 3 | And then to withhold one 's vote as with almost a matter of habit and routine , that can not be in the best interests of the Conservative party . |
| 4 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 5 | The firm must consider the knowledge and experience of each client for each activity and must place a note on file as to why a certain type of letter is issued . |
| 6 | But to a remarkable extent Kilvert succeeded in turning its limitations — its narrow range of vision and the naïvety of his own judgements — into advantages , to give it a vividness and a simplicity shared by few similar journals ; and it seems likely that it will retain its place as at once a major document of Victorian rural life and a minor but moving work of literature . |
| 7 | But he found little guidance in Scripture as to how a subject or bishop should behave when his sovereign was determined to undo the Reformation . |
| 8 | There are various technical terms for these two parts , and also differences of opinion as to where a particular clause divides , but still , this much seems agreed : the clause has a bi-partite structure , and the function of the choice as to what information we put in which part is to enable us to bring different bits of information into differing degrees of prominence . |
| 9 | However , not only is there no predictability as to how a case will be categorised , there is also no ex post rationality that can be achieved by juxtaposing a series of cases and asking why one case went one way and another was decided differently . |
| 10 | The main constraint operating on the community relations police in West Belfast is in establishing contact with youth groups and schools in the area because of either a general resistance to the police or fear of intimidation from Republican paramilitary organizations as a result of involvement in a community relations programme . |
| 11 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 12 | The Justice Model 's philosophy consequently relied heavily on retribution as at least a partial justification for punishment . |
| 13 | If you do not do so , you may be left in some doubt as to when a constructive dismissal occurs . |
| 14 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 15 | Questions were asked of the Home Office as to how a man with a 30-year record in organised crime could be given such a low security classification . |
| 16 | It would be a mistake to follow early modern Europe in the importance it attached to titles ; but the emergence of a more clearly defined diplomatic hierarchy had some significance , both as cause and result , for the parallel emergence of diplomacy as at least a kind of profession . |