Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
2 | A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum . |
3 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
4 | It 's no good doing the most lovely building right down a drive where no-one can see it , so it 's part of the environment for all of us . |
5 | Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's . |
6 | And meant only for summer and early autumn ; no heating apparatus except the open fires , and a kitchen rather on a par for mod cons with my cottage at Otters ' Bay . |
7 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
8 | Better still , the whole board should be protected within a framework rather like a picture frame with its face covered with clear polycarbonate sheet . |
9 | Being allocated the entire dark continent as a sales territory for one man is a bit like being asked to cut the grass at Hampden Park single-handedly with a pair of nail scissors . |
10 | This freedom together with a diet of high cereal and whole wheat , and the JS combination of traditional methods of maturation with modern chilling and packaging methods , produce these full flavoured , succulent and tender chickens . |
11 | However , where there is a breach of any term which is not a condition , that breach could be either repudiatory ( i.e. equivalent in effect to a breach of condition ) or a mere breach of warranty ( i.e. giving rise only to a claim to damages ) . |
12 | Advances of capital and determinations of interest during the life of the beneficiary which have taken place before 26/3/74 can give rise only to a claim for duty or tax in connection with the beneficiary 's death ( a ) If the death takes place before 13/11/74 any claim for estate duty must be made under Section 2(1) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , and all the present estate duty rules apply . |
13 | A worthwhile person is always competent : he never makes mistakes , slips of the tongue , errors of judgement or loses his thread halfway through a lesson or a meeting . |
14 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
15 | Our table lists the factor that influences most choices — the price per gallon — but this should not be taken as a measure of value for money merely as an indicator of price . |
16 | Provided that at a meeting of a licensing board the chairman shall not have a second or casting vote on an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , and such an application shall be granted by the board only by a majority of the members thereof present and voting . |
17 | The initiating member should provide an advance copy of the Investment Overview text to all Network members ( mailings to other than the full Network are discouraged ) , together with a list of foreign prospective purchasers already identified by the initiating member for each Network members jurisdiction ( eg the Swiss member of the Network will receive the Investment Overview text together with a list of Swiss prospective purchasers , if any , identified by the initiating member ) . |
18 | for short ) gives rise naturally to a partition . |
19 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
20 | ‘ Ca n't you look a bit less like a nun ? ’ he demanded with masculine vagueness . |
21 | Experience and knowledge of the business world would be an advantage together with an appreciation of strategic and local planning considerations . |
22 | He rubbed the base of the cartridge gently with a piece of tissue . |
23 | When buying a property on a registered building estate or other development in respect of which the layout plan has been lodged and officially approved , make your search on Form 94B , when ( unlike other searches against part only of a title ) reference to the approved plan avoids the need to enclose a plan with your search . |
24 | It is absolutely essential that each parcel should be described with such particularity and precision that there is no room for doubt about the boundaries of each , and for such purposes if a plan is intended to control the description of part only of a building , an Ordnance map on a scale of 1:2500 is worse than useless ( Scarfe v Adams [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 843 ) . |
25 | Where the demised property consists of part only of a building the draftsman may either include sanitary facilities in each demise or he may grant each tenant a right to use communal facilities . |
26 | I turn next to consider the position where part only of a deposit has been assigned . |
27 | Acting for a buyer , check the filed plan with the contract plan , if any ( you 'll have done this before exchange , if entries and plan were delivered with the draft contract ) ; but normally , except on the sale or lease of a part only of a property , the supply of a copy of the filed plan by the seller avoids the need for a contract plan . |
28 | It is one part only of an attack upon five great evils : upon the physical Want with which it is directly concerned , upon Disease which often causes Want and brings many other troubles in its train , upon Ignorance which no democracy can afford among its citizens , upon the Squalor which arises mainly through haphazard distribution of industry and population , and upon Idleness which destroys wealth and corrupts men , whether they are well-fed or not , when they are idle . ’ |
29 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
30 | These are only used when you can sail the board competently in a Force 4 . |