Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company lawyers are not keen on this very good scheme because where damage or loss is suffered by a third party , as for instance where a brake failure results in damage to an airport building , the dissemination of details of the circumstances in which it happened outside the company could prejudice the defence they are going to put up for their airline when the airport puts in a claim for damages . |
| 2 | Those words apply , no doubt , to suspensions which are inflicted by way of punishment : as for instance when a member of the Bar is suspended from practice for six months , or when a solicitor is suspended from practice . |
| 3 | Again , the Zuwaya did not base their genealogy solely on brotherhood : some groups were written in , recruited for instance when a group had insufficient members by natural means ; some were brought in by marriage ; one major section ( Muftah ) was related as half-brothers ( through their mother ) to Shuaghr , who were related as half-brothers ( through their father ) to the other sections of the Zuwaya . |
| 4 | Orders for payment after a summons jumped by nearly half to 2,355,174 . |
| 5 | This policy should also include procedures for action when a neonate is discovered missing . |
| 6 | It is a novelist 's trick , useful for recognition when a character is used in a series of stones : it is also properly matched to the portrait of a youth who is intelligent but not physically impressive . |
| 7 | The death penalty was retained for repeated murders , while a new defence of diminished responsibility , imported from Scotland , allowed a charge of manslaughter to be substituted for murder if a defendant ‘ was suffering from such abnormality of mind … as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts … ‘ . |
| 8 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 9 | You will also be required to see to the boiling of water for tea when a tea-meeting is held and the washing up of the delf , etc , afterwards . ’ |
| 10 | But , within a family , it is much less common for a woman to be listed as ratepayer than a man . |
| 11 | Cells in the tumour seem to resemble the body 's own cells soon after conception when a baby is still developing . |
| 12 | That remains his only fall , and it was more a case of a slip one stride after landing than a regulation fall . |
| 13 | And the Milton Keynes-based Motor Insurers ' Bureau , which is responsible for compensation when a driver 's uninsured , says that it wo n't pay up either because Gooch was n't wholly to blame . |
| 14 | The first level — the gift relationship — is characterised by an inequality in the relationship such as sponsorship where a firm offers an institution something with no direct or equivalent return . |
| 15 | It was held by Lords Hailsham , Cross and Fraser , with Lords Simon and Edmund-Davies dissenting , that there can be no conviction for rape where a man honestly believes that a woman consents to sexual intercourse and that his belief did not have to be reasonable . |
| 16 | Choreographers wish to express themselves through dance because a story , theme or music has inspired them . |
| 17 | These pass on tips about jobs or lodgings , or can give a firm base of support once a migrant has crossed the border . |
| 18 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 19 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 20 | Cyclosporin A binds to the same region of CyP as a tetrapeptide substrate ( N- acetyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Ala-amidomethylcoumarin ) , but in an opposite N- to C-terminal orientation ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 21 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 22 | There is always an element of luck when a club selects a manager . |
| 23 | and as full of suspense as a wasp . |
| 24 | Although it is dangerous to generalise about matters of fact , it may be asserted that it will require a considerable degree of intoxication before a defendant can plausibly make such claims . |
| 25 | It arose from some very good scientific research into smells that animals like and there 's no animal with a better sense of smell than a dog . |
| 26 | By its insistence on the generalized imminence of revolution — more an article of faith than a result of pragmatic observation — the Comintern was at least partly responsible for the Nghe-Tinh disaster . |
| 27 | This concern could , however , be easily met if it were made clear that fines would only be recommended by the OFT as a matter of course where a company had evidently breached one of the prohibitions . |
| 28 | Of course if a number of horses are being fed in a paddock , their feedbins should be spaced well apart and there should be one for every horse . |
| 29 | We usually only have access to such details from oral testimony and written accounts which is why the apparent disappearance of Edis 's long-preserved diary of the trip is such a loss — though of course as a visitor being escorted round military sites by officials , there might be a limit to the unofficial stories she could have glimpsed . |
| 30 | Negativism ( sometimes called oppositional behaviour ) is an exaggerated form of resistance when a child becomes stubborn and ‘ contrary ’ , often doing quite the opposite of what the mother or father wishes . |