Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholders will be asked to renew the authority of the Directors to allot and issue the Ordinary Share capital in the Company and to renew , until the Annual General Meeting in 1994 , the authority not to apply the strict statutory pre-emption provisions in the events of a Rights Issue or in any other issue up to an aggregate of 5 per cent of the issued Ordinary Share Capital as at 31 December 1992 . |
| 2 | Financing the bid by means of a rights issue or cash underwritten alternative has the advantage of increasing the equity base of the offeror and improving gearing . |
| 3 | He reminded her of a clothes peg-selling or paper-flower-hawking gipsy , who would raid the henhouse or seduce the maids or steal the washing from the line or all three together . |
| 4 | The success of a sports team or personality often relies on the hard work of those unseen figures behind the scenes — the manager and the coach . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |
| 6 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 7 | appointment of a securities trustee or scheme operator |
| 8 | Social interviews , sometimes known as ‘ trial by sherry ’ , are theoretically relaxed occasions , like a drinks party or dinner , but the atmosphere tends to become rather strained as one half of the party sizes up and assesses the other half . |
| 9 | It seems that this perception is a common one amongst black kids , whether they are headed for a sports career or not . |
| 10 | They are the ideal tasters for a drinks party or guests who are just arriving . |
| 11 | Conduct money must be sufficient to cover cost of travelling each way and , in addition , a sum specified currently as £15.00 for a police officer or £21.50 for anyone else for compensation for loss of time , but there is provision for increase and updating ; the amounts are specified in the costs appendices . |
| 12 | He mixed her a dry martini from a collection of decanters on a silver tray — nothing so arriviste as a drinks cupboard or private bar — set on a small table . |
| 13 | How , do they do that through a friends group or ? |
| 14 | It has already undertaken to sell off £100m worth of businesses and to raise £150m through a rights issue or by attracting a suitor . |
| 15 | ( 7 ) The members of a licensing board for an islands area or licensing division of an islands area shall be elected at a meeting of the council of the islands area to be held on a date between May 16 , 1977 and June 30 , 1977 to be determined by the council , and , in the case of subsequent elections of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 16 | In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election . |
| 17 | These are allowed to rot in a biogas generator or digester . |
| 18 | Some people believe that the different intentions of the experimenter and the abortionist , or the different location of the embryo in a petri dish or in a woman 's womb , are morally relevant factors . |
| 19 | The relevant fact is that , if two solutions are mixed in a petri dish or other container , and allowed to stand , the mixture is at first a uniform brown , but this homogeneous state is not stable . |
| 20 | In all cases cuttings must be prepared with a razor blade or very sharp knife , and are rooted in a cuttings compost or a home-made mixture of equal parts peat and sharp sand . |
| 21 | It is in section 58(1) , which declares in ringing terms that a person arrested and held in custody in a police station or other premises shall be entitled , if he so requests , to consult a solicitor privately at any time ’ . |
| 22 | A line manager is one who has direct authority over a subordinate : by this definition , any manager , whether he works in an operations department or an advisory department , will have line authority over his subordinates . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 24 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 25 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 26 | But what happens if you come across a Windows program or application which you desperately need and it does n't have an Install program ? |
| 27 | Although technically complete the full line-up for Murrayfield 1993 has yet to be confirmed , simply because no-one knows whether the slot allocated to the former Soviet Union is going to be taken by a CIS selection or by one of the break-away republics . |
| 28 | ‘ Uncontrolled ’ means not controlled by a police officer or a traffic warden . |
| 29 | It is open to debate whether the office should be performed by a police officer or by a prosecutorial figure . |