Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on the manager decided that , in recognition of the outstanding and unsung work that embalmers do , he had overcharged them and sent the porter upstairs with a £5 refund for them . |
| 2 | ( With field coding , the interviewer asks an open question but codes the response immediately from a checklist not shown to the respondent . ) |
| 3 | His first sketches of the Garratt articulated locomotive show that he appreciated the advantages of mounting the boiler centrally between a pair of driving bogies carrying the fuel and water tanks . |
| 4 | Others regard the orang simply as a large relative of the gibbons , who , it is often forgotten , are also apes . |
| 5 | TELEPHONE giant BT caught the City on the hop yesterday with a sweet £1bn deal in the US . |
| 6 | The Soviet Defence Minister , Dmitri Yazov , visits the Pentagon today for a meeting with the US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney . |
| 7 | The five Home Secretary nominees with the support even of a minority of say three of the councillors will almost certainly be able to elect the Chairman of the authority who will then have in addition to his deliberatory vote a casting vote . |
| 8 | ONE OF Britain 's most powerful and modern locomotives was named The Scotsman yesterday at a ceremony in Edinburgh 's Waverley Station . |
| 9 | The existence today of a large Serbian minority in southern Croatia goes back to this period . |
| 10 | These are only used when you can sail the board competently in a Force 4 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off . |
| 13 | Knead the pastry lightly on a floured board , then roll out and use to cover the pie dishes . |
| 14 | Roll out the pastry thinly on a lightly floured surface to a circle of about 2.5cm/1inch larger than the pie plate . |
| 15 | Roll out the pastry thinly on a floured board . |
| 16 | Parking is expensive and troublesome ; It is much better to put the money away for a taxi there and back , if you can . |
| 17 | If Brian [ husband ] was working … maybe I could have put the money away for a rainy day , but in our place … you more or less need it . |
| 18 | Smiling , Aunt Margaret put the money away in a drawer which was the till . |
| 19 | Douglas took the watch home as a treasured memory of his father . |
| 20 | In contrast to those modern theorists discussed elsewhere in this book , who have insisted that the literary text is in a significant sense independent of its author , and that the author 's and reader s experiences are not and should not be the same , Richards treats the text simply as a transparent medium , a mere vehicle for conveying the experience of the author to the reader . |
| 21 | The clothing firms have the advantage now of a large local market and a large local labour supply . |
| 22 | I turned and overflew the field again at a lower level . |
| 23 | He knew that Coy was an administrator , that he had never been in the field either as a soldier or as an agent . |
| 24 | You might consider getting a local electrician or TV repair man to take a look at these before sending the computer away for a specialist repair shop 's attention . |
| 25 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 26 | However , recently , the courts have taken a more laissez-faire attitude to exclusion clauses and fundamental breach on the basis that the parties should be free to agree that there should be no liability under the contract even for a fundamental breach , if that was their desire , see Photo Productions Ltd. v Securicor Transport Ltd. [ 1980 ] . |
| 27 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 28 | Seeing the Chairman tonight at a function . ’ |
| 29 | Yet Labour had not fought the election solely on a negative programme of hostility to Protection but on its socialist programme ; and the electors had given even less of a mandate to socialism than to Protection . |
| 30 | But as this has very seldom , if at all , been the ground of the decision even in a court of the first instance , and certainly never been the ground of a decision in the Court of Exchequer Chamber , still less in this House , I did think it open in your Lordships ' House to reconsider this question . |