Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | the divine lotus or a man with a lotus blossom on his head . |
| 2 | Menorrhagia is the major non-gastrointestinal cause of blood loss while dietary deficiency may be the sole cause or a contributing factor to the anaemia . |
| 3 | The odd chicken or a carrot cake would be much appreciated . |
| 4 | Occasionally , they kill soldiers , and blow up the odd bridge or a railway line , but essentially they are an impotent and marginal force currently engaged in peace talks with the military . |
| 5 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 6 | ‘ The firm name used by a multi-national partnership shall consist only of the name or names of one or more lawyers , being present or former principals of either the multi-national partnership or a predecessor legal practice , together with , if desired , other conventional references to the firm and to such persons ; or a name approved in writing by the Council as the name of the multi-national partnership or of a predecessor legal practice . ’ |
| 7 | Parties to litigation in the High Court or a county court do not receive a full written judgment containing the trial judge 's reasoning . |
| 8 | Chaired by a judge of the High Court or a higher court , it has 16 members , a majority of whom must be persons other than practising or academic lawyers . |
| 9 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 10 | ‘ There is in my view , however , also an obvious distinction between jurisdiction conferred by a statute on a court of law of limited jurisdiction to decide a defined question finally and conclusively or unappealably , and a similar jurisdiction conferred on the High Court or a judge of the High Court acting in his judicial capacity . |
| 11 | In order to reduce delay , cost and complexity in the civil justice system , the Civil Justice Review recommended that the county court should be retained as a court separate from the High Court , but that the upper limit of county court jurisdiction should be abolished , that all civil proceedings , with a few exceptions , should be commenced by a document called a writ , which would be issued in either the High Court or a county court , and that there should be an improved system of transfer of cases between county court and High Court . |
| 12 | Where either the High Court or a county court is satisfied that proceedings before it are required to be in the other court whether by reason of the 1991 Order or any other provisions made under s 1 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , or by reason of any other enactment , then it must either transfer the proceedings to the other court or strike them out ( CCA 1984 , ss 40 and 42 ) . |
| 13 | Firstly those substances which increase relatively rapidly with depth and then become constant and this group are usually referred to as the bio-limiting element or a bi having a bio-limiting distribution . |
| 14 | Most countries , particularly the LDCs , have fixed the external value of their currencies to one specific currency such as the dollar , the French franc or a composite unit of currencies weighted according to individual trade flows . |
| 15 | The operators can , of they have a mind to question the systems ' automatic decisions , run through the status of the entire building or a single valve . |
| 16 | Portraits also play a major part in Clamey 's work , ‘ I 'm probably very old fashioned but I believe still that the principal aim or a portrait is to achieve a good likeness of your sitter , but you also have to create a picture . ’ |
| 17 | Going back , starting over , is always either the easy option or a negative step in itself , retrogressive . |
| 18 | The ‘ comfort ’ fit would delete the armrests between the rear seats allowing either four passengers to sit across the rear bench or a 50/50 split which accommodates two rear passengers and freight . |
| 19 | If the incident reflects badly on the operating practices of pilots , engineers or airlines — for instance , if a dangerous situation arises because the pilots failed to use their check list at the appropriate time or a supervisory engineer fails to double check the work of a mechanic on an important component such as a primary unit in the flying controls — it is unlikely that the matter is going to be reported voluntarily in view of the inevitable consequences of disciplinary action on the part of management or at the very least a ‘ black mark ’ against the offender which will be likely to prejudice his career . |
| 20 | The following factsheet or a real timetable may be used for this investigation . |
| 21 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 22 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 23 | for referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner or a Local Councillor for referral to the Local Commissioner , although it must be remembered that the Local Commissioner can only investigate after a complaint has been brought to the attention of the authority complained against and they have had a reasonable time to reply . |
| 24 | However , should there be an apparent worsening of symptoms , Hering 's law is useful in assessing whether the symptoms now presenting are part of a previous disease process which has been unmasked transiently during the healing phase or a new , undesirable pattern which is usually treated with another remedy . |
| 25 | You can be the Prime Minister or a dustman and it 's still the most important thing in the world . |
| 26 | the version number ; if ‘ none ’ is displayed , no module of that name was found in the primary directory or a preferred version of a module was selected . |
| 27 | Hence , it is usual to calculate the q's for the current year or a period of years and apply these to what becomes a hypothetical cohort ‘ followed ’ through a current or period life table . |
| 28 | East Germans expect it to scrap the security police wing while shifting its intelligence work to the interior ministry or a new agency . |
| 29 | C4 says that the options being considered include an extension of the existing service or a ‘ complete change of focus ’ to target children or young families . |
| 30 | If an inspector discovers a contravention of one of the provisions of the existing legislation or a contravention of a provision of the Order he can : |