Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Critics of the JCT point to these compromises and suggest that as a result either the client or the contractor is at a disadvantage . |
2 | Phizacklea and Miles show some sensitivity to the contradictory nature of working-class consciousness and emphasize that in a number of workers high levels of class consciousness nevertheless coexisted with considerable hostility towards local blacks . |
3 | I realise that to a man like you this situation is probably an open invitation to a spot of casual sex , even if generally you do n't fancy redheads , as you so gallantly pointed out when we first met … ’ |
4 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
5 | Cider sales are up seven percent this year … and the makers say that despite a bumper crop , they need all the fruit they can get . |
6 | Analysts say that as a result , the company 's financial room for manoeuvre is becoming limited . |
7 | Officials say that as a result of Mr Hindmarsh 's letter , bosses in the Darlington area which stretches to Middlesbrough , Hawes , Spennymoor and Northallerton , will preside over a service which will diminish in quality . |
8 | And I say that in a right of some statistics that appear in today 's agenda . |
9 | They say and in a hall which |
10 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
11 | We can not exclude them from our notion of property or deny that in a sense , at any rate , he is the owner of them . |
12 | You change that into a decimal that is what you multiply by . |
13 | We contend that in a democracy predicated upon the rule of law and public accountability , the enforcement of penal legislation should be the undiluted responsibility of the state . ’ |
14 | They always mean that as a compliment , but it 's a dubious one when you think about it : is it so very satisfactory to look MUCH better to one person than you do to twenty million ? |
15 | Bearded , chubby and deceptively jovial , he fields problems in Ronald Reagan-like fashion ( and I mean that in a Dame Edna-like caring way ) . |
16 | From a review of child and car stopping distances under various assumptions , they conclude that for a car travelling at only 16 km/h about 30m sight distance would be required , but that this is much greater than that normally feasible in existing shared space areas . |
17 | For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied . |
18 | In agreement with the judge we thus conclude that as a matter of substance and reality each of the two parties to the agreements placed himself or herself under merely individual obligations … |
19 | Comparisons with previous surveys show that despite a blip in 1988 this industry has shown steady growth over the last five years and is now firmly established as Scotland 's third most important sector in terms of exports . |
20 | Within the earth sciences field at least , however , the data presented here show that at a period of declining career opportunities world-wide , universities were accepting increasing numbers of graduates into Ph D studies . |
21 | ( 2 ) The authorities show that in a number of situations the ex turpi causa defence will prima facie succeed . |
22 | I hope that as a result of visiting the vehicle , you will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer . |
23 | I hope that as a result of visiting WISE VI you , your colleagues and pupils will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer , both through study in further and higher education and subsequently employment . |
24 | I think we 've erm we 've erm obviously learned that opting out is not for the Oxfordshire people — I 'm delighted about that and I just hope that as a result of this we do not see too many problems for Banbury School , both in the fact that the exercise has been somewhat divisory and I hope that they 're able to bring it together quickly afterwards . |
25 | I wish him luck and hope that after a couple of years he is transferred back ! |
26 | I class that as a lot of weeks for the likes of oh we 're not going to names , to occupy the borderline children |
27 | Bowers 's team imagine that near a carbon arc , the less stable isomers grow to become larger than or and then collapse to the stable structures as heat from the arc anneals them . |
28 | I stop an after a while I ask , |
29 | One is release in which we walk as through a landscape , seeing the sublime aspects of nature and life , sometimes feeling the euphoria of release . |
30 | These studies also predict that at a pressure somewhere between 2 × 10 6 bars and 5 × 10 6 bars an interface is encountered with liquid molecular hydrogen above and liquid metallic hydrogen beneath . |