Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general rule is that a battery is committed where a person touches or strikes another , grabs hold of their sleeve or lapels and so on , without implied or express permission . |
| 2 | The Committee therefore proposes the enactment of a statutory provision which will clearly state that rape is committed where a woman consents to sexual intercourse as a result of threats of force , explicit or implicit , against the woman herself or any other person , ‘ but that it should not be rape if , taking a reasonable view , the threats were not capable of being carried out immediately . ’ |
| 3 | In Hughes v Hall ( unreported ) it was held that an offence under the order was committed where a car dealer gave the buyer a document which stated that the car was " bought as seen and inspected " . |
| 4 | The use of an experienced Patent Agent is highly recommended if a patent application is being considered . |
| 5 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 6 | A BEER garden was evacuated after a pet goat unearthed a dummy hand grenade as it gnawed a thicket at the Exeter Inn , Honiton . |
| 7 | A list follows of all the possible errors reported when a Transaction Failure occurs , along with the necessary steps to be taken to recover . |
| 8 | This endorsement should be applied where a coin collection is insured as a specified item under the policy . |
| 9 | This endorsement should be applied where a stamp collection is insured as a specified item under the policy . |
| 10 | Edwards agreed last month to sell his stake of 51 per cent of the company 's shares to Knighton for £10m , but that deal would be scuppered if a court rules in favour of Edwards . |
| 11 | The Hon. Members for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) , for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) and for Glasgow , Maryhill ( Mrs. Fyfe ) raised the question of the procedures to be adopted if a bus service is withdrawn . |
| 12 | Fire claimed more than six hundred lives in Britain last year , many may have been saved if a smoke alarm had been fitted . |
| 13 | A patent is also infringed if a person supplies or offers to supply some other person with any of the means , relating to an essential element of the invention , for putting the invention into effect . |
| 14 | It had been learnt that progress could not be made if a member state objected strenuously to a particular part of a programme . |
| 15 | It 's not likely to be moved until a specialist breakdown vehicle is brought in tomorrow . |
| 16 | So the test that has to be applied before a health authority refuses an ECR is that the decision must be ’ wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds ’ . |
| 17 | Distraints by Government departments for various taxes and local authorities for rates or community charge are unaffected and can even be levied after a bankruptcy order has been made ( s 347(8) ) . |
| 18 | The conditions to be met before a leap-frog appeal can take place indicate the type of case the legislature had in mind . |
| 19 | In the same way NEP was presented as a breathing space for the creation of socialist industry with which later to mount an economic offensive against the petty-bourgeois elements in the national economy . |
| 20 | no , only through the headmasters only , and that was er originally when we always exams at the same time and that was done as a school policy not science department ! |
| 21 | Two children and two adults were injured when a school minibus collided with a pick-up truck and a car . |
| 22 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 23 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |
| 24 | An Army officer was killed on April 24 in Bilbao and three police officers were killed and five people injured when a car bomb exploded in Bilbao on May 24 . |
| 25 | On July 17 the Turkish consul , Deniz Bolukbasi , and two other members of the consulate staff had been injured when a car bomb exploded near the Turkish consulate in Athens . |
| 26 | A British tourist , Mr Edward Gait , and a West German were crushed to death and 12 other foreigners were injured when a restaurant roof collapsed in Arona , Tenerife , police said yesterday . |
| 27 | Free translations are best made when a language helper is with you to clarify obscure points . |
| 28 | Demarcation problems were foreseen if a county court had to deal with a dispute involving men of different counties , or when a " criminal " fled from one county into another . |
| 29 | In the type of market situation examined here , it can not be justified if a cost-leadership policy based on a belief in the experience curve is pursued . |
| 30 | As we have seen , the legitimizing institutions together with established and indeed aspiring subject groups share the vested interest in the belief that ‘ a scholarly discipline ’ is needed if a school subject is to be granted high status . |