Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 3 | Where on an arbitration an award has been made against a party in his absence , the award can be set aside , but , in this instance , by the arbitrator only ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) ( Term 6 ) ) . |
| 4 | Although for a while the new venture flourished , far outstripping its neighbour , Rye , it was never the success its royal founder had hoped . |
| 5 | Although for a while the silk market will be uncertain , we are nevertheless optimistic about the longer term for Sekers and particularly opportunities for joint marketing of furnishing fabrics with our carpets . |
| 6 | Although for a man a stab wage was invariably better than piece-rates , it could sometimes be the other way round for women . |
| 7 | This means that it can be certified like any other homebuilt , and a pilot with a single engine rating can fly it ( although through an anomaly the time counts as twin time in his or her logbook ) . |
| 8 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 9 | Is it right doctor that you made a , an attack on professional confidence of , other than in a relationship the erm profecting of the order |
| 10 | Metroprolol was then added and titrated against heart rate until within a week a final dose of 25 mg thrice daily was attained , resulting in a resting heart rate under 80 per min . |
| 11 | If from a kick-off the ball crosses the opposing team 's goalline , a scrummage will be formed at the centre of the half-way line . |
| 12 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 13 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 14 | ‘ It was really hard , because as a rule the first one you do is the one you 'll really believe in . |
| 15 | The store manager said that core staff motivation was a problem because after a while the job becomes highly repetitive . |
| 16 | It was timed to explode just 30 minutes later but because of a blunder the detonator failed to explode — the capital 's second lucky escape in just 16 days . |
| 17 | Because in a sense the , the whole our analysis of the was that this er very moderate policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction , of building up reductions , that in itself was producing the required results was n't it ? |
| 18 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 19 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 20 | It did n't worry him , because over a distance the soft-nosed rounds would break up on entry and be considerably more destructive , splattering meat in exactly the same way as a hard point carved into an illegal dum-dum . |
| 21 | Note that the products and are not maximized where and are maximized , because over a range a bigger share of a smaller income will represent a higher total tax revenue than a smaller share of a larger income . |
| 22 | And I 'm sure you 've had a bit of thought about it , I 'm glad you 're see it there er and the whole lot is a blessed mismatch , it 's nothing to do with us though I do thank you Mr for the help you wish to give me , the Duke of Westminster and the Duke of Rutland if this goes through as I said this today because without a doubt the government will listen to what you have to say and I 've no doubt it will be effect . |
| 23 | And , as the rest of the century was to show , while as a consumer a workman might be a co-operator , at his place of work with rare exceptions he might not : even in the consumer movement 's own factories . |
| 24 | Answer guide : An asset gives a future benefit whereas with an expense the benefit is used up . |
| 25 | You will find that with a wedge the ball will travel most of the way in the air , while with a 5-iron the ball will roll most of the way to the hole . |
| 26 | In some ways it resembles a barchan ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the arms trail , whereas in a barchan the arms or horns lead : the barchan presents its convex face to the wind , the parabolic dune its concave face . |
| 27 | Emma sketched her husband ON BOARD THE HEATHER BELL while on a summer a trip to Ryde and round the Isle of Wight . |
| 28 | Gradually , as they stole up to the Belmont stockade , Dulé distinguished different sounds — the fierce explosions of musket fire , the shrieking of the attackers , the yells and shouts and curses and groans of fighting men , their voices thick with fury , the different languages reduced to meaninglessness by the struggles , as men grappled , stabbed , battered , poked at one another 's eyes and even bit one another in the combat at close quarters ; while at a distance the screams of rage and pain merged with the volleys of musket fire and the singing of the arrows . |
| 29 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 30 | They still exchanged gifts and trade with the Emperor ; they still had the interest and friendship of Pope Leo , even though for a year the Pope had been not in Rome but in Germany , caught by the cry for a mediator between attacking Germany and defending Hungary ; pressed by the fighting in Italy to beg help against the triumphant Normans . |