Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 2 | The era of a techno-structure or of technocracy has as a corollary the decline of the powers of parliamentary democracy in the true sense ’ . |
| 3 | Like the other quasi-nominal forms of the verb , it has as a support a representation of person not yet differentiated ordinally , as we have just seen . |
| 4 | Who , in their right mind , would voluntarily relinquish something that has as a consequence the loss of their personhood ? |
| 5 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand , where the contract redefines as a warranty a term which would otherwise be a condition , its effect is to exclude a remedy ( the right to reject goods and/or terminate the contract ) which would otherwise be available to the innocent party , and it will then be regarded as an exclusion clause . |
| 7 | I still do barre exercises for an hour a day , though . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And Connie , ’ pursued Camille , ‘ lives in a house the same as this and she never had to work for it . ’ |
| 9 | It stands on a terrace the top step of which bears an inscription recording a dedication for the victory over the Persians at Marathon in 490 . |
| 10 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 11 | If a person criticizes the criminal justice system and uses as an example the handling of his case , are his opinions to be considered opinions ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? ’ |
| 12 | She describes as a calamity the declaration by the Director of Public Prosecutions that there is ‘ insufficient evidence ’ to initiate proceedings against Juliette by the Marquis de Sade . |
| 13 | He describes as an example the large drafting and design rooms of engineering companies as having |
| 14 | The use of certain exclusion clauses is made a criminal offence : the Consumer Transactions ( Restriction on Statements ) Order ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) makes it a criminal offence to seek to exclude or limit liability for breach of the implied terms in contracts of sale where the buyer deals as a consumer a defined in the UCTA 1977 . |
| 15 | If the burst originates from a source a distance R from the Earth in which a total mass M is converted to gravitational radiation , we have . |
| 16 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 17 | Table 4.3 shows at a glance the magnitude of flows for which various classes of NBFI were responsible in 1987 . |
| 18 | The consultative document cites as an example the fact that both a Ford Fiesta and Mercedes 1.90 fall within the same scale charge band . |
| 19 | David cites as an example the 1981 Education Act which brought freedom of choice for parents . |
| 20 | He takes as an example a " typically Faulknerian " passage from The Bear , part of a labyrinthine sentence extending over nearly two pages . |
| 21 | When water diffuses into an elastomer the water droplets form impurity sites . |
| 22 | With scrupulous fairness Hall also reproduces in an appendix a report by Karin Figala of Munich , who provided him with a summary of her own research on Newton 's alchemical studies . |
| 23 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 24 | The Daily Telegraph 's Michael Kennedy considered Eyre 's translation and production to be ‘ an irreverent and witty excursion into baroque opera which reduces to a minimum the longueurs of the genre . ’ |
| 25 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 26 | Lihir Island , off the west coast of New Ireland ( itself sitting off the north coast of Papua New Guinea ) is said to have the world 's largest gold deposit — though as it sits inside a volcano the deeper the miners dig , the hotter they get . |
| 27 | Waves of compassion and outrage fuse with delayed feelings of self-pity for her own plight , and society seems for a moment a huge conspiracy to exploit and oppress young women . |
| 28 | Section 83(1) of the Building Societies Act 1986 confers on an individual the right as against a building society to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects , investigated under a scheme recognised by the Building Societies Commission . |
| 29 | Article 8 of the Convention , briefly stated , guarantees to a person a right of respect for his private and family life . |
| 30 | They threaten to ‘ expose ’ a misdeed , probably a genuine mistake or perhaps complete fiction , but the salvation is that if he goes without a murmur the matter will be hushed up . |