Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 2 | Arber and Ginn ( 1991 ) estimate from these data that the average co-resident carer cares for 52 hours a week compared with 9 hours for an extra resident carer . |
| 3 | The rule of course has in many senses a more restricted application than nuisance ; there must be an accumulation , and it must be of a substance likely to cause injury if it escapes , neither of which is essential to liability in nuisance . |
| 4 | One can only use criminal law to test theories of law on the assumption that independently of the theory in question one has in criminal law a genuine instance of law . |
| 5 | He has in one hand a stick and is followed by a thin dog . |
| 6 | how much it is and he starts at five pound a bag . |
| 7 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 8 | They 've now frequented by an increasing proportion of traders in assumes in many cases a market type of status . |
| 9 | John Butcher says at this moment a man on bail for rape is on the run ine the Midlands . |
| 10 | Keith Pennyfeather , a senior countryside officer with the commission said : ‘ Much of the restoration being carried out on the Pennine Way inevitably occurs at remote sites a considerable distance from the nearest road . |
| 11 | At a meeting in the Rummer Tavern ( which still exists in rebuilt form a few doors from Cottle 's former bookshop ) he was persuaded by ‘ sundry Philanthropists ’ and opponents of the war to begin publication of a periodical to be called the Watchman . |
| 12 | Travel to and from work in the city costs on average £15 a week , then there 's the council tax , which , depending on where you live , can cost from £10 to £20 a week . |
| 13 | This compares with 18 litres a minute or more from a storage system . |
| 14 | Each charging authority gets from that pool a sum proportional to the number of community chargepayers in its area . |
| 15 | The mature shell size also varies from small species a few centimetres across to giants of a metre or more in diameter . |
| 16 | Bigger brother Waterstones ( although only marginally so — 8,400 sq ft , 25 full time , 16 full time equivalents ) also opens on seven days a week , and occupies the ground floor and basement of one of Glasgow 's most attractive buildings , so Venetian in character that it is known as the Ca' d'Oro . |
| 17 | If the left ventricular ejection fraction is less than 40% and the patient responds to intravenous procainamide a suppressive oral drug regimen will be found in a high percentage of patients . |
| 18 | Most people say 30 days because the man travels at 10 miles a day . |
| 19 | The department also offers in this programme a number of courses in Ancient Near Eastern Religions . |
| 20 | It is not thought that the onset of turbulence represents in some sense a breakdown of these equations . |
| 21 | It also imposes upon local government a range of duties . |
| 22 | For all these variations , however , there persists in many localities a ‘ neighbourhood effect ’ whereby working class people appear consistently drawn towards the politics of the middle classes and employers of their area . |
| 23 | The teleology of evolution as a goal-seeking activity persists in indefensible form a hundred years later in the writing of biologists . |
| 24 | You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others . |
| 25 | The regulator consists of 3 parts a first stage which clips onto the tank a hose and the second stage which you held in your mouth . |
| 26 | They rarely strayed out of Middleton but Solowka remembers with perverse affection a gig at Liverpool University , where he was studying for his degree in environmental biology . |
| 27 | One finds in this approach a judgement about the effects of trade union and state interventions in labour markets with regard to resource allocation . |
| 28 | Such antagonism is often almost unthinking , is frequently unmerited , and seems in any event a necessary device whereby the professional culture of a school sustains itself . |
| 29 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 30 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |