Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun sg] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will introduce across the country an initiative pioneered by Liberal Democrat-run councils such as South Somerset and Richmond . |
| 2 | What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill . |
| 3 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 4 | The flatness is a shame , because this is a public service : you can glean from the programme an idea both of how irrational the law can be , and of how flimsy most people 's understanding of it is . |
| 5 | Let us take as an example an infinitely long , infinitely thin distribution of charges as shown in Fig. 2.8 . |
| 6 | To put Saussure 's point in a different way , we can take as an illustration an area of language to which he did not pay particular attention , but which subsequent theorists have considered significant : that of colour terminology . |
| 7 | The fall of the regime will force into the open an enigma that most western coverage , left and right , has been too indulgent to probe , namely what the political programme of ‘ Islam ’ is , beyond the seizure of power by one or other armed tribal group . |
| 8 | They will observe in the staffroom an array of different stances to the business of teaching , and , measuring these against their own developing and conflicting set of aspirations , begin to make some intuitive decisions about the track they are going to follow . |
| 9 | Not only do we not get from the Enlightenment an understanding of human nature that is under the curse of the fall , neither do we get a true understanding of men and women made in the image of God . |
| 10 | Although the words ‘ reasonably fit ’ do not require the goods to be of the very best quality , they do impose upon the seller an absolute obligation . |
| 11 | But it might be salvaged by the damnatio , to which that restriction did not apply , and which would impose on the heir an obligation to pay the object or its value . |