Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 2 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 3 | Heather Bailey said her husband told her how he 'd cut cut down a parachute in hangar 8 at RAF Hullavington and lit it with a match . |
| 4 | Wooden dolls are slid up and down a pole in time with the music , and castanets and bells , on the dolls ' backs , make a percussion sound . |
| 5 | I mean , it 's not a great , from a computing point of view , it 's not great having some erm you know vast faceless organisation which is going to make sure everything 's alright , because it means that when something goes wrong , it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to get it sorted out , because you have to fill in a form in triplicate , get it signed |
| 6 | Shilton , winner of a record 125 caps and a star of three World Cup campaigns , received the red card for slicing down an opponent in front of just 4,194 fans at humble Hull . |
| 7 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school handed over a cheque in memory of a former schoolmate yesterday . |
| 8 | Littering the slopes of the volcano are thousands of large bombs ejected by the eruption , some of them over a metre in diameter . |
| 9 | ‘ He took over a team in turmoil — and it might take him five years to get it right . |
| 10 | FEARS of a price war among Britain 's tour operators sparked off a fall in holiday shares yesterday . |
| 11 | THE week 's news was dominated by Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's failed attempt to stave off a rise in bank base rates . |
| 12 | It is not easy , to say nothing of being undignified , to strip off a jumper in front of an audience ! |
| 13 | She could n't walk off a boat in mid-ocean . |
| 14 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |
| 15 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |
| 16 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 17 | We now have a situation where , in the unskilled occupations , an employer will take on a woman in preference to a man — since he would expect higher wages . |
| 18 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 19 | In partnership , which is ‘ the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit ’ , every partner is an agent of the firm and of the other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership . |
| 20 | According to the Partnership Act 1890 a partnership is an association of persons carrying on a business in common with a view to profit . |
| 21 | Partnership is the relationship which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit . |
| 22 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 23 | You 're all right if you can play a musical instrument one o' these one-string fiddles , Jew 's harp , ham-bone , play the comb , or one o' these sewing-machines ( gesticulates with his hands , pedals with his feet ) ; you can stick up a board in front of you saying ‘ Ex-Service Man ’ , ‘ Hero ’ , put on a row of medals — an' you can go into any of these back streets and nobody 'll stop you . |
| 24 | Today the pensioners still do not know if they are to get any of their money but the lawyers and accountants sorting out Maxwell 's affairs have so far run up a bill in excess of £30 million . |
| 25 | Each dose stimulates a reaction to the vital force , which moves up a level in health only to be further stimulated by the following dose which matches the favourable change in the patient and remains completely homœopathic as regards symptoms and potency level . |
| 26 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 27 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 28 | Bremner is one of many Scottish players who made a remarkable transformation when he took up a career in management . |
| 29 | Hunt , who gave up a career in medicine to be a racing driver in 1967 , was given his chance by Lord Hesketh , the British peer who ran his own motor racing team . |
| 30 | The management would put up a screen in front of them and provide the audience with bad eggs and moldy tomatoes to pelt them with . ’ |