Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unlike magnetic poles attract each other ’ , ‘ An acid added to a base yields a salt plus water ’ and similar laws can easily be construed as falsifiable . |
| 2 | Liability for negligence may also be excluded by a provision imposing a duty on the other party to insure against a particular type of loss ( James Archdale & Co v Comservices [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 459 ) and such a clause might be used in a contract to install goods or machinery at the employer 's premises , requiring the employer , rather than the contractor , to insure the premises against damage caused by fire . |
| 3 | To make commercial sense of this arrangement , the contract would also need to contain a provision placing a duty on the seller to account to the buyer for any amount by which the proceeds of sub-sales of unmixed goods exceed the amount of the buyer 's indebtedness to the seller . |
| 4 | Biometrics is a key contributor to their success , and recognition of this has led to an opportunity for a Statistician to complete a team of three . |
| 5 | The principle of proportionality — do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut — is straightforward logic . |
| 6 | At the operational level planning tasks will be simpler and there is less need to look for complex procedures as it would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut . |
| 7 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It 's a sledgehammer to crack a nut . |
| 9 | Four great panthers crash into them at the pavement with a thud like a sledgehammer hitting a mudflat . |
| 10 | If you have to cut a notch in a joist to run a pipe , cut it in the middle of the floorboard and leave a little room for expansion |
| 11 | However three Lincolns suffered accidents whilst operating from Tengah in August 1950 , a Lincoln suffered a fire on board during a flight . |
| 12 | By contrast , the shaft of Jaq 's power axe was embossed with rococo icons , the pommel of that halberd was a brass Ork skull and complex purity seals embellished the power-pack to which a cable resembling a gem-serpent ran . |
| 13 | This allowed a rating to allocate a proportion of his pay each month to be sent direct to his family . |
| 14 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 15 | Charles was applied in Lambie , a case involving a credit card . |
| 16 | An interpretation of the Hague Convention as the exclusive means for obtaining evidence located abroad would effectively subject every American court hearing a case involving a national of a contracting state to the internal laws of that State . |
| 17 | " I understand that you were in charge of a case involving a man found dead in the Thames in June . " |
| 18 | They , and they alone , have the right to dispose of a case involving a child . |
| 19 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 20 | The warning follows a case involving a member of the British Epilepsy Association who had a seizure during hospital tests involving a two day fast . |
| 21 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |
| 22 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want . |
| 23 | The supreme court declined to hear a case involving a ton of gold recovered so far from the SS Central America , resting in 8,000 feet of water off the coast of South Carolina after being sunk by a hurricane in 1857 . |
| 24 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 25 | That was a case involving a death in prison and an inquest had to be held by reason of section 3(1) of the Coroners Act 1887 ( 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71 ) . |
| 26 | In a case involving a sum of money the property of a foreign state and whether it is proper that it should be paid to a firm of solicitors whose authority to act on behalf of that state is in question , the court should , with the assistance of an amicus if necessary , decline to make an order for the payment out of a sum in court to a firm of solicitors without being satisfied of the authority of that firm of solicitors . |
| 27 | THE Crown Prosecution Service in London has given the authority for a case involving a number of articles seized under the Obscene Publications Act to proceed . |
| 28 | Where a plaintiff contends that his is a case justifying a departure from the general approach that contention , and the facts relied upon to support it , should be pleaded . |
| 29 | I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff . |
| 30 | In percussive drilling , the least sophisticated method , a bit cuts a hole through the rock and compressed air blows out chippings . |