Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | After a long breakfast , we went into the Town to buy last minute chocolates for our families before visiting the Ferris wheel for a champagne meal overlooking the entire city . |
2 | It is therefore possible for a defendant in a negligence action to raise a defence of volenti non fit injuria , but consent to the risk in question can not be inferred merely from the other party 's knowledge of the purported exclusion . |
3 | After the traversal program has determined the order in which links will be crossed , a printing program takes the semantic net and the paragraphs and produces a camera-ready document . |
4 | The Court of Appeal on 9 August 1989 found that a trial judge has no power to empanel a multiracial jury , even if he believes to do so would be right in the particular circumstances of the case . |
5 | A trial scheme to test the viability of the proposal was called for at last weekend 's Bar conference . |
6 | A trial pack comprising the three primary colours plus black , white and a colourless bar are available in Slim and Original size . |
7 | What was never entirely clear was whether Hooliganism represented the end-point of the evolutionary deterioration of the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or just the kind of rough boys needed as a warrior class to defend the Empire . |
8 | He and his wife Beryl discovered churchgoers had gathered to see the two plant a beech tree to celebrate the vicar 's anniversary which falls on Easter Sunday . |
9 | Due to the fact that the sub-contractor when paid on a piecework basis achieves a relatively high hourly rate , most sub-contractors either negotiate an equivalent daywork rate per hour or resist working on daywork and agree rates or lump sums for the particular work involved . |
10 | An even more marked hiatus in the occupation sequence was recorded in the limited excavations in Heave Acre , alongside the Dorchester road , where traces of Flavian activity were overlain by a silt accumulation spanning the second century at least . |
11 | During the First World War , Turkish bureaucracy and a locust plague produced a famine in Lebanon of such proportions that an American woman resident in Beirut was moved to describe for readers of The Times how she : |
12 | But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face . |
13 | This friendly Club Hotel is set at the edge of a lagoon at the centre of a resort complex offering a range of facilities . |
14 | The Boy Nigel is supervising , sitting on a kitchen chair clutching a blue Victorian ciderhouse mug , china , so as not to appall the customers with the sight of this and that lurking in the golden brew . |
15 | Maybe one day Miles 's head would flip open like a kitchen bin to reveal a tangle of wires and transistors . |
16 | The use of a function call to incorporate the code provides a neat way of incorporating the macro within the program and allows parameters to be passed to it . |
17 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
18 | Where a rating authority had a statutory power , but no duty , to refund rates overpaid by mistake , the House of Lords granted judicial review and ordered repayment where the reasons given by the authority for its refusal to repay were held not to be valid . |
19 | Four excellent papers and a case study formed the core of the week 's work : ‘ Obligations to the Personal Customer ’ by Professor Robert Jack CBE , Chairman , Banking Services Law Review Committee ; ‘ Obligations to Small Businesses ’ by Stan Mendham , Chief Executive , Forum of Private Business ; ‘ Obligations to Society ’ by Jeremy Mitchell , Director , International Consumer Policy Bureau ; ‘ Obligations to Shareholders ’ by Brian Pearse FCIB , Group Chief Executive , Midland Group and ‘ Case Study : Corporate Social Responsibility ’ by Professor Kevan Scholes , Director , Sheffield Business School . |
20 | This is a " good " and the transaction is clearly subject to the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , section 2(1) of which states : … a contract of sale of goods is a contract by which the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration called the price . |
21 | ( d ) Price The statutory definition of sale requires that the transfer of property be for " a money consideration called the price " . |
22 | Then a money crisis hit the BBC and A Private Life was one of the casualties . |
23 | ( Tap a direction key to clear the highlight ) Proofread , correct , SAVE and log your work ( filename : YourInitials27 , see Task 4 ) . |
24 | The moves made by some LEAs to develop a curriculum framework followed the publication of Local Authority Arrangements for the School Curriculum ( DES/Welsh Office , 1979 ) . |
25 | A decision tree illustrates the actions to be taken at each decision point . |
26 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
27 | What was once a budget exercise becomes an analysis of policy . |
28 | Members fear more jobs could be lost if a budget decision to cut the jobs and save money is ratified at a special full council meeting tomorrow night . |
29 | ‘ Senior management immediately hired a consultancy company to do a study on the team structure . |
30 | If it is likely to be sizeable , it might be a good idea to hire a consultancy actuary to analyse the scheme involved and to pinpoint the relevant facts . |