Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These packs are being used by both industry , colleges and individuals to provide the underpinning learning support for S/NVQs , or as a route to an HCIMA qualification . |
| 2 | Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions . |
| 3 | Then we 've got a base plus an acid , what 's the difference again between a base and an alkali ? |
| 4 | Lacking a base in an institution , and having resigned from the Zoological Society after falling out with its Secretary , he was , as it were , writing his books in a void . |
| 5 | There is thus a rule of construction that if a provision in an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom is ambiguous , it should be given that interpretation which is consistent with international obligations rather than one which conflicts ( Inland Revenue Commissioners v Collco Dealings Ltd [ 1962 ] AC 11 ; similarly , there is some authority for seeking to protect fundamental constitutional statutes from unintentional repeals ( see , e.g. , per Lord Wilberforce in The Earl of Antrim 's Petition [ 1967 ] 1 AC 691 ) If , however , such devices do not evade the problem , then traditional notions of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament require that any provision in any later statute which is inconsistent with any earlier provision repeals the latter to the extent of any inconsistency , whether declared or intended to have this effect or not ( Vauxhall Estates Ltd v Liverpool Corporation [ 1932 ] 1 KB 733 ; Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [ 1934 ] 1 KB 590 ) . |
| 6 | The idea that a court is entitled to disregard a provision in an Act of Parliament on any ground must seem strange and startling to anyone with any knowledge of the history and law of our constitution , but a detailed argument has been submitted to your Lordships and I must deal with it . |
| 7 | A provision in an executive director 's service agreement which gives him the right to leave the company with a generous financial package , either in the event that he is dismissed prematurely or because a defined event occurs ( eg a takeover ) which entitles him to be paid a pre-agreed sum . |
| 8 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 9 | He was solid , scientific , conscious in all his creating , learning his art from masters who were still in the youth of artistic development , his whole work shows a progress towards an ideal which the trammels of Gothic tradition never left him free to attain without a struggle . |
| 10 | Lord Apsley was nearly four times over the legal limit when he arrived for a function at an army barracks . |
| 11 | Plots of an output terminal variable as a function of an input terminal variable or vice versa for various values of one of the other two variables are termed transfer or mutual characteristics . |
| 12 | A facade has a function as an ornament to a town as well as cloaking a building . |
| 13 | If , as I believe , NATO is a biological monstrosity because it is an organ without a function , the commonwealth of independent states is a political nightmare because it is a function without an organ . |
| 14 | The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive . |
| 15 | These arguments were advanced in a case about an architect whose position as the certifier under a building contract is different from the position of a valuer , because the architect 's client is the employer under the building contract , and the employer and the contractor do not instruct the architect jointly . |
| 16 | That was a case of an accident when , by reason of the negligence of the tramway company 's motor man , the infant 's mother fell from a tram to the street and was injured . |
| 17 | This was a case of an employee being sent home on paid leave during his notice . |
| 18 | In 1985 , Hoffman J. , in dealing with a case concerning an order under the Bankers ' Books Evidence Act 1879 and a subpoena duces tecum , distinguished cases of discovery by ‘ ordinary parties to English litigation who happen to be foreigners ’ . |
| 19 | It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that little Doug Flutie out-quarterbacked Houston 's big Warren Moon . |
| 20 | The statement was probably a bit of an exaggeration but it demonstrated just how strongly Peter Fonda felt about the Nicholson play . |
| 21 | I cried — a bit of an exaggeration , but it was no moment for exactitudes , ‘ And now I 've got only one kidney . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's a bit of an exaggeration , ’ I commented , sighing in my turn . |
| 23 | This may be a bit of an exaggeration but where it is true much damage is done . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , maybe that 's a bit of an exaggeration ; maybe only a quarter . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That 's a bit of an exaggeration . ’ |
| 26 | Time , at last , to call a baby boy after father himself , so this was to be Benjamin Titford , junior — destined to become a silversmith by trade , and a bit of an entrepreneur like his uncle William Charles . |
| 27 | Bernie was seen as a bit of an oddball — although not by me — but he was very instrumental in getting The Pistols together , especially when Malcolm was away . |
| 28 | I do n't look at this end of the market very often , so it is a bit of an eye-opener for me regarding the amount of controls there are for changing the sound . |
| 29 | No harm in him , he was just a bit of an eejit . |
| 30 | He 's a bit of an all-rounder |