Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is a great risk in counting from directories because a route might allow the listing of several destinations as though they were separate journeys , and the increase , although undoubtedly substantial , may have been much smaller than it appears . |
| 2 | Such a provision should specify the air waybill 's basic requirements , including , given its peculiarities , its designation as an air waybill , or its functional equivalent , mandatory and optional statements or notations such as indications of receipt by the carrier or agent , reception stamps , flight dates and numbers , and airports of departure and destination . |
| 3 | However , whilst such a provision can prevent the business losing the battle of forms , it can not guarantee victory . |
| 4 | Mrs Hatton , even more expertly , kept it under a piteous control that only a brute would have the brashness to disregard . |
| 5 | A referendum would give the membership views but Council , whilst spending madly on the Hay Report , would no doubt object to spending money on a democratic exercise which might upset cherished opinion . |
| 6 | This option was rejected , however , by President Rodrigo Borja Cevallos , who claimed that a referendum would disrupt the economy , hold back investments and " interrupt the country 's productive process " . |
| 7 | There is renewed speculation that a referendum may present the Government with the only practical way out of the Maastricht quagmire , in spite of fresh assurances from the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , that the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill would survive sufficiently intact to allow ratification of the treaty . |
| 8 | Those on a budget might prefer the Malcolm X badge ( $3 ) or postcard ( $1 ) . |
| 9 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |
| 10 | Although Godfrey J. correctly concluded that the operation of the taxpayer which generated the taxable profits was one carried on in Hong Kong he went too far in saying that a taxpayer must establish the existence of a profit-generating operation outside Hong Kong if he is to escape a charge to tax under section 14 . |
| 11 | In Pearlberg v. Varty the House of Lords considered whether a taxpayer should have the right to make written representations or have a hearing before a single commissioner prior to his granting leave to raise assessments for years beyond the normal time limit . |
| 12 | The latter occurs as a trick used to fool the natives in Stevenson 's ‘ The Beach of Falesá ’ , where ‘ the sound of singing in the wind ’ caused by an Aeolian harp is mistaken for spirit voices near a mock-temple of imitation gods , ‘ idols or scarecrows , or what not ’ . |
| 13 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 14 | A board may restrict the type of liquor which may be sold under an occasional licence ( subs . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) is pending , a board may adjourn the application with which the proceedings are concerned until the proceedings are concluded ( subs . |
| 16 | The British replied that such a board must operate the canal , otherwise Egypt would be able to use the waterway as " an instrument of national policy " . |
| 17 | Adding bearings to a building can increase the cost by up to 10 per cent . |
| 18 | The curtilage of a building will include the ground that is used for the comfortable enjoyment of that building even though it has not been marked off or enclosed in any way ( Sinclair-Lockhart 's Trustees v Central Land Board ( 1950 ) 1 P & CR 195 ) . |
| 19 | One other point worth mentioning is that when dealing with a lease of the whole of a building , the landlord and the tenant will have to consider whether the airspace above the building is to be included or excluded from the demise , as without specific reference it seems that a lease of a building will include the airspace above it , at least to such height as may be necessary for the use and enjoyment of the land and any structure upon it . |
| 20 | Anyone wishing to nominate a building should contact the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society , 185 Stranmillis Road , Belfast , telephone 660809 . |
| 21 | This is because the raising of such a defence may involve the necessity of a reference to the European Court of Justice under article 177 of the Treaty . |
| 22 | In a default claim and some fixed date actions , failure to submit a defence will permit the plaintiff , on submission of the appropriate form , to have judgment entered against the defendant immediately . |
| 23 | A writer must face the terrifying complexity of contemporary life if her fictions or poems are to be relevant to the world today . |
| 24 | The rules on how such a capitalization would affect the level of benefit would be tightly drawn in the sense that if , for example , a person capitalized £1,000 of their state pension , their pension , when paid , would be reduced by the amount of £1,000 worth of contributions . |
| 25 | Having said that this is not the procedure by which such a measure should reach the statute book , I welcome the Bill because it will result in a long-overdue reform . |
| 26 | Those expecting a parcel should give the sender a precise address in Las Palmas , such as the small boat harbour ( Oficiana del Puerto , Muelle Deportivo , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ) . |
| 27 | The Oxford English Dictionary defines an auxiliary ( helping verb ) as " a verb used to form the tenses , moods , voices , etc of other verbs , " eg will , would , can should , have , am , etc . |
| 28 | After absorption a drug will re-enter the gut by passive diffusion provided that the concentration there is lower than that in the blood . |
| 29 | Such a hypothesis could explain the paradoxical inverse relation between serum cholesterol concentrations and colorectal carcinomas detected in certain western , or at least ‘ westernised ’ populations . |
| 30 | The choice of a serial implement tat ion for a computer would affect the architecture to the extent that we must choose a representation for negative numbers that can economically be processed in a serial manner . |