Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grant of jurisdiction to a tribunal or other decision-maker must involve a power to come to a decision which in the opinion of a reviewing court may well be wrong . |
| 2 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 3 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 4 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 5 | Well , that night everyone went to sleep because if there was going to be a wedding everybody in the village would surely have to go . |
| 6 | A constable who in the course of patrolling sees something which in his opinion is of a suspicious character , should satisfy himself one way or the other before proceeding to work the remaining portion of his ground . |
| 7 | Mr , you and I have debated in the past er in this room er whether or not exceptional circumstances are necessary to define an inset boundary for a village which in the sketch plan of the greenbelt to have been shown as washed over . |
| 8 | An arbitrary temperature T o is first chosen to serve as a reference which in the present case is 298 K. As values of the relaxation modulus have been measured at widely differing temperatures , they must be corrected for changes in the sample density with temperature to give a reduced modulus , where ρ and ρ o are the polymer densities at T and T o respectively . |
| 9 | He had been elected floor leader in 1986 , a post which in the Netherlands political system was comparable to that of party leader . |
| 10 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 11 | The ancient Egyptians had no compunction in substituting glass or faience for natural stones , the Byzantines explored the possibilities of enamel and the Chinese began to produce pearls by culture as early as the thirteenth century , a process which in the hands of the Japanese first brought fine pearls to the new mass market . |
| 12 | Thus a seller who in the normal way has accepted a cheque which is later dishonoured , is an unpaid seller . |
| 13 | For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’ |
| 14 | In this respect , s14(5) of the SGA provides : The preceding provisions of this section apply to a sale by a person who in the course of a business is acting as agent for another as they apply to a sale by a principal in the course of a business , except where that other is not selling in the course of a business and either the buyer knows that fact or reasonable steps are taken to bring it to the notice of the buyer before the contract is made . |
| 15 | He organised a demonstration on 19 September 1954 , out of which was born the National Liberation Movement ( NLM ) , a name which in the past the LPP had employed . |
| 16 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 17 | The simplest way of starting is by intervening ( sometimes very briefly ) in play corner activities , taking on a role yourself in the children 's own play . |
| 18 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 19 | It formed one more effort , renewed over the next decade , to produce a book which in the end turned into another book altogether , and which Eliot published . |
| 20 | Gender , as an aspect of the experience of old age , is a matter which in the UK has recently focused on informal care for the production of substantial data and new theoretical formulations . |
| 21 | IN THE course of our lives , events take place , with which the passage of time , we come to realise are like milestones ; they have pointed us in a new direction , often posing a challenge which in the providence of God , when accepted , leads us deeper into his life and service . |
| 22 | The old woman took a lace handkerchief out of the tapestry reticule hanging from her left wrist and rolled the handkerchief into a ball between her hands , which was a gesture everyone in the room knew from her concerts . |
| 23 | He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection . |
| 24 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 25 | The series gave Chapman and his players their first experience of air travel , a venture which in the early days of flying took some courage . |
| 26 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 27 | It 's a remarkable rise for a company which in the early days operated from a nissen hut at the same site . |
| 28 | He challenged them in a way which in the end they were unable to resist answering on its own terms , countering charisma with charisma . |
| 29 | Firstly TBDFs are basically an extension across borders of a phenomenon which in the 1980S expanded dramatically at national level . |
| 30 | The magic castle that is London 's St Pancras Station rests upon a forest of unseen arches , forming a vault which in the railways ' heydays , from the 1870S to the 1920s , housed the thousands of barrels of beer that arrived daily from Burton-on-Trent . |