Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Few groups take such a route but The Wedding Present 's individualistic work structure and division of labour would seem to increase its likelihood .
2 Her fate has taken her on a different journey , a route where the monarchy is secondary to her true vocation .
3 The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance .
4 Mind you , it 's twenty , twenty five quid for a base but the thing is these that particular tube in there is in most of those tissues is n't it ?
5 I raised the head on a base until the eye is at eye level .
6 The tenant should also ensure that this covenant contains a provision that the lease being granted to the guarantor does not itself provide for a new guarantor to be joined .
7 In Cairnplace Ltd v CBL ( Property Investment ) Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 All ER 315 , it was held that there should not be inserted in a renewal of a lease a provision that the tenant should pay the landlord 's costs despite the fact that there was a similar provision contained in the previous lease .
8 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses .
9 It should be remembered that any contract for sale which provides for the purchaser to obtain vacant possession on completion now implies a provision that the vendor will procure before completion the cancellation of a registered Class F Land Charge ( Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 , s4(1) ) .
10 We know that you have commanded a submarine and the Lieutenant-Commander was your first lieutenant .
11 Suddenly I felt that if I explained this to her , it would make her safe , impotent , like taking out a fuse or the rotor arm .
12 All they got ta do is pull on a cable cos the door is locked
13 That is particularly difficult in a recession when the future looks bleak for everyone .
14 9.20 Limitation on liability Before leaving the provisos it may be worthwhile to include the following additional proviso : On an assignment of this Lease in pursuance of the Landlord 's licence authorising the assignment the Landlord shall forthwith at the assignor 's cost release the assignor from its future liability under this Lease in such form as the Landlord shall reasonably require Although this is unlikely to find favour with the landlord , it should perhaps be considered having regard to a recession and the outcry from tenants who , having assigned their leases , are being called upon to pay accumulating back rents as a result of the insolvency of the current tenant .
15 However , in the same way that nature abhors a vacuum , so also concepts demand a function and the concept of unreasonableness in its substantive sense is no exception to this .
16 Every boy charters a hansom and the spectacle of a mite of ten or twelve years , with stick and blue ribbon bow complete , gravely trying to fold his arms on top of the hansom doors above which scarcely more than his top hat is visible is an amusing one …
17 It would be mental laziness to assume that each national minority was more of a unity than the ex-empire as a whole .
18 However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not .
19 It follows from this that leave should not normally be granted in such a case while the takeover ‘ battle ’ is still in progress .
20 More precisely , the general principle is that the court can neither extend the statute to a case not within its terms though perhaps within its purpose ( the casus omissus ) nor curtail it by leaving out a case that the statute literally includes , though it should not have .
21 It is difficult to make a case that the time lag in getting innovations to the market-place has decreased in recent years .
22 This is a case when the west bank could be the best bet , providing the bream have a beat in that area .
23 A typical example occurred in a case when the Employment Appeal Tribunal overturned an industrial tribunal 's decision that it was not practicable to consult where 33 redundancies were required urgently , at a time when take-over negotiations were being conducted in secret .
24 This membrane then fuses with the membrane of a cell body called a lysosome and the virus is eventually released from the lysosome to initiate infection ( see New Scientist , 10 February , p 372 ) .
25 ‘ The company has shrunk a bit since the move , ’ says Phil Longden , 33 , an applications programmer with the company since 1986 .
26 Mildew is destructive to cotton whereas nylon looks stained and smells a bit but the fabric remains intact .
27 The joint always has to sag a bit before the control starts to push it .
28 on the bus a bit when the weather improves I shall like to go to Harrendle
29 Well a bit cos the other 's in the the garden shed , you know , with the seed and that .
30 ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight .
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