Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A warder stood at one end of the infirmary , standing by a thick metal door . |
| 2 | To render the applicability of natural justice dependent upon a prior classification of the above type would have its utility in greater certainty and predictability : if a case fell within one category certain results would follow ; if it fell in a different category differing results would ensue . |
| 3 | Managers therefore may find that the only solution to continuity is to be thoroughly familiar with all case records in order to be able to smooth the transition as one volunteer picks up a case started by another . |
| 4 | At the beginning of Aspel and Company I felt a bit daunted by this team of brilliant people who were , in some ways , doing my legwork for me , and the odd hiccup still arises from having lots of people on the case . |
| 5 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 6 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 7 | The US approach was criticised by Southern African countries at a meeting of the UN Environment Programme , where a split emerged between those countries wishing to stop the trade altogether and those seeking more radical measures to help conserve the rhino . |
| 8 | Here was the suggestion of the spreading fan of an eminent Victorian , a beard clotted with high-flown phrases and guilty secretions , a beard of mad power that then faded at the edges into the ineffectualness of a declining constitutional monarchy . |
| 9 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 10 | To the man who had solved that problem , a statue stood in one of the main squares . |
| 11 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 12 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 13 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 14 | ( h ) Octavian , later Augustus , heir to Julius Caesar , portrayed on a coin minted in 36–31 BC. ( c ) Antiochus III , King of Syria ( 223–187 BC ) , Is thought to have been the model for the portraits of Octavian made at this period . |
| 15 | In a computer oriented towards numerical calculation , the operations must include provision for addition and subtraction , and probably multiplication and division as well ; on a computer oriented towards character manipulation there would be various operations for moving and scanning character strings . |
| 16 | Again , as it was impossible for wheeled implements to cross the frequent deep water-cuts of a field ploughed in this way , all cultivation had to be done along the stetch itself ; and this meant that implements — drills , hoes , harrows , etc. — had to be adapted to fit the width of stetch used . |
| 17 | From the point of view of the emancipators , " where a settlement consisted of various estates and more than one commune , there , evidently , two units had to exist … : one economic ( the land commune ) , the other administrative " . |
| 18 | Further assistance was called , a bath-chair arrived in due course , and my father was transported up to his room . |
| 19 | ( There was a long correspondence in a camp newspaper about the evil effects which female parts in a play had on such people . ) |
| 20 | With his high cultural ideals he had , in any case , strong and growing suspicions about the worth of a Germany united under Prussian domination and dedicated to narrow military and materialistic goals . |
| 21 | Then a wave came through that was earmarked for him . |
| 22 | ‘ I think that a valid reply to this objection would be that it is a political objection to the passing of a statute worded in this wide way , not a legal objection to the validity of the Order , it a statute worded so widely has been passed . |
| 23 | Greek tragedy belied the prevalent notion of a Hellas grounded in serene optimism : its lesson was that a beautiful surface may conceal terrible depths . |
| 24 | He became ill , and eventually died from ‘ a twisted bowel ’ , which frequently is another way of saying that a horse died from psychological stress . |
| 25 | One can perhaps understand why John Keats , ’ writing his first mature work of poetry , managed to confuse Balboa with Cortez ; a young and sensitive man , Keats may well have balked at including a figure capable of such wanton cruelty in a sonnet devoted to such tender sentiments . |
| 26 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 27 | As he spoke , a figure came from one of the stables leading a horse . |
| 28 | He promoted her to an unattainable pedestal , a figure swathed in deep purple , a princess . |
| 29 | In addition , he received three guineas a year for selling the seating rights of seven of the fourteen Grammar School pews in the Parish Church , a practice started in 1781 by Jackson for £1 10 6d . |
| 30 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |