Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedure originated to deal with circumstances where parties wish to set up machinery for determining a price without negotiations , often where the obligation to make a payment arises in the future , as with options . |
| 2 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
| 3 | A base acts as an installation supporting the operations of a military force and serves as its point of origin . |
| 4 | But for many having a racehorse belongs to the world of rolls royces and luxury yachts … |
| 5 | Such a case emerges from the diary of my great-grandfather , James Taylor , who was a doctor as well as an Evangelical . |
| 6 | Where a case falls outside the section the common law rule will apply . |
| 7 | What principle determines whether a case falls within the category where adequacy of consideration is relevant ? |
| 8 | Indeed , the higher a case proceeds in the organization , the more officials rely for their knowledge of ‘ the problem ’ upon a version constructed by field staff and substantially transmitted by the written word ( cf. |
| 9 | Escheat has been abolished , and all property in such a case devolves on the Crown as bona vacantia . |
| 10 | A branch falls from a tree , letting fungal decay into the heart of the trunk , and there is a home for owls and flying squirrels , lemurs , parrots and toucans . |
| 11 | In fact , their necks are so mobile that they can keep their heads in the same position while a branch sways in the breeze underneath them . |
| 12 | ‘ I am hopeful of a good time but there are a lot of factors which influence the outcome of a marathon including the weather and , most importantly , how a runner feels on the day . |
| 13 | It seems to be fairly common practice if a taxpayer dies for a deed of family arrangement or deed of variation to be entered into under which , for instance , the children receive £150,000 ( this is the nil-rate band for inheritance tax purposes effective from 10 March 1992 ) and for the balance of the assets to be left to the surviving spouse . |
| 14 | If a driver drives on a highway without due care for other users it is foreseeable that some of the other users of the highway will be pregnant women and that a child en ventre sa mère may be injured . |
| 15 | It would , for example , count my instruction to my son to be back by midnight as legislative , and the policeman 's order to move on when a driver stops in a prohibited zone as adjudicative . |
| 16 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 17 | Thus a LECTURER gives a number of MODULES and a COURSE consists of a number of MODULES . |
| 18 | Given some aspects of what a sentence conveys in a particular context , is that aspect part of what the sentence conveys in virtue of its meaning … or should it be ‘ worked out ’ on the basis of Gricean principles from the rest of the meaning of the sentence and relevant facts of the context of utterance ? |
| 19 | In writing , given the existence of punctuation and capitalisation , it is usually not too difficult to see where a sentence comes to an end . |
| 20 | If a sentence starts with an unstressed syllable , leave it out of consideration — it does n't belong in a foot . |
| 21 | The process by which a text participates in the textuality of history is , as Montrose acknowledges , a process of effacement as well as preservation . |
| 22 | Often it will be found that a text starts with the B signatures , the preliminaries rarely being so obliging as to add up to a complete signature . |
| 23 | Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context . |
| 24 | A trail leads above the fall , and we follow it back into a narrow gorge , proceeding carefully — at times it is only a foot wide , and 50 feet above the creek . |
| 25 | A university depends on the community of which it is a part . |
| 26 | This is because the shearing force on a building depends on the building 's mass multiplied by its horizontal acceleration during a quake ; vertical acceleration is usually much less in quakes , and buildings are built to resist vertical forces anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ We know how a building works on a shake table . |
| 28 | Learning is considered to be a consequence of either primary or secondary reinforcement , but the strength of a response depends on the level of drive ( or drives ) which is operating at that particular moment . |
| 29 | After the initial stimulus , which is usually an intention to commence the action , the completion of a response acts as the stimulus for subsequent responses , so that the chain becomes a smooth action . |
| 30 | Thus reaction time in this situation would be slower than when a response originates from the directly stimulated hemisphere . |