Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [art] " 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 | A prince can mak a belted knight , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , whilst such a provision can prevent the business losing the battle of forms , it can not guarantee victory . |
| 5 | Mrs Hatton , even more expertly , kept it under a piteous control that only a brute would have the brashness to disregard . |
| 6 | Development of the worker-client relationship and of the case as a case may depend a lot on how far the client sees the worker as filling the position of parent adequately and how far the social worker is prepared to take account of the client 's expectations in this respect . |
| 7 | Any corporate member of a branch may nominate a candidate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such a revaluation might make a paper and cash offer for the remaining 85% of Midland 's shares feasible . |
| 12 | Those on a budget might prefer the Malcolm X badge ( $3 ) or postcard ( $1 ) . |
| 13 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |
| 14 | A lectern should have a minimum depth of 38cm and a minimum width of 5Ocm — space to hold two A4 sheets alongside each other — and a ‘ lip ’ of at least 1.5cm to stop papers sliding off onto the floor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Tasks at these levels often involve controlled processes , this appears to be clearly demonstrated by the common observation that a driver may cease a conversation before carrying out a complex manoeuvre . |
| 18 | Experience with Atlantean buses suggested that a driver could operate a double-deck vehicle , and this principle was applied to 761 . |
| 19 | This is equivalent in terms of the effect on the total physical capital stock to reducing b by , and we can see from ( 8–56 ) that such a reduction would have an equivalent effect on the government budget constraint . |
| 20 | For example , a lecturer can teach on a number of courses and a course may use a number of lecturers . |
| 21 | The establishment of a course should permit a flow of publications from staff and research students , and possibly short summer courses and other networking . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Just as only a caterpillar can become a butterfly , the formal stage seems a necessary developmental step to the skilful stage . |
| 24 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A board may restrict the type of liquor which may be sold under an occasional licence ( subs . |
| 27 | ( 1 ) is pending , a board may adjourn the application with which the proceedings are concerned until the proceedings are concluded ( subs . |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | Adding bearings to a building can increase the cost by up to 10 per cent . |
| 30 | So the demise of a flat or a particular floor of a building will include a roof space accessible only from that flat where there is no reservation to the landlord of any rights relating to the roof space ( Hatfield v Moss [ 1988 ] 40 EG 122 ) . |