Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change arose from a realization that war provided opportunities for the nobles not only to increase their honour and their prestige but also to enrich themselves . |
| 2 | This sketch belonged to a group of seven oil paintings by Cezanne formerly in the collection of Auguste Pellerin and offered by an unidentified European foundation . |
| 3 | This heritage comes from a colonial model of top-down health care where the doctor , the matron and the administrator head three parallel hierarchies staffed by ranks of nurses and clerks . |
| 4 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 5 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 6 | ‘ The design of this guitar comes from a number of things , ’ Andy explains . |
| 7 | So this opportunity depends on a difference of opinion : investors thinking that prices are going to carry on rising , while firms rush to exploit what they see as a temporary state of affairs . |
| 8 | So , in closing I would to take this opportunity to apologise for a late magazine last Autumn , it was the only hiccup in the new system , and assure members that , despite losing our magazine to outsiders for a little while , it is well worth it … happy reading . |
| 9 | This case arose from a contract under which the pursuers , an engineering company , were to supply and install a conveyor belt system at the premises of the defenders , a brickmaking company . |
| 10 | This case points to a possible role for moderate hypothermia in preventing hepatitis secondary to ingestion of paracetamol , when it might be used as an adjunct to treatment with acetylcysteine or haemoperfusion in high risk cases . |
| 11 | this case dealt with a death prior to enactment of the administration of justice act 1982 amendment of the 1971 fatal accidents act 1976 which did allow deduction of foster payments . |
| 12 | This case dealt with a life interest in possession overseas trust which was presumed to be governed by a trust law similar to that in the United Kingdom ( otherwise the decision would have been different ( see Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1931 ) 15 TC 693 ) ) . |
| 13 | Even though this case dealt with a managing director who was clearly in a fiduciary position , its principles are equally applicable to other employees ( see Sanders v Parry [ 1967 ] 2 All ER 803 ) . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , this case turned on a question of construction without any general statement of principle being expounded , and it would therefore seem sensible that a tenant should try to ensure that subrogation rights are avoided wherever possible . |
| 15 | The question is whether the facts in this case amount to a nuisance . |
| 16 | Above : This camcorder comes with a detachable 6-watt video light to help brighten up shots taken in dark conditions . |
| 17 | Finally , clause 56 states : ’ Where an offence under this Part committed by a body corporate is committed with the consent or connivance of , or is attributable to any neglect on the part of , a director , manager , secretary or other similar officer of the body , or a person purporting to act in such a capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence . ’ |
| 18 | When they finally appear , they turn out — in what for this play amounts to a considerable comic twist — to have been fitted with the wrong plug . |
| 19 | Though highly questionable as the record of an actual historical event , this narrative attests to a very real anxiety on Herod 's part about the birth of Jesus : |
| 20 | And it is a claim whose force in this instance comes through a demystification generated across inversion . |
| 21 | Stood up this Kenneth went on a blind date |
| 22 | This isotope decays with a half-life of 3.82 days into & sup218 ; Po , which in turn decays into & sup214 ; Pb , & sup214 ; Bi and & sup214 ; Po . |
| 23 | Much of this assessment occurs in a kind of calculating room that is perhaps rather rarely available to conscious inspection and where information concerning bodily conditions , unconsciously held programmes highly prejudicial to the outcome , and the current motivational bias are consulted . |
| 24 | Inevitably , this decision led to a reaction from some polytechnic directors that it was quite wrong that a chartered body , through an adverse report , should have the power to induce the collapse of an institution . |
| 25 | This building serves as a point of reference , alluding in its monumentality to the idea of art as drama . |
| 26 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 27 | Doubt of this variety stems from a deficiency at the second level of understanding , the level at which Christian presuppositions enter for the first time . |
| 28 | This provision allows for a unilateral decision of suspension by a State that does not claim to be specially affected by the breach where it feels the consequences of the breach undermines the entire Convention . |
| 29 | This division extends across a whole range of social activities . |
| 30 | To look at the matter differently , one could say that the members of the economically defined working class in Britain are divided between the ‘ working class ’ and ‘ middle class ’ collectivities , with this division depending on a range of factors including place within the division of labour by strata , parentage , education , home-ownership , and income . |