Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 2 | The thermodynamic data for poly ( A ) , poly ( C ) and poly ( dA ) indicate that the entropic cost per nucleotide in forming an ordered structure , formally involving six rotors ( see Figure 2 ) , has a mean value of -34 ( ±5 ) kJ mol -1 ( TΔS helix at 300 K , averaged over 9 data sets from references [ 8-13 ] ( Table 1 ) , where the error limits equal the range of reported values ) , and is closely balanced by a base stacking exothermicity of -37 ( ±4 ) kJ mol -1 . |
| 3 | He may derive some support from the statement of Templeman LJ in Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd : I think it is a great pity that any landlord should require , or that any tenant should accept , a provision making time of the essence when the consequences are so onerous . |
| 4 | This was required , so the instructions read , for other than commercial reasons : a submarine refuelling point , perhaps . |
| 5 | There was also growing support for legislation to impose a seven-day waiting period to enable checks to be made on prospective gun purchasers . |
| 6 | The House of Representatives on May 8 approved by the unexpectedly wide margin of 239 votes to 186 a bill which imposed a seven-day waiting period on the purchase of handguns . |
| 7 | They cut through a cable controlling signalling equipment then put a bed frame on the line at Den Road in Kirkcaldy just before 10pm on Monday . |
| 8 | There were also communications problems , but in spite of help from other Mossies and a Lerwick giving weather conditions and a course to steer , sadly J-Johnnie crashed on a hill top . |
| 9 | use the records to prepare a case establishing responsibility for disturbance and delay or for extra work |
| 10 | A case requiring action by the umpire before the batsman needed to correct the wicket ? |
| 11 | And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation . |
| 12 | He told shareholders the latest sums were £33,000 in settlement of a civil action by the club — £15,000 of that the cost of an audit investigation — and £838 in a case involving credit cards . |
| 13 | Those interviewed favoured a case finding approach rather than true screening , i.e. the identification of asymptomatic disease . |
| 14 | Other examples of this form of diversification would be Midland Bank ownership of Thomas Cook , this firm having traditionally arranged the travel requirements of Midland Bank staff ( and those of other corporate institutions ) , and also being a major issuer of travellers ' cheques ( a money dealing activity ) . |
| 15 | Workers would prefer to be at point C rather than point A in Figure 5.1 , while employers would be maximizing profit at point C as well as point A. Despite the scope for a Pareto-improvement in welfare if the real wage were reduced to w * ; , the means of achieving such an improvement are absent in a money using economy . |
| 16 | Keynes 's refutation of this theory as a description of labour market behaviour in a money using economy , and this formulation of a theory of labour market adjustment which was more appropriate to such an economy , have been glossed over by Friedman and his followers as if they were nothing more than minor , rather idiosyncratic footnotes in the history of economic ideas . |
| 17 | In a money using economy , workers and employers are powerless to influence the real wage rate directly . |
| 18 | If this is the case , however , several questions need to be answered in respect of classical theory before we can accept Pigou 's rehabilitation as complete and can consign Keynes 's theory of labour market adjustment to an unlamented oblivion : was classical theory guilty of confusing the workings of a money using economy with those of barter . |
| 19 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 20 | I 'm just a money making machine |
| 21 | It 's based on a kind of cowardice , a lack of reliance on your own judgement if it suceeded before it 'll succeed again , it 's just a money making machine and shows no literary thought by the publishers . |
| 22 | Bremner 's decision to sue the Sunday People by taking out a libel action against the owners Odhams Newspapers Ltd and the player Danny Hegan , was an attempt to clear his name and retrieve his integrity rather than a money making scheme . |
| 23 | I 'd just like to second that it was a good day and also to point out as the er man who made the postcards we should n't get too excited about this as a money making scheme . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the reasons we want to become a university is to be on a level playing field in terms of recruiting students . |
| 25 | Again , one of the objectives of the company law harmonisation programme is to remove such obstructions and create a level playing field in corporate management structures . |
| 26 | To change this , a level playing field for the taxation of business profits and gains should be established , which would make it easier for businesses to move between different corporate structures . |
| 27 | Particular concerns were that there would be a level playing field with regard to technology access and specifications , and that fair licensing policies would be followed . |
| 28 | Although Stratus faces growing competition from HP in its own markets , it says the latter has ‘ guaranteed equal access to the Precision chip — a level playing field . ’ |
| 29 | The R-Series is also supported by a wide range of applications , and the MIPS market is a level playing field , not dominated by a Sun Microsystems . |
| 30 | What we want to do is to introduce a standard level of discount for everyone , a level playing field . ’ |