Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 2 | 9.8 Perpetuity period The perpetuity period applicable to this Lease shall be [ 80 ] years from the commencement of the Contractual Term and whenever in this Lease either party is granted a future interest in property there shall be deemed to be included in respect of every such grant a provision requiring that future interest to vest within the stated period and for it to be void for remoteness if it shall not have so vested Despite the importance of the rule against perpetuities , it is surprising that most leases granted today make no mention of it . |
| 3 | He points out that such a provision bans any invasion of sovereign territory , air space and maritime zones , even where there might seem to be good grounds . |
| 4 | A chart provides such a structure . |
| 5 | One does not have to be a statistician to discount these results . |
| 6 | Over 400 patients have already been recruited into a trial to test this regimen . |
| 7 | A recession causes many reliable creditworthy consumers to go under ; how safe will new and existing scoring systems now be ? |
| 8 | The Florida land boom , based on the possibilities of the are around Miami as a holiday resort , ended in temporary disaster when a hurricane devastated much of the state in 1926 . |
| 9 | INDIA 'S population is 844m and expanding by almost 18m a year , according to a census published this week . |
| 10 | But they are greedy plants where space is concerned , and it grates a bit to see all that wasted ground around them when they are first planted out . |
| 11 | The others are a bit sprawling those blackbirds I think . |
| 12 | ‘ He was always a bit twisted that way . |
| 13 | He was trying not to cry , and he kept on saying , I 'm shocked , I 'm just a bit shocked that 's all . |
| 14 | In first gear from a standing start , on the level , they ca n't make more than about fifteen miles an hour and they scream a bit doing that . |
| 15 | erm use of erm use of clutch of and gears was a bit needed some more work |
| 16 | He was a bit subdued that day anyway ; the work was n't coming right . |
| 17 | Been bothering me a bit has that . |
| 18 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 19 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 20 | A prediction of the model is that the union is viable only after membership has achieved a certain critical density , and wages are at a level to support this . |
| 21 | The uniform poundage will be set by the government in April 1990 at a level to ensure that , taking account of inflation , the total amount that the business sector pays nationally in 1990–91 figure paid in 1989–90 . |
| 22 | At Chorley , Manager Tony Willis said , ‘ It 's not every day a branch celebrates such an anniversary so we intend to make the most of it ! ’ |
| 23 | The Post Office says it hopes the two sides can come to an agreement at a branch meeting this evening . |
| 24 | The final result of a referendum showed that of the 9,123 native Andorrans eligible to vote 74.2 per cent had said ‘ yes ’ to the changes and only 25.8 per cent ‘ no ’ . |
| 25 | The idea of using a Constitutional Commission and a referendum to endow any new constitution with a special prestige does not alter the fact that within our constitution referenda are of an advisory character only and have not served to limit Parliament 's ultimate discretion . |
| 26 | Making matters worse is that many companies have not hedged themselves against a rising yen this year , expecting the currency not to trade any higher than around the ¥120 level . |
| 27 | ‘ Once the truth becomes apparent , nephew , ’ explained Richard of Gloucester , and I judge there to be no further danger of a rising to place another on the throne or appoint another as Lord Protector , Vaughan and Rivers shall be released — and no harm done . ’ |
| 28 | A more convincing sign of confidence would be a decision to let more soldiers come home from the front . |
| 29 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 30 | unnamed that is not true and I do agree with Mr that when we make a decision to close some homes that they should be named to avoid the terrible indecision which exists at the moment . |