Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 Along a route taking in the castles of Niddry , Cadzow and Craignethan she rallied sympathizers who still regarded her as rightful queen .
2 They 'll cover a route taking in all Ulster hospitals providing services for children .
3 ‘ Yes , ’ The driver flourished a street plan , with a route marked in red .
4 There is , of course , no doubt that a payment made in response to an unlawful demand under duress or compulsion may be recovered .
5 A payment made in respect of a claim arising under this Section where the only damage sustained by such motor car is breakage of glass in the windscreen or the windows ( or any scratching of bodywork resulting solely and directly from such breakage ) shall be deemed not to be a claim under the Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section .
6 ( j ) An example of a dishonest obtaining of exemption from liability to make a payment occurred in Firth .
7 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 .
8 The surroundings , however , are bleak , and interest is confined to the wide expanse of Loch Ewe , an inlet of the sea of considerable extent , commissioned into service during the war as a base to assist in the passage of convoys , when there was a submarine boom across the entrance .
9 This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft .
10 Is a provision required in the accounts for this year and if so , how much should be provided ?
11 ( 2 ) Anything done … or having effect as done , under a provision reproduced in the consolidating Acts has effect as if done under the corresponding provision of the consolidating Acts .
12 For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion .
13 Judging a shoe merely on technical specifications or on a trial fitting in a retail shop is never totally satisfactory .
14 In 1860 the scandalous situation at the Agapemone was exposed in a trial heard in the Court of Chancery , Nottidge v. Prince , when a former member of the Abode of Love sued Prince for the return of her property .
15 When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms .
16 In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government .
17 When he was out of danger and questioned about relatives , he told them , somewhat reluctantly , that he had a sister living in South Africa and gave them Pat 's married name and address .
18 The result was a warrior rising in 1922 , when the members of the Laitetti manyatta refused to disperse .
19 Homer is refreshingly critical about his chosen subject and questioning about the motivation behind such works as the truly horrible ‘ The Agnew Clinic ’ of 1889 which depicts a mastectomy performed in an operating theatre crowded with doctors .
20 Mr Bourne mentioned a fuse incorporated in plaited binder-twine ; this would explain the deep scorch marks .
21 But lasting influence depended not only on some form of regular , close contact , but equally crucially on a sense of affinity , of common inheritance and character , which allowed a grandchild to see in a grandparent a model for his or her own development .
22 In general , however , GIS surely has a function to perform in simulation and role-playing exercises .
23 The picture was taken at a function held in the Bridge House , Tullamore , on Friday 12th February 1993 .
24 In ‘ Le Bonnheure Illustre/1 ’ , Messager makes references to fantastic adventures , scenarios of solitude and exoticism ; she pictures an angler alone in contemplation , an austere eagle , a skater whirling in endless elegance .
25 A throne stood in the middle of the desert .
26 In his later asylums at Gloucester ( 1811 ) and Dundee ( 1812 ) , Stark himself adopted markedly less institutionalized concepts , the former being planned as a crescent set in gardens and the latter as a domestically scaled rural farm .
27 Only 28 tigers , including three cubs , were found in a census conducted in the Ranthambhore National Tiger Park in Rajasthan , India .
28 As far as decline is concerned , a census published in 1987 showed that of the jobs lost between 1979 and 1984 , 94 per cent had been lost in ‘ the north ’ .
29 A census taken in this way each year follows the fortunes of individual species ; it is an indicator of population change , and perhaps of changes in the environment .
30 It has a unity rooted in natural logic .
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