Example sentences of "a [noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SCOUTMASTER was jailed for 39 months at the Old Bailey yesterday for sexually abusing his seven-year-old daughter and son aged 11 . |
| 2 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 3 | In this latter context , it should be noted that RSC Order 53 rule 3(8) provides that where certiorari is sought to quash any decision which is subject to appeal , and a time-limit is fixed for that appeal , the court may adjourn the application for leave to seek certiorari until the appeal is heard or the time limit for appealing has expired . |
| 4 | ( c ) Procedure for transfer Any party to proceedings may request that a case be transferred to another family proceedings court or to a county court ( FPCR , r6 ) . |
| 5 | As well as wearing film badges , some employees are investigated for internal contamination by radioactive substances if this is believed to have occurred , and one father of a case was tested for internal contamination by uranium in the year before his child had leukaemia diagnosed . |
| 6 | Three years later a branch was opened off this from Crewe Toll eastwards to Leith station , sited near Lindsay Road . |
| 7 | At the death of a king or major chief , a successor is chosen by commoner members of the king 's court , from among several eligible contestants . |
| 8 | A referendum was allowed under Philippine law to overturn legislation or to amend the Constitution if at least 3,000,000 signatures , amounting to 10 per cent of the 30,000,000 electorate , could be gathered in support of it . |
| 9 | You conducted Elektra again in Salzburg in 1964 — I remember Szell , who also knew Strauss , giving you and your cast long and heartfelt applause at the end of the performance — and a Salome was announced for that time , too , which did n't in fact come about for a number of years . |
| 10 | Exploration and appraisal expenditures are defined as intangible fixed assets until a decision is reached concerning commercial viability of the fields to which they relate . |
| 11 | If a decision is taken in any individual case that an attempt is to be made to effect settlement , then negotiations must proceed without delay . |
| 12 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 13 | In addition , a decision was made during 1962 to launch an English language daily . |
| 14 | It is evident that the prosecuting authorities also had in mind to prosecute the applicant for implication in some of Mr. Turner 's offences , but a decision was taken in 1988 , and communicated to the applicant 's solicitors , that proceedings would be put back until after the B.M.F.L. trial . |
| 15 | A decision was taken in 1984 by F.I.S.A. at Pau to create Formula 3000 as a replacement for Formula Two . |
| 16 | Ashida 's views were conveyed to Washington but a decision was taken against separate peace treaties with Germany and Japan . |
| 17 | Thus , if a driver is faced with Red ( Y ) , Amber ( Y ) and Green ( Y ) , the first column indicates that the driver should stop and call the police . |
| 18 | A reduction is promised in human exposure to lead , the EC ban on cadmium use [ see above ] will be supported and all identifiable polychlorinated biphenyls will be phased out and destroyed by 1999. * Water quality . |
| 19 | The relationship between COURSE and LECTURER is many-to-many , that is , one LECTURER lectures on many COURSES and a COURSE is given by many LECTURERS . |
| 20 | For example , in Herriot 's ( 1969 ) experiment , the interpretation of a sentence was influenced by general knowledge about the likely connection between two people , such as a lifeguard and a bather . |
| 21 | Under COHESION ways in which one part of a text is linked to another are considered : for example , the ways in which sentences are connected . |
| 22 | If a TB is issued on 10 January , it will mature on 10 April . |
| 23 | He submitted that the concept of a peculiar domestic law differing from the general law of the land was artificial since in practice the charter and statutes of a university are expressed in ordinary legal language and applied in accordance with the same principles as those applicable under the general law . |
| 24 | According to the Brook model , a response was predicted for 14 of the 40 patients ( 35% ; 95% CI 20–50% ) , with a positive predictive value of 79% and a negative predictive value of 58% . |
| 25 | However , from the gravitational influence of Mercury on the orbit of Mariner 10 a mass was obtained with 5 times less observational uncertainty than radar had yielded , to give a mean density of 5430 kg/m 3 . |
| 26 | A correction is made for any ammonia already in the sample Reduction with Devarda 's alloy is an effective technique . |
| 27 | Five of the print dresses and a cloak were put into general production and the rest , acting as powerful crowd pullers , went on display at various ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops . |
| 28 | A prayer is said by all before three long blasts are blown on the horn by the hornblower . |
| 29 | A prayer was said for Iraqi soldiers , that they might die with the name of Jesus on their lips and be saved from eternal damnation . |
| 30 | However there is one powerful objection that must be considered , namely the so-called ‘ floodgates ’ argument , which is based on the fear that if such a concession were granted to war-tax protesters , the door would then be opened for other tax-refusal campaigns in opposition to various other governmental activities , including , perhaps , opposition to paying tax for welfare . |