Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [Wh det] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 2 | Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate . |
| 3 | ( a ) Suppose we have a computer which will accommodate a matrix of order m , but we require to reciprocate a larger matrix A of order n where |
| 4 | Hymes ' features constitute essentially a checklist which would enable a visiting ethnographer to arrive by helicopter in a location where a communicative event is in process and to check off the detail of the nature of the communicative event . |
| 5 | i.e. wearing a blanket which might suggest a toga . |
| 6 | Such exploitation was compounded by the fact that their tenants obtained only low wages and insecure employment and could not afford a rent which would provide a sufficiently large return to keep the houses in good repair . |
| 7 | Then to South Africa , to witness a vote which will form a page in the world 's history . |
| 8 | At the time of writing , it appears as though Andy Townsend may be missing from the fray — a loss which would represent a cruel blow indeed . |
| 9 | A BUS company is anxiously waiting to hear if a Government minister will break the deadlock over a deal which could bring a Sainsbury superstore to Darlington . |
| 10 | The previous paragraph assumes the existence of a decoding device in the cell , able to translate particular triplets into particular amino acids : such a decoding device is analogous to a machine which could receive a message in Morse code ( corresponding to the base sequence in DNA ) and produce a version written in the roman alphabet ( corresponding to the amino acid sequence of the protein ) . |
| 11 | In any case , standards in conservation science can not be managed by a committee which will become a bureaucratic talking shop , needing endless feeding with papers and briefings , and will doubtless spawn sub-committees . |
| 12 | Fears deepened yesterday that the West German Bundesbank might lift its key lending rates by as much as one full point — a move which could prompt a rise in UK base rates , now 14 per cent . |
| 13 | THE building materials group Ibstock Johnsen is to shut some manufacturing plants in a move which will cost a total of £28 million . |
| 14 | This is a process which may take a number of reruns to achieve what we would consider to be a satisfactory outcome . |
| 15 | I do n't see that in any combination of these Amendments , I very much hope that my Noble Friend will come back at the report stage with our grateful thanks for having found a process which will produce a body of co of o of appointed members on the police authorities of a position to influence but not to determine his policy and that should be an a position , I agree with my Noble Friend , Lord Motterstone subordinate to that of the magistrates . |
| 16 | The rams were revived ; the catapults were improved ; and the invention of the trebuchet provided a weapon which could throw a large stone for a short distance with considerable force . |
| 17 | This may be transformed into the formal APT model as follows : where is a constant which will have a positive value if there is a risk-free asset and are the factor risk premiums . |
| 18 | The convention established the International Civil Aviation Organization with its headquarters in Montreal and set up a secretariat which would become a most effective machine for ensuring that a rapidly developing civil aviation industry was not hampered by the red tape generated by the hundreds of frontiers that would have to be crossed . |
| 19 | The duty will be owed where the landlord knows , or ought to have known , of a defect which would constitute a breach of his obligation to the tenant to repair the premises . |
| 20 | Leaders of the Association of University Teachers , representing university lecturers , are recommending a claim which would mean a 27 per cent pay increase for its 30,100 members . |
| 21 | Erm it it does like this sir that I would imagine that what what we 're after here is a policy which would enable a local authority if it so wished to put into its local plan a strategic site . |
| 22 | Exceptions to the rule as stated above are rarely encountered , which is not surprising given that any such exception must be founded on a policy which can assert a greater claim to the court 's respect than that of open justice . |
| 23 | He tried , says , for a sculpture which would suggest a monolithic stone image , with the inscriptions and Celtic symbolism adding both theatrical and Scottish ingredients . |
| 24 | ‘ ( a ) It is accepted that no civil court ‘ has any power to decide in a manner which would bind a criminal court that evidence of any kind is admissible or inadmissible in that court ’ ( per Lord Wilberforce in the Rank case [ 1982 ] A.C. 380 , 442f ) and that restrictions embodied in the order of the civil court would not bind ‘ an English criminal court … from admitting the information in evidence at a trial : ’ per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , at p. 446e. ( b ) However it is different if the prosecutor is personally restrained from placing the information before the criminal court , because in that scenario no question of admissibility arises . |
| 25 | Decisions in the first half of this century concentrated upon the tenants ' use of property in a manner which could cast a stigma upon " the address " . |
| 26 | Strange said : " Athletes who are in the public eye have a responsibility to conduct themselves in a manner which can set a positive example . |
| 27 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 28 | Illuminative evaluation , in particular , emerged from these projects as a strategy which could include a number of different evaluation methods ( tests , questionnaires , interviews etc ) . |
| 29 | Since it is supported by demographic shifts towards the breakup of the mass audience into niche markets , it is a trend which may become a continuing tradition . |
| 30 | Even in the realm of symbolism Charles did not provide the only precedent : Otto 's father , Henry I , had apparently bought the famous Holy Lance for the cost of a substantial part of what is now Switzerland ; and the Holy Lance was viewed as a talisman which would help a king to victory and as a token to be possessed by any candidate to the empire . |