Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iv ) Although the claims in these actions are not made for the performance of the obligations under the contracts or as a result of their breach , they do concern matters relating to a contract , since the court is determining the consequences of the nullity of the contracts , particularly with regard to the contractual matters of total failure of consideration and payments under a mistake . |
| 2 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 3 | Sitting on the tall range , its small legs sticking out over the bright brass rail which acted both as a safety barrier round the hotplates and as a place to hang grubby kitchen towels , the small attendant 's face was almost at the same level as the human 's . |
| 4 | Small time offenders in need of psychiatric help are being jailed by the courts because of a rundown of psychiatric hospitals . |
| 5 | Ferguson is prepared to risk Robson because another of United 's Englishmen , Lee Martin , is unlikely to face the Russians because of a stomach bug . |
| 6 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 7 | Servants gathered on the steps and for a while all was confusion as stewards , bailiffs , cooks , huntsmen and pages hurried down to greet the Santerres . |
| 8 | And er I 'll be able to have more room to myself then cos David wo n't be there anyway so I might be able to have one of the bedrooms as like a sitting room to myself or study or something . |
| 9 | In better days , however , it merely served to guarantee the privacy of the sovereigns and as a diversion for the Prince Imperial who enjoyed running up and down it when he came to play with his parents . |
| 10 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 11 | Then the silence was broken by the sound of metal on metal at the far end of the Cages and of a gate being opened , followed by the heavy remorseless tread of Men 's feet . |
| 12 | The feel of a book in her hands was an ancient solace — not , originally , because of what lay between the covers but as a screen , a defence , a shield . |
| 13 | The play is enlivened by the vicious energy of the performances and by a variety of Irish music and dance which ranges from mournful ballads to the jolliest of jigs , transforming what could have been a dreary harangue into an invigorating ensemble work . |
| 14 | A path leads from the car park through the brambles and over a rock slap stile to enter open fields and descent to a lesser ruined mine building . |
| 15 | What makes it more meaningful is that any such authority , whether given in the articles or by a resolution , must state the maximum number of securities which can be issued under it and the date at which the authority will expire . |
| 16 | The goldsmiths noticed that a large proportion of the gold was not withdrawn from the vaults and as a result they seized the opportunity of making profits by granting loans through the issue of ‘ receipts ’ in excess of actual gold deposits . |
| 17 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 18 | Between 1868 and 1885 , only about one-fifth of all English provincial titles were not politically committed to the Liberals or to the Conservatives or to a combination of both . |
| 19 | But I was also terrified of the geese because of a childhood experience — I was chased by a flock and the memory always stayed with me . |
| 20 | Butler 's examination of this policy from 1952 to the 1970s shows that the differences between the average list size of the four different areas have declined , but only slightly over the years and with a number of upward and downward fluctuations . |
| 21 | As I was not pleased with this , and indeed a little sorrowful that my brother should take pleasure in another 's company , I went to bed early and lay listening to the West Wind howling round the turrets and after a while fell into an uneasy slumber . |
| 22 | to the skips and in a fortnight they shut . |
| 23 | Having survived a financial crisis in the early 1980s , thanks to support from the banks and from a staff prepared to agree to a voluntary wage freeze , the paper is now making money and putting on readers , so why has the management now decided to modernise the title ? |
| 24 | Also excluded from registration are ( i ) a charge on goods where the chargee is entitled to possession of the goods or of a document of title to them , ( ii ) a deposit of a negotiable instrument by way of security to secure payment of a book debt and ( iii ) a lien on subfreights . |
| 25 | I asked the VD clinic about the glands while on a routine checkup . |
| 26 | They were motivated partly by concern about the continuing extent of the problems and by a desire to prove that a free trade economy was compatible with social improvement . |
| 27 | " I wonder , " she said , " if a woman could fall into the ways and after a while it would n't bother her . |
| 28 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 29 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 30 | She had walked down the stairs and for a moment been taken for , and almost become , Kettering 's wife . |