Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 15 or so years ago most of us knew pineapple only from cans — who has n't used chunks to make sweet and sour pork , or rings in an upside down cake ? |
| 2 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 3 | Allowing the taxpayers ' appeal , Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson held that in construing a piece of legislation , reference to Parliamentary materials , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , is permissible where three criteria are met : the legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; the material relied on consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill , together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; the statements relied on are clear . |
| 4 | I do not think that is unfair or leads to an unfairness in the trial . |
| 5 | I therefore reach the conclusion , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , that the exclusionary rule should be relaxed so as to permit reference to Parliamentary materials where ( a ) legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; ( b ) the material relied upon consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; ( c ) the statements relied upon are clear . |
| 6 | ‘ permit reference to parliamentary materials where ( a ) legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; ( b ) the material relied upon consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; ( c ) the statements relied upon are clear . ’ |
| 7 | Parliamentary material is admissible where the legislation is ambiguous , uncertain or leads to an absurdity . |
| 8 | Pepper v. Hart ( i ) admits statements by a minister or other promoter of a Bill , where the resultant statute is ambiguous , obscure or leads to an absurdity ; however , ( ii ) the statements must be ‘ clear ’ and ( iii ) may be supported by other parliamentary material ‘ as is necessary to understand such statements ’ . |
| 9 | Legislation Which is Ambiguous or Obscure , or Leads to an Absurdity |
| 10 | The clear implication of Pepper v. Hart is that reference to parliamentary material is only permissible where the legislative text is obscure , ambiguous , or leads to an absurdity . |
| 11 | This means that if a person intends to cause a policeman to react unlawfully , and uses threats , abuse or insults in an attempt to cause the policeman to overreact , he commits the offence if the other ingredients are proved to have occurred . |
| 12 | If the plan is small scale or consists of an extract of the Ordnance Survey map it is suggested that the verbal description should prevail . |
| 13 | By section 296 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act , devices or means specifically designed or adapted to circumvent copy-protection of works issued to the public in electronic form are controlled by treating the making , importation , sale or hire , possession in the course of business , etc. of the devices or means as an infringement of copyright . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the notion of education as an instrument , or means to an end , was subject to pressures of a quite different kind . |
| 15 | Whether the Centre Mondial succeeds or fails as an exclusively French institution , or is reborn as an international entity , the ideas and purposes underlying its foundation will survive . |
| 16 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 17 | At this point , the family probably can not yet afford a high quality modern house , but for reasons of status it still decides to move into a sub-standard , ill-constructed house built with modern materials , a house that turns into an oven during the summer and generates demand for electrically-powered cooling devices . |
| 18 | It 's one of the most inefficient ways to produce food ; for every pound of animal grain that goes into an animal , we get far less in terms of meat . |
| 19 | It is left with one unused electron that sits in an isolated energy level in the middle of the energy gap . |
| 20 | Minke and Selinger have speculated that the trp gene codes for a plasma membrane channel that interacts with an IP 3 R to gate calcium through the capacitative mechanism described earlier . |
| 21 | Like all animals we come from one cell that develops into an embryo which forms the adult . |
| 22 | That insignificant little tickle that develops into an eye-watering , throat-gripping , lung-bursting agony when you 're not allowed to let it out . |
| 23 | This logic is set out in a manner that illustrates in an exemplary way the structuralist intention to map out all the possibilities of literature as distinct from its actual manifestations . |
| 24 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 25 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 26 | if if the stories of are to be believed , and who would doubt him , is that the kind of person that wants as an ambassador in Europe ? |
| 27 | They know , too , all the secret places of the bank : the nest of sandbags built during the War for the Home Guard ; the ruins of Marsh Edge Farm that lies in an angle of the tip hidden from the town ; the steps , cut in the slag-face , that lead down to the Ironworks Pier from which they can watch the boats . |
| 28 | Shocking , ghastly ( a man with a scrotum down to his knees , a baby that looks like an egg … ) , |
| 29 | Several people have seen an animal on the moor that looks like an enormous hound . |
| 30 | The one that looks like an f . |