Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 2 | ‘ ( 1 ) A party to a contract ‘ deals as consumer ’ in relation to another party if — ; ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) … the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 3 | A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 4 | Section 12(1) of UCTA 1977 provides as follows : 12 – ( 1 ) A party to a contract " deals as consumer " in relation to another party if ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act , the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 5 | It will be seen from the above comments that the local banks through their Trade Finance Division are in a position to offer real help — it would be foolish to ignore it . |
| 6 | However , if the two are integrated , those running the body-making division are in a weaker position if asked to make changes , since they have no independent control rights over the assets they manage . |
| 7 | People with high levels of blood cholesterol are at an increased risk of a heart attack . |
| 8 | But the books a writer fails to write in his adolescence are of a different nature from the books he fails to write once he has announced his profession . |
| 9 | In temperament , age and policy , government and parliament are in a state of perpetual conflict . |
| 10 | In the central Philippine city of Cebu , meanwhile , negotiations with the 200 army rebels who seized an air force base are at a stalemate . |
| 11 | In the central Philippine city of Cebu , meanwhile , negotiations with the 200 army rebels who seized an air force base are at a stalemate . |
| 12 | The differences studied in the quantitative paradigm are of a particular and limited kind : they are socially , but not linguistically , meaningful . |
| 13 | He notes that ‘ men are hardly to be brought to think that sweetness and whiteness are not really in manna ’ , but this does not lead him to question his declared view that sweetness and whiteness are on a par with the ‘ ideas of sickness and pain' , ideas which ‘ are not in the manna , but effects of its operations on us , and are nowhere when we feel them not ’ . |
| 14 | Three Polish medics based at Krakow University are on a three-week fact-finding trip to Teesside . |
| 15 | The Jamaican and British varieties of Jamaican Creole are in a dynamic relationship . |
| 16 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 17 | I would ask those concerned if they could be patient and given time I will refund all money owing to them including any interest that would have accrued had their money been in a bank . |
| 18 | McDonough is now likely to team up with McGavin in attack on the long run in with Hopkins filling Martin 's role on the right , but the Layer Road worries at present are of a defensive nature . |
| 19 | trustees comprise persons for the purposes of income tax ; 2. they comprise a separate entity liable to tax on monies they receive or which they are entitled to receive ; 3. the main inroads into that separateness and liability are of a restricted nature as explained in the Reid 's Trustees case ; these inroads are : ( a ) in certain cases ( but not all ) where a trustee mandates income direct to a beneficiary the trustee will not be liable to tax ( Williams v Singer ) ; ( b ) in the case of a life interest trust a see-through or conduit approach is adopted for identification of source purposes so that the origin and parentage of the income is not changed by virtue of its journey through the trust ( Archer-Shee v Baker ) ; ( c ) if income arises to the trustees of a life interest trust ( subject to deductions for expenses ) it is taxable upon the life tenant whether or not he actually takes the money ( Spen 's case ) . |
| 20 | The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season . |
| 21 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 22 | Mountain Crash has been off the course since his Cottenham run , but may reappear in the Ladies ' Open , in which recent winners Easy Over , Royal Sting , Shedid and Takeover Bid are among a good entry . |
| 23 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |
| 24 | He borrowed a guitar half-way through the band 's set at Leeds ' Astoria Centre and announced to the audience : ‘ This one might sound a bit strange , the dots on the neck are in a different place . ’ |
| 25 | He declared that ‘ discipline , order , morality and civilisation are on a higher level out there than in China ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 26 | Essentially the best tennis game I have played on any computer , the graphics and characterisation are in a class of their own . |
| 27 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 28 | At least the enemy are in a similar situation probably much worse off then we are judging by the amount of shells passing over our heads to fall in their positions . |
| 29 | Huggy Bear are like a fractious baby , communicating their youthful frustration through noise , abrasive confrontation and complete confusion , screaming out at the unfairness of a world they do n't fully comprehend . |
| 30 | In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ . |