Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goes on an hour |
| 2 | it goes , it goes on an hour |
| 3 | This represents perhaps an indication of the forced nature of the experience — forced by the combination of the sensation of immobility of REM sleep in association with the rich visual experience offered by the overactive hindbrain . |
| 4 | The Profitboss rarely turns down an invitation to speak at a conference , seizing the opportunity to present his company in the best light , to fine-tune his own professional skills . |
| 5 | Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's ! |
| 6 | AMD offers only an entry level design tool — a personal computer-based system called Palasm — preferring to concentrate its efforts on chip design . |
| 7 | Style offers only an illusion of democracy , an illusion , indeed , that in a capitalist society is a necessary part of the leisure process . |
| 8 | One important question in this area awaits a final answer : if , on its proper construction , the statutory authority exempts the undertaker from Rylands v. Fletcher liability and imposes only an obligation to use due care , upon whom does the burden of proof lie ? |
| 9 | In its most basic form the technique involves merely an outline , or when it is filled in , a silhouette ; but of course it can be much more elaborate than that . |
| 10 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 11 | Since he has only an option and does not legally commit himself to buy the goods , the contract is not one of sale , Helby v. Matthews ( 1895 H.L. ) . |
| 12 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |
| 13 | Schedule 4 to the rules contains both an application and an affidavit ( Forms 6.4 and 6.5 ) , see Appendix C , forms 9 and 10 . |
| 14 | Albion Bank has both an asset and liability . |
| 15 | As for the WRI files , I 've yet to come across a shareware program that has n't an ASCII file as well as a WRI file — and you do n't HAVE to print it . |
| 16 | And it was very very interesting , he has quite an assortment of them , but he has n't , |
| 17 | ICL now has quite an array of Unixes running on its systems , from a Unix System Labs-derived , Sun Microsystems Inc SunOS-compatible Unix SVR4 on its Sparc-based DRS6000 series , to USL Unix SVR4 on the Intel DRS3000 servers , down to this latest shrink-wrapped offering and SCO stuff at the low-end . |
| 18 | In general terms , if you machine currently has either an MFM or RLL drive , investing in a cacheing controller card for it will be an unwise investment — assuming you can find one , that is . |
| 19 | In the motel room the phone rings again an hour later . |
| 20 | NED SHERRIN presides over an hour of entertaining , provocative talk and badinage with special guests EMMA FREUD and JOHN WALTERS live on Radio 4 from the Elmwood Hall . |
| 21 | Every Saturday morning Ned Sherrin presides over an hour of entertaining and provocative talk , exchanging ‘ bon mots ’ and badinage with the guests . |
| 22 | Suppose a State not a party to the Vienna Convention accepts orally an obligation under another treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 23 | Yet for ten novels of adventure using this formulaic , superficial method there will be one , if we can find it , which by stretching the convention of improbable excitement by an acceptance of human nature both as it is and as it can be , offers not an escape but an enlargement of life through imagination . |
| 24 | A chimney fascia fits over an island unit or covers an existing chimney . |
| 25 | In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 26 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 27 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 28 | ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 29 | ‘ In Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 the House of Lords held that ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation … involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of [ the owner 's ] rights . ’ |
| 30 | Self-defence does , but the insanity defence establishes only an excuse . |