Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made money in a way as important as guns — if they could find enough . |
| 2 | We may be quite right to ascribe agency to a child for his acts . |
| 3 | Would that make sense in a Cathedral setting , eh Tallboy ? ’ |
| 4 | The care of healthy , dependent children due to suffer bereavement as a result of the HIV epidemic in Lothian should be addressed while the problem is still in its infancy . |
| 5 | It is also possible to isolate part of a design at any time and save just that section on to disk for future use . |
| 6 | The Court had jurisdiction to hear an originating summons on the question of the Inland Revenue 's right to demand information in a situation where the taxpayer had no statutory right of appeal against the demand , and a failure to comply with the demand would result in a penalty . |
| 7 | But this did little to consolidate control over a country claimed but not subdued and when Duke Philip of Burgundy broke from his alliance with the English to pledge support for Charles VII at Arras in 1435 , the days of English rule in France were numbered . |
| 8 | It would be possible to absorb provocation into a wider notion of ‘ extreme emotional disturbance ’ , as the American Model Penal Code does , so that the key to mitigation would be the extent of the defendant 's psychological disturbance at the time of the killing rather than the reasons for it . |
| 9 | It is now possible to infer pH with a standard error of about 0.3 pH units . |
| 10 | It is a small mollusc , the size of a mussel , that starts life as a tiny free-swimming speck of jelly . |
| 11 | So it 's wrong to see federalism in a sense as an equal partnership between the states and the , and the central government it is biased towards central government , always has been so and has in become increasingly biased towards it i in modern times . |
| 12 | In my mind this encourages communication on a one-to-one basis therefore reducing power . |
| 13 | Substantial numbers of assistants wanted training in specific skills , particularly behaviour management and first aid , and about half regarded attendance at a training course on the general role of the assistant as important . |
| 14 | However , it also seems clear that it is permissible to argue , in defence to a prosecution for breach of a statute or regulation , that the relevant statutory provision or regulation is ultra vires ; but it is difficult to see how this involves assertion of a ‘ private law right ’ : there is no private law right not to be prosecuted apart from the right not to be prosecuted maliciously . |
| 15 | It would appear foolish to confirm existence of a spiritual state . |
| 16 | This provided cover for a uniformed gunman who opened fire with a sub-machine gun , hitting Boudiaf in the back and the head . |
| 17 | A complete set of insurance markets would allow risk to be transferred from those who dislike risk to those who are prepared to bear risk at a price . |
| 18 | All this reinforces custody in a central position . |
| 19 | Even in the early days , when wage differentials between the two cities were not great , the Edinburgh compositors were considered by their Glasgow colleagues to be lacking in spirit : " The printers [ i.e. compositors ] of Edinburgh had the unenviable reputation of being willing to accept work at a reduced rate in almost any town in the United Kingdom before 1840 . " |
| 20 | Nor , in tight labour markets , would they find the workers willing to accept employment on a temporary basis . |
| 21 | This forces water through a tube formed by the tongue pressed against a groove in the roof of the mouth . |
| 22 | Artegall keeps control and this allows victory over a savage force which appears much larger and more powerful than the knight . |
| 23 | His view is that since there was little chance of a fascist state being formed in Britain the Labour Party ought to have been prepared to tackle fascism in a militant way and to strike a blow against the constitutional approach to politics which simply strengthened capitalism . |
| 24 | Huge old fashioned boiler with a coal fire underneath . |
| 25 | Apart from its legs it resembled an old fashioned typewriter with a carriage and Qwerty keyboard . |
| 26 | Any one of the Co signals is adequate to identify Co in a sample , as most energies can be uniquely associated with one sub-shell of one element . |
| 27 | This reveals law as a politically constructed , ideologically formulated institution , which has an educative process . |
| 28 | The takeover battle produced an outcome , which was , at the time , the largest ever bid for a British based company by a foreign one . |
| 29 | But if all this forms part of a familiar pattern , why are we still afraid when we read it ? |
| 30 | This forms part of a major research programme funded by the SERC , involving collaboration with chemists at UMIST and physicists at St Andrews . |