Example sentences of "[det] [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We would n't encourage anything which was risky , and some were a bit near the mark . ’ |
| 32 | ’ This is a departure from the present law , which requires that ownership should be obtained ( Kilham ( 1870 ) L.R. 1 C.C.R. 261 , mentioned in paragraph 89 ; Ball [ 1951 ] 2 K.B . |
| 33 | This is a departure from the Circulars it replaces , and must be made good . |
| 34 | This is a departure from the administration of legal aid prior to the new Board coming into force . |
| 35 | This is a departure from the soul-searching that has gone on since Hayes v Malleable Working Men 's Club and Institute [ 1985 ] ICR 703 , of trying to find a useful comparative male illness ( prostate operation ? arthritic hips ? ) to emulate a medical condition comparable to the inconvenience caused to employers by a female employee 's pregnancy . |
| 36 | This is a celebration of Puccini in trivial mood , a collection of songs written for odd occasions at odd moments through his career . |
| 37 | This is a whole of a mish-mash , I think we ought to go back to what we did in nineteen ninety two , its the twenty ninth of January and to confer the rights of tenants and other occupiers of land to allow or stop fox hunting or any other hunting over land in their care and least trust some people instead of this business of we know best . |
| 38 | ‘ This is a friend of Bheki , ’ said Mr Thabane . |
| 39 | ‘ Mum , this is a friend of mine , Patrick Kelly . |
| 40 | This is a grandaddy of a long distance path which traverses Wales through some stunning and remote mountain country . |
| 41 | This is a description of an industrial disaster seldom experienced in peacetime conditions . |
| 42 | It has been argued that this is a description of a patinated alloy . |
| 43 | This is a description of Mnemba Club , one of the private island paradises featured in CV Travel 's Different World brochure . |
| 44 | This is a total of 23 000 tonnes : in 1978 the tanker Amoco Cadiz deposited nearly 223000 tonnes on the coasts of Brittany . |
| 45 | As well as a means of publicising information this is a document of some importance administratively , since without it the register would be cluttered , to a greater extent than it is , with files of moribund companies abandoned by their members . |
| 46 | Tied to this is a faith in the competence of epistemology to evaluate different forms of knowledge such that the ‘ scientific ’ and ‘ rational ’ can be distinguished and privileged as superior forms of knowledge to the ‘ ideological ’ . |
| 47 | Erm , the other important point I think , if by way of introduction , is in paragraph two , and that is , just to make it quite clear that this is a transfer of funding where people previously went to the Department of Social Security and claimed Income Support in order to assist them in accessing services that were provided by the voluntary and private sector . |
| 48 | A sale by a former husband to the former wife of property or his interest therein should incur no inheritance tax liability if at full value , but if a sale takes place at an under value on the basis that a benefit is intended this is a transfer of value for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 49 | This is a transfer from one account to another . |
| 50 | This is a percentage of the selling price of these music products . |
| 51 | While Roderick et al ( 1982 ) in their study of English universities report that only 25.9% of unqualified mature students obtain a ‘ good ’ degree , this is a percentage of all entrants rather than graduates , and is therefore not directly comparable with Bourner and Hamed and Walker 's figures . |
| 52 | Of those that did , the best is on the vaulted ceiling of what was a college chapel but is now a space occupied by a marble staircase , This is a Glory of Angels and was painted by the Neapolitan artist Giovan Battista Sassi who worked in the city during the early years of the eighteenth-century . |
| 53 | According to Lakatos , a field of enquiry is a science if it conforms to the methodology of scientific research programmes and is not if it does not , bearing in mind that this is a conjecture to be tested against the history of physics . |
| 54 | After the Newcastle upon Tyne hearing , Tracey — who now refuses to work for men — said : ‘ I hope this is a warning to men harassing girls at work . ’ |
| 55 | This is a response to sustainable management policies which encourage growth and entail the maintenance of forests , not at optimum timber volume but at optimum growth rates . |
| 56 | This is a response to the conviction of two forensic medical examiners of the manslaughter of a prisoner for whom they had prescribed methadone . |
| 57 | Perhaps this is a response to desiccation . |
| 58 | This is a response from workers who are perhaps seeking a respite from a tedious job , or who wish to defy what they regard as an oppressive management . |
| 59 | This is a choice between two types of reading , in that one can choose between them on the basis of whether the novel 's contradictions are to be articulated and sustained in the act of reading ( " rhetorically aware " ) or suppressed by the reading ( " aesthetically responsive " ) . |
| 60 | This is a defence of innocent publication of an advertisement . |