Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.

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31 If a lavatory seat is to be responsible then it is more likely to be the male who suffers .
32 A NORTH-EAST soldier is among three who died in an accident in Norway .
33 The agreed plan for a postgraduate institute was on the basis that it would be partly financed by National Health Service funds — a commitment made in writing at the time by the then Scottish health minister , Michael Forsyth .
34 How can my hon. Friend argue that compensation should be given to haemophiliacs because , sadly , they suffered a congenital disease and that a sick person who required a blood transfusion was in a different category ?
35 A county council spokesman said speed checks would be carried out but a final decision on imposing a speed limit was with the Department of Transport .
36 the new policy with regard to the provision of services for the mentally ill , the projected closure of the Hospital and the terms upon which a Feasibility Study is to be prepared .
37 A jumble sale is to be held at the community centre on Friday March 20 at 7pm to raise funds for the centre .
38 A jumble sale is to be held at on Sat. 2nd July ‘ 88 .
39 Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not .
40 Two ways in which the merit of a research programme is to be assessed have emerged from the foregoing outline .
41 The Working Party has met on several occasions and a research project is under way to provide all relevant background information .
42 Unless a turnover system were to be introduced , such as the optional arrangements in Germany , the royalty would only operate in relation to works which are still in copyright works of art either produced by living artists or those who have died within the last fifty years .
43 The conventional image of a rift valley is of a broad , flat-floored and symmetric trough flanked by steep escarpments .
44 A key change was to ‘ remove that part which the Bar told me implied undue interference by the Lord Chancellor , as a minister of the Crown , with the processes of justice .
45 Electric windows and mirrors , central locking , rear heating , rear wash/wipe and a tilt wheel are on all models , but today 's hard-pressed executive has to find another £701 for a sunroof and £1,092 for air conditioning .
46 But if access to the ordinary commercial activity of a shopping precinct were to be blocked for a considerable period at a particularly busy time of day , so that people were prevented from conducting their ordinary business and social affairs , there is a disruption of sufficient significance to warrant the imposition of conditions .
47 The words I have emphasised assume that the depositor who made the deposit will be the same person as the depositor to whom a compensation payment is to be made under section 58 .
48 I heard children 's voices and imagined the château where a fancy-dress party was in full swing .
49 Such a management style was by no means typical of Nigeria alone .
50 A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific , if you are not on the receiving end .
51 A dance floor 's for partners .
52 The obligation may arise from an express term in the lease or may be implied by statute : e.g. the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 , ss. 11 and 12 , which require the landlord to repair the exterior and structure of premises , where the lease of a dwelling house is for less than seven years .
53 IF a dwelling house is in such a state of disrepair as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance , the tenant may lay an information against his landlord alleging the existence of a statutory nuisance under the Public Health Act 1936 .
54 If a portfolio manager is considering investing in a company for 5 years , how much should he be prepared to pay if he finds out from his broker that the company is expected to perform as follows : .
55 In Chelsea Man v Vivat ( cited at 13.8.2 ) a law firm was to be consulted .
56 A rugby match was in progress .
57 The power of a spreadsheet database is in the ability to select just those records you want .
58 The simplest dynamical question that can be posed for curved space–time is to ask what the motion of a test body is in free fall , i.e. under gravitational forces alone .
59 MORE than 300 houses on a Chester estate are to be given a facelift as part of a £5.5m Government scheme .
60 ‘ It was a splendid night and a return match is on the cards . ’
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