Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was not relevant that the insurer was prepared to make a payment in the event that they did provide insurance cover . |
| 2 | But its opposition also had a base in the property-owning , rural peasantry , and middle-classes , who had in the nineteenth century paid a heavy price for their liberation from oppression and whose status became rooted in their property , land , and livestock . |
| 3 | The police maintained a constant presence in the village setting up a base in the village hall right next door to Mr Eggleton 's house . |
| 4 | On Braeriach , Andy Cunningham and I climbed Phoenix Edge ( IV/V ) on a long day visit on skis , while Brian Davison and I climbed Didgeridoo ( V/VI ) from a base in the bothy . |
| 5 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 6 | The consensus is that working from a base in the area being covered has advantages that outweigh the inconvenience of being unable to just pop in to the sales centre . |
| 7 | However , a provision in the contract to the effect the property does not pass until Y Ltd. has paid the price , will not entirely meet X 's needs . |
| 8 | This meant , inter alia , that a provision in the contract which allowed him to solicit once employment was over did not come into effect until that contractual period was up . |
| 9 | The Minister for Information and Tourism , Hasnu Makame , said that there was a need for a provision in the law for the president to ban a newspaper should this be necessary . |
| 10 | The campaign relies on a provision in the Water Resources Act 1991 , under which company directors are deemed guilty of an offence if their company causes pollution with their " consent or connivance " or if it is " attributable to any neglect " on their part . |
| 11 | A contract was a matter for agreement between the respective parents , although the participants were consulted and there was a provision in the Yasa which prevented particularly women from being married off without their consent . |
| 12 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 271 , the Court of Appeal was concerned with the construction of a provision in the Insolvency Rules 1986 ( S.I . |
| 13 | The House of Lords held that a provision in the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 that required track owners to provide available space for bookmakers on the track , was passed for the benefit of the race-going public rather than bookmakers ( Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium [ 1949 ] AC 398 ) . |
| 14 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 15 | There is a provision in the deed enabling the trustees , in their discretion , to benefit the settlor or the spouse of the settlor . |
| 16 | Any accounting provision arising as a result of SSAP 24 will be included as a provision in the completion balance sheet . |
| 17 | Where the appointment is pursuant to a provision in the debenture then it must be clear that the conditions justifying the appointment have arisen otherwise the receiver will be a trespasser and also liable for conversion . |
| 18 | A provision in the agreement allowed for matters of disagreement to be placed before a conciliation commission . |
| 19 | It is now permissible to look at the report to find the mischief and at the draft Bill to see that a provision in the draft was not included in the legislation enacted : see the Factortame case [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 85 . |
| 20 | Under section 91 , the need to offer pre-emptive rights may be excluded by a provision in the memorandum or articles of a private company — either wholly or in relation to allotments of a particular description . |
| 21 | A further complication dealt with in the sections relates to the effect on sections 89 to 96 when there are different classes of equity shares and a provision in the memorandum or articles that pre-emptive offers of shares of each class shall be made to members of that class . |
| 22 | It 's a chart in the shape of a circle . |
| 23 | A technicality in the job change provided the excuse . |
| 24 | Granny was a galleon in the queue of our boys , glowing and clucking . |
| 25 | I was normally the first RAF person to view the scene , and I find it quite unbearable to attempt to describe the desolation and carnage that confronted one on a hilltop in the isolation and splendour of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 26 | Ask your precious Virgin Mary to give this Romany , or whatever she is , a vocation in the Church , then she 'll never bother any of us again . |
| 27 | He therefore became a part-time student at Sir John Cass School of Art in London , immediately responding to the sympathetic environment and finding a mentor in the teacher , Mick Williamson , who responded enthusiastically to what he was doing . |
| 28 | He therefore became a part-time student at Sir John Cass School of Art in London , immediately responding to the sympathetic environment and finding a mentor in the teacher , Mick Williamson , who responded enthusiastically to what he was doing . |
| 29 | If you have a trial within a trial in the crown court , what happens ? |
| 30 | A warrior in the service of Cesare Borgia , he was stabbed to death in 1501 in a quarrel with another man over possession of a fancy Spanish shirt . |