Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a payment made under pressing necessity to avoid a seizure of goods , or to obtain the release of goods unlawfully detained , or to prevent some interference with or withholding of a legal right , is compelled and not voluntary and is recoverable in an action for money had and received . |
| 2 | However , the ‘ great white hare ’ is most likely a ruse invented by long-ago Cornish pirates and smugglers who wanted to deter people from walking along the shore on a brightly moonlit night . |
| 3 | Government troops on Jan. 21 claimed to have overrun a base used by ethnic Mon guerrillas near Bokpyin township in the south-east ; the death toll was given as 10 rebels and one government soldier . |
| 4 | Similarly , the buyer 's terms of purchase might contain a provision to deal with late delivery : ( a ) If the Seller fails to deliver the goods in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Buyer is entitled to terminate the contract with immediate effect . |
| 5 | It is one of the few new entries to a chart dominated by old favourites . |
| 6 | It is not , er this evidence does not go to a matter of law er er and the duty but it matter of practice and my Lord what this case is dealing with is about what if , what is or should be the practice of a solicitors engaged in commercial conveyancing as to the advice that is given to clients and er my Lord the er commercial conveyancing is obviously a matter which particularly concerns . |
| 7 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 8 | The plane was no longer controllable , flight was a scientific impossibility — it felt like a submarine ploughing through thick oil , rather than an aircraft knifing through rarefied air . |
| 9 | Mr Bourne mentioned a fuse incorporated in plaited binder-twine ; this would explain the deep scorch marks . |
| 10 | In ‘ Le Bonnheure Illustre/1 ’ , Messager makes references to fantastic adventures , scenarios of solitude and exoticism ; she pictures an angler alone in contemplation , an austere eagle , a skater whirling in endless elegance . |
| 11 | It has a unity rooted in natural logic . |
| 12 | Down below , in the gallery below him and Hasan , the Husayn twins and Khan were dancing round a case stuffed with priceless porcelain . |
| 13 | On Oct. 29 a court in Multan , Punjab , had thrown out a case brought by militant Islamic groups against a Moslem social activist Akhtar Hameed Khan who was accused of blasphemy . |
| 14 | This independent assessment results in a judgment being made about the likelihood , based on that evidence , of a court finding a case proved beyond reasonable doubt . |
| 15 | and they assured us there would be a bit incorporated for audio description , so what it was , was half of us entrance into the lighted sound box , cut off , it was a , sort of triangular , but erm , to see out the window |
| 16 | Any such deep body of liquid is likely to rise to a level corresponding to isostatic equilibrium , and there would be none of the observed mascons . |
| 17 | Gone are the days when the , existence of a signed building contract merely reflected a formality required by prudent businessmen . |
| 18 | Jimmy Marshall returned in the 60s to lead Bullroar , a rising left to right traverse offering quality climbing and tremendous exposure . |
| 19 | Slightly less willing to react is a chassis afflicted by over-light steering that lacks feel . |
| 20 | The tapes , the same ones I have back at Mr Shah 's cumin-scented hotel , neatly stacked on a shelf made from a tea-chest draped with Somali cloth . |
| 21 | These bands are juniors in a hegemony established by Live Aid , that unprecedented feat of anxiety , in which the likes of Quo , Dire Straits , U2 , Phil Collins , even Boy George , closed ranks , created , as well as a spectacle of pop unity , an unbeatable mediocracy . |
| 22 | This raises the question whether the education of children in rural communities is prejudiced by the imposition of a curriculum devised for urban conditions . |
| 23 | A curriculum conceived in instrumental terms ( i.e. as the mediator between teacher and taught ) or a crisis-based pastoral system are both powerful examples of this . |
| 24 | Chanan has questioned the basic analysis of national needs employed by the DES , as we have already mentioned ; he goes on to propose a curriculum based on personal values . |
| 25 | For example , a chimp may learn an association between poking a stick into termite mounds and extracting a stick covered with edible termites . |
| 26 | However , this was not without some opposition : in 1139 a council presided over by Pope Innocent II banned the crossbow as a barbarous weapon unfit for Christian use , a decision confirmed by Innocent III . |
| 27 | And in Ansiminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission it was held that a statutory provision that decisions of the Commission were not to be ‘ called in question in any court of law ’ was ineffective to exclude the quashing of a decision vitiated by jurisdictional error of law : its only effect was to prevent a decision being quashed for non-jurisdictional error of law . |
| 28 | The pilot studies on management budgeting which tried to make clinicians accountable for a budget related to agreed workload targets demonstrated the difficulties of getting clinical cooperation on a voluntary basis and the massive efforts of persuasion and education needed for success ( Harrison et al. |
| 29 | If we house them we need to look after all the people , we make no apologies for the fact that this is a budget slanted towards equal opportunities and to an anti-poverty strategy and that is something that we will fight to preserve and we would expect support from at least some quarters in order to achieve an egalitarian status in this city . |
| 30 | O2 Technology SA , the object-oriented database start-up in Versailles , says it has signed a partnership agreement with Paris-based Ingenia SA , a consultancy specialising in object-oriented technology , artificial intelligence and man-machine interfaces : under the non-exclusive agreement , Ingenia will sell O2 to its clients in the defence , agro-chemical and automotive industries ; O2 is an object-oriented database that has yet to make its mark as a commercial success ; an O2 spokeswoman said Ingenia has great expectations of the potential of O2 to be used for a large number of its applications . |