Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 32 | The power lift appears to have worked with a cable attached to the rear of the plough , which was raised as the other end of the cable was wound on to a shaft . |
| 33 | Co Monaghan Trades Council said a number of quarry firms in the south were threatening to lay off workers because of a recession created by the use of materials from Northern Ireland . |
| 34 | Labour leader Mr Kinnock said : ‘ What our country needed today was a Budget for strengthening Britain and promoting sustainable recovery out of a recession caused by the Government . |
| 35 | The cottage has three downstairs rooms , including a kitchen built into the hillside . |
| 36 | The picture was taken at a function held in the Bridge House , Tullamore , on Friday 12th February 1993 . |
| 37 | The words are then assigned a rating based on the probability of the grammatical transitions that their tags participate in . |
| 38 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 39 | A throne stood in the middle of the desert . |
| 40 | A blade glinted , and as if by magic a crescent appeared on the man 's cheek , with little beads of blood seeping out like juice from an orange . |
| 41 | Only 28 tigers , including three cubs , were found in a census conducted in the Ranthambhore National Tiger Park in Rajasthan , India . |
| 42 | A UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( Minurso ) would then have support from 2,900 civilian , police and military personnel in overseeing the registration of voters ( based on a census compiled by the Spanish authorities in 1974 ) , the political campaigns , and voting in a referendum , to be held by January 1992 . |
| 43 | Montage is a ‘ juxtaposition of images and sounds ’ without ‘ a unity imposed by the director ’ . |
| 44 | A case heard at the Essex Forest Eyre in 1277 illustrates the conflict between municipal privileges and Forest jurisdictions . |
| 45 | As a result of a case heard by the Convention in 1976 , in which the outlawing of homosexuality was considered to be a breach of privacy , homosexual acts between consenting adults over 21 were decriminalised in Northern Ireland . |
| 46 | John was disgraced early in 1290 with his judicial colleagues for failing to prevent the chief justice of the court Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] altering the record of a case heard in the court . |
| 47 | In R v Birmingham Juvenile Court , ex pG [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 726 , a case decided under the old law , it was held that a local authority should always consult the guardian ad litem before applying for leave to withdraw an application . |
| 48 | In R v Plymouth Juvenile Court , ex pF and F [ 1987 ] 1 FLR 169 , a case decided under the old law , the court recognised that a solicitor would find it difficult to carry out the necessary close investigation of the facts without the aid of a guardian ad litem . |
| 49 | In R v Sunderland JC , ex pG [ 1988 ] 2 FLR 40 , a case decided under the old law , the Court of Appeal held that the guardian ad litem 's report should not be disclosed to an independent social worker instructed by a parent unless it could be shown that the evidence of the independent social worker would assist the court . |
| 50 | If the child has already been removed from home under an emergency protection order it may be construed to refer to the period immediately before the emergency order was sought ( see D ( a Minor ) v Berkshire County Council [ 1987 ] 1 All ER 120 , a case decided under the old law on a similar point of interpretation ) . |
| 51 | In R v Manchester Justices , ex pBannister [ 1983 ] 4 FLR 1977 , a case decided under the old law where residence had to be " habitual " rather than ordinary , the court held that a child resides where it eats , drinks and sleeps . |
| 52 | The Marshall case also serves to show how a case decided in the European Court may become a force to bring about change in national law within member states . |
| 53 | In Re Abbott ( a bankrupt ) [ 1983 ] Ch 45 ( a case decided before the Insolvency Act 1986 ) a wife 's petition for divorce sought an order transferring the jointly owned matrimonial home to her . |
| 54 | Such a case emerges from the diary of my great-grandfather , James Taylor , who was a doctor as well as an Evangelical . |
| 55 | Pc Court had threatened to take the force to an industrial tribunal last year alleging sexual discrimination in a case supported by the Police Federation , but Mr Newing agreed she had been disadvantaged after the arbitration service ACAS was brought in . |
| 56 | There an Investigation Officer will consider the documentation and decide whether the solicitor about whom the complaint has been filed has a case to answer within the powers of the SCB . |
| 57 | The point had been successfully made that such a case belonged to the Church 's jurisdiction , not to the Crown 's . |
| 58 | Where a case falls outside the section the common law rule will apply . |
| 59 | What principle determines whether a case falls within the category where adequacy of consideration is relevant ? |
| 60 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |