Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Southwood , phytophagy arose from both saprophagy , the consumption of decaying or at least dying plants , and from feeding on fallen propagules including spores and pollen grains , which led to living on the strobili themselves , a route followed by the extinct insect orders , Dictyoneurida and Diaphanopterida . |
| 2 | After all , if you 're a superstar , it 's no good admitting that you found a route given three grades easier than your latest creation anything but a path ! |
| 3 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 4 | It forms down a route called Terminal Wall on Creag Tharsuinn . |
| 5 | On nearby Beinn an Lochain , a route called the Frog does n't stir the same dread , perhaps reasonably so as it is a II/III crossing Toad , and put up by Tom Redfern and Klaus Schwartz . |
| 6 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 7 | Riding to hounds , taking fences and obstacles along a route dictated by the fox is a very skilled activity . |
| 8 | Soldiers dressed in this fashion guard the entrance to the Black Fire Pass , one of the few overland routes across the mountains and a route favoured by Orc raiders . |
| 9 | We noticed now a trail of well-trodden snow winding back towards the shore , obviously a route known to be safe by the experienced locals . |
| 10 | Glamis Castle is most famous for its association with Macbeth , and Shakespeare 's hero is said to still bemoan the murder of King Duncan , appearing to walk on the roof , taking a route known as The Mad Earl 's Walk . |
| 11 | Instead , the demonstrators marched along a route agreed with the authorities to the Olympic Stadium , across the north of the city . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ The driver flourished a street plan , with a route marked in red . |
| 13 | Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) . |
| 14 | Without proper maps he followed a route set by compass , boiling up pemmican and glucose for food and sleeping under the stars in a sleeping bag at night . |
| 15 | I did make my escape from Roundhay — by a route taken by many of my contemporaries : higher education . |
| 16 | Accompanied by his wife Winnie Mandela , Nelson Mandela was driven from the prison 60 km to Cape Town along a route lined by thousands of supporters . |
| 17 | If we did n't get a move on there would n't be a route left to do ! |
| 18 | Employees may , for example , receive flat-rate payments , allowances based on a percentage of their salary , or a payment based on a number of weeks ' salary . |
| 19 | In these cases it may be appropriate after advising the insured of the position , to offer to make a payment based upon importing average into the contract and applying average to the amount of the claim . |
| 20 | " And would there be a payment involved do you think ? " |
| 21 | It is clear that a payment made by him for goods bought is binding , though payment could not have been enforced against him . |
| 22 | Furthermore , a payment made on the same basis as that in the case of Adams v G K N Sankey Ltd mentioned in Chapter 16 would probably also fall within the second category . |
| 23 | A payment made by a third party to a company 's employee , but taxable under Sch E as arising from his employment , was subject to deduction of income tax at source under the PAYE Regulations , according to the High Court in Booth v Mirror Group Newspapers plc [ 1992 ] STI 662 . |
| 24 | In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement . |
| 25 | It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care . |
| 26 | Unless the workers employed in a producers ' co-operative are the final custodians of its affairs , the bonus — or better , the bounty — remains a payment made as an act of grace ; and the co-operative is not properly so-called . |
| 27 | There is , of course , no doubt that a payment made in response to an unlawful demand under duress or compulsion may be recovered . |
| 28 | Walton J. did not purport to decide the case on the basis of a payment made under a mistake of law and I agree with the doubts expressed by Romer J. in Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , as to this being a true case of money paid under a mistake of law having regard to the plaintiffs ' expressions as to their understanding of the law at the time of the payments . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On the one hand , so as to exclude recovery , the present was not a payment made under mistake of law nor was there any payment to avoid threatened litigation . |