Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What reassurance does it give to people who might suffer damage due to a change in groundwater level when the Bill permits the Secretary of State to weaken the groundwater provisions ? |
| 2 | The electric field due to a sheet of charge |
| 3 | They thought that was a bit steep for a quarter of an hour 's work and sent back the bill with a request to itemize it . |
| 4 | By avoiding variations in vowel preparation ( apart from the two patients with ileostomies ) any such effect due to a change in diet should be equivalent in the UC and control patients . |
| 5 | ‘ Alexander died from a broken neck due to a fall from his horse . |
| 6 | In the cold light of day Celtic 's win will have been seen to do nothing other than reduce the gap between them and Rangers in the Premier Division from 12 to ten points , which is hardly the signal for predicting immediate transformation within the club bereft of a trophy since 1989 . |
| 7 | Draftsmen have sometimes attempted to link the rent payable under a lease to movements in an official index , such as the Index of Retail Prices ( as happened in Blumenthal v Gallery Five Ltd ( 1971 220 EG 33 ) . |
| 8 | The indication of such relationships helps the searcher and the indexer to select the most specific term available as a label for any given concept in the thesaurus . |
| 9 | Not to have taken action , she said , would have laid her department open to a charge of negligence . |
| 10 | This will cause economic disruption comparable with a hike in oil prices or interest rates . |
| 11 | Certificate under section 1(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 that point of law of general public importance involved in decision , namely , ‘ Whether the words ‘ office or employment ’ in section 16(2) ( c ) of the Theft Act 1968 extend to the engagement of an independent contractor pursuant to a contract for services . ’ |
| 12 | It is the conflict between the players in any drama which heightens or when necessary relaxes the tension necessary for a climax to the plot . |
| 13 | If North Shields was to become a viable shopping centre and attract the kind of investment necessary for a scheme on the scale being envisaged in the 1960s and 1970s , then population and purchasing power had to be drawn into the town centre . |
| 14 | And then , early one morning , when the affair was still unsettled and he could see the Indian girl asleep on a sofa with one arm through the strap of her handbag and the sari drawn over it , a delayed flight from Jamaica arrived with twelve unaccompanied West Indian children on board . |
| 15 | One amendment would make any hospital opt-out plan subject to a ballot of local people . |
| 16 | Salon girl topless in a book of haircuts |
| 17 | It was a fact Adrian Warburton was out on an early air test prior to a sortie in AR735 . |
| 18 | The librarian had also found the committee helpful in a number of ways by going beyond the narrow terms of the funding itself . |
| 19 | A motorist involved in a crash on the M-four motorway in which ten people died has been found guilty of careless driving . |
| 20 | The law applicable to a contract by virtue of articles 3 to 6 and 12 of this Convention shall govern in particular : ( a ) interpretation ; ( b ) performance ; ( c ) within the limits of the powers conferred on the court by its procedural law , the consequences of breach , including the assessment of damages in so far as it is governed by rules of law ; ( d ) the various ways of extinguishing obligations , and prescription and limitations of actions ; ( e ) the consequences of nullity of the contract . |
| 21 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 22 | The final twenty minutes saw play confined to the middle third of the pitch as both linesmen became rather flag happy with a succession of offside decisions which infuriated players and crowd alike . |
| 23 | By 1013 , when his arrival in the Danelaw implies a change of tactic consequent upon a change of purpose , this had happened . |
| 24 | 3i , owned by the Bank of England and the high street banks , decided at the end of last year to put off flotation due to a plunge in the market . |
| 25 | English-speaking countries , however , have been relatively unaware of this activity because of language barriers , or if aware of any aspect of it have turned a blind eye due to a lack of understanding of the background of the method or a disinterest in the findings of Quantum Physics . |
| 26 | Apple 's Macintosh coupled with the new generation of page printers made the process possible at a cost within the reach of tens of thousands of individuals rather than a few hundreds . |
| 27 | The epithelial cells lining the lung and gut have a failure of ion transport due to a mutation of the gene coding for a cell membrane protein , the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator . |
| 28 | Hopelessness and reluctance are blown away like a fog and the dumb solitude where they crept , a place desolate as a crack in the ground , opens like a rose and stretches to the hills and the sky . |
| 29 | We were never given any long period free from a fight from the coast to a target and hack … |
| 30 | After adzing , a finer finish is achieved on the bench using a travisher ; a tool similar to a spokeshave with the blade rounded along its length . |