Example sentences of "a [noun sg] is [verb] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a measure of ambivalence is quite usual , it is at this point that a decision is made about going public . |
| 2 | When a member of a board is disqualified from voting in a particular application , he should vacate his scat during the hearing : R. v. London County Council [ 1892 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 3 | When a retailer is thinking of opening a shop , or a multiple chain wants to open a new branch , there are four things they need to get right : place product price promotions |
| 4 | Wine destined as a reserve is fortified before going into the estufa . |
| 5 | A hernia is repaired by returning the contents of the sac ( usually a loop of bowel ) into the peritoneal cavity , excising the sac of the hernia and repairing the muscle wall by suturing . |
| 6 | A quota is established by dividing the total number of valid votes by the number of members to be elected plus one , and rounding up or adding one to the quotient . |
| 7 | The swingweight of a club is calculated after measuring the length of the club and the weight of the clubhead . |
| 8 | Where a defendant is debarred from defending altogether or the whole of his defence is struck out , the plaintiff may have judgment entered for his claim and costs ( N 30 ) ( Ord 22 , r 5 ) . |
| 9 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 10 | Normally , the current flowing in a circuit is measured by connecting an ammeter into the circuit . |
| 11 | Thus if a test is given for diagnosing a difficulty it seems less relevant to decide on a boundary score than to obtain details of the nature of the difficulty . |
| 12 | In both of the novels a heroine is involved for committing herself to do something important enough only as itself for example , Elizabeth Bennet walks three fatiguing miles to Netherfield to pay a visit to her ill sister ; Fanny Price opposes her cousins ' attempts to include her in amateur theatricals . |
| 13 | Similarly , if a director is thinking of selling the company in the near future , but continuing in the same employment thereafter , it might be better not to restrict salary . |
| 14 | In defining modules in terms of student effort a basis is achieved for comparing arts and science modules with their differing class contact time . |
| 15 | To enable the user to make more effective use of the microcomputer , a device is needed for putting programs into the microcomputer quickly . |
| 16 | However , in retrieving documents from a database holding the contents of a library , or when a request is based on meeting several different criteria , the situation is quite different . |
| 17 | The hon. and learned Member for Montgomery ( Mr. Carlile ) is right — when a person is charged with taking and driving away , there is a collective responsibility on all those in the car . |
| 18 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 19 | The applicable law , if a person is accused of committing a crime in this country , is to be found in section 6(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , which provides that : |
| 20 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 21 | there 's a psychological as aspect in some so much that if they think that a policeman is gon na walk round the corner er , they 're not so keen on doing it . |
| 22 | If a module is modified without correcting a known fault then , theoretically , the SPR reporting the fault and any responding SSRs should be updated to reference the new version of the module . |
| 23 | It may not sound like much to get excited about but for enthusiasts even the merest chance of a sighting is somehting worth turning out for . |
| 24 | If a procedure is prescribed for making the rule it must be followed , unless the procedure is directory rather than mandatory . |
| 25 | If a tariff could be used to protect the domestic industry , the optimal value for such a policy is derived by maximizing ( 20 ) with respect to t . |
| 26 | In other words it places a ceiling above which such a pupil is prevented from rising . |
| 27 | Training by association or ‘ correction-praise' works on the principle that a dog is motivated by knowing that a good action is followed by pleasure and reward and a bad action is followed by correction . |
| 28 | The relationship of a hole to a block is established by indicating that the geometric domain of the space called " hole " lies within the space called " block " , as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 29 | According to Core Rule 28 , a firm is prohibited from carrying out a transaction ( either in the UK or elsewhere ) for its own account ( or on the account of an associate acting on its own account ) , if its associate , or employee of either , is prohibited from effecting the transaction by virtue of the CSA 1985 . |
| 30 | If a man is suspected of having gonorrhoea , examination of the discharge from his urethra will demonstrate the organism in over 90 per cent of the cases when it is there . |