Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 2 | Some applications companies may also be enamoured by the possibility of using the NetWare Loadable Module to support demo licensing , which replaces ‘ cripple-ware ’ by a full copy of the application that will only run a limited number of times or for a limited length of time . |
| 3 | This demand may be generated through a pre-agreed schedule of transmission times or by a specific design need or crisis . |
| 4 | It is in this last capacity that Hitler 's image as perceived by his loyal ‘ following ’ — functioning within the framework of ‘ charismatic politics ’ — played its crucial role , as not only the leaders of Party and State , but those in responsible intermediary positions — whether for ideological reasons or for a variety of careerist or other motives little related in essence to principled hatred of Jews — ‘ read ’ Hitler 's vaguely expressed ‘ intent ’ as a green light for radicalizing actions which developed their own dynamic and momentum . |
| 5 | The answer they came up with was the cash unit trust — where instead of investing in equities , they invest in high interest cash deposit accounts or into a variety of fixed interest securities such as gilts or local authority bonds . |
| 6 | Existing lighting was supplied by the hazardous open flame of candles , oil lamps or by a steel mill , a method of producing sparks of light by holding a flint against a spinning steel wheel . |
| 7 | This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries . |
| 8 | It could have been caused by extensive lava flows or by a more extreme form of the sort of surface plasticity seen in many of the oldest surviving features . |
| 9 | This cuts down processing and response time of calls where in a Distributed Relational Database Architecture environment , client requests have to be translated at the server , which increases system overhead and makes database access less flexible . |
| 10 | Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier . |
| 11 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 12 | In short , local government 's future financial base will have to be a hybrid — either of two or more taxes or of a tax-and-grants kind . |
| 13 | They can be administered either as simple tablets or as a special , long-acting injection . |
| 14 | It is salutary to begin our exploration of English mysticism with Rolle , because he reminds us that the mystical experiment could lead the unwary into all kinds of spiritual and physical dangers or to a sterile solipsism . |
| 15 | Railway employers often used Blacks as strike-breakers or as a means of fighting unions by employing them to depress wages . |
| 16 | Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court . |
| 17 | ( iv ) Although the claims in these actions are not made for the performance of the obligations under the contracts or as a result of their breach , they do concern matters relating to a contract , since the court is determining the consequences of the nullity of the contracts , particularly with regard to the contractual matters of total failure of consideration and payments under a mistake . |
| 18 | This pattern can be explained either by an artefact arising with short PCR probes detecting clusters of short repeats or by a low abundance of the ERG product among other repeat products containing CpG trinucleotides . |
| 19 | Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American . |
| 20 | It is evident that the third defendant and the third party are not , on any view of the case , joint contractors or joint tortfeasors or in a relationship where contribution is available under equitable principles . |
| 21 | ( v ) They should have plenty of opportunities to write poetry ( whether individually , or in small groups or as a class ) and to experiment with different layouts , rhymes , rhythms , verse structures , and with all kinds of sound effects and verbal play . |
| 22 | One minute of questioning ( in pairs , small groups or as a whole group ) to try to make someone say " Yes " or " No " . |
| 23 | Seating arrangements will , of course , depend on the nature of the activities being undertaken and the extent to which the work is taking place in informal groups or in a more structured teaching situation . |
| 24 | This chapter : ( 1 ) describes how an expert is appointed , either by the parties or by a professional body ( 10.2 ) ; ( 2 ) explains the problems created by the absence of effective appointment machinery independent of the parties ( 10.3 ) ; ( 3 ) shows how an appointment may be invalid ( 10.4 ) ; ( 4 ) provides a list of appointing authorities with figures for some of their rates of appointments ( 10.5 ) ; ( 5 ) outlines procedures for making an application to an appointing authority ( 10.6 ) ; ( 6 ) shows that the court will not help parties obstruct appointments ( 10.7 ) ; ( 7 ) considers the difficulties that can arise from perceived conflicts of interest ( 10.8 ) . |
| 25 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 26 | The situation described above raises the question of how much of the content of UK weapons systems are owned and controlled by US companies , either as a result of security considerations or as a matter of ( patent ) law and what the terms are under which this technology is received . |
| 27 | They can be induced to undergo apoptosis at an even more rapid rate in vivo and in vitro by exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation or other DNA-damaging treatments , or by treatment with glucocorticoids or by a calcium ionophore in the presence of phorbol ester . |
| 28 | Designed by Lynda Gray , the stamps are available singly from all post offices or in a presentation pack ( containing all five stamps ) for £1.75 from main post offices and selected sub-post offices . |
| 29 | That is , the charterer lets the vessel or part of the vessel ( space charters ) for a fixed term ( time charter ) , or a certain number of trips or for a voyage to transport a designated cargo ( voyage charter ) . |
| 30 | Core and optional units do not have to be studied as discrete units or in a set order . |