Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are also management implications if there is more than one tenant in a building or on a floor .
2 Joint honours in Agriculture , Forestry and Rural Economy can be taken as a degree in Agriculture or as a degree in Ecological Science .
3 an aerial socket and an audio/video socket for a video recorder , camcorder or for a satellite link
4 A limited amount of post-production editing can , however , be carried out on the original recording , either on the camcorder or on a second VCR depending on the facilities available .
5 It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail .
6 Sometimes pleasant mental images will be suggested — perhaps a walk in a country lane or along a seashore .
7 Whether the nurse gains clinical experience in the ward as an apprentice or as a student-observer , the main aim is still to provide the best nursing care possible for the patient .
8 This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 In upholding Peck 's committal order , Judge White said Mancroft was not protected from arrest under Parliamentary privilege or as a peer of the realm in a situation where the courts were exercising their punitive disciplinary powers .
13 Special provisions have been made for death-bed marriages , marriages at home for the housebound , marriages in prisons , hospitals and places of residential care for disabled people , and for the celebration of the marriages of members of the naval , military , and air forces and their daughters in chapels licensed by the Admiralty Board or by a Secretary of State .
14 Specific topics addressed will include the attitudes of staff towards complaints and complainants , the degree of consistency in their responses , and the extent to which departments ‘ learn ’ from complaints for example , by reviewing policy or practice after an individual case or as a result of recognising patterns .
15 We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ .
16 It will be stowed either in the carrying case or within a plastic container .
17 In a case where liability is not disputed or is resolved during the course of the case , either by an admission or on a summons for judgment , try and obtain some costs from the defendant .
18 The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract .
19 The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion .
20 The promise to waive may be embodied in an express contract or in a contract implied by the conduct of the parties .
21 It is no help to the sufferer or to a solution of the mind-body problem to propose that mind and body are engaged in battle from which the mind should always emerge as victorious .
22 Perhaps that will be a thought for people who foolishly keep money under the mattress or in a jam jar .
23 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 .
24 The coin belongs to the Persian period , bears the inscription " Judaea " ( YHD ) , and shows a figure on a winged throne or on a chariot : this figure apparently confronts a Dionysiac mask ( B. Kanael , The Biblical Archaeologist 26 ( 1963 ) , 40 and fig. 2 ) .
25 For example if the next record is requested , is it the next at that level or at a parent level or at some other level ?
26 FACING PAGE Many dogs will instinctively jump up either to seize a toy or as a greeting .
27 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 .
28 In another experiment , by Semler , females were allowed to choose between mating with a normal red-bellied male or with a male of the ordinary non-breeding stickleback green colour .
29 The improvement in information technology with the efficiency gains involved may be seen as a strategy which makes the Authority more attractive to a potential profit seeking buyer or as a strategy which enables the Authority to defend its current place in the state sector .
30 ( 2 ) Where , in pursuance of the contract , the seller delivers the goods to the buyer or to a carrier or other bailee or custodier ( whether named by the buyer or not ) for the purpose of transmission to the buyer , and does not reserve the right to disposal , he is taken to have unconditionally appropriated the goods to the contract . ’
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