Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [conj] [verb] an " in BNC.

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1 On the same day , the House voted on whether to adopt an administration-backed bill in place of that sponsored by Ways and Means with Rostenkowski warning : ‘ If we accept the President 's substitute , we accept his dominance of our house for the months ahead .
2 In the case of solicitors , as well as the usual provisions common to most businesses , specific restrictions may , for example , be desired : ( 1 ) in relation to the operation of bank accounts ( more particularly drawings and transfers from client and trust accounts ) ; ( 2 ) to prohibit a partner from carrying on investment business at any time when the firm has not applied for and obtained an Investment Business certificate from the Law Society ; and ( 3 ) in relation to professional undertakings made in the name of the firm , perhaps by requiring the consent of another partner ( if not all partners ) or notice to the other partners .
3 Certain contracts are excepted and are therefore not cancellable under the Regulations ( even if made during or following an unsolicited visit or an excursion ) , namely any contract :
4 Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight .
5 In the House of Lords , Lord Oliver emphasised that the law which was relied upon as creating an agency situation was the 6th International Tin Agreement , which was not justiciable in the English courts .
6 After setting out the facts , the judgment of the Court of Appeal , delivered by Lord Lane C.J. , first dealt with and dismissed an argument for the respondent based on chapter 29 of Magna Carta 1225 ( 9 Hen .
7 This type of stomach has been referred to as having an ‘ acid antrum ’ .
8 It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) .
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