Example sentences of "a [noun] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The event 's promoter will pay an agreed fee to the PRS for the works which are to be performed , and a payment is then made by the PRS to the writers and publishers for the works listed as being played . |
| 2 | Where the status of a provision is not made clear , for example in a notice or bulletin , it may be difficult to tell whether it is a rule , guidance , a recommendation , or a general comment . |
| 3 | So when it becomes clear that a criminal case is not proceeding as anticipated — a trial is not scuppered by lobbing something into the ring — there are discreet discussions between learned friends in chambers , many exchanges of the phrase ‘ I 'm much obliged ’ and finally the jury is summoned back . |
| 4 | A moral is sometimes drawn from this tale . |
| 5 | The suspension in such a case is merely done by way of good administration . |
| 6 | The role of the lawyer when analysing a case is therefore to extract the principle(s) of law from the decision of the court . |
| 7 | A decision is not expected until next year . |
| 8 | A decision is not expected before next year . |
| 9 | Such a decision is not taken lightly . |
| 10 | Appropriate information needed for a user to make a decision is also retrieved before presenting the command options , for example , maps with the correct specifications ( e.g. with topological relations already created , when this is necessary for the operation ) . |
| 11 | A decision is still awaited on the Liphook to Haslemere section of the 213 service . |
| 12 | Not making a decision is really making a decision to do nothing — but it never feels like that . |
| 13 | When user action is required a beep is also generated . |
| 14 | A course is normally programmed to make irregularities clear in the language system . |
| 15 | Evidence to justify the court 's declining to decide a case ( if such a course is ever justified ) would need to be very strong and specific . |
| 16 | What is unusual about " reading language itself " is that a text is self-consciously perceived , interpreted , explained as a tokening of a theory of language . |
| 17 | To interpret a text is not to give it a |
| 18 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 19 | There are a few well-rehearsed cases in which all the information provided by a text is not used to interpret it For example , people often fail to see what is wrong with asking of an air crash on a national frontier ‘ where were the survivors buried ? ’ or they fail to see why saying that a book ‘ fills a much-needed gap ’ is an insult to its author . |
| 20 | The sort of one-man performance of such a text is neatly encapsulated in a description of the " mime " artist 's skills by Vitalis of Blois , a writer in Medieval Latin : ( I feigned the countenance , clothing and words of speaking characters , So that you should suppose several to speak through one mouth . ) |
| 21 | The job of a grub , a maggot or a caterpillar is simply to eat . |
| 22 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 23 | The area of a building is normally taken as the area enclosed by the internal faces of the external walls ( 11 sq ft equals 1 sq metre . ) |
| 24 | Even if a building is not listed , special consent must be sought to demolish it ; so conservation area designation ( see page 26 ) is a useful form of protection for unlisted buildings . |
| 25 | Where a building is fully sprinklered throughout in accordance with CP402.201.1 1952 , and has means of escape to the complete satisfaction of the Local Authority and Fire Authority , then , for the purposes of relaxation , Table 1 distances in Schedule 10 are generally accepted as a minimum by the Department of the Environment . |
| 26 | Leapor 's development as a writer is closely connected with her friendships with other women . |
| 27 | In the three-dimensional systems treated in section 2.2 , the strange attractors are locally planar : a small displacement perpendicular to this sheet will decay , as the trajectory returns to the attractor ; a small displacement along the sheet will remain , as a trajectory is effectively pushed forward in time ; and a small lateral displacement will grow in time . |
| 28 | If a cheque is wrongly processed it is the collecting bank and not the customer who will be liable . ’ |
| 29 | If a seller 's unregistered title on a purchase is subsequently registered , the seller 's conveyancer , on a sale , should peruse the original conveyance to the seller ( returned with the land or charge certificate ) for positive covenants . |
| 30 | In Dusun ( Philippines ) this would be impossible , as a verb is always signalled by affixation ( Dusun does use change of stress for other grammatical features ) . |