Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where , as in this case , a party undertakes to make a payment because by so doing it will gain an advantage arising out of the continuing relationship with the promisee the new bargain will not fail for want of consideration . |
| 2 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 3 | " a settlement made in the United States by a person resident in the United States " ; 2. " the settled fund consisting of United States securities " ; 3. " the trustees resident in the United States and having a power to revoke the settlement " ; 4. " the settlement containing a provision that on such revocation the settled fund should revert to the settlor " ; 5. assume " that the trustees subsequently invested part of the settled fund in United Kingdom securities " ; 6 . |
| 4 | There are no provisions corresponding to the ‘ guarantees ’ of Articles 15 and 16 of the Hague Convention , but there is a provision as to non-commitment to recognition of a judgment based on the Inter-American Convention . |
| 5 | He said such an Article was ineffective , " but a provision as to voting rights which has the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder … exercises his voting rights against a proposed alternation , is not such a provision " . |
| 6 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 7 | This is particularly so for workers whose lives are related to work not as a vocation or as a career , but as a job for earning money to spend in private . |
| 8 | But a teacher , who had a contact at Cardiff City , got him a trial and before long he was representing Wales Under-18 against England at Elland Road , alongside John Toshack and marked by David Nish . |
| 9 | But a teacher , who had a contact at Cardiff City , got him a trial and before long he was representing Wales Under-18 against England at Elland Road , alongside John Toshack and marked by David Nish . |
| 10 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 11 | Workwise , the day was already a write-off and in any case she was eager to know what the girl had to say . |
| 12 | Further down the corridor was a kitchen and across it I could see young Dennison loitering with intent outside the window . |
| 13 | The paper was of poor quality and had been torn off a pad of the kind you might keep in a kitchen or by a telephone . |
| 14 | There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin . |
| 15 | O also thought , because of the man 's posture , and the huge overcoat in which he was wrapped , that he looked like a queen in a tragedy which O had seen , who in a terrible moment of despair had sat down , not on a throne or on the marble palace steps , but just right there on the floor . |
| 16 | The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether potential jurors may be excluded from a case because of their sex . |
| 17 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 18 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 19 | It 's all a bit iff in the clouds |
| 20 | I like the subject , and I like the composition and so on , but it just loses a bit because of the lack of sharpness so a five for that . |
| 21 | It certainly the community a bit because of them . |
| 22 | No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years . |
| 23 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 24 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 25 | He got into the fish trade ; got on a bit and on a bit , and that 's how he started going to Lowestoft and buying his own . |
| 26 | But it 's all all this is okay , but it sort of makes your brain ache after a bit and to just see something real that relates to it it 's makes it stick in your |
| 27 | Push him a bit and under Mario the American driver you 'll always find the Italian kid who wanted to make good in grand prix racing . |
| 28 | By contrast , in the act of saving Europe from itself , the USA stimulated its own economic recovery from the collapse of the 1930s to such a level that by 1945 its economic strength presented the major barrier to economic recovery for the industrialised world . |
| 29 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 30 | There was also argument about whether Slovenia should indeed be exempted from holding a referendum because of its December plebiscite . |