Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unlike magnetic poles attract each other ’ , ‘ An acid added to a base yields a salt plus water ’ and similar laws can easily be construed as falsifiable . |
| 2 | Liability for negligence may also be excluded by a provision imposing a duty on the other party to insure against a particular type of loss ( James Archdale & Co v Comservices [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 459 ) and such a clause might be used in a contract to install goods or machinery at the employer 's premises , requiring the employer , rather than the contractor , to insure the premises against damage caused by fire . |
| 3 | To make commercial sense of this arrangement , the contract would also need to contain a provision placing a duty on the seller to account to the buyer for any amount by which the proceeds of sub-sales of unmixed goods exceed the amount of the buyer 's indebtedness to the seller . |
| 4 | Parliament should give fresh thought to enacting a provision placing an obligation upon a council tenant to give notice to the council before being permitted to commence proceedings . |
| 5 | Firstly , a chart showing an overall plan of study for , say the next nine months . |
| 6 | Biometrics is a key contributor to their success , and recognition of this has led to an opportunity for a Statistician to complete a team of three . |
| 7 | Iago felt in his blood the coming of the climax , the moment when Owen had drawn them , with his body for bait , exactly where he would have them , with all eyes on him , and never an archer ready to string bow , or a lookout to shout an alarm . |
| 8 | A trial to show a clear difference in death rates between men on the old and new dietary patterns would have needed somewhere between 25 000 and 115000 volunteers and would have cost between $0.5 and 1 billion , even at 1971 prices . |
| 9 | Pembrey 's findings were that the role model was important in helping a sister to develop a good management style . |
| 10 | The principle of proportionality — do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut — is straightforward logic . |
| 11 | At the operational level planning tasks will be simpler and there is less need to look for complex procedures as it would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut . |
| 12 | These measures could quite justifiably be regarded as something of a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since they are intended to deal with a problem the existence of which is almost totally unproven . |
| 13 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ It 's a sledgehammer to crack a nut . |
| 15 | However , they were oppressed , perhaps not altogether surprisingly , by the thought that , if the Act meant no more than , in plain terms , it said , then it was taking a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since the ambit of the exclusion — and thus the utility of the special procedures — would be very considerably narrowed . |
| 16 | The chapter , and especially the Strategy , may seem to make the reading process far too time-consuming ; a sledgehammer to crack an historical nut ! |
| 17 | Four great panthers crash into them at the pavement with a thud like a sledgehammer hitting a mudflat . |
| 18 | If you have to cut a notch in a joist to run a pipe , cut it in the middle of the floorboard and leave a little room for expansion |
| 19 | However three Lincolns suffered accidents whilst operating from Tengah in August 1950 , a Lincoln suffered a fire on board during a flight . |
| 20 | By contrast , the shaft of Jaq 's power axe was embossed with rococo icons , the pommel of that halberd was a brass Ork skull and complex purity seals embellished the power-pack to which a cable resembling a gem-serpent ran . |
| 21 | ON paper , at least , the depth of a recession seems an inopportune time to seek sponsors for a three-year programme to boost career opportunities for young Welsh speakers and help employers recruit more effectively . |
| 22 | A function converting a real number to the lower integer . |
| 23 | This allowed a rating to allocate a proportion of his pay each month to be sent direct to his family . |
| 24 | A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale . |
| 25 | It may be possible in such a case to base an action on negligent misstatement instead . |
| 26 | The warning follows a case involving a member of the British Epilepsy Association who had a seizure during hospital tests involving a two day fast . |
| 27 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 28 | They , and they alone , have the right to dispose of a case involving a child . |
| 29 | We once set a case involving a highly seasonal business which ended up with no cash , a big overdraft , lots of creditors and no hope of any more revenue for at least six months : those students who did n't recognize that some pretty drastic immediate action was required ( surprisingly , there were several ) could n't reasonably expect any marks ! |
| 30 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |