Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 2 | That 's whether you pay level or escalating and the age of the client . |
| 3 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 4 | There may be conflicts of interest between local management of a branch or subsidiary and the organisation as a whole ; or between sales and production departments in a manufacturing firm ( over scheduling , product variation etc ) ; or between trade unions and management . |
| 5 | Shares of the reporting entity are to be classified as equity or non-equity and an analysis is to be presented of shareholders ' funds between the amounts attributable to equity and non-equity shares . |
| 6 | When the rapist is a government agent , that rape is torture or ill-treatment and the state is responsible for it . " |
| 7 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 8 | I want to bring in influences that are totally off the cuff in the same way that Isaac Hayes and Sly And The Family Stone went on to do . ’ |
| 9 | Other pervasive images are those of death , contrasting light and dark and the elation of speed which all contribute to the mysterious and obsessional setting the author creates . |
| 10 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 11 | I drove home in my Fiasco , which , apart from the faulty cooling system , the recurring malfunction with the brakes and power-steering and a tendency to list violently to the left , seems to be running fairly reliably at present . |
| 12 | We can not bear emotion in public , and we look at grief as pathological or a sign of emotional instability . |
| 13 | This derives from the dualistic conception of mind and body and the associated belief in the mind as superior and the body inferior . |
| 14 | It would be a mistake to identify the metropolitan districts as urban-industrial and the periphery as rural . |
| 15 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was the name of Carmichael — the closest that London was to get to contact with the black revolt that year- and the name of Marcuse that pulled in the crowds that went to the Roundhouse for the fortnight . |
| 17 | Great hoarseness , some soreness and burning and the cough is worse ( < ) talking , reading , singing , swallowing . |
| 18 | And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers . |
| 19 | The varnishes are available in gloss , satin and matt and the floor coating in gloss and satin . |
| 20 | It was heartfelt and deep , but Theo should not run off with the idea that it was all laughter and light and the cooing of turtle doves . |
| 21 | It is essential to work the trapezius muscles , otherwise a stooped , round-shouldered posture will result ; this is a common fault with people who do a lot of chest work but little or no back work . |
| 22 | This leaves the vine curled in a heap , a condition in which it will remain until the January or February pruning when all but the one-year-old growth is either cut away or buried for advancing into new vines . |
| 23 | But I do not think that these circumstances demonstrate a contract between the valuer as principal and the borrower . |
| 24 | Arthur had the foresight to cease brewing ale and concentrate on what mattered most , the perfection of his black porter and stout and the development of distribution networks throughout the British Isles and beyond . |
| 25 | Adam had put henna on his hair and that and the sun had turned it reddish-gold . |
| 26 | The report should also include proposals for extra support teaching and welfare provision if necessary and a recognition that extra preparation time may be required by the pupil . |
| 27 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 28 | In their search for fingerprints , the detectives had been liberal in their use of grey aluminium powder and little or no attempt had been made to remove it . |
| 29 | A questionnaire was also used to record dietary intake of milk products and fat and the presence or absence of intolerance to milk or milk products ( symptoms of nausea , abdominal bloating , abdominal cramps , or diarrhoea ) after wach subject had been enrolled into the study . |
| 30 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |