Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A curricle was in sight , its bowling progress slowing as the driver recognised the dog that was bounding straight into its path . |
| 2 | Is a promise to give a wedding present binding when the marriage takes place ? |
| 3 | Psychiatric hospital units for the treatment of anorexia commonly find that weight loss recurs after the patient is discharged from hospital . |
| 4 | Additional measurements were also made of liver protein synthesis to determine whether the presence of gastrointestinal pathology affected protein synthesis in this tissue which was not directly affected by the disease . |
| 5 | At Jennetts in Bideford , north Devon , on 15 May 2,300 litres of aluminium sulphate spilled when a hose came loose from a tank . |
| 6 | These trips may be run after the employee has agreed to undertake the assignment and so form an integral part of the briefing process given before the employee takes up his posting . |
| 7 | At 1.47am he received the bell signal from Rose Hill Junction enquiring if the line was clear for the 2am target train , an express parcels and newspaper train . |
| 8 | A study by Harris , Sofianos and Shapiro ( 1990 ) of programme trading on the NYSE in June 1989 found evidence that programme trading occurs when the basis ( the difference between the futures and spot prices ; see Chapter 6 ) is wide , and that the programme trading is followed by the basis closing to its usual level within about 15 minutes . |
| 9 | That imposes an automatic 3% price cut if the harvest overshoots the maximum guaranteed quantity of 160m tonnes . |
| 10 | The WWF/Exxon Chemical relationship began when a group of trainee managers approached WWF to ask whether they could become directly involved with a WWF project . |
| 11 | The dock strike failed because the transport workers did not have the strength to defend the labour monopoly enjoyed by registered dockers in a number of ports once the Government removed its statutory underpinning . |
| 12 | The winding-up petition comes after the Court of Appeal last week gave Chelsea a deadline of seven days in which to come up with the money . |
| 13 | A woman passenger in the silver rover died when the transporter landed on top of her . |
| 14 | The instruction could set a condition code to indicate whether the search was terminated by a successful comparison or by L becoming zero ; alternatively , one of these two results could cause a skip . |
| 15 | In the ensuing contempt proceedings the High Court of Australia adopted a broad balancing approach to determine whether the publication of prejudicial material was counterbalanced by the public interest in freedom of expression . |
| 16 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 17 | During the 19th Century the textile industry flourished as the County became famous for its beautiful Nottingham Lace . |
| 18 | Once an organization has decided that a particular proposal falls within its remit and appears sufficiently meritorious to warrant further examination , what should happen next , before it is approved , is a testing process to see whether the problem which the proposal is designed to solve actually exists , and if so , whether it is sufficiently significant to warrant the labour and expense of a harmonizing measure . |
| 19 | It would not be appropriate for the Home Secretary to comment until the inquiry is completed . |
| 20 | The VAT ( Treatment of Transactions ) Order 1992 confirmed that no output tax liability arises if an employee sacrifices part of his salary in return for a company car . |
| 21 | Similarly , no output tax liability arises if the employee sacrifices benefits , such as private health insurance or longer holidays , rather than part of his salary , in return for the company car . |
| 22 | Provision is made for business reorganisation costs when a decision has been made in principle which will result in such liability being incurred . |
| 23 | Opinion shopping arises when a firm 's opinion is sought , by an organisation which is not an existing audit client , on the accounting treatments appropriate to its particular circumstances . |
| 24 | It is probably obvious that Community law applies when a stock exchange listing is sought in another member state , or a distributorship arrangement or joint venture is contemplated in another member state . |
| 25 | The crisis point comes when the Doctor , unable to fathom what has happened , decides to put the two teachers off the ship . |
| 26 | where ‘ User Procedure ’ is the name of the module and ‘ usproc.crl ’ is the file name used when the module is transferred to or from the user 's account . |
| 27 | The council tax Bill exists because the poll tax was the disaster that so many hon. Members said it would be . |
| 28 | It is perhaps instructive to look in some detail at one accident report to see if the question as to why it happened was answered as well as the question of what happened . |
| 29 | Further complexities in place deixis arise if the speaker is in motion — it then becomes quite possible to use temporal terms in order to refer to deictic locations , as in : ( 86 ) I first heard that ominous rattle ten miles ago ( 87 ) There 's a good fast food joint just ten minutes from here This raises the issue about whether time deixis or place deixis is more basic . |
| 30 | The probability that the attack will be spotted is the probability that a flock member peeks before the cat completes its final uncovered dash . |