Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 2 | The prayer for relief so far as the third defendant is concerned , seeks damages for conspiracy to defraud ; exemplary damages ; an indemnity in respect of any liabilities to B.M.T. under what is described as ‘ the said deed , ’ which presumably means the legal charge or other instrument containing the personal guarantee given by the plaintiffs ; damages for deceit ; and interest . |
| 3 | ‘ George Foreman is the big fight for Lennox right now and the second defence could be against American Tommy Morrison — and perhaps the third against Frank Bruno in 1994 . ’ |
| 4 | Losing tended to lead to a disintegration of the group , and the search for scapegoats both within and outside the group ; tasks needs became even more important to the loser ; losing , however , forced groups to re-evaluate their view of themselves and eventually come to a more realistic assessment of what changes were required to make the group effective . |
| 5 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 6 | He recently vexed rumour-mongers , who bet on a bid for Midland sooner rather than later , by declining to disclose Hongkong Bank 's inner reserves when the bank reported its 1989 results on March 13th . |
| 7 | It may finance demands for exports either directly or indirectly . |
| 8 | Gold was certainly used as a decorative inlay for bronzes as early as Shang times , but precious metals only began to be highly valued in China comparatively late and then as an outcome of influence from inner Asia and the west . |
| 9 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 10 | Parents and teachers , like writers of computer programmes , build certain sorts of information more deeply and irreversibly than others into their systems ( children ) ; in the idiom of computer engineers they hard-programme them . |
| 11 | But the single patient with x and not y does make a great deal of difference as far as the theoretical use of the concept is concerned . |
| 12 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 13 | Secondly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's least successful credit operators if it reacted to the credit demand signals of customers as rapidly as it responds to their credit risk signals ? |
| 14 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 15 | The Swann Committee had also noted ‘ the views expressed very clearly to us at our various meetings with parents from the whole range of ethnic minority groups that they want and indeed expect the education system to give their children above all a good command of English as rapidly as possible ’ . |
| 16 | Nothing could impress the Jews of Egypt more favourably than a letter by Judas Maccabaeus in person to the very respected Jewish-Egyptian writer Aristobulus , who will recur in our story . |
| 17 | Watching it takes you into the mind of Ramanujan as surely as a long look into his eyes . |
| 18 | Berghofer was reconfirmed as mayor of Dresden shortly afterwards and declared that he would not join another party until after the election . |
| 19 | For example , to maintain channels of communication both upwards and downwards ; to monitor their effectiveness and advise on any necessary improvements ; to refine and advise on messages from senior management to employees ; to advise staff on communication techniques and messages . |
| 20 | State visits had become easier in the age of the railway ; photography , cheap prints and ceramics diffused the human images of rulers more widely than ever before . |
| 21 | So we get Joseph Wright of Derby as early as 1780 painting Arkwright 's cotton mill by night — tiers of tiny yellow lights in the immemorial country darkness of the Derwent valley , the isolated forerunner of those tremendous galaxies of light that one now sees from the Pennine Moors after sundown . |
| 22 | We ca n't make any more hours in the day , but careful planning can allow us to use this time-saving piece of equipment as efficiently as possible . |
| 23 | This part is made from a piece of plexiglass slightly longer and wider than the column . |
| 24 | First , criminal law relates closely to other branches of law both substantively and theoretically . |
| 25 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 26 | It seemed essential to minimise the proliferation of paper as far as possible and to centralise the recording of achievement in such a way that updating over a number of years would be possible . |
| 27 | The bill had been the subject of months of debate both inside and outside the National Assembly . |
| 28 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 29 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
| 30 | I think reprisals against people only distantly or circumstantially connected with those who have done others wrong are to make the people doing the avenging feel good . |