Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Since the CSA 1985 makes no direct provision for civil remedies we must first look to the common law and then to the recent advent of statute law in the area , as laid down in the Financial Services Act 1986 ( FSA ) by virtue of s.61 and s.62 .
2 He used a tiff with France as an excuse for military preparations he might need in the east .
3 These eleven tracks ( 16 on the CD ) sound half-improvised , some perhaps quick-fire sketches for other pieces they 'll never get around to writing .
4 These eleven tracks ( 16 on the CD ) sound half-improvised , some perhaps quick-fire sketches for other pieces they 'll never get around to writing .
5 If , for each country , is constant over time it follows that will be a constant , although of course for different countries it will be a different constant .
6 When taking a decision about personal pensions you should obtain as much information as possible .
7 That is not surprising if they stand to lose large amounts of money through personal guarantees they may have given .
8 And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor !
9 ‘ As you have books for good manners I will name you the degrees .
10 In the event of our asking you to input other sets of data for subsequent disks we will pay you £250 per disk on delivery .
11 Given that you can draw all sorts of amazing objects you might not think that you need to edit them much but IntelliDraw has some powerful editing tools .
12 All sorts of funny religions I should think .
13 We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early .
14 At the back is a list of names and addresses of conservation organisations you can either join or write to for more information .
15 Languages such as the above are called tone languages ; although to most speakers of European languages they may seem strange and exotic , such languages are in fact spoken by a very large proportion of the world 's population .
16 But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them .
17 From examining the shapes of these graphs it would appear that increasing the size of the corpus would have only a small effect on the percentage of bigram transitions found .
18 With the aid of such measurements it will be possible to accurately observe the behaviour of matter and produce a statement of cause and effect .
19 If you ended up with several lists of different sounds you would also try and decide what sounds they are phonetically and what symbols to use .
20 Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged .
21 So if you massage in the neck with your moisturizer with upward movements it will help those lines .
22 These peoples can not allow themselves much investment in fixed assets they would need to defend , but just as importantly they can not allow themselves much investment in social ties to specific others .
23 By setting realistic goals and tackling your weight control programme in easy steps you will learn to control your eating behaviour in a way that pleases and satisfies you .
24 ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’
25 to get her car back , you know what they said if she does n't pay that thirty pound within six weeks they 'll pawn it !
26 ‘ I 'm sure I will have the support of Mr McWhirter in any representations I may feel called upon to make to the Board , ’ said the headmaster .
27 If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% .
28 About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in .
29 In most of the prisons , corruption has become a way of life and inmates believe that without taking recourse to corrupt practices they can not cope with the culture that prevails .
30 For Byrd 's finest expression of religious emotion to English words we must turn to his Psalmes , Sonets and songs of Sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) , his Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ) , and his Psalmes , Songs and Sonnets ( 1611 ) , which include equivalents of the geistlicher Gesang and madrigale spirituale though often conceived with instrumental parts ; for his greatest church music to his two hundred or so motets .
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