Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first case the haulier and the other party undertake to carry out certain obligations ( typically the haulage of goods for an agreed price ) and the contract is made by exchange of these promises . |
| 2 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 3 | You , you can get a toy the same as the Fat Controller there . |
| 4 | At the time appointed for the auction the poor and the thrifty were left to man the ramparts ; everyone else crowded into the hall of the Residency which was considered to be the most suitable place for the proceedings . |
| 5 | As a result of the uncertainty generated in the private sector by expected movements in these variables the best that the public sector can do is to inform the private sector of its intentions and then act accordingly . |
| 6 | It has been stated on high authority that article 10 is in effect the same as the English common law . |
| 7 | Central 's predecessor , ATV , had been on the air since 1956 and brought programmes like The Muppet Show , Edward the Seventh and the Golden Shot to our screens . |
| 8 | The girl who picked Pascoe up was a tall redhead in a glove-leather halter top and a skirt no bigger than a broad belt . |
| 9 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 10 | We were sitting watchin' the news , the world 's in a mess The poor and the hungry , a world of distress Herpes , Aids , the Middle East at full throttle Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle . |
| 11 | The Legion sounded like a good idea : the pay was good , the uniforms smart , the bullshit no worse than the British Army , and there were varied postings abroad . |
| 12 | Is migration , just generally , is migration a good or a bad , bad thing ? |
| 13 | They know the difference the real and the pretend : a real Matterhorn and Disney 's magic mountain . |
| 14 | Whenever confronted with perceived danger the leaf-people and the original people flee . |
| 15 | Father Barnes said that the Little Vestry had last been used two days ago on Monday the sixteenth when the Parochial Church Council had met as usual at five thirty , immediately after Evensong . |
| 16 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |
| 17 | But as a case for a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy by means requiring the assumption by unreformed trade unions of rights which had hitherto attached only to ownership , it merits at this point no more than a suspended judgment at best . |
| 18 | two cars in a circle a black and a red one |
| 19 | Indeed , in this latter case a casual and a short-term contract worker are in many ways indistinguishable , since , as we have seen in Chapter 1 , it is only after four weeks employment that a worker is entitled to a minimum period of notice . |
| 20 | Pareto also argues that in practice the distinction between elite and non-elite is blurred and that within the elite a governing and a non-governing group can be discerned . |
| 21 | Use a bit no larger than the original hole |
| 22 | It has undergone two stringent two years of stringent tests and is produced in two forms a carbonated and a still version . |
| 23 | The offering of Ortiz-Patiño silver features English Chinoiserie-decorated pieces dating from the late seventeenth-century and a number of French eighteenth-century examples ordered by Catherine the Great and the Russian court . |
| 24 | Is your own information on the tide and wind predictions the same as the local sailors ' interpretation ? |
| 25 | Not only do they provide for lefties , they also keep the price the same as the right-handed models . |
| 26 | North of Clachan Bridge it has remained as a clear bench on either side of a strait no wider than an average English lowland river . |
| 27 | Blanche said little , her head no more than a deep blue profile against the window . |
| 28 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 29 | Since April last year we have assessed open market rents on 24 pubs in the Darlington area based on the new 20-year leases , and the average increase over the historic tenancy rent and transfer of machine income is in the region of 55pc the same as the national average . |
| 30 | Unlike his exclusively militant writings in which the principal concern is to foreground the political and the social ( the sectarian polemics of Les Chiens de garde at one extreme , the discreet implications of Chronique de septembre at the other ) , his novels accomplish a disturbing fusion between metaphysical disorientation and political action . |