Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our growth over the years is in part due to the company 's commitment to recruitment selection and continued training , both in recessional times as well as in good . |
| 2 | In the case of pressure by customers , however , according to the court decision , the employer can only dismiss an employee if he faces substantial economic damage due to the customer 's threat to end his business relationship . |
| 3 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 4 | propel it along and make it a little bit different to the book erm with some of the other things , I mean for example if you erm get stuff off , I do n't know , for example people like Ian erm |
| 5 | That meant that the ministry was stuck with the introduction of a complicated two-stage payment dependent on the animal 's age . |
| 6 | Shock alone , since the older woman was physically far more powerful , rendered Hester helpless in the girl 's grip . |
| 7 | The third defendant issued a third party notice against the plaintiffs ' accountant claiming an indemnity or contribution in the event of the third defendant being held liable to the plaintiffs , on the ground that the accountant had negligently failed to warn the plaintiffs of the risks inherent in the defendants ' transactions . |
| 8 | But for the duration of his stay aboard this vessel , you will pay only the respects due to the lieutenant 's Navy rank . ’ |
| 9 | This ‘ hard line strategy ’ reveals yet again the contradictions inherent in the Conservatives ' law and order policy . |
| 10 | Offe stresses the role of the state as a crisis manager and asserts that there is today a ‘ crisis of crisis management ’ itself which derives from the contradictions inherent in the state 's efforts to compensate for failures in market mechanisms without challenging the private ownership of the means of production and the primacy of market mechanisms . |
| 11 | We were allowed to live rent free in the gardener 's cottage , but the family allowance from the army was less than my father had been earning . |
| 12 | She passed Meryl 's niche oblivious of the girl 's presence and paused to admire an altar cloth hanging near Anthea 's bedroom . |
| 13 | Evelyn Vane Eden , later Lady Auckland , took delivery of the 20/25hp limousine direct from the firm 's showroom in Conduit Street , London in October 1933 . |
| 14 | Having become the political expression not just of the state appropriate to Ireland but of Irish catholics as well , the Irish nationalist tradition contained and still contains within its confines a culture of violence antithetical to the church 's traditional teaching . |
| 15 | ‘ The artistic expression or way of presenting characteristics proper to the period and/ or the subject chosen ’ |
| 16 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 17 | Kingfisher is raising £155 million from the first call of 225p a share on a one-for-seven rights issue , with another 225p payable at the company 's discretion . |
| 18 | The little man nodded his bald head , his eyes simple as a child 's . |
| 19 | The first contends that the word ‘ appropriate ’ has built into it a connotation that it is some action inconsistent with the owner 's rights , something hostile to the interests of the owner or contrary to his wishes and intention or without his authority . |
| 20 | Bridget Freemantle dates her own acquaintance with Leapor from fourteen months prior to the poet 's death on 12 November 1746 , that is , September 1745 . |
| 21 | It is signed by all the parties present at the pupil 's initial interview . |
| 22 | Even when Time Out returned to the stands , those readers tired of the magazine 's ‘ agit-prop ’ news coverage and of film reviews dense with Marxist dialectic , would surely switch to Event . |
| 23 | Hills 's visit to Tokyo was described by observers as a precursor to a second round of talks known as the Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) — a series of theoretical discussions designed to change the broad economic characteristics responsible for the USA 's huge trade deficit with Japan [ for September 1989 SII talks see p. 36892 ] . |
| 24 | In five years time from now it will have developed into an all powerful , constitutionally independent institution responsible for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 25 | Their bodies pressed close together , their lips hungry for the other 's kisses . |
| 26 | The erm , importance of monitoring procedures can not be over-stressed because enable , to enable us to actually find out if these er , arrangements are working properly we do have to monitor the arrangements that are in place , and we have to provide details of monitor important for the members ' benefit , er , explaining how the budget is er , is being spent , and also bringing in information about the number of assessments , the levels of assessments , and all the other aspects that er , that make a new system work . |
| 27 | Rebel shareholders are expected to give officials a rough ride today , reflecting views of United fans angry over the club 's financial policy . |
| 28 | Nor were the fans happy with the referee 's decision . |
| 29 | In maintaining captive breeding groups the aim must be to retain , if possible , the inbreeding coefficient of wild groups , and this is hampered not only by the limited captive stock available among the world 's zoos but also our ignorance of the coefficient in the wild . |
| 30 | Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Spinnaker Software Corp has now completed the acquisition of Power Up Software Inc for $18.5m in cash , plus the assumption of some debt : the acquisition was financed through the purchase of preferred stock by Harvard Management Co , which bought $23m of series B preferred stock redeemable at the company 's option and convertible into shares of common stock at a rate of $1.50 or $2.25 per share . |