Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [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 But for the duration of his stay aboard this vessel , you will pay only the respects due to the lieutenant 's Navy rank . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 She passed Meryl 's niche oblivious of the girl 's presence and paused to admire an altar cloth hanging near Anthea 's bedroom .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ The artistic expression or way of presenting characteristics proper to the period and/ or the subject chosen ’
14 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 .
15 The little man nodded his bald head , his eyes simple as a child 's .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 It is signed by all the parties present at the pupil 's initial interview .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Their bodies pressed close together , their lips hungry for the other 's kisses .
22 Rebel shareholders are expected to give officials a rough ride today , reflecting views of United fans angry over the club 's financial policy .
23 Nor were the fans happy with the referee 's decision .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 The canoes shot forward , Paula 's drawing level with the Whale 's head .
27 Glossy surfers ' hair , eyes blue as a robin 's egg and a dreamy far-off ocean at dawn .
28 The Frank & Walters look dubious about the crew 's certainty .
29 In this case , the songwriter should retain his or her songs ' copyrights , and the publisher is responsible for administering the song catalogues ( collecting the money payable to the writer 's songs ) .
30 ( c ) With other solicitors The overriding principle is the obligation to act with complete frankness and good faith consistent with a solicitor 's responsibilities to his client .
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