Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 2 | The same individual may suffer from both conditions at different times or have some features of both conditions at the same time . |
| 3 | This need not detract from the magic of listening to a story or require any re-scheduling of the traditional story hour . |
| 4 | But nothing in the response of the Al Fayeds ' advisers , for all its bluster and menace , rebutted my basic case or added one jot of information to explain the origins of the brothers ' wealth . |
| 5 | According to the report , the New York-based Lawyers ' Committee for Human Rights had obtained evidence that the 17 had been charged with " vague and broadly worded offences " under a 1965 government decree which outlawed actions " opposing any of the goals of the revolution , or advocating any disorderly acts or publishing false news with the aim of causing disorder " . |
| 6 | Since these qualities are fundamentally expressions of values , attitudes and feelings within the persons , traditional in-service training approaches which concentrate on conveying new knowledge , imparting particular skills or prescribing certain patterns of behaviour are insufficient for headship development . |
| 7 | Use the runny kind of honey or mix some water with the stiffer kind to make it runny . |
| 8 | Plant and animal breeding programmes have utilised a crude form of genetic engineering by crossing or interbreeding related species in the anticipation that the offspring will contain preferred characteristics . |
| 9 | No person or group has claimed responsibility or given any reason for the attacks . |
| 10 | The whole thrust of the current strategy whether to increase the number of shareholders or to extend parental choice in education is to strengthen the position of the existing middle class and to bring the ‘ new' technological and service working class within the capitalist net . |
| 11 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 12 | ’ She lay on her bed for hours leading righteous riots of millhands against languid tophatted fops or hardfaced bowlerhatted men of iron and steel . |
| 13 | If you can define the area with a different floor level or use one arm of an L-shaped room , so much the better . |
| 14 | ‘ … a fiscal and accounting entity with self-balancing set of accounts recording cash and other financial resources together with all related liabilities and residual equities or balances and changes therein which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with special regulations , restrictions or limitations . ’ |
| 15 | The continuing squabble among Ministers over whether to raise taxes or cut public spending in November to tackle the budget deficit has triggered a new outburst of Tory in-fighting . |
| 16 | In the analysis outlined above , it should not matter whether a central government cuts taxes or gives lump-sum grants to local authorities . |
| 17 | In order to do so , given the stage that the Bill has reached , it would be risky to start seeking to extend its scope or coverage , play with the long or short titles or introduce new sectors in the Bill , for whatever reason . |
| 18 | To prepare melons for chopping once you have removed the skin or to serve smaller melons like Galia or Charentais you need to remove the seeds . |
| 19 | Your silver stamp of success Apply Now If your company has successfully increased exports or achieved commercial success with innovative technology you could be eligible to apply for The Queen 's Awards for Export and Technology . |
| 20 | When he bent that famous craggy face and strong jaw down from its natural elevation to the level of ordinary human beings it was not to advance any opinions or tell any anecdotes of his own . |
| 21 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 22 | These are educationally unsatisfactory and unlikely to generate the deep thinking referred to by Lowry or produce caring doctors with a holistic attitude to illness and their patients . |
| 23 | You can also use them to compare two similar groups or to follow one group through a period of time and observe any change in attitude . |
| 24 | Have regard to the workload and the pressures on professional colleagues and subordinates and take appropriate action if these are seen to be such as to constitute abuse of the individual practitioner and/or to jeopardise safe standards of practice . |
| 25 | We carry the memory of childhood like a photo in a locket , fierce and possessive for pain or calm ; everybody 's past is inviolate , separate , sacrosanct , our heads are different countries with no maps or dictionaries , people walk vast deserts of grief or inhabit walled gardens of joy . |
| 26 | But they were as aware as anyone of the variables of timing and electoral fortune which could dictate the succession or lead Tory MPs to ‘ skip a generation ’ and look to such figures as John Major and Chris Patten . |
| 27 | No member of the committee , his representative or associate of them nor any person who was a member of the committee in the last twelve months must enter into any transaction whereby he receives out of the estate any payment for services given or goods supplied in connection with the administration or obtains any profit from the administration or acquires any asset forming part of the estate ( r 6.165(2) ) except with leave of the court , with prior sanction of the committee where full value for the transaction is given and in cases of urgency or by way of performance of a contract in existence at the date of the bankruptcy order where leave of the court is sought subsequently without delay ( r 6.165(3) ) . |
| 28 | Running a hair-dressing salon or drain clearing service as a franchisee is usually to be running a distinct organisational operation , and a new franchisee is put in control of the same operation when the franchise is transferred or terminated and re-granted . |
| 29 | She read and read and read while her aunt mended the socks of her husband and brothers or sewed innumerable buttons on their shirts . |
| 30 | A grammar could , of course , be used to reject certain word candidates or to assign higher probability to some over others , and thus reduce the number of paths . |