Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why go half-way round the world to find Lady Happiness when She works next door to you ? |
| 2 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |
| 3 | He takes his Malcolm Wilson prepared Ford Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 to Scotland where he faces tough opposition , notably from Murray Grierson in a Metro 6R4 . |
| 4 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 5 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 6 | Another interesting example of these altered perceptions of crime and disorder comes to us from Sir Robert Mark 's memoirs where he recounts some experiences from a brief spell as a beat constable in Manchester in the late 1930s . |
| 7 | Hence each enforcement authority ( i.e. local trading standards department ) now has power to serve a ‘ suspension notice ’ upon a trader where it has reasonable grounds to think legal safety requirements have been infringed , section 14 . |
| 8 | Ashton does something similar in Symphonic Variations where he makes overall phrase rhythms from pas de burrée en place accompanied by very distinctive ports de bras . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe you should talk ter Albert Buller when 'e calls next time , ’ he suggested . |
| 10 | The concept of a Common Market is not new , the term arose in the 1950s , to describe an area where there exists free movement of goods , services , capital and labour . |
| 11 | Although this regulation of tortious liability is not of itself a contractual issue , there are some situations where it has great importance for business contracts , for instance in the area of pre-contract negotiations . |
| 12 | In this sense , Anselm is an extreme papalist ; but , like many other extreme papalists , he draws unwelcome boundaries when he sees papal initiatives overstepping boundaries of God 's will — for instance , in overruling local rights , which have a heavenly sanction as gifts to the saints . |
| 13 | The Children Act places great emphasis on the child 's right to make decisions where he has sufficient understanding to do so . |
| 14 | Secondly , the Director of Social Services has got the authority to waive any of these charges where it causes financial hardship and the whole mechanism has been put in place to inform people that this waiving waiver process is in place and to allow them to apply for waiving of those charges . |
| 15 | Since moving to Knaresborough a year ago , Mrs Goode has become involved with the local playgroup where she does three sessions a week . |
| 16 | Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes . |
| 17 | And if it were possible for you to decide that one of these options , one to eight , were to suit your regular and usual purposes at these meetings for general discussion then that obviously would be both a saving in erm time and labour and is one of the reasons why one installs computerized equipment so that you do n't er then have to do it all manually as well . |
| 18 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 19 | Thus the policy-maker is invariably in the position where he has certain aspirations in terms of macroeconomic objectives , but he has to decide which are to be given priority . |
| 20 | The matter in question may be so complex and technical , the conflict so acute , and the customer 's understanding and experience so limited , that , however full any disclosure made to him , it is impossible to place him in a position where he has sufficient comprehension of the issues and consequences of consenting to enable him to give binding consent . |
| 21 | Each Brownie then takes it in turn to pin their card on the map where she thinks that country is . |
| 22 | So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring . |
| 23 | YORKSHIRE trainer Jimmy FitzGerald ( right ) continues his series of southern raids when he saddles Native Mission in today 's Tote Gold Trophy Hurdle at Newbury . |