Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | That would have suited me that and a loaf of bread . |
2 | Although Mr Jones final orders were neither carried out nor enforced , he became progressively more violent and was drunk more often , leaving them little or no money for food . |
3 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
4 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
5 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
6 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
7 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
8 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
9 | When a central government department is sued , it is usual to name the respondent as the Secretary of State who is constitutionally responsible for the conduct of the department 's business ; although , of course , the decision or action being challenged will more often than not have been made or done by someone other than the Secretary of State personally ; and in the case of a geographically decentralized department , such as the Department of Social Security , the challenged decision or action may have originated from any one of a large number of regional offices of the department . |
10 | So viewed , the decision is entirely consistent with the test laid down by Best J. The benefit of the covenant to repay could not touch and concern the land because someone other than the owner for the time being of the term could take the benefit of it … |
11 | Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river . |
12 | By not considering this as a possibility , the pilot gives himself little or no hope of a safe landing , especially if the alternative is a very low 360° turn and he is already flying rather slowly . |
13 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
14 | To the south there are the Dorset Heights looking over Hamdon Hill and the Windwhistle Ridge ; to the west stands the Wellington Monument , almost on the Devon border ; northwards there is a fine view of the Quantock Hills with the Brendons to their left and the Mendips to their right ; eastwards lie the Wiltshire Downs and a view of King Alfred 's Tower at Stourton . |
15 | I wanted to do her hatless because every portrait of her had been done with her hat on . |
16 | An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands . |
17 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
18 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
19 | The bureaucracy , according to this line of analysis , exercises neither class power of its own nor the power of classes to which it is affiliated . |
20 | Headache may be on its own or the forerunner of other complaints ; it accompanies almost all other illnesses . |
21 | The government then developed a momentum of its own as a focus of loyalty that ran against the party system . |
22 | The federation broke up in 1964 and David said : ‘ Zambia decided to continue a service of its own and the finger of fate pointed at me . |
23 | However , s14(3) comes into its own where the purpose in question is not a common one , or even if it is a common one the goods are fit for some other common purpose thereby making them merchantable . |
24 | Grey seals assemble during the autumn , the cows on off-shore rocks near the sea to give birth to their young and the bulls on rocks and in inlets to establish territories for mating takes place 14 days after the births of the young seals . |
25 | Not only are the young maidens of India swooning in their thousands but a host of saris , long married , have suddenly developed the mothering instinct . |
26 | She was a plumpish , pleasant-faced woman in her forties and the kind of client veterinary surgeons dream of ; well off , generous , and the owner of three cosseted basset hounds . |
27 | Oh its lovely cos the girls in there |
28 | I can take you all and the luggage to Applewick . ’ |
29 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
30 | Yet to the searching eye it is full of ancient treasure , none greater than the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio , of St Ambrose . |