Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such indemnities , transferring liabilities incurred to third parties , will be particularly useful in cases where a contracting party may incur liability to a person not party to the contract , which therefore can not be excluded by contract : for instance , a manufacturer might require a distributor or retailer to indemnify it against tortious product liability claims by consumers injured by the product . |
| 2 | ( Corney & Barrow sell it from 12 Helmet Row , London , EC1 ; tel : 071 251 4051 ) . |
| 3 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 4 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 5 | At last she reached Broom House and rushed into the surgery , where Helen greeted her with evident relief . |
| 6 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 7 | For example , a magical liquid which needs a component of ethereality might allow the links to be separated , but the adventurers will have to find an Alchemist or Scholar to tell them of this , and then they must find the ingredients for the magical liquid . |
| 8 | It was announced on Sept. 12 , 1989 , that the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC , had ended a long-running dispute when it agreed with various Indian groups that skeletal remains would be returned where evidence linked them to specific tribes . |
| 9 | Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality . |
| 10 | Apart from that fucking business card they have no forensic evidence ; no weapons , bloodstained clothes or even minutiae like hairs or fibres to link me with any of the attacks . |
| 11 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
| 12 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 13 | Where Barrie tortured himself with Victorian fears about his own adult sexuality , Spielberg flagellates himself for Sixties selfishness and Eighties careerism ( Spielberg himself is one of the baby-boom generation , and divorced ) . |
| 14 | People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not . |
| 15 | They did not stay long , because her drowsiness began to increase , and a short time later they left to go in search of Women 's Surgical , where Stella greeted them with pleased surprise . |
| 16 | Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy expose you to special risks , and we do n't recommend you windsurf with any of these conditions . |
| 17 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 18 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 19 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 20 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 21 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 22 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 23 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |
| 24 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 25 | The trouble with Cabinet was not that Harold ran it through little cabals , but that there was no focal point of decision-making at all . |
| 26 | A quick glance across the Channel will confirm that AV delivers none of these . |
| 27 | His report , an Essay on Convict Discipline ( 1838 ) , was so condemnatory of official policy that Franklin dismissed him in 1838 . |
| 28 | The criterion of simplicity could itself be referred , as it was by Newton , to a God who had ensured that nature did nothing in vain or , as it was by Michael Faraday in the nineteenth century , to a God who had ensured that the book of his works would be as simple to comprehend as the book of his words . |
| 29 | He thinks it 's ‘ nice ’ that people credit him with changing British photography , with breaking down the class barriers , with producing memorable images , but he also seems slightly amused by it all . |
| 30 | He shows that the maize is an important political symbol ; that people use it in ritual exchanges ; that its by-products are useful in ways unique to it ; in short , that it is effective in areas of life other than nutrition . |