Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a person is aware of a notice or contract term purporting to exclude another 's liability for negligence is not to be taken as indicating a voluntary assumption of any risk ( s2(3) ) . |
| 2 | The Northern Echo revealed last month that Darlington council failed to give any money to celebrate the anniversary of North Road railway station . |
| 3 | I was in the fruit and vegetable section waiting to weigh some potatoes on the scales when I saw a bairn of about three years old , a bonnie wee lad with fair hair and big dark blue eyes , picking apples out of the bin and shoving them into his mother 's shopping bag . |
| 4 | Consequently the shape of the relationship between birth order and child mortality tends to parallel that of maternal age to the mortality of children under age five . |
| 5 | Through FIMAG , the joint Institute and Faculty Group formed to research these areas , we hope to exploit interesting new opportunities . |
| 6 | In the Steetley-Tarmac case , Thames Plc and Steetley Plc intended to merge all of their interests in building materials by way of a joint venture called Allied . |
| 7 | ‘ A good manager and record company has to explain this will go so far and stop . ’ |
| 8 | I remember doing the Stoppard play Undiscovered Country which was a great help and drama school needs to do more of that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Certainly , Supreme Court judges are likely to have had a much wider variety of governmental and legal experience than their counterparts in Britain where the rather narrow process of socialization into the law and recruitment process seems to ensure less variation . |
| 10 | The teacher , librarian and media officer need to understand each other 's special skills in order to work together as a team : |
| 11 | According to later studies ( Martin , 1986 , 1987 ; TCPA , 1987 ; Green , 1988 ) the gap in the 1980s is now wider than ever ; and the latest developments in information and communications technology threaten to reinforce these contrasts ( Goddard and Gillespie , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Hippy and student activist continue to recognize each other as allies . |
| 13 | Communication is a two-edged weapon , however , and Lancer Force began to receive some ill-conceived directions for section attacks and platoon operations that were dreamt up by mainland staff with no comprehension that a force without artillery , and facing an enemy superiority of ten-to-one , is likely to be obliterated in conventional infantry attacks . |
| 14 | Japanese companies continue to find the going extremely tough in the workstation business , where American companies led by Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co continue to make all the running , so defensive alliances are becoming essential , and Sony Corp and NEC Corp shared a platform last week to say that they are joining forces in the Japanese workstation market to enable Japanese language applications written for either of their MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based workstation families — NEC 's EWS4800 and Sony 's NEWS — to run on the other . |
| 15 | The Council 's Water and Drainage Department intends to adopt this project to provide a focus for its fundraising efforts . |
| 16 | A five kilometres stretch of Dere Street north of Monteviot was easy to walk in 1990 , yet Hamish diverted around it as it showed ‘ no indication of being salvaged and made available ’ ( only the Teviot crossing and Monteviot House required a diversion , and Borders Region plans to open this stretch in 1992 ) . |
| 17 | Power-assisted steering fitted as standard to all Safrane models is a speed-sensitive system that ‘ weights up ’ as road speed increases to provide more feedback to the driver . |