Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them .
2 Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts .
3 What would be the effect of changing the public policy insofar as it constitutes a social guide to the conditions in which individuals or groups chose from the possible adjustments ?
4 Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him .
5 Numerous studies are also cited where animals reared in an enriched or rich home environment were more successful problem solvers than those reared in impoverished environments or in laboratory cages .
6 No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean .
7 Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government .
8 He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door .
9 Subsequently , iron ore was also mined at Boulby , and the foundations of a shanty town of corrugated iron huts , locally nicknamed ‘ Tin City ’ , remain where miners lived until the 1930s .
10 Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed .
11 An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine .
12 Eventually , we arrived at a small , damp valley , peat and heather-filled , where insects hummed in the still air .
13 Any tendency to diffuseness or ambiguity led to a wide range of interpretations and allowed teachers and heads to assert in good faith , whatever the nature of their practice , that they were implementing the LEA 's policies and principles .
14 Then incubate the embryos at room temperature for 15–30 min in the second layer ( an FITC- or TMRTC-conjugated antibody or IgG directed against the first antibody ) diluted appropriately in M2 .
15 Todd & Duncan benefited from the increased demand for cashmere and , backed by the strongest stock service in the industry , quality driven investment and new impetus in product development , made substantial overseas progress which should be maintained in 1993/94 .
16 At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log .
17 ( The mildly mathematically-minded reader will appreciate that if only four genes are considered , each providing a simple alternative — as if all children were blue eyed or brown eyed with no other variation — the number of individuals of different characteristics possible would be 27 .
18 On August 6th 1991 , 11 winners from W & V arrived on a dull drizzly morning at Mallory Park , Leicestershire .
19 Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use .
20 Despite all her caution , her wriggling movements made Water Gypsy sway a little at her moorings , and once or twice she stopped and held her breath , but no movement or challenge came from the narrow boat 's main cabin .
21 In fact , the area would increase whenever matter or radiation fell into the black hole ( Fig. 7.2 ) .
22 Despite her long exile , she remained deeply attached to the Episcopalian church , raising her children to love both the Bible and Savannah , where roses blossomed in the dead of winter .
23 As a result , for the bulk of those who delayed a decision about early retirement , unemployment or sickness amounted to a similar economic status to early retirement : non-employment .
24 The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel , where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn , the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists .
25 Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range .
26 Rows of simple wooden benches drew her gaze towards the altar , where candles burned beside a tall , plain wooden crucifix .
27 Cell extracts ( 0.3μg protein per assay ) from non-transfected cells ( control ) or cells transfected with the indicated plasmid DNAs were incubated in the absence or presence of βγ t ( 2μM ) with phospholipid vesicles containing PtdInsP 2 .
28 Although Nizan adhered to a clear set of communist principles between 1935 and 1939 , his psychological state fluctuated in accordance with national and international political events .
29 They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations .
30 To a large extent that ideology looked to the Roman past .
  Next page