Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 2 | The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter … |
| 3 | 1 The present House of Lords is seen as a wrecking chamber with a built-in Conservative majority and a crippling power of delay that only exists to put a brake on a reforming Socialist government . |
| 4 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 5 | Er anybody that actually wants to see a list of the prizewinners from last year , from the actual race , I do have a copy er |
| 6 | Pluralism is regarded as an ideology which masks the reality of power and so helps to legitimise a system which is grounded in inequality and an absence of fair play . |
| 7 | Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them . |
| 8 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch . |
| 10 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 11 | It neglects to take into account the possibility that people might also attach a comparable value to environmental protection , and similarly fails to attach a value to the contribution vehicles make to acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 12 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 13 | This band is very neat and really does give a garment a professional finish . |
| 14 | and because the Buckinary is so big and really warrants having a stag group over that neck of the woods |
| 15 | Julia Swift , author of 12 Steps To Beautiful Breasts ( Thorsons ) , replied : ‘ Breasts are just fatty tissue , but toning up the muscles which lie underneath and around does improve a profile . |
| 16 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 17 | Try selling nappies and dogfood to someone who lives alone and never intends to have a baby or a dog . |
| 18 | It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries . |
| 19 | The new software company will concentrate on the NextStep-on-Intel environment , but also plans to develop a range of surrounding software . |
| 20 | This assertion that the modus should be enforced directly not only fits badly in the context , but also seems to contradict a text of Julian discussed earlier , in which he proposed using the traditional cautio method to secure performance . |
| 21 | A friend at the Bar estimated to me in 1981 that a youngster of ability on the common law side can go up to eight or ten thousand pounds , but then tends to reach a plateau . |