Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 2 | He , too , has the courage to speak out , and so has Ted Heath , whether what they say is right or wrong or agrees with the party line . |
| 3 | Connery is n't playing with politics or toying with a party allegiance ; he opinion is founded on his life experience . |
| 4 | L 24 , p. 1 ) , whereby only fishing vessels flying the flag of or registered in a member state may fish against the quotas allocated to that member state , which in other words are reserved to ‘ national ’ vessels to the exclusion of vessels from other members states . |
| 5 | Lack of privacy in hospital may also be a cause of problems with bladder or bowels ; for example most patients find it difficult to use a bedpan , or commode in the ward area , even when well screened from other patients . |
| 6 | The training committee continued to advise the training officer , but all real initiatives were overturned or dismissed by the management committee . |
| 7 | This is because , at appropriately applied voltages , many organic compounds are reduced or oxidised at the electrode surface , thus producing a current . |
| 8 | AN INDEPENDENT Scottish government would remove any form of privatisation or franchising from the rail network , the Scottish National Party declared yesterday . |
| 9 | However , although in wartime married women were positively encouraged and in some cases required to re-enter or remain in the labour market , working in those very occupations from which they had previously been ‘ barred ’ , such women were often categorised as temporary workers , or were employed part-time . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) . |
| 11 | You could go round with a lampshade on your head , or join the loonies in the Buddhist robes , or sit outside the Drop-in Centre all day with a can of Special Brew in your hand . |
| 12 | Why stand in a bus queue or sit in a traffic jam when you can walk almost as quickly ? |
| 13 | Expectations that the child should hold the parent 's hand while crossing the road , or sit in the safety seat in the car , can be met by great outbursts of temper in the confident 2-year-old who wants to be totally independent . |
| 14 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 15 | But my main priority is making the animals look real with a lot of life in them , rather than the staid and stiff specimens cast in bronze , sitting on top of a television or placed in a town square . |
| 16 | ‘ New ideas are being stifled by bureaucracy ’ , is the standard grouse over a beer or gazing into a test tube , along with more detailed criticisms of why the system does n't work . |
| 17 | If you can manage it , you can keep on the go all day , hitting winners on the tennis court or flying the British flat at water polo ( let's hope we do better this year ? ) , or competing in the Irene Palace swimming Olympics . |
| 18 | The free wine really did put everyone in the right mood for the rest of the evening when you could sit back and be entertained or dance to the disco music outside on the terrace . |
| 19 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 20 | A debate is in progress among scholars in the arts and humanities about whether it would be right to establish a humanities research council or a humanities , economic and social research council , or to continue with no research council at all . |
| 21 | It is not unlikely either that the formation of the desire will be closely linked with current experiences and will therefore probably be fulfilled by providing more of whatever is salient in the context — porridge , or rides in a plastic tub , etc . |
| 22 | The impulse previously contained or harnessed in the work setting becomes dangerous and inhibiting in bed when there is no alternative outlet . |
| 23 | Goodwill Under Irish GAAP , goodwill may be either written off immediately on completion of the acquisition against shareholders ' equity or capitalized in the balance sheet and amortized through the income statement on a systematic basis over its useful economic life . |
| 24 | terminals in restaurants , switchboard , porters desks , housekeeping office to post charges direct to the guest 's account or in the case of the housekeeper to enquire or update on the room status ; |
| 25 | I can then learn by its tic-tic that the robin is at my feet , judge by smell that I have trodden on thyme or bumped into a rosemary bush , and tell by touch that the leaf in my hand is comfrey and not common dock . |
| 26 | A room status change can be initiated either by hotel staff entering a code manually on the bedroom telephone , or automatically by the Hotel Manager if , for example , a name is entered or deleted on the guest file . |
| 27 | ‘ For this reason , purchasing from brochures or purchasing from a system demonstration on-site is simply inadequate . |
| 28 | If future league tables report disaggregated profiles for resources and costs for each study then the costs may be validated or recalculated for the decision maker 's own setting . |
| 29 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 30 | A central issue is whether syntactic and semantic information contribute independently or interact in the comprehension process . |