Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next I had to run errands and to do various little jobs like drawing a pint of vinegar from a big barrel in the warehouse or sawing up blocks of salt with a special saw into a prescribed thickness , ready to be packed in brown paper . |
| 2 | If the council thinks that you have given away or used up savings in order to qualify for , or increase the amount of your benefit they can treat you as still having those savings . |
| 3 | Mechanical tillage ( apart from rolling ) is designed to turn over soil or break down clods into tilth crumbs of a suitable size . |
| 4 | They were walking along a broad corridor between glass-partitioned offices , lit by bleak fluorescent strip lighting , where sallow-faced men in shirt-sleeves stared at computer terminals or pored over sheets of printout . |
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| 6 | On the one hand we have the capacity for logical , rational thought with the ability to deduce or work out solutions to problems , and the analytical powers of scientific inquiry . |
| 7 | They might supply things that are missing , or clear up things in over-supply , detoxifying the blood . |
| 8 | As a unionist with very good reason for having the warmest of feelings towards Scotland , may I ask my right hon. Friend to make it absolutely clear to anyone who wishes to establish an institution in Scotland with legislative powers over certain areas of policy that , regrettably , it would be totally unacceptable for any Scottish Member of the House to have any say , vote or control over areas of policy in the rest of the United Kingdom ? |
| 9 | We either hold or pass on letters for clients . |
| 10 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 11 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 12 | There had been a little unrest among the servants , particularly in the kitchen and pantries where Dora was resentful of finding Alexandra counting bottles of damsons and crocks of lard , and thrown totally into disarray by Alexandra 's demanding to be allowed to stir the jam or weigh out ingredients for chutney made from the vast harvest of plums . |
| 13 | The eleventh-century punishment for causing inflation by reducing the value of coins ( usually by using base metals or clipping off pieces of silver ) was the loss of the right hand and castration . |
| 14 | providing one or more platform faces to enable specific journeys on regular Fife line and Glasgow line services to stop to set down or pick up passengers on match days |
| 15 | any motor vehicle waiting to set down or pick up passengers in accordance with regulations made or directions given by the chief officer or police in regard to such setting down or picking up ; |
| 16 | All mingled together and jostled for their drinks or huddled round tables over plates of food . |
| 17 | The pearlescents have an historical precedence in Japanese prints , where ground up mother of pearl was used to catch the light but are otherwise an entirely novel kind of colour that invites experiment and stimulates the imagination . |
| 18 | Her personal wedding gift to her son was a magnificent carpet which was spread in the small majlis , a room in the tahat or sitting down tradition with cushions lining the walls . |
| 19 | Buy packets of seed which have the Bird Food Standards Association seal of approval , or put out scraps of cheese , meat , stale cake or bacon rinds . |
| 20 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 21 | They may not have information about users ' success ( or lack of it ) in searching for particular books , or for books on particular subjects , or the extent to which users locate substitutes for their original choices , or the extent to which users browse or take up materials on impulse , or the manner in which impulse choices are taken up . |
| 22 | Do n't ignore this legal obligation , otherwise you could be ordered to pull down or open up work for inspection at your expense . |
| 23 | I am pleased also to announce a total of more than £6.5 million industrial investment by a further four companies , either expanding , modernising or setting up operations in Wales . |
| 24 | It is clear from the right hon. Gentleman 's first attempt to amend regulation 72 that the Government 's motive is to save money and administration — the motive is so absolutely blatant that I am amazed that even the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , whose eccentricities are well known , could not deny the obvious — while , at the same time , blocking or restricting back payments of entitlement , even where there has been official error . |
| 25 | How many executives need to look up ASCII codes or work out problems in Hexadecimal and Octal ? |
| 26 | It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true . |
| 27 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 28 | Nigel Lawson , it seemed , was neither holding the pound steady abroad nor keeping down prices at home . |
| 29 | On each side of the room where they stood were massive iron furnaces ; great , glowing stoves that belched out waves of heat so that the air was heavy and fetid . |
| 30 | The problem here is that as a $4,300 box it 's fitted with only 207Mb external disk and 16Mb internal memory , barely enough to handle the Solaris 2.1 operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space and prefers 24Mb minimum . |