Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Reimbursement of additional hotel and travelling expenses necessarily incurred up to a maximum of £300 to reach the booked destination in the event of the Insured Person arriving at the U.K. departure point too late to commence the booked holiday as a result of the failure of public transport services or due to an accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 2 | Additional accommodation and travel expenses necessarily incurred following late arrival at the UK departure point due to the failure of Public Transport services ( or due to an accident or breakdown involving the motor vehicle in which the insured is travelling ) . |
| 3 | Join now as an individual , £6.75 per annum , or free with a Climber and Hillwalker subscription or join your local walking/climbing club ( addresses available from the national officer ) . |
| 4 | GIVEN THAT Jacob 's Mouse have been involved in this rock ‘ n ’ roll malarkey in some form or another from an age when your hack still believed a bosom was Captain Birdseye 's right hand man on the SS Fishfinger , you would , perhaps — just like the kids of Bury St Edmunds — expect Sam , Jebb and Hugo to be precocious little shits with heads as big as Frank Sidebottom 's . |
| 5 | with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against him or another by a person or |
| 6 | It could be behaviour that is different or unusual in a way that is disapproved of , such as stealing or children-battering . |
| 7 | Sparcstation 1 , 1+ and 2 users — even in some respects IPX customers — will be able to upgrade to either the Model 30 or 41 via a chassis and motherboard swap out . |
| 8 | Buy Back is normally used in capital projects where the exporter is supplying part or all of a project and is paid by agreeing to take back part of the output from the manufacturing plant either for his own use or for onward sale . |
| 9 | Although Big Blue has said that its interest lies in exploiting computer technology and developing digital film ‘ software ’ rather than creating movies , we can not imagine IBM buying half or more of an enterprise and then remaining a passive investor . |
| 10 | Especially when the doctor took the blood samples ; one look at the dark Bald Bowing from their veins and the young men toppled quietly from their chairs , often four or five in a row while the orderlies , grinning cheerfully , bore them away . |
| 11 | If , for example , you have two lectures a week in a particular subject — say , on Tuesday and Thursday mornings — and a weekly tutorial — say , on Tuesday afternoons — then you should set aside regular time(s) — say , an hour or two on a Monday and another hour on , say , a Thursday — to study to and prepare for that class . |
| 12 | If you are out of practice , why not take a ride or two with an instructor and ask him to criticise your flying ? |
| 13 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 14 | Needle-knife papillotomy is probably a safer option than pre-cutting with a sphincterotome where the wire emerges from the end , as the direction of the cut is easier to control with the needle-knife and there is less danger of damage to the pancreatic duct . |
| 15 | ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ? |
| 16 | 1973 ) found that those with a daughter or daughters were more likely to die in their own homes than those with just a son or sons . |
| 17 | Other advantages are that employees working direct for a company are often better motivated than those of an intermediary and it is easier to control a subsidiary because it is under the parent company 's direct control . |
| 18 | George was generous and conciliatory to an extent that Coleridge can hardly have expected . |
| 19 | you see I go on fruit and that for a day and all I do the next day is get a terrible cramp in the stomach |
| 20 | Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult . |
| 21 | This applies between the ages of 65 and 70 for a man and from 60 to 65 for a woman . |
| 22 | In Gwent we have embarked on a major study to do this and will be offering a prostate health check to over 10000 men aged between 55 and 70 in a study that is associated with the European programme concerned with early prostatic cancer . |
| 23 | Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's . |
| 24 | All the male terms in the following list are relatively neutral and descriptive of a job or a position — master/mistress , host/hostess , fisherman/fishwife , prince/princess , bachelor/spinster . |
| 25 | Now spend some time , if possible with a dictionary or a thesaurus , making out a chart for yourself-exploring some of the feelings you experience . |
| 26 | Gorbachev 's speech on his election as party leader laid proper emphasis on domestic priorities , but also called for better relations with the ‘ great socialist community ’ , particularly China , and for the continuation of ‘ peaceful , mutually advantageous cooperation ’ with the capitalist world , leading if possible to an agreement that would provide for the complete elimination of nuclear arms and with them the threat of nuclear war . |
| 27 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 28 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 29 | Next I began to worship actors like gods and I 'd go and see the same performance again and again , transported , until I learned that the actor , the one I had in mind , was exceptionally polygamous and stingy as a goat and so I let that one go . |
| 30 | It was late , but Mrs Mallory was still ironing , the line of her mouth grim and purposeful in a face that was unusually tired and unhappy . |