Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine a government that follows the typically Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy , relaxing fiscal or monetary policy whenever the economy moves into a recession and tightening fiscal or monetary policy when the economy is booming . |
| 2 | Leave onion sets until the end of March or early April when the soil should be warmer . |
| 3 | The shooting followed incidents over the last two or three weeks where the family 's other two cats have returned home and have been violently sick . |
| 4 | It was certainly suppressed by the late third or fourth century when the stone building was provided with a corridor 4 m ( 13 ft ) wide along its western side , comprising two and ultimately three rooms . |
| 5 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 6 | Since the book appeared in America , Rock has been surprised by the letters he 's received ‘ from people who live in the suburbs or small flats where the father is the king , where his armchair is the throne . |
| 7 | In a general index it may only be possible to distinguish between different meanings of the one homograph by using scope notes or qualifying terms wherever the term arises , and thus in some way replace the context that is normally absent in respect of index terms . |
| 8 | ‘ The Act does not make it criminal to use offensive or disgusting behaviour whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . |
| 9 | That obligation , it was contended , arose although the original tenant never authorised , or knew of , or had any connection whatever with , the agreement or other process whereby the amount of the new rent was determined . |
| 10 | Each of the journeys has been chosen to visit one of more of the city 's parks or quiet areas where the visitor can pause and take stock . |
| 11 | In any case , the concern about Article 86 legislation could be met relatively easily by retaining monopoly references to the MMC , with the OFT proposing behavioural or structural remedies where a market situation was not in the public interest , but there was no evidence of abuse by the firms involved . |
| 12 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
| 13 | Describe in no more than 100 words how the production of sweet white wines varies from that of dry white wines . |
| 14 | On the evidence in the present case I am satisfied that one reason why the plaintiff did so much for the deceased was her belief that , although she was not a blood relative of his , he would leave his estate to her on his death ; but , on the authority of Greasley v Cooke [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1306 , if the evidence was not sufficient to establish this positively , the plaintiff would still succeed on the fourth element in the absence of proof that she did not rely on the deceased 's statements . |
| 15 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
| 16 | But there can be practical difficulties in implementing this , particularly in small and medium-sized companies where the number of treasury transactions does not warrant employing several staff . |
| 17 | This occurs because most tropical rainforest biogeochemical cycles involve a tight intra-system relationship between the living biomass and the litter which contains the major reservoirs of nutrients ; this is in contrast to the biogeochemical cycles of temperate and boreal forests wherein the soil plays a much more significant role in nutrient recycling ( see Mannion 1986e for a more complete discussion of these relationships ) . |
| 18 | His arms went round her and his lips found hers , and this time when the world fell apart and the sky came crashing down , she clamped her lips together and buried her face in his shoulder and said nothing . |
| 19 | I remember a big insurance scandal in which someone was bumped off and another case where a dustman was having sex with his two daughters . |
| 20 | I imagined conning Wavebreaker into Dartmouth , and taking the power skiff upriver to one of my old and favourite pubs where the ale had real taste instead of the limp-wristed chill of North American beers . |
| 21 | Inner-city areas are also often short staffed as a result of difficulties in recruiting staff to work in areas of heavy demand and high workloads where the work is particularly stressful . |
| 22 | They are a development of the system of weirs and flash locks where a stretch of water was impounded to provide a good depth of water to flush or ‘ flash ’ a boat along its way . |
| 23 | Police were still clearing the hotel and nearby homes when the bomb , abandoned in a Volvo car , partly exploded at 1.20am . |
| 24 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 25 | The link between constructs 4 and 5 shows how an attribute such as the sense of stillness evokes an association with feelings of civilization in this particular picture . |
| 26 | In a class devoted to vaguely-worded comparisons between different world religions , or to ill-structured discussion of social and socio-political problems where no examination is taken , there may be a tendency to frivolity both in the preparation of the lessons and in the behaviour of the pupils . |
| 27 | It makes the actual work of ferreting uncomfortable and those days when the rainfall is persistent are neither comfortable nor the most sporting . |
| 28 | Support for nuclear was strongest among professional and managerial groups where the number in favour reached nearly 60 per-cent . |
| 29 | The first stage is the prenatal and perinatal period when a person 's genetic constitution is determined , birth trauma may occur , and the early mother-child bond established . |
| 30 | The lexical norm described by Fasold is probably associated with a rather complicated situation in Scottish and Irish dialects where a set of verbs including keep , sleep , sweep have apparently been recategorized as irregular , without the alveolar suffix as a past tense marker . |