Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it known how such circumstances arose or whether the balances are individually or cumulatively material in relation to the company 's accounts . |
| 2 | And although some 6,000 of them did fight , either in their own units or occasionally side by side with Afghans , most returned home without incident . |
| 3 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 4 | Sometimes they are joined by Elves who have lost their homes and families to the Dark Elves and now lust for vengeance with the cold fury that only Elves can feel . |
| 5 | In 1984 David Hargreaves , formerly Chief Inspector in ILEA and now Professor of Education at Cambridge , called attention to this danger in a paper entitled ‘ Motivation versus selection : a dilemma for Records of Achievement ’ ( 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Literally it may be defined as ‘ the geography of living organisms ’ or since geography is traditionally the study of living things and particularly man in relation to the environment , the most accurate job description of the subject may be the ‘ geography of the biosphere ’ . ’ |
| 7 | However , there is good precedent for using such methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying altered responsiveness and particularly loss of awareness of hypoglycaemia . |
| 8 | If this intercommunication is not properly arranged there will be the familiar symptoms of frustrating reiteration , decisions being misunderstood or being constantly revised , political manoeuvring and even concealment of progress within one or more of the teams . |
| 9 | Although the maker and even country of origin of these pieces surprisingly remains unknown , one view holding that they are German rather than French , this uncertainty did not matter to the bidders as it sold to an anonymous private collector for $1,700,000 ( £944,400 ) . |
| 10 | However , such savings can not immediately be turned into cash since there is inconvenience , cost , and even uncertainty of value with some financial assets . |
| 11 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |
| 12 | Well well they used to make a pile of these things and put straw on top of them and then soil on top of them to keep the frost out . |
| 13 | [ See p. 37138 for this Aden meeting and publication on Dec. 1 of a draft joint constitution , requiring ratification by both parliaments within six months , and then endorsement by referendum after a further six months ; see p. 37266 for progress on unity in February 1990 . ] |
| 14 | The barriers to greater participation include finance , mobility , and sometimes lack of knowledge about what is available . |
| 15 | Thus it would appear that Kelsen and Aquinas agree that law sometimes involves applications of general rules by way of subsumption of the particular under the general , that is a deductive process , and sometimes concretization by way of delegation . |
| 16 | It should be emphasised that in India metaphysics , or that which is beyond the measurement , and therefore clarification of physics as a scientific discipline , is never merely abstract speculation but serves as a theoretical framework supporting a body of spiritual discipline . |
| 17 | There is therefore a tension between the continued existence of economic and social inequalities which confer political advantages on some groups and corresponding disadvantages on others , and the democratic principle of political equality , which ought , as a principle , to mean not merely equality in the voting booth but also equality of access to the political decision-makers , and equal opportunities to influence the policies and direction taken by society as a whole . |
| 18 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 19 | There is as well experience of identification of assorted beads according to shape , size and colour and ( maybe ) material — wood or plastic . |