Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
| 2 | The London Film Co-Op had just started too , and for those too tired , smashed out , or bored for the music or perhaps with an interest in America in grainy black and white there were movies like Kenneth Anger 's Scorpio Rising , and Towers Open Fire . |
| 3 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 4 | This treatment may be given by mouth ( when it is known as oral rehydration therapy or ORT ) or directly into the bloodstream in more serious cases . |
| 5 | The source of this advice will be an indicator of the cultural shift in the NHS : will the advice be tendered by a single expert of directorial status on the Executive — a ‘ general management ’ culture — or collectively by an Authority in the traditional manner — a ‘ consensus ’ culture ? |
| 6 | During the summer breeding gulls , skuas , terns and cormorants feed close to land ; the rest range widely over the ocean , browsing at or close to the surface in single-species or mixed flocks . |
| 7 | unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length . |
| 8 | The basic principle of the Act is in s. 2(1) : " Where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , every person to whom subsection ( 2 ) … applies shall be liable for the damage . " |
| 9 | Where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , any person to whom subsection ( 2 ) applies shall be liable . |
| 10 | Liability of an effective supplier is envisaged under s2(3) as follows : ( 3 ) Subject , as aforesaid , where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , any person who supplied the product ( whether to the person who suffered the damage , to the producer of any product in which the product in question is comprised or to any other person ) shall be liable for the damage if ( a ) the person who suffered the damage requests the supplier to identify one or more of the persons ( whether still in existence or not ) to whom subsection ( 2 ) above applies in relation to the product ; ( b ) that request is made within a reasonable period after the damage occurs and at a time when it is not reasonably practicable for the person making the request to identify all those persons ; and ( c ) the supplier fails , within a reasonable period after receiving the request , either to comply with the request or to identify the person who supplied the product to him . |
| 11 | This gave everyone a chance to have their meal without the attention of the doves and fodies , who would otherwise steal food from your table — or even off the plate in front of you . |
| 12 | Sometimes the panic is passed over and forgotten , but at other times it has more serious and long term repercussions and it might produce changes in legal and social policy or even in the way in which societies conceive themselves . |
| 13 | The independence of the guardian ad litem is vital and local authorities must not compromise this by imposing restrictions directly or indirectly on the manner in which the guardian carries out his duties . |
| 14 | However , we shall not be responsible for death , injury , loss , damage or delay of any kind whatsoever to any property or persons howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly from the use in any manner whatsoever of information including advertisements printed in this magazine . |
| 15 | As a private investigator , for instance , or earlier as a guide in the giant planet Worbali'n , where the smallest life form had teeth as ling as my arm . |
| 16 | entering a positive or negative number enables the user to browse backwards or forwards through the text in logical sequence of the textual units . |
| 17 | One popular way was for the dealer to refer his client to somebody in the administration or accounts departments , or else to the director in charge of such details . |
| 18 | At the Second Congress in 1920 Indian delegate M. N. Roy 's counter-thesis that the fate of the revolution in Europe depended upon the success or otherwise of the revolution in colonial countries was adopted in a weaker form . |
| 19 | Accordingly , butchers are learning to help us ‘ think forwards to the meal , rather than backwards to the animal in the field ’ , as the trade press exhorts . |
| 20 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 21 | A decrease in PV has been curiously " rewarded " more than once by an increase in PS . |
| 22 | One can only use criminal law to test theories of law on the assumption that independently of the theory in question one has in criminal law a genuine instance of law . |
| 23 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 24 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 25 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 26 | Let's see that again from the camera in Merv Hughes 's moustache |
| 27 | There is no legal right to protect or demonstrate — merely a right for the present to say what one likes provided that it is lawful whether by way of ‘ protest ’ or otherwise ; or a right to pass to and fro along the highway in a reasonable manner and for a proper purpose , whether carrying a banner or not . |
| 28 | Incidentally , this picture of the working of Ashington suggests all sorts of local routes to and fro across the parish in performing these various activities . |
| 29 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 30 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |