Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any kind of ranching , logging or building provides a ready-made inroad for the farmers to penetrate the most inaccessible parts . |
| 2 | The Navy 's costings are the most brittle : cancellation of just one warship or submarine punches a yawning hole in a year 's programme , and slowing down construction increases overheads and hence costs dramatically . |
| 3 | The decline may sometimes be very gradual but in other cases a heart attack or stroke makes an immediate change in lifestyle necessary . |
| 4 | In this book , Leonie Archer looks at the effects of this in the Judaism of antiquity , where blood has a major significance in ritual both in the sacrifices in the Temple and in the shedding of blood in circumcision — the ‘ Covenant ’ between God and his people . |
| 5 | A Tantric painting or drawing has a spiritual purpose , to assist the user in meditation . |
| 6 | The paramount value which Semai place on avoidance of conflict or confrontation precludes a direct response , so a strategy of passive resistance is adopted : the person who is being importuned begins , without responding directly , to turn slowly , almost imperceptibly , around , until the one who is importuning him is speaking to his back . |
| 7 | Any visitor to Ireland does n't have to travel very far before realising that this is a land where religion plays a major role in the life of every city , town and village . |
| 8 | This is the sort of procedure that Wimsatt had in mind when he said ( 1958 : 149 ) that ‘ poetry is that type of verbal structure where truth of reference or correspondence reaches a maximum degree of fusion with truth of coherence — or where external and internal relation are intimately mutual reflections ’ . |
| 9 | Because of the difficulties of getting it all together , the chairperson or co-ordinator has a key part to play ( see Chairing meetings on page 28 ) . |
| 10 | That this has not always to be the case in religion is demonstrated by religions like Buddhism and Hinduism where laughter plays a big part . |
| 11 | A few berries in a rich wine sauce for goose or chicken adds a delicious note . |
| 12 | The half moon or lunala separates the living nail , which is below the cuticle , from the nail you can see . |
| 13 | The notion that consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal presents a serious problem for doctors . |
| 14 | He has yet to come to terms with the fact that a popular front of the mind or body means a Labour leader in Number 10 . |
| 15 | Here , an individual or group takes a high-risk position to expose an injustice or inconsistency which produces a sense of moral outrage . |
| 16 | Where the parent company or group has a significant holding ( 10% or more shares of an undertaking or more than 10% of the investing company 's assets ) in an undertaking ( which is not a subsidiary undertaking , joint venture or associated undertaking ) the following must be stated : |
| 17 | Feminist vision or imagination has no real resource to turn to . |
| 18 | Cheap plain cotton or calico makes the ideal canvas for an ambitious , all-over stencil design , coloured to blend in with your decor . |
| 19 | The way in which individual credit granters decide whether or not to lend to people who ask for loans or credit affects the general pattern of credit use . |
| 20 | The affidavit is not specifically required to deal with future loss but it is advisable to indicate what items are continuing so that the master or registrar has a global view of the case . |
| 21 | Whilst a single stimulation of the body surface close to the gill or siphon produces a reflex withdrawal , on repeated stimulation the response habituates ; that is , the response to the repeated stimuli steadily diminishes and finally disappears completely for a while . |
| 22 | But the Buddhists also point out that , unless a man or woman has a special gift or potential , these techniques will not work infallibly . |
| 23 | Maidstone & District provides an hourly bus service ‘ 4 ’ and ‘ 5 ’ to Battle , 6 days a week , with a limited service on Sundays , departing from Hastings via St Leonards — Battle — Hawkhurst — Maidstone , bus services also run in reverse order departing from Maidstone . |
| 24 | Duodenoscopes are more difficult to clean thoroughly than gastroscopes because of the bridging elevator channel and , as they are often used less frequently , their incomplete disinfection or drying allows a greater time for organisms to proliferate . |
| 25 | Brown & Root gives an additional housing assistance grant and Cornhill Insurance gives an extra transfer allowance . |
| 26 | A trip by cable car or monorail gives the best view of the 180-acre site , four miles from Exmoor . |
| 27 | Every inhabited building or interior tells a different story , of how life is or was : ‘ The joyous shot at how things ought to belong fallen wide ’ . |
| 28 | Identifying the sin or offence lets the other person know you understand something of the hurt . |
| 29 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 30 | To what natural laws or secondary causes the orderly succession and progression of such organic phenomena may have been committed we are as yet ignorant . |