Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Likewise , bergamot and geranium can either sedate or stimulate according to the needs of the individual — a phenomenon totally alien to a synthetic or chemical drug .
2 After such period of adjustment as the Court may have allowed , the Record is closed and within fourteen days thereafter , each party is required to provide his opponent with ‘ a list of documents which are or have been in his possession or control relating to the matters in dispute in the action ’ .
3 O ’ course I do n't want to exaggerate : now and then you 'd get sparks out of him — he 'd tell a good story , he 'd chat up one o' the lasses , or go to t'pub wi' the lads .
4 In 1238 he ordered the Charter of the forest to be read out in full county court , and the concessions contained therein to be observed ; but he was careful to add the proviso that ‘ if any dispute or doubt arise regarding the articles of the Charter ’ the Chief Justice of the Forest was to ‘ seek the counsel of the King and his Court before anything be done in regard thereto ’ .
5 know the name of the person you should speak to ( if it appears in the advertisement ) or ask to speak to the personnel department .
6 He said : ‘ The nub of the matter is that MacQuillan never had the money to buy a paper in Fleet Street or do battle with the unions . ’
7 Malicious acts and vandalism , except for loss or damage occurring in the circumstances detailed in * The Buildings Unoccupancy Clause in your Policy .
8 Escape of water from or frost damages to any washing machine dishwasher or plumbed-in domestic water or heating installation , except for loss or damage occurring in the circumstances detailed in *The Buildings Unoccupancy Clause in your Policy .
9 Previous studies have uncertain relevance to the outpatient setting as they either investigated subgroups of patients for example the elderly , or have reported on the findings in hospital inpatients .
10 But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years .
11 ( iii ) Mechanically remove any follicular cells that remain attached to the eggs by pipetting them in and out of a narrow bore micropipette .
12 Other animals and plants also show physiological and bio-chemical changes that appear to result from the organisms ’ responses to their environment .
13 In Africa , there are frogs that manage to breed on the branches of trees .
14 He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’
15 They can live in hot springs , or can be dredged from the deepest abyssal depths of the ocean ; the latter are grotesque gargoyles that seem to belong in the paintings of Heironymus Bosch .
16 ‘ It 's old folks and neighbours that have gone into the houses , and it will be children who will benefit in years to come from the jobs that are created .
17 Most of the experiments that have contributed to the ideas described in this book fall somewhere between these two extremes , although the proportions contributed by theory and by experiment to the final story are very variable .
18 CANCER cells are almost by definition cells that have escaped from the controls that govern the behaviour of the individual cells in a multicellular organism .
19 It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines .
20 Challenge the routines that have evolved over the years .
21 What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play .
22 But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job .
23 It 's difficult to find companies willing to be specific about the changes or benefits that have resulted from the services of a consulting guru .
24 About 3 weeks later , sift the flour in each tube to find the adults that have hatched from the pupae , which you put in the tube .
25 Most controversially , they recommended stronger police powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers and make soliciting on the streets illegal .
26 He also thought of Dame Agatha 's smiling face before drifting into a dreamless sleep , leaving Ranulf and Maltote to argue over the fortunes of dice .
27 This will stay in our nature until we become aware of the process and let go of the chains that pride puts around us .
28 Another feature of dolphin skin which could offset turbulence and accelerate movement is a system of dermal ridges ( similar to those that make up our fingerprints ) which are found beneath the skin on the back and flanks of most cetaceans , and seem to correspond to the patterns of water flow .
29 In Winter we 're digging and in summer we eat outside as much as possible and enjoy looking at the fruits of our labour . "
30 ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds .
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