Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 3 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 4 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 5 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 6 | Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions . |
| 7 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 8 | This limits , or complicates to a high degree , the explanatory force of a psychoanalytic discourse whose terms are founded on an Oedipal moment of lack , castration and desire . |
| 9 | The best you saw were third-hand Morris Minors or — as we called them — Wogmobiles , Mark Two Zodiacs or Zephyrs with every conceivable extra . |
| 10 | There were few holidays , or trips to the famous surf of the Australian beaches , until friends of the family lent them a house by the sea in later years . |
| 11 | The basic questions posed are : First , can children attach themselves to psychological parents whilst they also maintain contact or links with a non-custodial birth parent or other relative ? and second , would the maintenance of such links confuse the child and impair his developing personal and social identity ? |
| 12 | However , if the broker fills an order left with him by his client or deals on a discretionary basis , he is as a matter of law dealing on both sides of the " client " contract ; he is agent for the client , in that he binds the client to the contract , and at the same time he is technically the client 's counterparty . |
| 13 | If you get only a mild reaction to a particular food , watch it carefully until it either disappears or increases into a full-blown reaction . |
| 14 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 15 | In part two : Tactical weapons : The Tory seat that sinks or swims with the floating voter . |
| 16 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 17 | Runners-up were the Community Network — a telephone conferencing facility for various charities and social groups — and The Rainbow Centre — a small , national charity working with families where a child has either died or suffers from a life-threatening illness . |
| 18 | deictic : a. gestural b. symbolic 2. non-deictic : c. non-anaphoric d. anaphoric These difficulties are compounded when the phenomenon of deictic projection , or shifts from the egocentric centre , are taken into account ; and they are further multiplied by the interaction of the semantics of non-deictic categorizations of ( especially ) space and time with deictic modifiers . |
| 19 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 20 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 21 | A total of 158 taxa have been identified as pollen , spores , or macrofossils from the Outer Hebrides . |
| 22 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 23 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 24 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 25 | And from all these things the soft light proceeded , like the glimmering of pearls in the depth of water , like the phosphorescent light that moves of itself on the night surface of southern seas , or shines round the heaving shoals , milky-white over their silver darts , in our own dark Channel . |
| 26 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 27 | When the fry hatch out , they should be fed on Liquifry or rotifers as a first food , because they 're too tiny to take newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 28 | This situation is unlikely to be satisfactory to either party especially if the pipe is shared or runs under a shared access . |
| 29 | Unless she comes to the front door , and follows you down the path ; or comes to the back door and follows you into the garden . |
| 30 | For instance , there are no yellow daffodils in the underlying system of mass in motion ; daffodils appear yellow to us because of the effect of suitable wavelengths ( or corpuscules in a rival theory ) of light on human sense-organs . |