Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
2 | The crux of the matter is that while one can accept the proposition that judicial labels often express a conclusion already reached , rather than dictate the result which should be arrived at , to infer that therefore the type of labels that we use are irrelevant is a non sequitur . |
3 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
4 | He heard his mother continuing to scream and then the headlights on the Glory turned back on , the radio crashed out again with its heavy rock and the doors closed and locked . |
5 | On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues . |
6 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
7 | In each of the East Asian economies there is evidence to suggest that both the level of complexity and the degree of individuation of labour are less than is typically the case in a classical Weberian bureaucracy . |
8 | We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed . |
9 | This meant that a large part of the lesson time was wasted getting on buses and to and from the slopes instead of learning to ski and also a lot of walking around in boots and carrying skis . |
10 | Her family soon knew what to expect and so the potential for resentment was never allowed to build up . |
11 | This encompasses the design of passenger seats and the methods of body restraint with seat belts , the establishment of the forces they are designed to withstand and even the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the aircraft . |
12 | By ‘ crisis ’ , the head of cultural affairs means not only the need to economise but also the fragility of the administrative structure . |
13 | Then the helicopter began to descend and only the rear of the house was in view . |
14 | An announcement concerning changes to the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations was received after thee April issue of Hospitality had gone to press and consequently the information on temperature in our Refrigeration feature was , unfortunately , incorrect . |
15 | And Wimpey has gone one stage further to ensure that even the openings to which the windows are fitted reduce air leakage . |
16 | ( The cocktail stick is used to ensure that only the amount of colour needed is applied — it is easy to overdo it . |
17 | Of course , to use such an argument to support vitalism would be specious : it is a nonsense to believe that only the presence of a ‘ vital principle ’ can confer life . |
18 | However , there 's a lot more to consider than just the number of columns . |
19 | Having shown , as he believed , that monarchies and aristocracies would inevitably pursue their own good at the expense of the general good , Mill is compelled to recognize that only the community as a whole can be trusted to pursue the general good . |
20 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
21 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
22 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |
23 | But according to Mary White from the Emigrant Advice Unit in Hamill Street , Belfast a worrying percentage still leave here with no job , no contacts , no place to stay and absolutely no idea of just how hard life in the big city can be . |
24 | The long-range effects of mutations in the variable loop we then found for the synthesis of m 2 2G26 prompted us to investigate if also the formation of modifications in the anticodon loop were sensitive to point mutations situated far away in the tRNA . |
25 | Angry John refused to pay and yesterday a spokesman for the bank at Ashton-under-Lyne admitted : ‘ There was a bit of a mix-up . ’ |
26 | Has my hon. Friend considered consulting people such as members of the Secondary Heads Association to see whether all the heads of comprehensive schoools in my constituency would relish the idea of paying an extra 9 per cent . |
27 | In our new MP we have a young man of ability and enthusiasm , whose sole wish is to defend or further the interest of the entire constituency . |
28 | I use it in what I take to be its essential sense , to mean that both the society as a whole and the system of government were organized on a principle of freedom of choice … |
29 | It is perhaps disappointing to note that over a quarter of the total sample fell into this latter category , and it may be emphasized that staff in libraries of all sizes have training needs . |
30 | Bash Brannigan , manager of the Dunston Fund , formed the view that dividends on equities were about to rise and so the excess of the no-arbitrage price of an index future ( F ) over the spot price of the shares in the index ( S ) would reduce , that is , the basis will narrow . |