Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are attached to an alarm and when the child wets during the night the circuit is connected which activates the alarm . |
| 2 | One possible event being planned involves children from the village lining up on the pavement next to the road to highlight how many of them are at risk from traffic that goes through the village every day . |
| 3 | Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 4 | In this respect it is worth asking whether it is a mere coincidence that neo-colonialism produces for the bureaucracy a reversion to pre-bureaucratic ( e.g. medieval ) forms of compensation for service to the state . |
| 5 | The era of a techno-structure or of technocracy has as a corollary the decline of the powers of parliamentary democracy in the true sense ’ . |
| 6 | Like the other quasi-nominal forms of the verb , it has as a support a representation of person not yet differentiated ordinally , as we have just seen . |
| 7 | Who , in their right mind , would voluntarily relinquish something that has as a consequence the loss of their personhood ? |
| 8 | On the other hand , where the contract redefines as a warranty a term which would otherwise be a condition , its effect is to exclude a remedy ( the right to reject goods and/or terminate the contract ) which would otherwise be available to the innocent party , and it will then be regarded as an exclusion clause . |
| 9 | I still do barre exercises for an hour a day , though . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It looks like the sack the girl was carrying , ’ said the Leader . |
| 11 | The aisles have moulded parapets , the walls are of flint , the north porch is partly of brick and has near the door a benatura . |
| 12 | As Hodder and Riggs ( 1985 ) say , in response to Hayes and Garvin , the fault , if any , in US business lies with the way the DCF technique is often based on inadequate data ( i.e. inadequate consideration of the factors affecting cash flows ) or incorrectly applied ( i.e. incorrectly using discount rates , or adjusting for inflation as discussed in chapter 1 ) . |
| 13 | An explanation for this negative attitude towards the union lies in the way the women identified themselves in terms of their domestic lives rather than as paid workers . |
| 14 | The difference lies in the time the animal spends resting between meals ( Bayne and Scullard , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | And it adds to the sanctions the Council may take — positioning of judgements in offending papers ; a privacy hot line ; and , more controversially , hauling in proprietors to discipline editors . |
| 16 | And it adds to the sanctions the Council may take — positioning of judgements in offending papers ; a privacy hot line ; and , more controversially , hauling in proprietors to discipline editors . |
| 17 | Or else the whole dialogue consists of one saying to the other ‘ I am here , ’ and the length of the pauses adds to the phrase the sense of a ‘ still , ’ as if to say : ‘ I am here still , it is still I. ’ And what if it is in the pause and not in the whistle that the meaning of the message is contained ? |
| 18 | ‘ I felt like Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner , who waylays on the street the wedding guests going to the feast , inflicting on them the story of his misfortune . ’ |
| 19 | When it lies on the Moon the dust plus any small rocks is called the regolith . |
| 20 | When work starts on the offices the car park will be the first area completed to minimise disruption to drivers who regularly use the car park . |
| 21 | This is a significant development in that it places on the colleges a responsibility to assess their own strength . |
| 22 | dissolves to the stop the liquid from being sucked back into . |
| 23 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 24 | In the final part of our series on the work of the RSPCA , Liz Hannam looks at the difficulties the society face when they try to take a cruelty case to court . |
| 25 | It looks at the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ' ( ‘ spillover' effects ) and at the strategic policy responses which such spillover effects may induce . |
| 26 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 27 | Residents of Littleton , on the outskirts of Chester , are lobbying for a bypass to reduce the huge volume of traffic that passes through the village every day . |
| 28 | If a person criticizes the criminal justice system and uses as an example the handling of his case , are his opinions to be considered opinions ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? ’ |
| 29 | I do n't think we 'd like to now , under this emotional shock , try to justify what happens between the people the community of Kuwait . |
| 30 | She describes as a calamity the declaration by the Director of Public Prosecutions that there is ‘ insufficient evidence ’ to initiate proceedings against Juliette by the Marquis de Sade . |