Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 If there were not sufficient expectation that a failed , conventionally organised enterprise could be restored to viability as an industrial co-operative , the injection of resources into it would divert them from more promising projects .
2 Whether a full Porter-style analysis or some less rigorous approach is used , those key determinants ( or key factors ) and action in response to them should be the linchpins in the corporate control system once the strategy is established .
3 We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular .
4 I got the old metal detected on , but , of course it could always be a bit of grit in it could n't it
5 Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine .
6 The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias .
7 It was in the interests of the men , of capital and the state that the institution of the family and the division of labour within it should continue .
8 At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children .
9 Likewise , where the footings on eaves of a building project beyond the edge of an external wall they will be included in the demised property , although the column of air between them will not ( Truckell v Stock [ 1957 ] 1 All ER 74 ) .
10 Thus , as long as the marriage between the husband and wife ( assuming them both to be domiciled in the UK ) is not dissolved , transfer of property between them will not incur a liability to inheritance tax .
11 And of course with hoods on you ca n't hear the poor soul behind you squeaking indignantly as you work your way up their ankles .
12 The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair .
13 An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold .
14 The commission of crimes against them will have the effect of diminishing their positive freedom , to which they also have a right ; for example crimes of injurious violence reduce the victims ' freedom to operate physically free from pain , while property offences will deprive them of resources and thereby remove their freedom to choose to act in ways which require the use of those resources .
15 It is almost certain that an offer of mediation from you would give rise to an irresistible movement in favour of negotiations … .
16 Well it sounds like a lot of things but , but actually getting a game of tennis in it can be quite difficult because you know the weather 's turned against us now so
17 No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered .
18 Erm asking for permission to put their names forward and from the , the few letters we had the , this was that we thought was the whitest knights in terms of Geography in terms of sex in terms of I would n't say intelligence , perhaps I should try to impress them !
19 A good picture is worth any number of words for it can communicate a point quickly and succinctly , and in any language .
20 never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house .
21 This is a matter of joy for it will mean the celebration of the kingdom of Heaven on earth .
22 With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau .
23 But , in proceedings of this nature the general rule is that , where a committal order has been made , any further application in respect of it should be made to the judge who made the order , whether that application is in the nature of an apology by the contemnor or an application to reopen the proceedings by reason of the availability of fresh evidence or some other ground where no error of the court at the hearing is alleged .
24 That is to say I think that a world without Shakespeare in it would be a world substantially impoverished .
25 That is to say I think that a world without Shakespeare in it would be a world substantially impoverished .
26 Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it !
27 If he agreed , the threat of proceedings against him would be unnecessary .
28 Given your date of confinement of you should return to work on or before
29 Not surprisingly in this sprawling rural district the tories are the second largest grouping on the council and a couple of gains for them could deny the independents overall control .
30 then you er everyone sang Happy Birthday and somebody arrived down the aisle with a couple of balloons for her should have done that for me too , on my
  Next page