Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy for returns of non faulty goods is to give a refund for any item where proof of purchase can be provided . |
| 2 | Still critical of the economic and social pressures which centred around the city they could yet find no alternative in this countryside where nature , it was known , was not Marlowe 's ‘ beds of roses ‘ . |
| 3 | It took seven years to complete , but then that 's the secret behind the success story of this home where time and careful work have combined to create an elegant and colourful base for this busy family lifestyle . |
| 4 | The effects of oil appeared to halt the decline in the 1980s , and it is a principal question for this book whether recovery is being , or can be , generated by the growth of services ( such as financial services ) provided to other countries ( see below ) . |
| 5 | They were perpetrated by my great-aunt Olwen , an eccentric lady with more enthusiasm than talent ! ’ |
| 6 | Given the significance of patronage in securing a promotion , or in placing an officer in a situation where he might have an opportunity to distinguish himself , and thus strengthen his claims to advancement , there was a good incentive to arrange for a transfer to another ship where favour might be expected . |
| 7 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 8 | Road transport of some sort than rail transport . |
| 9 | In charge of that tour as captain and manager was Tom Lowry of Wellington . |
| 10 | ‘ The Reverend Father , ’ Athelstan replied smoothly , ‘ would like a bowl of thick leek soup , some bread , and a cup of wine with more water than claret . ’ |
| 11 | This was not a limitation in this analysis because endo-metriosis has to be diagnosed by laparoscopy or laparotomy . |
| 12 | It has in addition a resplendent meaning in that life before retirement is only childhood and the period of retirement is the time when we reach maturity and realise the full significance of life . |
| 13 | The orthodox Jews are the only community in this country where sex is on women 's terms , and where women can truthfully say that they are not used by their husbands . |
| 14 | Perhaps the decision was made because it was here that Manzoni fell when attempting to negotiate a stairway with more enthusiasm than regard for his age . |
| 15 | Ashley yelled , flourishing a bottle of generic whisky with more enthusiasm than care ; she cracked the bottle off the oak-panelled wall of the castle 's crowded entrance hall , but without , apparently , causing damage to either . |
| 16 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 17 | Political confidence would be instilled through each side ceasing its propaganda efforts and undertaking to recognize and respect the political and social systems of the other until such time as reunification was achieved . |
| 18 | They paid him and the reason they ai n't going to have nobody back there any more back to this firm cos safety rules . |
| 19 | Legalization is not required , as the Convention already provided for the exclusion of this requirement when transmission was through a Central Authority . |
| 20 | In America , the dissemination to children of material which is indecent but not obscene is a separate issue , and the Supreme Court has upheld state legislation to protect children from exposure to such material where accessibility to children is a particular feature of the medium in question . |
| 21 | In the above examples , the choice of This paper as subject satisfies this condition of impersonality . |
| 22 | But the categorisation of this procedure as arbitration is traditional and deeply rooted , and unlikely to take notice of the guidelines . |
| 23 | And the theme is obviously of high consequence for the portrayal of any society where race is a trouble and where one race has subdued another . |
| 24 | ‘ If my lord ever finds you here , scrubbing tables , my life wo n't be worth a straw , ’ muttered Ellen two hours later , as she wielded a brush with more energy than accuracy . |
| 25 | BLONDIE will have her two ‘ Best Of … ’ compilations out in competition with each other when FM Revolver releases the imported ‘ Blondie Hit Collection ’ album this week . |
| 26 | Obviously it 's terribly difficult , in a matter of such controversiality as philosophy , to find any criteria by which success or failure can be assessed . |
| 27 | She stood on the threshold of that world when war broke out and she went to work in a factory ; it began to open up for her when a photographer first spotted her and the camera became her true love . |
| 28 | Yet a soaring budget deficit , fuelled by vast spending on defence , remained a sign of the fragility of any recovery as election year ( 1984 ) approached . |
| 29 | The Catering Manager 's office next door to the Refectory in the Richmond Building is the hub of all action where secretary Gill O' Brien runs the daily order books and takes bookings for everything from the Vice-Chancellor 's lunches to conference buffets . |
| 30 | UEFA have ruled matches played in one country can not be shown on TV in another nation unless permission is given . |