Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is then possible to pump pond water into each , agitating with a smooth stick such as a length of broom handle , leaving the drain valve open until the water runs clear . |
| 2 | ( a ) Overseas Practice Rules 1990 Whilst the Solicitors ' Practice Rules only regulate the conduct of solicitors in practice as such in England and Wales , those who practise as solicitors outside that jurisdiction nevertheless remain subject to the authority of the Law Society and must comply with its Overseas Practice Rules . |
| 3 | The trustee in bankruptcy claimed that the transfer of Mr Flint 's share in the home was void , by reason of s 284 of the Insolvency Act 1986 because the order was made between the presentation of the bankruptcy petition and the bankruptcy order . |
| 4 | Then he eased himself up from his straddle-legged posture over the small backyard shore , holding the cut artery open while the blood drained away . |
| 5 | The ashbowl was full and the fag packet empty when the telephone finally rang . |
| 6 | Norton SysInfo can also get the processor type wrong if the processor is older than the program . |
| 7 | I looked up just now to acknowledge the Hon. Member for Dumfries , but , of course , it was a futile gesture because once again , there is not a solitary Conservative Member of the Standing Committee present other than the Minister and the Whip . |
| 8 | The conventional form is generally convenient ; it is useful to have equal eigenvalues in groups and to the use superdiagonal ; but in particular cases it may be well to use a nonzero quantity other than a unit in the superdiagonal . |
| 9 | We are left with a play on signs which has no ultimate reference point other than the commodity . |
| 10 | BY NO stretch of the imagination is the new Council Tax fairer than the Community Charge , which at least provided equal treatment . |
| 11 | If the donor dies within seven years there will still be no inheritance tax payable provided the son uses the property for a qualifying purpose ( see IHTA 1984 , s113A ) . |
| 12 | The capital transfer tax legislation ( [ IHTA 1984 s201 ] ) however provides that both the settlor and the trustees are liable for any capital transfer tax payable when a settlor puts assets into a settlement . |
| 13 | Two video cameras were being used in the cabin when failures occurred in the flight-mode annunciator No 2 whilst a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 was taxiing . |
| 14 | No test materials other than the scoring sheet are required . |
| 15 | Where a registered foreign lawyer who would , apart from this rule , be required to pay an annual contribution or special levy , claims , and the Council agrees , that he or she is so covered in respect of dishonesty or failure to account , whether by a compensation fund other than the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund , or by an indemnity fund other than the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , or by compulsory insurance , that there is a substantial reduction in the risk to the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund in respect of his or her practice in comparison with the risk presented by a solicitor practising in a like manner , the Council may reduce that annual contribution or special levy to such amount as the Council thinks fit or to zero . |
| 16 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 17 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 18 | The claim that no spelling unit smaller than the word but bigger than the grapheme is used when we read non-words aloud can be tested with non-words like gean , geak , and gead . |
| 19 | Rutger often uses chord tones other than the root to a give a smoother movement between chords : eg. the min 7th ( D ) of Em7 to lead from the root ( E ) to the next chord root ( C ) in the bars 14 and 15 , followed by the major 3rd ( B ) of G major in the same bar . |
| 20 | The grounds of the cross-appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had correctly held that a mortgagee 's right to costs , charges and expenses whether founded on equitable principles or an implied contract could always be varied , restricted or enlarged by the express terms of the mortgage and that the first defendant was entitled a full indemnity against the costs , charges and expenses on a true construction of the words used in the mortgage deeds other than the guarantee and mortgage debenture dated 6 June 1986 . |
| 21 | In the case of a set-in sleeve style however , the program will allow you to design a sleeve head larger than the armhole , for the purposes of gathering or pleating in . |
| 22 | This sets up Charge Code 0001 as the directory pointed to by the system-wide logical name LSTRAIN_CC0001 , and all material whose name is reserved under that Charge Code will reside in that directory for it 's life cycle . |
| 23 | Like the Duchess of Argyll , you sense she is not au fait with the basic tenets of a tea bag , and , loyal souls though they may be , finds her live-in staff more than a trial . |
| 24 | If it is n't obvious , check by leaving the plugs in basins and baths overnight ( which will in itself prevent the waste pipe freezing unless the basin overflows ) and if this is the problem , replace the tap washer . |
| 25 | The reason for this is simple that there is no d.c. path to ground in the oscillator stage and the d.c. amplifier stage ( TR2 ) will consume only a minimal value of collector leakage current whilst the device is in the ‘ off ’ state . |
| 26 | It is possible , of course , to use summation schemes other than the Voigt and Reuss ones to provide better bounds on the elastic constants of composite materials . |
| 27 | The Pumping Station at this village on the River Witham near Tattershall was built to drain the surrounding land because shrinkage of the peat ( see Holme Fen ) has left the surface level lower than the rivers . |
| 28 | Home-killed lamb is the best value , reveals a Meat and Livestock Commission report , which says meat is better value now than it was 10 years ago and has risen in price 15% less than the rise in inflation |
| 29 | 2 An additional may be added to the above areas to allow for circulation , ducts , services cupboards and internal wall thicknesses. 3 Since the accommodation will normally be free standing and at ground level , no further space is likely to be necessary for access and escape , ie communications . |
| 30 | A problem in any word-oriented computer with instruction formats shorter than the word is how to address individual instructions . |