Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analogy holds in so far as stylistic competence , like linguistic competence , is a capacity which we possess and exercise unconsciously and intuitively : only with special training can it be turned into explicit knowledge . |
| 2 | Ernie Walker , the retiring secretary of the SFA , said yesterday that Scottish football could have a two-month winter shut-down scheduled for as early as next season . |
| 3 | Ernie Walker , the retiring secretary of the SFA , said yesterday that Scottish football could have a two-month winter shut-down scheduled for as early as next season . |
| 4 | Their work begins at around 6.30am when all the pasteurised milk is transferred into the 1,150-gallon vat in readiness for the cheese-making to start . |
| 5 | Why ca n't the woman be assessed as an individual , and benefit paid in so far as her resources are insufficient to meet her requirements ? |
| 6 | Employers have a general duty imposed by s.2 of the 1974 Act to safeguard in so far as is reasonably practicable the health , safety and welfare of their employees . |
| 7 | Keep the sail driving for as long as you can through the tacks . |
| 8 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 9 | You want your body to get about as easily as possible and be able to do the things that your mind seizes on that you want to , to have a go at and to make a reasonable job of it . |
| 10 | The expanding vapour drives a turbo generator while the ammonia is reliquefied in a condenser by cold water pumped from as deep as 3,000 feet in a self-contained operation . |
| 11 | If this is your motive it is important to recognize it , and to make sure that does not impose too great a burden on the person cared for as well as on yourself . |
| 12 | ‘ It sounds lousy , but the great advantage to Celeste — and the reason why our relationship survived for as long as it did — was that she never had much of an impact on either my feelings or my thoughts . |
| 13 | The supervisory board consists of not less than five individuals and its members may take part in the deliberations of the general meeting but have no voting rights . |
| 14 | Moreover , the covenant to perform on the part of the original lessee is merely a covenant to perform in so far as another party , similarly liable , has not performed or otherwise discharged the obligation . |
| 15 | The receiver was snatched at the first ring and Massingham 's disciplined impatience came across as strongly as his voice . |
| 16 | It gives me pleasure to move the adoption of resolution three , that the executive committee be constituted as on page two of the resolution paper to consist of not more than thirty two members , and that those people listed on page two , be elected members of the executive committee . |
| 17 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 18 | Later , in November 1918 , all internal and foreign trade was nationalised , the latter having little practical significance at that time , since foreign trade had by then all but ceased in those parts of the country in the control of the Soviets . |
| 19 | A chases B. When B is caught , s/he freezes , eyes closed , counts to 5 , then chases A. The game continues for as long as you want — or to a pre-set time limit , or when somebody is caught three times , for example . |
| 20 | There was considerable substance in the complaints of Labour that national insurance added to as well as diminished the burdens of poorer workers . |
| 21 | The latter was a prestige objective save in so far as it was a stepping stone to Indonesia . |
| 22 | er four E , we said er in that recommendation at least two million on minor work on footways meaning that er two million was by no means what we needed to spend , erm , is it in fact regarded from a point of view of , of Bedford seeing this paper and our recommendations that er acceptable is a more diplomatic word to put in there rather than increase er as increase likely to cause certain principal in the present , erm economic employment . |
| 23 | So , there 's probably going to be a little bit of ink left in here rather than opening those . |
| 24 | The picket was charged with obstruction of the highway although the whole incident lasted for not more than nine minutes . |
| 25 | Charlie 's weekly food bill comes to rather more than £100 . |
| 26 | The Executive Committee may at any time call an Extraordinary General Meeting on receipt of a requisition signed by not less than 40 members , such requisitions to state business to be transacted . |
| 27 | Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall . |
| 28 | In entrenched provisions it was established that a new roll of African voters ( the African higher roll ) would be created with the same qualifications as those for the European roll , i.e. either an income of 1,800 Rhodesian dollars per annum or ownership of property valued at not less than $3,600 , or , an income of $1,200 per annum or ownership of property valued at not less than $2,400 and four years of secondary education . |
| 29 | In entrenched provisions it was established that a new roll of African voters ( the African higher roll ) would be created with the same qualifications as those for the European roll , i.e. either an income of 1,800 Rhodesian dollars per annum or ownership of property valued at not less than $3,600 , or , an income of $1,200 per annum or ownership of property valued at not less than $2,400 and four years of secondary education . |
| 30 | Support continues for as long as the parents feel they need it , and is renewed , if they wish , if and when the mother becomes pregnant again . |