Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yes , I grant you that might have seemed a bit odd to the members if it had n't been explained properly . ’ |
| 2 | The clubhouse was tucked into a line of fir trees , a low building rich with the reds and browns of natural wood . |
| 3 | My father and mother stand nearer to the babies than I and the whole ensemble is posed on an interminable expanse of medium-cut grass . |
| 4 | I hope that he will take on board some of the concerns that have been expressed to me . |
| 5 | So being psychologists who ca n't get enough of it , empirical solid data , we tend to erm be a bit dismissive of the methods that were used by the Although these laws tend to describe what th what 's happening , they do n't actually tell you how they 're achieved . |
| 6 | This debate , which essentially arises out of the Piper Alpha disaster , has been given even greater poignancy due to the reports that we have received of a major explosion at Grangemouth . |
| 7 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will understand if some of us treat with a certain amount of scepticism some of the assurances that BR has subsequently given . |
| 8 | All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village . |
| 9 | A craft which had once been profitably combined with farming became a miserable cottage industry dependent upon the towns and the bag-hosiers . |
| 10 | The BBFC aimed to ensure that British films were as bloodless as possible , contained no criticism of any foreign power and no attack on any established British institution such as the clergy or the judiciary , avoided all political , religious and social controversy , and did nothing that would risk causing offence or inflaming public opinion . |
| 11 | A proof must be in the form known as " proof of debt " ( whether the form prescribed by the rules and set out in Sched 4 to the rules as Form 6.37 or a substantially similar form , see App C , form 34 ) and must be signed by the creditor or someone authorised on his behalf ( r 6.69(3) ) . |
| 12 | Sometimes she had to fight an urge to unstopper one of the bottles and press the deadly lip of glass to her mouth . |
| 13 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 14 | Apart from a few technical experiments , cable services the world over rely on coaxial copper cable similar to the wires that connect the TVs in people 's living rooms to the aerials on the roof . |
| 15 | Grassini ( 1981 : 82–3 ) , for example , cites the case of the Italian state enterprise bargaining body Intersind which in 1960 was pressed into making a settlement favourable to the unions because the Christian Democrats were contemplating a coalition with the Socialist Party . |
| 16 | A landlord who retains control over common parts of a building such as the stairs and puts an exclusion clause in the lease , can not exclude liability to the tenant 's visitors by virtue of this clause . |
| 17 | In preparing these abbreviated accounts we have relied upon sections 246 and 247 of the Companies Act 1985 on the grounds that the company is entitled to the benefit of those sections as a small company . |
| 18 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 19 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 20 | To grasp the overall picture of the weaponry and armour available to the knights and soldiers of Barbarossa 's armies , one must summarise the development of equipment during the period concerned , bearing in mind that any changes were not universal and immediate , and that arms and armour of both older and more recent styles would have happily co-existed . |
| 21 | There was er the who was called after a Frenchman who invented some type of lenses and er the MacKenzie who was one of the engineers did the building of Skerrymor one of the surveyors or something . |
| 22 | Part two is devoted to structure , part three to the hydrocarbons and we first meet the alkanes on page 500 . |
| 23 | The material retained in each successive sieve is emptied in turn on to a sheet of glazed paper , the sieve tapped gently in a direction diagonal to the meshes and swept with appropriate sieve brushes ( camel hair for fine apertures , brass for coarse screens ) to dislodge particles which have become firmly held . |
| 24 | Therefore , the tax due to the Customs and Excise must be extracted from the price quoted ; for example , if the VAT is at fifteen per cent the calculation would be : |
| 25 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 26 | In late 1990 the failure first of the rains and then of the grain harvest across the Sahel in Africa [ see pp. 37845 ; 37907-08 ; 37945-46 ; 38090 ] prompted renewed questions as to whether this drought was linked to global warming . |
| 27 | As Lord Diplock pointed out in 1981 , on the one hand it constitutes ‘ a major invasion of privacy ’ , while on the other it is an important weapon available to the police and the security services , whose business it is to maintain law and order and protect national security . |
| 28 | The hotel is centrally situated in the town near to the restaurants and entertainment of Hilversum and is well recommended for its grade . |
| 29 | Part of our reaction to that situation has been negative , especially the behaviourist interlude that sought to define out of existence many of the issues that confront us , but for the most part the approach has been a steady accumulation of experimental data in anticipation of the day when meaningful theories could be developed . |
| 30 | The proposals which require legislative change for their implementation have been included in Part II of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 ( White , Robin , 1991 ) . |