Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without . |
| 2 | In the past the courts have construed statutory and common law rights to information restrictively and have either required an applicant to show a special reason for wanting the information or have denied access to a person with an ‘ indirect motive ’ such as a councillor helping a constituent in a complaint against the authority . |
| 3 | Though the subjects available as part of law degree courses have increased enormously in range in recent years , the balance of courses offered is still weighted considerably in favour of ‘ practical ’ subjects reflecting traditional private law concepts of property rather than the ‘ new property ’ in the many entitlements deriving from the public law that regulates the welfare state ( Abel , 1982 ; Zander , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | Participation in the affairs of State and open discussions of political matters must now be tempered by the need for survival between the testing conditions of competition abroad and what results from the State 's reactions to these conditions , the resentments of the population at home . |
| 5 | Although he is a thoughtful person , who loves to put his ideas down on paper in the form of articles for such august publications as the Harvard Business Review , he suspects that labels are attached to management practices in hindsight rather than as objectives executives set out to master . |
| 6 | Helping parents in this way is an attempt to provide them with child-management skills for life so that they can generate solutions to many of the problems they face without reference to professionals at all . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 8 | Because the nutritional conditions for growth are probably more difficult in liquid than in solid media and particularly the necessary microaerophil environment is more difficult to attain in liquid medium , the presence of polyphosphate structures in liquid rather than in solid medium seems to confirm their supposed role in energetic metabolism of the micro-organisms . |
| 9 | Many schools have team members in reserve so that a quota can always be mustered to stand in for any bona fide team member whose parents can not afford the trip . |
| 10 | One night , the wife pointed casually to a cupboard and told me there were some back issues of Cosmopolitan there if I wanted to look . |
| 11 | It puts the suicide theories to bed once and for all . ’ |
| 12 | I mean why is n't there a tremendous outcry , saying this must change , we can still have democracy , but let's have reasonable , sensible , working hours in parliament so that we can get more women into parliament . |
| 13 | Most of the criticisms one could make concern errors of omission rather than of commission . |
| 14 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 15 | Moreover , parasitoids may also feed at the nectaries and then infect insect larvae by oviposition thereafter and , in Inga , this seems effective in control at altitudes where ants are uncommon . |
| 16 | Ear infections with eczema around and behind the ears . |
| 17 | He originally blamed a discarded cigarette , then he admitted lighting bunches of straw so that he and Becky could see what they were doing . |
| 18 | My heart races with excitement so that I can not concentrate on my Light of the World jigsaw showing Jesus standing outside the vine-covered door , lantern in hand . |
| 19 | I shall argue in Chapter 4 that most of the adolescent Creole users are best treated as second dialect speakers of Creole rather than second language learners . |
| 20 | The dual membership was described by OMG president , Chris Stone , as a move to ‘ integrate and coordinate each organisations technology developments at conception rather than leave it until specifications are out . ’ |
| 21 | Much of the theoretical literature in company law treats property rights as though they were unproblematical ; they are the unquestioned starting points of analysis rather than artifacts whose existence and distribution themselves demand justification . |