Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 2 | Erm , I had a bit difficulty coming up with a case , actually , erm , this |
| 3 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 4 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 5 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 6 | I feel a bit silly about it , looking back — I did n't even notice that the aviary had been finished , or that there was a tea chest mounted inside with a large ‘ front door ’ sawn out of it . |
| 7 | For Italian unions , in this respect , industry bargaining corresponded originally to a need to unite their scarce resources in order to guarantee uniform minimum conditions of work ‘ to an impoverished , fragmented and still mostly agricultural working class , privileging the weak sectors thereof with respect to the elite ’ ( Treu , 1981 , p. 135 ) . |
| 8 | Which of us on finding our car aerial snapped off by a vandal have not momentarily wanted to do the same to his neck ? |
| 9 | In the short term , the development of the British executive search industry owes much to a mixture of both demand and supply factors . |
| 10 | Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing . |
| 11 | They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each . |
| 12 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 13 | Suppose , for example , that the labour force grows exogenously at a constant exponential rate , 11 . |
| 14 | But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation . |
| 15 | 6 The quality of design , production and maintenance work depends critically on a number of factors which are under direct control of project managers . |
| 16 | The Oldham Stock Exchange developed out of a new class of capitalists not portrayed in the industrial scenarios of Marx and Engels . |
| 17 | A piece of silver wrapping-paper rolled up into a tight ball , or the traditional ball of wool , provides the greatest reward . |
| 18 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 19 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 20 | In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) . |
| 21 | The court , therefore , went to Mr McTear , his living room turned over to a commission appointed by the Court of Session to hear his evidence . |
| 22 | It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river . |
| 23 | The West German Labour Court , for instance , is empowered to settle labour disputes by means of statutory binding decisions whereas the Irish Labour Court acts only as a conciliation body . |
| 24 | The snow buggy pulled up alongside a closed elevator door . |
| 25 | Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks ? |
| 26 | Outside this one there is a lone snow bunting pecking mournfully at a muddy patch of shingle that is all that shows through the snow . |
| 27 | A short side road branches off to a passenger ferry across the Kyle , linking the opposite shore with a narrow strip of tarmac eleven miles long that provides the only access to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath . |
| 28 | A side door led straight into a street . |
| 29 | We had hundreds of er identity cards and ration books , all of which are on display in the library , coupled with some extraordinary things ; er a wedding dress made out of a parachute , and an empty incendiary bomb — I stress empty , I 'd hate to think it went off in the library . |
| 30 | The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 . |