Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) The contractor has the possible opportunity to tender , with the approval of the architect , for work which is subject to a prime cost sum , provided the contractor directly carries out such work in the ordinary course of his business . |
| 2 | The defeat virtually rules out any chance of the Sunday League title , with just one win from their first five matches . |
| 3 | Tight security at the firmly sealed jail also rules out any video recording . |
| 4 | However , an EC directive now lays down formal health and safety requirements for work with display screen equipment . |
| 5 | She had long since decided that , in her own words , ‘ legend always triumphs over historical fact ’ . |
| 6 | It should be decided whether PR should act in a ‘ technician ’ or ‘ policy-making ’ role , the implication being that a technician simply carries out top management orders whereas the policy-maker inputs into corporate strategic plans . |
| 7 | The country 's reputation for political stability and banking secrecy still brings in footloose cash from trouble-spots around the world . |
| 8 | Nor , judging by the bravura new stories , do the women writers of the 1990s expect as much from the future as their forebears did : old age is portrayed as painfully grim and burdensome in Candia McWilliam 's twilight home tale ; the classy heroine of Emily Prager 's Moonwalk still weeps over wrecked love and dreams . |
| 9 | Their eight-pointed cross still flies over Grand Harbour . |