Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 2 | The ideology of racial nationalism was nowhere coherently formulated in fascist literature in the inter-war period . |
| 3 | This presumably refers to devotional access to the rood-loft ( by newel stair or ladder ) . |
| 4 | The general reconnaissance raid , mounted to find out what enemy defences if any stood along a stretch of coast , developed into the assault pilotage surveys of 1943 and 1944 , secretly landing for specific intelligence of beach conditions and defences . |
| 5 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 6 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 7 | Innate behaviour repertoires only change through natural selection over successive generations and , although their range of tolerance , their capacities , can be extended , their capability in responding to rapid day to day environmental shifts is clearly limited . |
| 8 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 9 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 10 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 11 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 12 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 13 | ( This account obviously stands in marked contrast to Foucault 's explanation of the same historical phenomenon . ) |
| 14 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 15 | The difference is that whereas the policeman is justified in acting as he does , the citizen is merely excused from criminal liability on the grounds that he lacks mens rea . |
| 16 | The UK Government offers Overseas Research Student(ORS) awards annually to provide for partial remission of fees to overseas postgraduate students of outstanding merit and research potential who are studying for research degrees . |
| 17 | Thus the ‘ study ’ on which he embarked was , one suspects , confined to one aspect of the question : was the Church 's authority so committed by Casti Connubii of 1931 that any change now would discredit that authority ? |
| 18 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 19 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 20 | He also received the personal support of the former President ousted by Ould Taya , Mohammed Khouna Ould Haydalla , who was only freed from internal exile in 1991 , and of Col. Djibril Ould Abdullahi , Ould Taya 's former deputy and Interior Minister until February 1990 [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 21 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 22 | Much depends on organised pressure by local concerned interests and individuals resident in the ‘ salmon constituencies ’ of Scotland . |
| 23 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 24 | It was especially looking for new business in Osaka . |
| 25 | I decided that neither one was a social system and that one could only speak of social change in social systems . |
| 26 | Lakes and rivers in heavily farmed counties such as Cavan have long suffered from irresponsible dumping by farmers . |
| 27 | It is only saved from universal condemnation by the partial political acceptance of the argument that this nuclear readiness does not in practice involve a real threat and that nuclear weapons will in fact never be used . |
| 28 | At the moment all depends on good success in Ireland . |
| 29 | The author of two military coups in 1980 and 1990 [ see pp. 30506-07 ; 37912-13 ] , Bouterse was long suspected of deep involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 30 | The crackdown provoked an international outcry , although this was greatly tempered by Western recognition of the need to maintain Soviet support for the campaign against Iraq in the Gulf war [ see pp. 37934-43 ] . |