Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will comprise a potentially exempt transfer regardless of where the life tenant resides or where his ordinary place of residence is or where he is domiciled . |
| 2 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 3 | Small wonder there is now talk in Bonn that the Social Democrats in the Bundesrat may block legislation ; that Mr Kohl , though chancellor , may be dumped by his party , as Ludwig Erhard once was ; or that his centre-right coalition with the Free Democrats will split , as the centre-left one led by Helmut Schmidt did in 1982 . |
| 4 | Objects may appear at infrared wavelengths because they are cool , because they are obscured by dust that transmits only longer wavelengths , or because their intrinsic mechanism of radiation cuts off at wavelengths shorter than infrared . |
| 5 | According to author Dr Eve Roman , ‘ it made no difference whether a woman worked on a VDU as part of her general day , whether she just used it occasionally or whether her only contact with a VDU was that it happened to be in the same room ’ . |
| 6 | If the business has different sections or different sites , you should enquire whether all its employees have been considered for redundancy or whether your particular part of the operation is the only one which has come under scrutiny for cut-backs . |
| 7 | Problems of this kind arise when a partner is not so doing — or when our own conception of our own sexual needs is inappropriate . |
| 8 | When a vase emerged unbroken — especially the tall storage amphorae for oil and water-when its millennia-old husk of mud and chalk was scraped away , it appeared to Davide like a living body released from the torpor of an unnatural sleep , from a kind of illness , its rounded shape tender , pointing a foot , like an absorbed peg-doll , its intactness a triumphant resurrection . |
| 9 | This article identifies conditions under which the service activities of professionals and paraprofessionals can be more productive and where their joint contribution to human well-being can be enhanced . |
| 10 | I simply ca n't stand whizz-kid City high-flyers who think of nothing but profit and loss accounts and their latest seven-series BMW and where their next magnum of Bollinger is coming from ! ’ |
| 11 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 12 | ‘ While it is understandable that the media will home in on failures , it is important that the public should be reassured that such cases are very much the exception , rather than the rule , and that their continuing confidence in the profession is justified . ’ |
| 13 | Experience with an earlier version of comprehensive 16+ examination north of the border where the cutting edge of educational policy has already elevated modular accreditation into a major component of post-16 certification ( SED , 1983 ) suggests that the GCSE , like the Scottish Standard Grade , may already be obsolete , and that they hybrid offspring of the conjoining of the norm and criterion referencing pedigree that the search for subject and grade criteria represents will satisfy no one ( Munro , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Commenting on its most recent losses ( page five ) Advanced Logic Research Inc , Irvine , California said that more price competition reduced its turnover , and that its gross margin for the latest six months was just 14% compared with 22% in the year-ago period ; the impact of the reduction was partially offset by cost-cutting programmes , and its cash position improved by $5.5m to $35.1m during the latest six months while the company simultaneously cut bank debt $7m . |
| 15 | Imagine that an economy 's aggregate demand curve is AD in figure 4.4 and that its natural level of output is y n . |
| 16 | It served to stimulate further Japan 's belief that she was highly vulnerable in military terms and that her only course for survival as a strong and independent state must be the strengthening of her own military capacity . |
| 17 | Woodline Design did not rest on any past laurels ; it was highly solvent and very successful , and it did n't take long for Merrill to discover that Luke was the driving force behind it , and that her initial impression of him as dynamic was something of an understatement . |
| 18 | ‘ And I do n't know about all this ‘ probate ’ flummery , because it ai n't stopped Miss Ara and that there reverend husband of hers from taking all they want . ’ |
| 19 | Colin Campbell , to whom Lord Milton directed his inquiry about the removal of Main , insisted that the watchman could be returned to his former station , and that his temporary appointment as a tidesman was not a punishment , but a favour . |
| 20 | It is possible that a figure of the King was once part of the scene , and that his heroic intervention in the face of disaster was part of the cult iconography . |
| 21 | Others argued , however , that the man was straining political toleration too far , and that his nominal adherence to the Government was becoming absurd . |
| 22 | In announcing his nominee , Bush described Gates as " a man of honour " , and he stated that he had " no qualms " and that his initial soundings concerning the forthcoming Senate confirmation process had been " positive " . |
| 23 | Instead , their poetry , prose and verse is full of pictures. , He proved much more responsive to Welsh songs and music and , as Gwili 's elder sister sang for him and showed a strong interest in him , he assures Helen that he is ‘ a very harmless fool ’ and that his known views on promiscuity and marriage have not changed . |
| 24 | As you are aware we are conducting meetings and discussions with several interested parties , including foreign parties , and that my original indication of cost was based on a single interested party . |
| 25 | Given that this was formed in the late 1980s and that our estimated time for previous changes to reach the Rockall Trough was 18–19 years , we predict that the next decade will see continued cooling and freshening of the subpolar gyre as the latest form of LSW circulates around the North Atlantic . |
| 26 | How we survived remains a mystery , but when we eventually arrived at Backakeldy , we were told that the coastguard had been alerted and that our mad passage across the barriers had been watched in amazement by worried would-be rescuers . |
| 27 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
| 28 | In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment . |
| 29 | In studying these laws the reader should bear in mind our philosophy that nondivergent processes are equivalent if they have the same communications , minimal acceptances and terminations , and if their possible behaviours after each communication are equivalent . |
| 30 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |