Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he could ‘ club ’ a golfer , hacker or scratch player by the second shot into the 3rd hole . |
| 2 | ‘ If you want to borrow or lend money on a rolling settlement basis we can bundle it in with the service . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 4 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 5 | The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . " |
| 6 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 7 | It is impossible to predict whether a particular task will help or hinder performance on a second task . |
| 8 | You can isolate a section of the design and repeat it within the grid area , or make repeats of the whole design . |
| 9 | I do n't how many of you have seen or heard reference to the recent Which report about estates and managing that . |
| 10 | ‘ Map ’ is the button to press for routing MIDI messages to other machines or relocating patches within the JMP-1 itself . |
| 11 | The latter often are pushed off the most suitable land for cultivation and are forced to make a living cultivating steep slopes or pasturing animals on a reduced amount of land . |
| 12 | In the first instance , a simple solicitor 's letter may be sufficient to halt the work you wish to stop or to prompt action on a derelict building . |
| 13 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time after the Consignment has been tendered . |
| 14 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time |
| 15 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 16 | Nearly half of those questioned — all of whom had bought or sold property within the past eighteen months — had some complaint , the most common being that agents charged too much and were inefficient or indifferent . |
| 17 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 18 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 19 | Each time they arrive at a pose , Colas somehow steals the expected kiss or holds Lise in the proper climax as Alain strikes what he believes to be the proper pose . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the controlling or checking functions of the judicial branch can only consist in impartial application of the law , and where constitutional law places restrictions on legislative power , a duty to declare the law seems to imply a duty to declare when such restrictions have been violated , whether by the legislature or by anyone else . |
| 21 | If we confine ourselves to explanations couched in the vocabulary of physics or neurochemistry , then we are going to lose , or fail to formulate , a vitally important set of generalizations about human behaviour , and science will never be able to explain or predict behaviour in a satisfactory way . |
| 22 | The stone walling blocks , available in a variety of sizes , or build steps to the exact dimensions from concrete , for which you will have to set up formwork . |
| 23 | Yes as you say there there is a budgetary or pegged element in the original prices and we are , as part of the amendment to the contract to reflect the the revised programme er seeking to place the total of the price for the Eurofighter contract onto a maximum price basis so that there would be no er areas which were not capped . |
| 24 | Equally unavoidable is the conviction that it is not in the public interest for any profession to become the subject of so much unwarranted regulation and criticism ( not to mention claims ) that it is unable to retain or recruit individuals of the required calibre . |
| 25 | In other cases of benefiting non-shareholder interests , for example installing more effective anti-pollution equipment than is consistent with maximum profits or required by law , or delaying closure of a redundant factory in order to preserve jobs , the conduct , as with growth-motivated behaviour , is an integral part of business activity and so not susceptible to this kind of attack . |
| 26 | Place the slide or peel mount into the negative carrier of a photographic enlarger and project the image on to an international A4 size sheet of printing paper of appropriate grade , determine the exposure and print two copies . |
| 27 | Hannah Arendt has linked the rise of both pan-Germanism and pan-Slavism with the ‘ triumphant imperialist expansion of the Western nations ’ in the 1880s , but it is clear that while pan-Slav ideas were confined in the main to the idea of restoring or gaining independence for the Slav subjects of Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire , pan-German ideas ran in a quite different direction . |
| 28 | If they start to fall beneath their percentile band then they are not growing or gaining weight at the expected rate and it is important to try to determine why this is happening . |
| 29 | The rest idled along , hopping a few yards and then pausing to nibble or to pass droppings on the warm , sunny grass . |
| 30 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , company policy may vary with regard to whether the expatriate is expected to rent or buy property in the new location or whether he can benefit from living in company housing . |