Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporations are also the development-control authority for the designated area , so they may thus determine planning applications made to them or deem themselves planning permission by resolution . |
| 2 | It is particularly vulnerable to claims that it is acting abusively in a particular market , and must avoid discriminating between its competitors or using its market dominance in a manner which can be construed as unfair or intended to eliminate a competitor or competition . |
| 3 | any person named in your policy schedule and certificate of motor insurance provided they are driving your motor cycle or using your motor cycle with your permission |
| 4 | The disabled person would then hire-purchase or lease his motor car on terms far more advantageous than he could possibly contrive for himself , since the organisation would have the buying power to obtain cheaper cars and insurance , lower interest rates and a number of other concessions . |
| 5 | It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset . |
| 6 | Although the bulk of candidates may continue to be those whose aim is to complete a full HNC or HND course , many , who are interested in retraining or improving their skill level in a specific area , might welcome the opportunity to study for just one or two HN Units . |
| 7 | Start or complete your Theatre outing with a private function in this beautiful hall , which makes an ideal venue for charity events , private or company parties . |
| 8 | Otherwise , and particularly if she lived in Edinburgh , she could answer one of the advertisements for a housemaid ; or she might , increasingly as the century wore on , try for a coveted job as shop assistant ; she might enter one of the monotonous and repetitive unskilled industrial jobs in say paper-bag making ; or use her school training in needlework to become a dressmaker . |
| 9 | I advised him in the meantime to send for the leaders of the other two parties & have them report position from their points of view . |
| 10 | ‘ John , you 're not trying ! ’ and you look at your feet in the mirror , ugly , unable to do the things which you want them to do , or see your body collapse in the middle when you know that it should be firm and rigid — and see them all , even the children , doing something , following what you can not follow . |
| 11 | Mr Stott 's workshop was actually on the Roman Wall and every time I cast , or see my rod bend in anger , I am reminded of my beautiful Northumberland home . |
| 12 | The Vicars family from Portsmouth , Hants , got their hands on a Pounds 50 three-piece suite after waiting outside Allders since Christmas Eve and eating their Christmas dinner on the pavement . |
| 13 | Then , Gentle walking in those streets , between those towers , hand in hand with a shadow , the company of which he was happy to keep , and which turned when they reached an intersection , and laid its feather finger upon the middle of his brow , as though Ash Wednesday was dawning . |
| 14 | Louis Littman did buy Ashley Chase , after that first visit in 1966 , and realized his childhood dream of owning and running the ideal estate . |
| 15 | Germany and the USA had overtaken Britain 's total levels of production by 1900 and equalled her world share of manufactured exports in the depressed conditions , or ‘ downswing ’ , of the 1930s . |
| 16 | He fired seven times with the Spencer , taking his time as they came at him , and emptied his Colt revolver at them as they ran . |
| 17 | I remember half-waking and seeing my master bend over me . |
| 18 | But he we 'll have to live apart , we 'll have to make us try and make our marriage work by living apart . |
| 19 | It means COHSE and NUPE members stopping the sick being admitted to hospital , and it means rail , tube and bus workers striking on the same day and bringing our capital city to a grinding halt . |
| 20 | He flipped the radio switches on again and transmitted his call signal to the base at Alma-Ata . |
| 21 | She broke into films in 1933 , when MGM advertised for ‘ tall girls in bathing suits ’ , and made her movie debut in the chorus in Dancing Lady , which also happened to be Fred Astaire 's first film . |
| 22 | What I read there was intriguing : violinist , pianist and composer , born 1899 in Moscow , died in a car accident in Stuttgart in 1974 ; first piano lessons from her mother , a pupil of Anton ( and , it turns out , Nicolas ) Rubinstein ; studied both piano and violin at the Paris Conservatoire and made her concert début in Berlin playing Beethoven sonatas for each instrument ; violin lessons with Huberman and tours with Edwin Fischer as a duo-pianist ; married the painter Walter Gramatté in 1920 , and in 1934 , five years after Gramatté 's death , the art-critic Ferdinand Eckhardt ; during 1936–42 composition lessons with Max Trapp , finally settling in Winnipeg in 1953 . |
| 23 | Last year , he stormed Edinburgh with a prize-winning play entitled Patrick 's Day , and made his film début with a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role in Alan Parker 's The Commitments . |
| 24 | David grinned in that unassuming way of his and made his class line-up for my autograph . |
| 25 | He blacked out a couple of his front teeth with stage cosmetics and made his breath smell with chemical — oldest trick in the business to prevent people looking you in the face close to . |
| 26 | In this hilarious fashion we left Auckland and made our way north through the imaginatively-named Northland . |
| 27 | They were engaged before the relocation and given their induction training in a nearby hotel . |
| 28 | He could have easily not renewed his contract , and given our league situation at the time … |
| 29 | The centre becomes a plc on January 1 , and launches its share issue on March 1 . |
| 30 | He knew he ought to be afraid of her , yet he found himself returning her smile with an easy grin and enjoying his jam sandwich to the very last crumb . |