Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rule does not apply to an action for the recovery of land , where the return day is that of the final hearing ( N5 — 6 ) , unless a claim is joined for some relief other than the payment of mesne profits or arrears of rent or for moneys secured by a mortgage or charge ( Ord 3 , r 3(4) ) . |
| 2 | erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here . |
| 3 | I should mention that the alternative route for people travelling northwards from Scorton or for children cycling to the village school would involve a three-mile detour along the busy A6 which is not acceptable for schoolchildren and old ladies . |
| 4 | A one-inch ( 2.5cm ) square of sandpaper ( rough side out ) or of flannel glued to the corners of the picture or of the cutouts to be displayed is sufficient to keep the picture on the board . |
| 5 | The era of a techno-structure or of technocracy has as a corollary the decline of the powers of parliamentary democracy in the true sense ’ . |
| 6 | It is not simply one of scenes showing children excitedly unwrapping and playing with their new presents — or of shots taken at the party later in the day . |
| 7 | ‘ The difficulty , if not danger … of attempting to state the conditions which must be fulfilled before a given kind of conduct or of unfairness amounts to an invalidating cause is greatly increased by the introduction of the consideration that the equity must be such as ought to prevail against the claims of the creditor as a possibly innocent third party . |
| 8 | They liked to tell stories of funny replies to canvass enquiries or of japes played against the socialists , when putting up or pulling down posters . |
| 9 | France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity . |
| 10 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 11 | Witnesses and documents located there are required to be taken out of that country for production before the authorities of the United States or before persons acting with the backing of the courts of that country ; it must appear to be an attempt to give world-wide application to the procedural rules of the United States . |
| 12 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 13 | In national parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) , or in areas designated by the Secretary of State as ‘ rural ’ , the sale contains a covenant limiting the freedom of the purchasing tenant and his successors to resell the dwelling ; houses can be resold only to ‘ locals ’ who fulfil certain criteria , such as living or working in the designated rural area for the previous three years ; or , for ten years after the original purchase , the tenant has first to offer to resell to the council ( Liell 1981 ) . |
| 14 | These plans may propose training programmes in either the national priority areas , or in areas considered by an LEA to be of local priority . |
| 15 | This system of teaching advocates the flexible use , singly or in combination according to the need of the child , of a variety of additional methods of communication like reading , writing , mime , gesture and amplification of sound . |
| 16 | There has to be a substantial increase either in income tax or in VAT to pay for the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 17 | Dr. W. D. Lamont writes " There is a general presumption that , as the long-cairn gallery-graves were Neolithic , so the standing-stones whether specially dressed and squared or raised in their crude state , whether single , in twos , or threes , or in circles belong to the Bronze Age . |
| 18 | Computers can catch it by using floppy discs holding infected programmes , or from programmes copied off an electronic bulletin board , which is where it was probably first planted . |
| 19 | However even when frontiers are closed fast to Amnesty , information still gets out — via refugees or victims who have fled in fear , ‘ friendly ’ foreigners or nationals inside the country , church , trade union and human rights organizations , journalists or travellers , or from letters smuggled across the border . |
| 20 | Its wharf near Tower Bridge , London , was a terminus for steam-boats to or from towns situated in the Thames estuary . |
| 21 | Most of the TV reports were being filed from the relative safety of City Hall , where hundreds of police protected that towering symbol of urban authority , or from helicopters flying above the fray . |
| 22 | Or have no window treatment at all except glass shelves full of plants , or plants hanging from the ceiling or from poles slung across the window . |
| 23 | Prepositional phrase headings , with nouns , noun phrases or both , with or without modifiers connected by a preposition , for example , |
| 24 | These usually involve increasing plant diversity , contour ploughing , inter-cropping , minimum or no-tillage systems , and grass strips ( with or without grass-covered storm channels or bunds , and with or without brushwood planting along the contours between strips ) . |
| 25 | This means that in the OED only cross-references backwards or to entries published in the same fascicle are adequate , and in the Supplement , only cross-references to OED , to earlier volumes , and to the same volume ( usually ) are adequate . |
| 26 | Cages may be held on wall-mounted racks , allowing easy floor cleaning and the recapture of escaped animals , or on trolleys designed for the purpose . |
| 27 | Other riverfront industrial developments , e.g. Smith 's Dock , occurred on owner-occupied land or on land leased from the Port Authority . |
| 28 | The Government believes that no payment of VAT should be required on boats supplied in the UK before 1 April 1973 ( when UK VAT started ) , or on boats imported into the UK on a duty paid basis before that date . |
| 29 | Relying , as they do , on irregular , inadequate , notified , and often superficial inspections , or on data provided by the corporations themselves renders state regulatory agencies and the police ( where they are relevant , as in say the fraud squad ) very defective in their ability to locate corporate crime . |
| 30 | Then , or at home looking at a map of Britain , the West calls , out of Wiltshire and out of Cornwall and Devon beyond , out of Monmouth and Glamorgan and Gower and Caermarthen , with a voice of dead Townsends , Eastaways , Thomases , Phillipses , Treharnes , Marendaz , sea men and mountain men . |