Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 3 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 4 | Adult is only pure white medium-sized seabird of region , having no darker streaks or smudges on head in winter : breast faintly suffused pink . |
| 5 | On the interpretation in terms of entrepreneurial or windfall gains , the variance may be reduced ( e.g. , by regulation of speculative activities or controls on land use ) or increased ( e.g. , by zoning legislation , by frequent changes in policy or tax rates , etc . |
| 6 | All three of the agencies mentioned in the last paragraph have recently been the subject of central limitations to their activities or curbs upon their freedom ! |
| 7 | As Lindblom has pointed out , however , it is by no means wholly destroyed , since ‘ [ m ] onopoly weakens responses to popular control , but it neither eliminates a response or leads to a perverse one … |
| 8 | DELOITTE Haskins & Sells in the UK has firmly established itself as the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the accountancy profession . |
| 9 | The move follows Wednesday 's announcement of a merger between Coopers and Deloitte Haskins & Sells in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Previously a partner with Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte and prior to that worked with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in London and Edinburgh , specialising in corporate finance . |
| 11 | What guns the unit possessed had been captured in raids on isolated police barracks or ambushes on convoys in which men — his comrades — had willingly risked their lives . |
| 12 | These factors include : whether the interval is within a particular hour or goes across hours ; and whether or not the minutes are multiples often . |
| 13 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 14 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 15 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 16 | If x contains all the free variables that the finite program P ever inputs or assigns to , then there is an c — IF/ALT program P' such that free unc and P=P' is provable from the laws presented in section 1 . |
| 17 | Theorem 3 If the list x contains every free variable that the finite program P ever inputs or assigns to , and if P never evaluates an uninitialised variable , then there is a true x-normal form program P' such that unc and P = P' is provable from our laws and the rule of substitution for expressions . |
| 18 | ( If you do n't have either of these , find someone who has and ask them to record a few straightforward patterns or beats at around 80–100 beats per minute on a cassette — it will work just as well . ) |
| 19 | In contrast to the last comment , a metallurgist , philosopher and zoologist all noted significant changes in the norms or emphases within their disciplines : |
| 20 | In some cases , with your manager 's prior permission , you may make long distance calls or calls to directory enquiries but you will have to pay for these . |
| 21 | As we have seen , a public company is no longer permitted to have a charge or lien on its shares except ( a ) when the shares are not fully paid and the charge or lien is for the amount payable on the shares , or ( b ) the ordinary business of the company includes the lending of money or consists of the provision of hire-purchase finance and the charge arises in the course of a transaction in the ordinary course of its business . |
| 22 | Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or concerns with the tape or Handbook . |
| 23 | Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or concerns with either the tape or the Handbook . |
| 24 | Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or concerns with either the tape or the Handbook . |
| 25 | Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or concerns with either the tape or the Handbook . |
| 26 | Anomalous values are obtained if the solute associates or dissociates in solution . |
| 27 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 28 | Nearly all records are for the period November to March , but there is one October record ( 1885 , Shoreham ) , and a few for April , May and June which probably refer to pricked birds or escapes from collections . |
| 29 | Following the pattern of development of municipal law we will be able to outlaw self-help in the enforcement of international law , remove the weapons of violence from the hands of those who might break the law and ensure that no state is a judge in its own cause when it comes to questions of legitimate self-defence or disputes about allegations of aggression . |
| 30 | Your company stands or falls on how quickly it can handle information . |