Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counteract the possibility of discrimination by the EEC should it be able to establish a common external tariff , the other OEEC states would need to accept a lowering of or even an end to their tariffs , providing the Six would waive their common external tariff on goods coming from the rest of the OEEC . |
| 2 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 3 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 4 | This should have resulted in an ex-rights price of and therefore a value for each right of 227p - 190p=37p . |
| 5 | People buying shares in British Telecommunications Plc will be able to deal in shares by punching the keys on a normal push-button telephone : the retail investment company ShareLink Ltd said the service , the first such scheme in Europe , is being offered as part of the marketing campaign for BT3 , the UK government 's sale of a third tranche of British Telecom shares , marketing of which began yesterday ; the system will later be extended to cover other shares ; the government 's remaining shares are to be sold in July ; pricing and details of whether all the remaining 21.8% stake will be sold are due in June . |
| 6 | This is a preliminary timetable resolution which requires the vote to be put on certain clauses at a certain time , irrespective of whether all the amendments to the clause or to previous clauses have been discussed . |
| 7 | The crucial assumption underlying this analysis , in contrast to those which have focused on the rate of growth of labour supply and the idea of too few producers , is that the achievement of higher productivity is a prior condition for and not a consequence of a higher rate of growth of the manufacturing labour force [ cf. |
| 8 | Only when they actually got to know each other had he discovered that it was the idea of loving her that he had fallen for and not the girl herself . |
| 9 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 10 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 11 | Typically τ o is of the order of 10 -10 seconds for and so the relaxation time for a polymer chain with would be about 100 seconds . |
| 12 | And then plenty of straw and everything and put the old vixen in and the cubs and some food for and then the old erm the old er erm what did they used to call it ? |
| 13 | That 's thirteen and the five for me for and then the bus fare Where 's Raymond away to ? |
| 14 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 15 | I had no idea what I was looking for and certainly no intention of starting on the filing cabinets . |
| 16 | She explains their shifts and duties and makes sure they understand what the home stands for and how the residents should be treated . |
| 17 | Then , straightening up as if already the burden of sovereignty weighed heavily on his shoulders , he made his reply . ’ |
| 18 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 19 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 20 | It is as if somehow the puritanical , work-obsessed British associated the idea of ‘ pleasure ’ with the saucy , sinful Continent . |
| 21 | She was breathing heavily , as if just the strain of knowing was wearing her out , exhausting her physically . |
| 22 | Here , it is as if both the single and the plural accounts of human nature were specious . |
| 23 | Bob looked at me as if only a muppet would ask a question like that . |
| 24 | as if only a god could be told |
| 25 | Now it looks as if only the banking directive , adopted by the Council of Ministers in December 1989 , will be operative in time . |
| 26 | • for the part of the payment between the exempt amount and £50,000 , first calculate your income tax as if this part were included in your income and then your tax as if it were not ; the relief on this part is half the difference ; • for the part between £50,000 and £75,000 , first calculate your tax as if the part between the exempt amount and £75,000 were included in your income , and then your tax as if only the part between the exempt amount and £50,000 were included ; the relief on this part is 25 per cent of the difference ; |
| 27 | ‘ It 's as if only the last few hours of my life were real . |
| 28 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 29 | ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them . |
| 30 | One of the things I do not know about them , that 's women , is what they talk about and why the men are talking . |