Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing . |
| 2 | These sections do not cover : — loss or destruction of or damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expense whatsoever resulting or arising therefrom or any consequential loss directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to , by or arising from |
| 3 | loss or destruction of , or damage to , any property whatsoever or any loss or expense whatsoever resulting or arising therefrom or any consequential loss |
| 4 | any accident loss or damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expense whatsoever resulting or arising therefrom or any consequential loss |
| 5 | any accident loss or damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expense whatsoever resulting or arising therefrom or any consequential loss any liability of whatsoever nature directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from ionising radiations or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel . |
| 6 | Wrens Quickso in Darlington ( 352–577 ) will take up a hem from £3.60 , put in a zip from £3.75 or taper your old flares for £6 or so . |
| 7 | While the Chicago School certainly addressed the expressive order in problematic ways , their critics have thrown out the baby with the bathwater ; misinterpreting or misunderstanding what these sociologists were attempting . |
| 8 | The summary document or record which young people take with them when leaving school or college will need to include two main components : |
| 9 | A man or woman whose social or personal habits are unconventional or uncertain is not likely to be risked . |
| 10 | A characteristic of subdivision is an attribute or property which all concepts in a given facet have in common and by which isolates can be grouped . |
| 11 | There are therefore good reasons to think that those who try to define democracy only in terms of present-day realities — 5 a type of political system or culture which some societies possess and others do not — will find themselves left behind by history . |
| 12 | 3 The surrounding words in an utterance that give a word or structure its particular meaning . |
| 13 | All these accusations , rebuttals and counter-accusations are largely covert and known in detail only to the prince or chief whose judicial oracle confirms or refutes all witchcraft-murder accusations ; hence the same death appears in different guises to the various parties concerned . |
| 14 | It was unthinkable that the BBC should do other than support its own government . |
| 15 | More resources are devoted to aspects of fiscal welfare than to cash benefits or service delivery and they are allocated in ways that pervert what individual service policies are seeking to achieve . |
| 16 | He had no right to do other than wish her well . |
| 17 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 18 | This gave the baronage a strong sense of cohesion ; but the large families which many of them had , and the opportunities for enrichment and impoverishment which growing population and growing wealth provided , meant that any great man had a large number of poor relations , and that the rungs on the ladder between the poor knights and the great princes were thronged with men moving up and down , sometimes at breakneck speed . |
| 19 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 20 | ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’ |
| 21 | We do n't really need either of them but I must say that , despite the professionalism and expertise they both possess , judging from the contents rather than the covers we need Pocket less than we need Orion . |
| 22 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 23 | Whether the primary motive for the association was the wish to appear to be in partnership or to avoid being identified as sole practitioners was not clear , but the Tribunal drew attention to the fact that " such a sham partnership would serve to mislead the public who are entitled to believe that the persons being held out as being partners would enjoy the full relationship of support and responsibility which that state engendered " . |
| 24 | work out the qualifications and experience which that person should have ; |
| 25 | This follows from the goodwill and experience which existing national firms possess . |
| 26 | It seems cruel that what is encouraged and praised in girls as children ( and is also , after all , an expression of identity and creativity which little boys too could benefit from ) is suddenly , at age eleven seen as vanity , and a sign of low intellect . |
| 27 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 28 | The local party leader in Shanghai , Jiang Zemin , attempted to deter the first demonstration by personally addressing thousands of students at the Jiaotong campus on 19 December , Jiang was a technocrat and moderniser whose future success in the party seemed certain . |
| 29 | ‘ I found them outside his door when I took master and mistress their early morning tea . ’ |
| 30 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |