Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many young children , the birth of a brother or sister provides their first experience of sharing . ’ |
| 2 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
| 3 | If your capital or income reduces you will be required to pay less . |
| 4 | Every poem or text has its main point of climax , and probably several less important ones . |
| 5 | Make sure your adviser has a full operating licence — known as a ‘ regulated ’ licence — and that his stationery , business card or literature states his authorisation . |
| 6 | Some of the items on my own agenda for spiritual direction over the past two or three years have been : lifestyle — being overbusy and needing to rediscover a rhythm where prayer finds its right place alongside a full teaching and pastoral ministry ; bereavement and particular aspects of my mother 's death ; reading ; pain in prayer ; spiritual warfare ; a major decision . |
| 7 | But some of the new philosophers and freethinkers — Voltaire ( 1694–1778 ) , for example — go the whole hog and , particularly in Catholic France , where anticlericalism spurs it on , atheism takes root . |
| 8 | Where desertification poses its greatest threat to the lives and livelihoods of people is in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa . |
| 9 | Enhancement can be experienced in any one or more of these areas , and where enhancement happens it needs nourishment . |
| 10 | But without variations in exchange rates or labour costs it will be impossible to sustain different levels of labour productivity in different parts of the Community . |
| 11 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 12 | the nose or bouquet tells you plenty . |
| 13 | If the simile or metaphor leaves you feeling exactly the same , if it does n't move you , then you could improve it . |
| 14 | Each tail movement or posture tells us ( and other cats ) something about the animal 's emotional condition and it is possible to draw up a ‘ de-coding key ’ , as follows : |
| 15 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 16 | Suppleness or flexibility gives you a greater range of movements which will help you avoid the problems of pulled muscles and tendons and sprained ligaments . |
| 17 | Much of her spare time is spent acting as secretary to her husband , who is Deputy President ( Technical ) of the B.A.G.A. The rare weekend not taken up with Medau or Gymnastics sees them both actively pursuing their other hobby — rambling ! |
| 18 | However , any letters we send or telephone calls we make in connection with your overdraft will in future be free which , we hope you will agree , is good news . |
| 19 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
| 20 | If the obligor or feoffor pay a lesser sum either before the day or at another place than is limited by the condition , and the obligee or feoffee receiveth it , this is a good satisfaction . ’ |
| 21 | These estimated 's can then be used to estimate from equation ( 3.15 ) , that is : where over a variable or coefficient denotes our estimate of the variable or coefficient . |
| 22 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 23 | Only River Plate & General has its projected price on redemption doubly covered . |
| 24 | The student grant , equivalent only to low-income-level subsistence ( even if the parent or spouse pays their full calculated contribution ) , does not attract the same right to Housing Benefit . |
| 25 | Transitory moments are offset by big set-piece scenes with many characters : a difficult birth , and a fair where Candy discovers she can upstage the leading lady by a lewd trick with a cigar between her legs . |
| 26 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 27 | Kenyon must see it through or heaven knows what will become of the station . |
| 28 | In extreme cases perhaps it is , but relief should not be refused unless the applicant 's conduct or motive makes it inappropriate to award the relief sought in this case : courts should not refuse relief in order to penalize an applicant for bad conduct unrelated to the relief sought . |
| 29 | If you are anything near upright , the prospect of a face full of boom or sail causes you to lean back which completely spoils the turn . |
| 30 | Is it not possible , for example , that some theory is better , in the sense of being closer to the truth , a better problem solver , a better instrument of prediction or whatever , than a rival , even though no individual or group judges it to be so ? |