Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fantasy is also an important component in the work of other writers who occasionally employ a postmodernist idiom : Brian Aldiss in his Joycean Barefoot in the Head ( 1969 ) or the nouveau roman , Report on Probability A ( 1968 ) ; J. G. Ballard in The Unlimited Dream Company ( 1979 ) ; Christopher Priest in The Affirmation ( 1981 ) ; even D. M. Thomas in The White Hotel ( 1981 ) . |
| 2 | They favoured either independence or the status quo . |
| 3 | Scotland United says a three-way choice would be on offer , independence , devolution or the status quo . |
| 4 | I believe that distribution possibilities are possibly better er for erm the south west and the north west er than or the erm er north east . |
| 5 | The other parties represented were from the France unie grouping , from either the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ( MRG — Left Radical Movement , Emile Zuccarelli pres. ) or the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF — Union for French Democracy , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ch . ) . |
| 6 | Versailles was n't unique in depending upon the chamber-pot or the chaise percée for sanitation . |
| 7 | From one interpretative angle , Chaucer makes the axioms and ethics of the fabliau models — the availability of beautiful women and their longing for fornication ; the exaltation of practical cunning in the French fabliaux or the carpe diem theme of Dame Sirith — turn into a tale of prostitution with the deception of an undeserving husband who gains sympathy rather than scorn . |
| 8 | There ought to be a right to protest in public , it might be argued , and where the bona fide exercise of this right happens to lead to some form of disorder , it is wrong to visit the perpetrators with severe sanctions . |
| 9 | But there were many who were jealous of the new town 's phenomenal rise and who looked upon it as a sink of iniquity where the nouveaux riches wallowed in the luxury obtained from trade . |
| 10 | Tutorial colleges can offer academic success where the alma mater has failed . |
| 11 | The two bodies were taken away to Cheltenham General Hospital where a post mortem is being carried out . |
| 12 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 13 | The ruling classes of Britain , where pre-capitalist landlords and peasants had disappeared , and of Germany and France , where a modus vivendi with the peasantry was established on the basis of a flourishing , and where necessary protected , home market , could rely on the loyalty of the countryside . |
| 14 | However , the critics who review recordings of early music in Europe find , time and time again , that there is a distinctive tradition anglaise or a tradición británica behind a cappella recordings by English singers , and they are well aware how valuable this tradition is and how it is sustained : |
| 15 | ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 16 | or or a er er a level crossing |
| 17 | And he said er no , he said er I hope you can swim er , he said because they 're rather unstable and er and he said , now erm if we er bump into anything like erm a he he hesitated in his speech and he said like a log or a er er or alligator he said freeze ! |
| 18 | Thus the supplier may issue a fee note ( sometimes known as a payment request note or a pro forma invoice ) rather than an invoice containing all the requirements of a tax invoice ( as specified in reg 13(1) ) . |
| 19 | A tall story or a tour de force ? |
| 20 | or a s a a erm a . |
| 21 | At one end the professional scriveners sat at their desks , quills and parchment at the ready , to draw up wills , indentures , bills of sale , a letter to a friend or a billet doux to a lover . |
| 22 | The most commonly seen current formulations of this model alternatively emphasize either a maximizing human nature determined by biology , or a tabula rasa wholly tractable to the collective will of society , either the ‘ selfish gene ’ , or the selfless primitive communist at one with the collective consciousness of his group . |
| 23 | The reason for this however is that the base is low and unless population growth is strictly controlled this increase will result in little or no per capita benefit . |
| 24 | ‘ Manchester United have not taken on a troublemaker or an enfant terrible — they have bought a personality and a man capable of magic in his boots . ’ |
| 25 | At Clubs offering half or full board , you can start the evening enjoying either a table d'hôte , buffet-style or an à la carte meal . |
| 26 | Either the switch was flipped and other conditions existed , or an ad hoc electrical circuit was completed and other conditions existed , or … |
| 27 | As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend . |
| 28 | At night the place was jumping , the whistling urinals were all occupied , and then the smell of piss and semen was the smell of ecstatic terror , for we never knew when the place would be raided by the cops , and the person standing at the next stall playing with himself might be a copper 's nark , an informer or an agent provocateur . |
| 29 | In this case , as in all other ex parte applications , it is not to be taken that an ex parte application for the return of a child , or an ex parte application for an interim residence order , will be granted easily . |
| 30 | Neither Rousseau , nor Meude-Monpas 's Dictionnaire de musique ( 1787 ) , nor the Encyclopedie ( 1751-65 ) , nor its Supplement ( 1776-7 ) , nor the Encyclopedie methodique ( 1791 ) defines them overtly . |