Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Good professional practice requires notification to clients of major changes to the composition of a firm ; the provisions of the Business Names Act oblige firms with fewer than 20 partners to publicise their membership accurately on the firm 's stationery ; and in any case professional common sense dictates that the sooner clients become informed as to retirements from and admissions to the partnership the better . |
2 | THE proposed merger of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with the Scottish Opera orchestra is in doubt after it was revealed last night that the SO players have unanimously rejected the move in a secret ballot . |
3 | This has several important consequences , the first being that the f-f bands of such species are characteristic of the element concerned , and hardly affected by even the immediate ligands . |
4 | The second consequence of this insulation of the f electrons from external influences is that the f-f bands are sharp , much narrower than typical d-d bands . |
5 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
6 | And although it will grea , greatly help some women , unfortunately some women are unable to tolerate it , the side effects it gi , it gives them are worse than the actually symptoms they 're having in the first place . |
7 | Although the Leeward Islands ( Antigua and Barbuda , St Kitts and Nevis and Montserrat ) subsequently indicated their uncertainty , the four Windward Island states ( Dominica , Grenada , St Lucia , and St Vincent and the Grenadines ) decided to explore further the potential for political union [ see p. 37825 ] . |
8 | If the downwards forces are each one Newton at distances of plus and minus four metres , then the anticlockwise and clockwise moments equate at 4 Nm . |
9 | Details were wanted on the number of Englishmen employed " in the Mynes or at the said worke , either for getting Oare or about roasting & melting furnace or hamers , & whether there be any skilful to manage those works if the now farmers should dye . " |
10 | A plan which creates a continuous supply of pairs of hands for each patient area is an impossibility and the sooner managers accept this , the better . |
11 | So you can learn everything , from how to choose and finance a franchise to legal rights and the day-today realities of running a business . |
12 | The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury . |
13 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
14 | and the almost eyes of train travellers . |
15 | Several advanced their claims and two , the Jamaican left-hander Jimmy Adams and the Leeward Islands fast bowler , Kenneth Benjamin , earned places for themselves in the West Indies team for the solitary Test against South Africa that ended the season . |
16 | Charles II managed to induce the Barbados assembly to grant him the revenue forever from a tax of 4½ per cent of the value of all sugar exported from the island , and the Leeward Islands settled on the same terms and were briefly united under the same governor as Barbados . |
17 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
18 | That may seem reasonable , but it 's a lot for Poland , where a million and a half zlotys a month is considered more or less an average wage . |
19 | He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes . |
20 | The county council 's already provided an advisory route directing lorries away from the town centre — now it 's going one step further , banning all vehicles weighing more than seven and a half tonnes . |
21 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
22 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
23 | This has frequently happened on the Halemaumau volcano , which has a deep , circular , pit-like crater about one and a half kilometres across at its summit . |
24 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
25 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
26 | It was to the north west of the village about one and a half kilometres away , on the banks of a stream called the Rovacchia , behind a grass embankment . |
27 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
28 | Two and a half tons of fish taken in last year 's event . |
29 | One and a half tons . |
30 | Christopher Picton , 34 , of Avon Way , Colchester , Essex , became trapped as the reels , weighing two and a half tons , were being loaded on to a lorry . |