Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it . |
| 2 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 3 | There is a very basic hostel here , for serious , long-range walkers , and in summer you can hire horses or ponies to ride about on the surrounding , pine-covered hillsides . |
| 4 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 5 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 6 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 7 | We will introduce a new grant , paid through TECs , to help employers , voluntary groups or schools to set up after-school care and holiday arrangements . |
| 8 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 9 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 10 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 11 | As the waves or pulses pass down the fibre they mix with their delayed echoes . |
| 12 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 13 | What the alternative to today 's degenerate and evil society is presents no immediate problem : women are once again hidden from sight , or married ones have their hair shorn ; thieves are once again punished by having hands or legs cut off ; alcohol , or whatever else is ritually prohibited , is banned ; and Koran , or Bible , or whatever constitutes the authoritative compendium or eternal wisdom , provides complete practical and moral guidance on all subjects , as interpreted by those whose business it is to do so . |
| 14 | Thus was born the technique of intense study of typical ‘ quadrats ’ or squares marked off to define a sample of the vegetation for the surrounding area . |
| 15 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 16 | Pete introduces the records , rants about major record companies and provides a sarcastic , leering commentary of the night 's events , while co-presenter Michaela Strachan whips the crowd up with her boundless high spirits and comperes the competitions ’ Pass The Mic ’ ( an insult to Karaoke , where punters sing along to classic hits until the crowd can stand no more , and shout ’ Pass The Mic ! ’ ) , |
| 17 | It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business . |
| 18 | Brain dysfunction - due to uncontrolled electrical discharges as in epilepsy or due to the effects of drugs or toxins damping down electrical activity — will lead to disturbance or loss of consciousness . |
| 19 | The new legislation included : ( i ) a law on private enterprise , which allowed individuals to start companies without restrictions on the numbers of employees ; ( ii ) a law on state enterprises , which allowed state-owned companies to offer shares to their workforces ; ( iii ) a law on shareholding , which allowed foreign individuals or companies to own up to 100 per cent of Czechoslovak-based companies ; ( iv ) a law on industrial relations , enshrining employee and trade-union rights ; and ( v ) provisions for the creation of industrial courts to settle commercial disputes . |
| 20 | Trees might be planted or earthworks thrown up to the north of a house to disperse harmful ch'i emanating from that quarter . |
| 21 | The ‘ purlieus ’ , or areas put out of the forest by the perambulations , were a special bone of contention . |
| 22 | NEARLY 400 cattle were auctioned in just one hour without the animals , vendors or buyers going off to market when the first sale of fat stock by satellite television went on screen . |
| 23 | Do not let seed or seedlings dry out |
| 24 | No shoulder straps , insignia , or decorations appear on either tunic or coat in any known photograph . |
| 25 | You should never leave credit cards , cheque books , wallets or handbags lying around — no matter where you are . |
| 26 | Barr and Barnes are among an increasing number who favour vouchers or bursaries topped up by loans . |
| 27 | Tallyman ( itinerant credit trader , credit draper or clothing club ) Doorstep credit for clothes or textiles costing up to about £30 , fixed instalments collected weekly , often in 20 weeks , interest fixed at start . |
| 28 | Here 's his best save or saves coming up . |
| 29 | Fees take months or years to come in , and quite a proportion are never recovered . |
| 30 | Will you get a clear run in your presentation or will you be interrupted by tea arriving , or latecomers drifting in ? |