Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 At point B workers have been pushed off their labour supply function but employers remain on their labour demand function , albeit at a different point .
2 Children are made especially welcome in Leogang — there are lots of activities arranged for them .
3 A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities .
4 Fifty or sixty perfect , pointed teeth gleamed between his parted lips .
5 As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’
6 In some systems of law the disability of persons under full age is helped out by the powers of the parent or guardian , who can represent the child , and , by acting on his behalf or giving concurrence to his acts , can make dispositions of his property and contracts binding on him .
7 But the robots carry more formal titles painted on their sides , like ABB or Kawasaki .
8 A head with two huge eyes and antennae pressed over its back pushes through the pupa at one end .
9 I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci .
10 The French several times reneged on their pledges of future autonomy for the Lebanese .
11 She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . )
12 Acrobats , clowns and musicians jostle for your attention .
13 The role of the project leader takes a number of forms depending on his level of authority .
14 However where possible , eg. if there are several hours to wait before your return flight , and this is often the case in low season , a room will be made available for changing and storing hand luggage .
15 On the other hand , as his awareness of his own homosexual tendencies developed during his teens , the deep emotional dependence on his mother was complicated by a contrary feeling of resentment , based no doubt on guilt .
16 Also , with the use of steam in large rooms , high volumes of condensation may occur which may drip onto food contact surfaces bringing with it bacterial and physical contamination .
17 However , the growing budget deficit and lax credit policies led to its devaluation from parity with the rouble and caused a near breakdown in trade between Ukraine and Russia .
18 However , his policies led to his being condemned by Schumacher as ‘ the Chancellor of the Allies ’ .
19 Of those who had previously worked , the reasons given for their current unemployed state were as follows : short-term MSC contract , or redundancy , 36 per cent ; dismissal because of lateness , etc. , due to heroin use , 23 per cent ; imprisonment , 14 per cent ; collapse of business , 9 per cent ; pregnancy , 9 per cent ; boredom with job , 9 per cent .
20 This was a well researched and market estimated project : for the reasons given above it ended with the sale of EMI to another company .
21 My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Mustill , I would allow this appeal .
22 My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Mustill , I would allow this appeal .
23 My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , I would dismiss this appeal .
24 My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , I would dismiss this appeal .
25 I agree with it and , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , I , too , would allow the appeal .
26 My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , I , too , would allow the appeal and dismiss the plaintiffs ' action .
27 I agree with it and , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , I , too , would allow the appeal and restore the order of Mervyn Davies J.
28 My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , I agree that this appeal should be allowed , and I hope that some action might follow from the observations made by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with which I agree .
29 But , for all the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with whose speech I entirely agree , I am not placed in that invidious situation .
30 Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self .
  Next page