Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 2 | Although the army , still sceptical of the new weapon and uncooperative , were unable to provide him with either maps or even straw for the pilots ' bunks , within a week he had installed on the Verdun front six out of France 's total of fifteen fighter squadrons , and a further eight reconnaissance squadrons ; equalling 120 machines . |
| 3 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 4 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 5 | And although some 6,000 of them did fight , either in their own units or occasionally side by side with Afghans , most returned home without incident . |
| 6 | Where the sponsor 's product is low in value there may be 10 ( 1 or 500 second- or third-tier prizes , the top prizes being taken from other organisations in the form of holidays , cars or even cash . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 8 | Buid describe these feelings in terms of the soul rising up from the chest into the neck and issuing forth in bitter words or even violence if not held in check by the mind . |
| 9 | But if you do believe it then you must also believe the rest of it and realise that our relationship is destined to move along quite different channels than purely business ones . ’ |
| 10 | He observed that there are certain classes of English word combinations that neither syntax nor semantics can justify ; for example , although the words ’ strong ’ and ’ powerful ’ may have a similar meaning , people prefer saying ’ drink strong tea ’ to ’ powerful tea ’ and similarly prefer ’ drive a powerful car ’ to ’ strong car ’ . |
| 11 | Faye began to struggle to sit up , but Belinda forestalled her , relieved that the other woman had n't commented on the tired bags beneath her eyes that even make-up could n't fully conceal . |
| 12 | A characteristically political perspective would argue for a more articulated view of the complexity of centre-periphery relationships than either pluralism or Marxism can provide but would also warn against imposition of a single political model such as corporatism . |
| 13 | The governments of the FRG and the GDR reaffirm their declarations that only peace shall emanate from German soil . |
| 14 | A concordat of a sort had to be arranged with him , and this was done with mutual protestations that only misunderstanding had impaired goodwill . |
| 15 | Once colleagues and still friends , their similar redbrick-professor-writer lifestyles and largely campus subject-matter have made them a joined personality . |
| 16 | All of these treatments arc as hard on the feet as they are easy on the eye-but sometimes , as I have said , good appearances win over practical considerations If both price and hardness bother you , there are acceptable alternatives in vinyl , and cork coated with vinyl which can look very good too . |
| 17 | For some species of spider will blatantly mimic the ‘ come-hither ’ sound signals and even sex pheromones of female moths , luring lusting males to a dinner party they had not expected . |
| 18 | Every fifteen days , when the spring tides are at their peak , vast numbers of grunion ride in on the crests of waves and deliberately strand themselves on the shore . |
| 19 | In most cases they are partly class parties and partly status parties , but sometimes they are neither ’ . |
| 20 | We observed a chemotactic response to MIP-1 β over a narrow range of cytokine concentrations ( Fig. 1 a ; and data not shown ) ; MIP-1 β has been reported to induce myeloid cell chemotaxis at higher concentrations and apparently T-cell chemotaxis . |
| 21 | They rolled over and over on the damp moss , exchanging blows and vile words until finally Topaz 's strength ran out . |
| 22 | Steaming is not restricted to tube trains : it happens on buses , in shops and even department stores where large items are stolen en masse in broad daylight . |
| 23 | I began my career hand-setting lead type for printing on Adanas and treadle presses before moving first into the world of computers and then journalism while Jim , my co-director , had spent some 34 years with British Airways looking after the production of their timetables from data bases . |
| 24 | This perspective is unduly restrictive of the role of law in its socially instrumental aspects and unduly kind to those who have power over the legislative and judicial functions of states in that to define law in terms of the pursuit of order seems unwarrantably to exclude the use of law to foment disorder when this seems desirable to the politically strong . |
| 25 | There is no significant correlation across the 48 junctions between mean risk ratings and either P(A) , r(46)=0.24 , or B , r(46)=0.12 , or between accident estimate and either measure r(46)=0.16 and r(46)=0.09 . |
| 26 | I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] . |
| 27 | For years , libraries have met the demand of their customers for reference services , book loans and , more recently , loans of music recordings and even computer software . |
| 28 | The the only other thing we could do would be to put would be to make colour acetates and then team brief them . |
| 29 | Oh , yes , yes , but there there was certainly a time when , er universities , schools and even business companies , thought that it was part of their erm , their way of supporting society in general , that they gave time to go out and give talks . |
| 30 | I mean , I 'm a fan of oily rags and maybe mildew . |