Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest paid under a mortgage is allowable for tax relief if at the time the interest is paid : ( i ) the loan was taken out to purchase property in the UK ; and ( ii ) the person claiming the relief owed an interest in the property and uses it " wholly or to a substantial extent " as his or her only or main residence ( Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 , ss354 and 355 as amended by Finance Act 1988 , s44(1) ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Making false claims about a second-hand item verbally or in a small ad is a serious offence , even when the proceeds go to charity , ’ according to Mr Keith Richards , a senior lawyer with the Consumers ' Association and the author of the report . |
| 3 | Desqview/X turns MS-DOS text-based programs into X-Window clients ; the MS-DOS program can run locally or as a remote process with the actual application residing on a remote workstation . |
| 4 | Species and genetic change , fixation of atmospheric N 2 , and nitrogen deposition may have facilitated plant response to CO 2 in the past when concentrations rose more slowly or with a greater relaxation time between change than today , but data are lacking . |
| 5 | If the court dismisses the application , it must make an order authorising the creditor to present a bankruptcy petition either forthwith or on or after a specified date . |
| 6 | They have their ways of doing things — you might think some of these could be done better or in a different way . |
| 7 | It looks great when it 's down or in a simple self-knotted style . |
| 8 | The agreed ratio will reflect a number of considerations , such as : ( a ) the age and experience of each partner ; ( b ) the amount of time a partner is required to devote to the firm ; ( c ) the nature of each partner 's work ( legal aid or private , fee earning only or including a generous proportion of remuneration for office and appointments held ) ; ( d ) the extent to which the profits of separate departments within the firm differ substantially from one another ; ( e ) whether the firm 's policy tends to equality of reward ( and equality would be imposed under the Partnership Act in the absence of some other agreed ratio ) or whether , for example , it attempts to relate profit shares to salaries in comparable employments . |
| 9 | The organisational side of the investigation described here will in the great majority of cases reveal what went wrong , either physically and mechanically or from a procedural or handling point of view . |
| 10 | But if it rises suddenly or to a high level , he will need to consider whether you are developing high blood pressure problems or pre-eclampsia . |
| 11 | Pilots played poker and bridge endlessly and with a furious concentration , while in the background a gramophone wheezed out over and over again a well-worn recording of Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle ? and the Squadron 's mascot , a young lion cub called Whiskey , prowled amiably about the mess . |
| 12 | The man went on waiting , almost as if he were teasing Stephen , and when at last he did move , it was suddenly and with a strange dancing skip . |
| 13 | Such rationalization is , however , of great interest to the historian because it reveals something of the social processes involved in gaining respect for scientific work both inside and outside a scientific community . |
| 14 | He had dealt with everything when her mother died and he had dealt with it competently and in a kindly manner , but , left to herself , she would have gone to Glyn . |
| 15 | He looked like a Fred to me , being short , shaggy , pimply and with a big nose , and we were all delighted when he was on night duty with us because he then got the job of hauling the heavy haybox into the building and ladling out large dollops of this unidentifiable meal onto our plates . |
| 16 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 17 | I asked if I could see the people who 'd brought me in and after a few minutes , Bunny and Rayleen appeared at the bedside . |
| 18 | To be known as the Nadd Al Sheba Golf and Race Club , it is being built in and around a horse-racing track and is scheduled to open in October of next year . |
| 19 | The road winds on to Arco de São Jorge and then goes in and round a deep ravine before it reaches Boaventura ( 65km ) . |
| 20 | Soon , however , we were midway down and into a steep , narrow , rocky section , where it was turn now or go straight into freefall . |
| 21 | Now the pressure is on the big keeper as Leeds start at Elland Road 2–1 down and with a disturbing habit of conceding too many goals this season . |
| 22 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 23 | However , on May 31 there were reports of widespread support among civil servants and soldiers for the military rulers to step down and for a rapid handover of power to a civilian government . |
| 24 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 25 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 26 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 27 | ‘ Why ca n't we move away entirely and to a new system which after proper and full consultation would set prices and regimes periodically ? ’ |
| 28 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 29 | The social services of Kent County Council can be cited as an example of a local authority which has adapted the key elements of ZBB so that key programmes are reviewed not annually but on a five yearly cycle . |
| 30 | Its grey buildings , mainly guest houses displaying ‘ Vacancies ’ at netted windows , looked bad enough but with a leaden sky and a seafront virtually devoid of life , apart from one or two hopefuls trying to find shelter from driving rain , it was almost guaranteed to sink one 's spirits . |