Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal . |
| 2 | It would also mean massive computer reprogramming and possibly the expense of other computer programmes which would have to be introduced . |
| 3 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 4 | Mrs Brundtland , Norway 's Prime Minister , complained about it to Mrs Thatcher and New Scientist reported that even the CEGB 's own scientists ‘ discreetly let it be known that they were annoyed by the final version of the video . ’ |
| 5 | Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car . |
| 6 | On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues . |
| 7 | Its wings were folded when the building collapsed and so the damage is mostly to the wing tips . |
| 8 | Has my hon. Friend considered consulting people such as members of the Secondary Heads Association to see whether all the heads of comprehensive schoools in my constituency would relish the idea of paying an extra 9 per cent . |
| 9 | Once again the Padre urged his listeners to repent because now the most dangerous time of all was at hand , and he repeated the words he had read earlier : " His fan is in his hand , and he will purge his floor , and gather his wheat into the barn ; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire . " |
| 10 | Combining this with his NMR work , Hawkins concludes that somehow the carbon atoms of any C2 units must disconnect before or after they form the fullerene structure . |
| 11 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 12 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 13 | G. assumes that somehow the oil is escaping into the canal . |
| 14 | England under 21 keeper Gerrard saved from Cottee and Beagrie as the home side struggled and even the introduction of second half substitutes former Evertonians Neil Adams and Graeme Sharp failed to unsettle the visitors confident stride . |
| 15 | I agree with the judge that " What is required for this purpose is not an intention to own or even an intention to acquire ownership but an intention to possess , " that is to say , an intention for the time being to possess the land to the exclusion of all other persons , including the owner with the paper title . |
| 16 | The results of this experiment showed that both the animacy of the actor and acted-upon , and whether actor or acted-upon was thematic , affected subjects ' use of passives . |
| 17 | Research shows that over a third of people in pain get relief from inert tablets that they believe to be painkillers . |
| 18 | Also , sequence-specific cleavage with thrombin between the GST and pou[c] portions of the fusion protein showed that only the pou[c] proteolytic fragment was capable of sequence-specific DNA binding . |
| 19 | Saturday arrived but still no luggage . |
| 20 | Transport organizations predict that only the three main lines to London will be left and only those with a peak service . |
| 21 | Beluga whales emit distress calls when even a conventional icebreaker is 80 k ( 50 miles ) away , and flee when such vessels approach within 40 k ( 25 miles ) . |
| 22 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 23 | Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ . |
| 24 | Most Right-to-Lifers believe that only a threat to the life of the mother is sufficient justification and that most women seek abortions for essentially ‘ trivial ’ reasons . |
| 25 | Where a company 's Articles of Association state that only the Board of Directors can grant special remuneration to a director , a committee of the Board does not have authority to pay a special fee to one of its members . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , in the event that , in the future , short term letting could not provide a sufficiently profitable return , the possibility of long term letting or even the complete selling off of a number of these chalets , can not be ignored . |
| 27 | The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed . |
| 28 | Drinks in the social club followed and then a guided tour of Royston CSD was given . |
| 29 | Kelsen further holds , in one of his most mysterious doctrines , that the primacy of the principle of delegation means that even a determination outside the frame is valid and binding unless and until set aside by a higher decision . |
| 30 | He evidently resented the fact that the name ‘ diesel ’ had come to be applied to virtually every type of oil engine , hot-bulb ( ignition ) as well as compression-ignition , and in 1923 he asked the Institution to declare that henceforth the word ‘ diesel ’ should only be used to describe oil engines operating on the compression-ignition principle , hot-bulb engines to be known as ‘ akroyds ’ . |