Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stir a little honey in to sweeten when ready to eat . |
| 2 | It says it can accept these only under protest , a response apparently regarded as ungracious . |
| 3 | The link with sovereignty and with the ultra vires doctrine is provided by implication : parliament only intended that such discretion should be exercised on relevant and not irrelevant considerations , or to achieve proper and not improper purposes . |
| 4 | Silence continues to sustain the hegemony , and social change only occurs when irresistible and more powerful forces are brought to bear from outside ( see Adams 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Wagner can count some worthwhile benchmarks — from the Caring in Homes initiative to the forthcoming Children 's Charter and one or two legislative achievements — but it can also be justly proud of its part in seeing that residential care is on the political agenda , no longer a Cinderella service . |
| 6 | This is a major boost to the Northern Ireland quarry industry and the Port of Belfast means to play its full part in seeing that this export trade is expanded even further in the years ahead . |
| 7 | The cases below demonstrate that adverse possession usually concerns either existing landowners who gradually add a bit on to their gardens ( " boundary cases " ) or city homeless ( the " threat to law and order " cases ) who resort to squatting as necessary for living as well as , perhaps , for ideological reasons . |
| 8 | One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife . |
| 9 | Very slender ideas with which to cover such large areas , very slender indeed , but nobody has ever complained of monotony ; rather we are filled with wonder by an experience so moving and poetic . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal held that because the principle of effective protection only required that national courts should provide remedies for the protection of European rights which were as effective as the remedies available for the protection of similar rights in English law ; and since a plaintiff can recover damages against governmental bodies in English law only if a breach of private law can be shown ; and since the challenged action would not be actionable in tort in English law ; it followed that the principle of effective protection did not require that damages be available to the plaintiff as a remedy . |
| 11 | Along with others , Gassendi obviously felt that this whole elaborate conceptual structure was obstructive to , rather than productive of , knowledge . |
| 12 | The Inland Revenue eventually decided that this practice was contrary to the legislation on PRP schemes , and put an end to it in a Statement of Practice ( SP7/92 , see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 103 ) . |
| 13 | The scholar Lipsius , mentor of Scaliger , wrote of him , ‘ In origin low and servile , in body lame and feeble , in mind most exalted and brilliant among the lights of every age . |
| 14 | In an exchange rate union , the existence of national currencies necessarily implies that economic agents have to bear exchange rate related costs with respect to intra-union transactions . |
| 15 | ‘ If DJs gave either side enough spins and all curry eaters bought it , I believe I could really hit the big time , ’ said Peter , who lives in Bargoed , Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 16 | She would then , on the vague premise that they might meet , have had her words all sorted and ready , and would have told him that Rosemary , in the flat opposite … |
| 17 | This grand term merely means that successful community care schemes are usually a joint initiative of two or more service sectors , that is , a local authority and a voluntary organization , a local authority and the NHS , the NHS and a housing association , and so on . |
| 18 | Mansfield rightly concludes that most Arabs would like to live in a more tolerant society under efficient modern governments . |
| 19 | Cheap fabric soon frays and leather-look plastic stains and splits easily and looks cheap . |
| 20 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 21 | Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate . |
| 22 | Coal-black lids , mascara sooty-thick , the lips exactly shaped and red as holly berries . |
| 23 | Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun Microsystems Inc to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time : its SunSoft Inc subsidiary plans to market Santa Cruz Operation Inc-owned IXI Ltd 's Motif toolkit under a deal already signed and due to be revealed soon ; subsequently SunSoft will offer a combined ‘ MoLook ’ -type COSE toolkit in first half 1994 . |
| 24 | Its SunSoft Inc subsidiary plans to market Santa Cruz Operation Inc-owned IXI Ltd 's Motif toolkit under a deal already signed and due to be revealed soon . |
| 25 | By reporting only two columns of figures ( budget and actual ) , not only is the ultimate purpose of budgetary accounting not achieved but much time can be wasted in answering specific users ' questions about variances which could have been avoided by the accounts themselves producing the relevant analysis . |
| 26 | Most animals gradually recover although complete return to normality may take weeks or months . |
| 27 | After that , everything was just the same with Mrs Parvis still complaining as much as ever . |
| 28 | For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes . |
| 29 | For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes . |
| 30 | Statute further ensured that reversionary leases ( i.e. leases to take effect in the future ) , although capable of being legal , must take effect not more than 21 years from the date of their creation : |