Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deadline for the three-year reorganisation ended on November 1 , 1992 . |
| 2 | One shoulder operation and a season of water-treading later , this determined , self-assured competitor is once again strutting his stuff to destructive effect ; quite why he was overlooked for the Oval Test escapes me . |
| 3 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 4 | A quick breakdown of the routes in the guide is a good way to end , for the 100 routes split almost exactly into quarters : V. Diff to VS , HVS to E1 , E2/3 and E4 and above . |
| 5 | Just like his dad — who , one memorable Sports Day at his school , broke the world record for the 100 yards sprint . |
| 6 | Well I need thirty for the front door do n't I ? |
| 7 | Although he grew beautiful flowers for competition in his tiny greenhouse on the allotment , he was content for the front garden to consist of a small shaved lawn and empty flower bed with two statutory rose bushes and a border of tedious alyssum . |
| 8 | The labour-only sub-contractor , however , although occasionally employed on an hourly rate , will invariably be allocated work on a unit rate or lump sum basis and will only be paid for the actual work produced . |
| 9 | I mean what does it mean for the actual people living here ? |
| 10 | ( e ) The Buyer : who is responsible for the actual details involved in placing the order and monitoring the delivery process . |
| 11 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | The manager is responsible for the actual results achieved , and he is held accountable because information about his achievements will be fed back to his superiors , and they can then call him to account to explain his performance . |
| 13 | When there is a known , finite number of periods , an argument based on backward induction can be constructed , to the effect that the equilibrium strategies for the multi-period game consist simply of repetitions of the single-period NE , for example the one-period Cournot equilibrium outputs in a market in which firms make output choices . |
| 14 | An alternative is for the distributing company to form a Newco within its group and capitalise it sufficiently to reflect the value of the Target business . |
| 15 | The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " . |
| 16 | Thus unacceptable strings could be rejected at an earlier stage , leaving fewer for the lexical look-up to check . |
| 17 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 18 | On insurance business the bank now makes provision where necessary for the estimated amount required over and above unearned premiums to meet future claims and related expenses . |
| 19 | The question at issue is whether it is ‘ better ’ for the bilateral cases to have both joints replaced in a single operation or to have each joint treated separately in operations , say , six months apart . |
| 20 | She would have rung him , if it had n't been for the tall constable standing meaningfully by the telephone . |
| 21 | It is also justifiable , however , for the criminal law to penalise conduct which may lead to the causing of physical harm , particularly in situations where the conduct has little social utility or where the risk is well known . |
| 22 | It would seem to be still more inappropriate for the criminal law to deny its protection to parties ( probably a majority in this country ) who have expressly chosen to be married according to a wholly different ceremony . |
| 23 | Yet the experience to which they have been subjected is one of which it is proper for the criminal law to take notice . |
| 24 | It would seem to be inappropriate for the criminal law to remove a whole category of persons from its protection on the basis of words spoken at a ceremony of marriage which have no binding force . |
| 25 | As its name implies , the Via Militaris was a major line of communication for the Roman armies defending the eastern frontier , and as a stage in one of the links between Italy and Byzantium it already had an important role to play in the vital intercourse between the eastern and western halves of the empire . |
| 26 | Figures 4.9(a) — ( c ) show the output from a SYMAP run using the commands and data of Appendix G. Figure 4.9(a) uses the default five classes in a map of infant mortality per thousand live births for the African countries included in the World Data Matrix ( Appendix A ) and named in Appendix F. Data values of — 1 are excluded by the use of elective 4 . |
| 27 | Thus the solution for the two-cylinder problem is provided by the solution for the two-line-source problem having the same amount of charge per unit length . |
| 28 | The internalist would claim that for the causal clause to turn justified true belief into knowledge , it must not only be true but be believed by a to be true . |
| 29 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 30 | Before the fungus kills the fly , it attacks its nervous system , changing its behaviour so that it climbs to the top of the plant , puts its head down to attach its proboscis to the leaf , and sticks its abdomen up into the air , ready for the passing breezes to take the spores away when they are released . |