Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specialists exist who undertake the drafting of the bill , usually for a commission calculated on the total amount of the bill or for a salary if employed by a large firm of solicitors . |
| 2 | The package is controlled from the tablet 's ce , the only time you need to use the keyboard after loading the program is when you want to enter text to appear on the screen or for a filename when saving or loading pictures . |
| 3 | Kuwait 's Ministry of Power and Water last week estimated that water supplies would last for 12 days if the slick reached desalination inlets , or for a month if the population was rationed to 4 litres per person per day . |
| 4 | You may include Gorfang Rotgut in your army as an Orc Big Boss or as a Warlord if you wish , but if you take him your army must include at least one unit of Orcs . |
| 5 | The plate has the symbol of the city , a stylized version of the Visconti family 's snake/saracen symbol , together with the building 's name , its age ( either as a date for construction or as a century if the true date is not know or irrelevant ) , and the name of the architect if known . |
| 6 | 75% disappeared from the regulations altogether , whether as a minimum grant-in-aid of teaching costs as in the old regulations or as a maximum as proposed in the Ashby Report : an explanatory memorandum from the Ministry said that the Minister would continue to use this figure as a guide while bearing in mind all the other factors concerned with quality , need , students ' fees and so on . |
| 7 | Distracting techniques are frequently used with pre-school children either before a problem arises or as a palliative once the problem is occurring , for example pointing to an aeroplane flying in the sky to help the child forget that the ice cream van is parked outside the playground . |
| 8 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
| 9 | However , even if you draw a blank , it is always worth checking to see whether or not you can influence the external event that starts the sequence , so either while you are being hindered by an unproductive feeling or after an experience where you were hindered ask yourself : ‘ What external event has triggered this feeling ? ’ |
| 10 | As we saw under Beliefs ( see page 21 ) it is easy to fall prey to some recurring unrealistic thoughts or beliefs which cause you to feel upset whenever they are violated so , either while you are being hindered by an unproductive feeling or after an experience where you are hindered , or when you feel vulnerable to the onset of an unproductive feeling , ask yourself : ‘ How can I make more effective use of this present moment ? ’ |
| 11 | The court may expunge or vary a proof which has been admitted either upon the application of the trustee or of a creditor if the trustee declines to interfere ( r 6.107 ) . |
| 12 | It may be on a one-to-one basis or with a couple where one partner has impaired hearing . |
| 13 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 14 | She was a woman of fine physical strength , ready to go out on foot or in a canoe when called for . |
| 15 | He scorned special equipment and commonly appeared on a mountain or in a jungle as he would in Bond Street . |
| 16 | Sit comfortably in a quiet room or in a garden if you prefer . |
| 17 | Make sure they are left comfortable in bed or in a chair when the task is completed . |
| 18 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 19 | Make sure you always run towards other people or to a shop if you can . |
| 20 | The Act does not give a constable power to search a person or a vehicle or anything in or on a vehicle unless he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that he will find stolen or prohibited articles . |
| 21 | All the letters you type are stored in the computer 's memory or on a disk if the available memory is not sufficient . |
| 22 | He certainly holds that as long as my action is prompted by mere feeling , or by a judgement as to what will best satisfy my desires , I am not in sight of moral living . |
| 23 | The first test is a review of the situation , operate is the action which follows , the second test is a check as to whether or not the desired result has been achieved and this is followed either by another operation or by an exit if the desired result has been achieved . |
| 24 | But the chapter , having no protector after God unless it be the Roman pontiff , asserted that for a certainty unless he had that church demolished the metropolitical dignity would , for the most part , be transferred to it . |
| 25 | No I do n't , but nevertheless nobody knew only people like us and the neighbours , how that kid was every day when her mother to the T S B and her mother according to Julia had her because it was the done thing her mother , her own mother would n't have her , Kerry to look after her and I know that for a fact because one time when Ross was ill , Julia said I ca n't have her and she said oh god I suppose I 've got to go and beg my mother to have her now she did , but the woman said to Julia , I mean she would n't give up her job , they had a four bedroomed house , two bloody great cars , eleven cats |
| 26 | and use that as a reference so you can work out the others from it instead of trying to remember the lot . |
| 27 | Or order thin-sliced boiled ham with mustard , or a sandwich of cooked , skinned chicken , of plain tuna , or of sliced tomato , cucumber and lettuce , and buy a small pot of plain low-fat yoghurt — you can use that as a spread when you are back at your desk . |
| 28 | Now er let's just accept that as a fact as we go by erm it looks as if mothers not only discriminate against un un unfit offspring , but also against males . |
| 29 | Now I 've used that as an illustration because I think these are some of the best materials that have been produced in this country , but there are other learning inventories and tests which can be used to help teachers find out whether they think that children have got these dyslexic difficulties . |
| 30 | But this implies that if we regressed C t on the three variables and entered separately , rather than as a sum as in equation ( 3.18 ) , we should observe that the coefficients estimated on these three variables are approximately all the same , as they are all estimates of α t , provided that we have specified the model correctly . |