Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it . |
| 2 | A party may not adduce evidence arising out of an examination or assessment carried out without leave unless the court specifically permits this ( FPCR , r18(3) ; FPR , r4.18(3) ) . |
| 3 | Former Coalport production director Mike Harley ( below right ) takes over where Roger left off as production director at Tuscan . |
| 4 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 5 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 6 | Robb 's went from strength to strength and in 1933 when Ramage & Ferguson went out of business his takeover of the Victoria Shipyards was complete . |
| 7 | There are many reasons , apart from the trading of favours , for a legislator or bureau-crat going along with the wishes of the man in the White House . |
| 8 | The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder against liability at law for damages and claimants costs and expenses and all costs and expenses incurred with its written consent in respect of death of or bodily injury to any person and up to a limit of £1,000,000 for damage to property where such death injury or damage arises out of an accident caused by or in connection with |
| 9 | Occasionally we encountered a bus or truck hurtling down towards us , slamming on the brakes at the last minute to edge past us with inches to spare . |
| 10 | There is a very basic hostel here , for serious , long-range walkers , and in summer you can hire horses or ponies to ride about on the surrounding , pine-covered hillsides . |
| 11 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 12 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 13 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 14 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 15 | Siraj-ud-Daula could not have been defeated — if that is the word for the collapse of his army — and destroyed if he had not alienated his subjects by being unreliable and vacillating , without any signs of charm or kindness to make up for it , but the decisive fact was that the British had fought him , while his subjects had only deserted him and waited to see who would win . |
| 16 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 17 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 18 | They slept on Amy 's bed , drank indiscriminately from any saucer of milk or tea put down for them , were remarkably docile under Timmy 's boisterous caresses and , happily , seemed content with the cheapest kind of tinned cat food . |
| 19 | The term programming is used for long term changes in the body 's structure , physiology , or metabolism brought about by environmental influences acting at critical stages of early life . |
| 20 | Where WinEdit stands out from the rest is for programmers who use Microsoft C and SDK . |
| 21 | Objectives ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) could consist of checks after a preliminary period of revision or practice carried out by the student on her own . |
| 22 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 23 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | The favour was reciprocated when Dire Straits were re-formed to play at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert at Wembley Stadium , where Clapton helped out on guitar . |
| 25 | Pete introduces the records , rants about major record companies and provides a sarcastic , leering commentary of the night 's events , while co-presenter Michaela Strachan whips the crowd up with her boundless high spirits and comperes the competitions ’ Pass The Mic ’ ( an insult to Karaoke , where punters sing along to classic hits until the crowd can stand no more , and shout ’ Pass The Mic ! ’ ) , |
| 26 | Worcester 's Graham Hick becomes eligible for England next season and with question marks about the long-term fitness of Dilley , Radford and even Botham , it will be no surprise if either Donald or Moody ended up at New Road . |
| 27 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 28 | It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business . |
| 29 | However , a good deal of discretion is left in the hands of the Area Director to determine the merits of the application , having considered ‘ … all questions of fact or law arising out of the action , cause or matter to which the application relates and the circumstances in which it was made . ’ |
| 30 | The new legislation included : ( i ) a law on private enterprise , which allowed individuals to start companies without restrictions on the numbers of employees ; ( ii ) a law on state enterprises , which allowed state-owned companies to offer shares to their workforces ; ( iii ) a law on shareholding , which allowed foreign individuals or companies to own up to 100 per cent of Czechoslovak-based companies ; ( iv ) a law on industrial relations , enshrining employee and trade-union rights ; and ( v ) provisions for the creation of industrial courts to settle commercial disputes . |