Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since rhetoric involves argumentation , then a basic question should be asked of any political discourse which appears to be using a rhetoric traditionally associated with the critics , rather than supporters , of the discourse : is the speaker or writer actually arguing against their own ideological tradition , or are they using a complex rhetoric to conduct an argument within their own tradition ? |
| 2 | There are few publicly quoted companies where the majority of voting shares are not held by families or institutions closely linked with existing management . |
| 3 | Asked to describe their strategies for coping with stress , teachers were concerned ‘ to focus upon situations or activities well removed from the work place ’ . |
| 4 | And while the Führer and his army could claim the glory for military successes , the increased — and often voluntary — efforts of members of Party affiliates to cope with the social problems of individuals or groups particularly affected by the war tended to bring contact with disgruntled ‘ people 's comrades ’ but few plaudits and little prestige . |
| 5 | In addition , removal of the protective vegetation cover and its replacement with a crop or pasture often results in accelerated soil erosion that exacerbates nutrient deficits . |
| 6 | See Chapters 3 and 16. ( 3 ) " Dwelling house " includes any building or part thereof used as a dwelling . |
| 7 | Is the activity an occupation or function actively pursued with reasonable or recognisable continuity ? |
| 8 | In the meantime , I made inquiries with the old-folk of the village to see if they remembered any house or cottage ever standing on that particular field . |
| 9 | Thou or You forms are frequently used to address personifications , at which point the Friend or Mistress often slips into the third person , as part of an imagined triangle . |
| 10 | On this model the local authority would be left with a limited number of central staff concerned to monitor and regulate service delivery organized by private concerns — for example , in street cleaning and refuse disposal — or undertaken by autonomous voluntary agencies — such as housing associations or schools directly managed by elected governors . |
| 11 | Where Lermoos really comes into its own , however , is as walking country . |
| 12 | The second is transfer pricing : a subject which has received considerable attention in academic study , but where practice frequently seems to be restricted to what in theory may be regarded as the least satisfactory approaches . |
| 13 | Each arrangement had a blank label or card prominently attached to it . |
| 14 | Cannon , after a miss , hit and lay for a single at the fourth and then they stole two at the fifth where Muirhead just failed by a fraction with a raised take out . |
| 15 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 16 | In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence . |
| 17 | To this extent movements or parties specifically committed to a ‘ nationalist ’ programme , mostly separatist , are likely to be the expression of sectional or minority interest , or to be politically fluctuating and unstable . |
| 18 | It is the period during which a boy or girl also grows from a child to an adult in body , mind and personality — a considerable transformation . |
| 19 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 20 | Later they went to a jazz club in the King 's Road — Uncle Ted had never seen black walls before — where Eva slyly said to Dad , ‘ I think it 's about time we moved to London , do n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | Poetic speech does not differ from ordinary speech just because it may include constructions or vocabulary not found in everyday language ( the lo ! s thous and word-order inversions conventionally allowed in English poetry ) , but because its formal devices ( such as rhyme and rhythm ) act on ordinary words to renew our perception of them , and of their sound texture in particular . |
| 22 | Such a definition also excludes approaches to modernity and modernism which focus upon an outlook or attitude usually restricted to elite sections of the population such as artists and planners ( for example Berman 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The Name of the Father moves the child away from imaginary , fantastic representations of the world , where signifiers and signifieds correspond exactly , into the symbolic order , where gaps always exist between signifiers , between signifieds , and between these two levels . |
| 24 | But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey . |
| 25 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 26 | Another form of local knowledge is recognition of how developments or discoveries elsewhere apply to the local situation . |
| 27 | Closeness to a grandmother 's death seems never to have invoked the intense emotional experiences which those who nursed a parent or spouse sometimes recall with such striking physical intimacy . |
| 28 | or individuals possibly working for a higher degree , have gathered information and analysed it . |
| 29 | It also appears that dormant L3 in the muscles of both bitches and dogs can recommence migration months or years later to mature in the host 's intestine . |
| 30 | NOVELISTS WHO HIDE themselves away for months or years usually emerge from their seclusion nervously clutching a manuscript , hand it over to their publishers , and wait by the phone for some kind of reaction . |