Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( However , on May 1 ministers did approve a " solemn declaration " to be attached to the Treaty saying that " it was and is their intention that the protocol shall not limit freedom either to travel between member states or … to obtain or make available in Ireland , information relating to services lawfully available in member states " . ) |
| 2 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 3 | We do not want to dictate what should be translated or get involved in negotiations between publishers . |
| 4 | In July 1583 he escaped to St Andrews , and set about destroying his tormentors or pardoning some in return for abject submission . |
| 5 | if there 's any or or doing that in addition to something you know erm |
| 6 | While this view has various formulations its central stance is that the purpose of education is to enable pupils to develop with deeper insight and sophistication activities which they value or find interesting in ways and contexts which they find amenable . |
| 7 | For example , in a normal conversation between a child and an adult , if the child said ‘ er … um ’ or looked puzzled in response to a question , the adult would attempt to resolve what appeared to be some problem of understanding by rephrasing the question or asking what the problem was . |
| 8 | The judges know nothing about any will of the people except in so far as that will is expressed by an Act of Parliament , and would never suffer the validity of a statute to be questioned on the ground of its having been passed or kept alive in opposition to the wishes of the electors . ’ |
| 9 | So while Nicholas Lyndhurst was playing Rodney ‘ the plonker ’ in Only Fools And Horses , Andrew was on stage in Richard III or playing Osric in Hamlet and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet . |
| 10 | It makes no sense arguing with them , so I had to walk away or get involved in fights . |
| 11 | One US company says employees should ask themselves : Would you do or say this in front of your spouse , parents or a colleague of the same sex ? |
| 12 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 13 | You can help your body use the iron from plant foods by eating fresh fruit ( or any food or drink rich in vitamin C ) along with the iron-rich food . |
| 14 | Or Grade A , B or C in GCE Ordinary level or Grade 1 in CSE or a pass at AS level . |
| 15 | These node labels were further connected in a hierarchy that duplicated that in Roget 's . |
| 16 | Rather than remain uninvolved in village activities and risking the accusation of being ‘ stand-offish ’ , many of them enthusiastically throw themselves into the life of the community , provoking the opposite complaint from the local population of ‘ wanting to take the place over ’ . |
| 17 | This means that to stand still in terms of health service provision , funding has to increase over and above that for other services . |
| 18 | Artists ' impressions show a tram that has more in common with the flat-faced , characterless light trains of the toy-like Docklands Light Railway . |
| 19 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 20 | There are ways in which mutation and natural selection together can lead , over the long span of geological time , to a building up of complexity that has more in common with addition than with subtraction . |
| 21 | McGrath , who made his peace with Charlton after failing to join the squad for the game in Albania two weeks ago , is the only change from the team that won that match 2–1 in Tirana . |
| 22 | Some ideas that sound splendid in theory may , for very good reasons , prove hazardous or impossible in practice . |
| 23 | A photograph is no substitute for the original rug , and items that look superb in reproduction can be extremely disappointing when viewed in the flesh . |
| 24 | " If global warming occurs , the cyclone that killed 150,000 in Bangladesh will be far more devastating … and the famine that is killing millions in Africa could wipe out life itself in that region " . |
| 25 | The measure of Ireland 's forward effort was that they dominated the English pack despite a final lineout count that finished 28-16 in England 's favour . |
| 26 | He said that the government wished companies that get involved in cabling to emphasise the more advanced ‘ star ’ systems . |
| 27 | ‘ The conditions were difficult and Maidstone were that bit cuter in front of goal . |
| 28 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 29 | The high cost of clinical trials and animal tests has forced Beecham to hold back products that looked promising in research . |
| 30 | Alina was over on the far side of the room , sitting at her table with the lamp angled to spill across the pages of the scrapbook that lay open in front of her . |