Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun sg] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a plaintiff or applicant desires to discontinue wholly or in part any proceedings against all or any of the parties , he must give notice ( N 279 ) to every such party ( Ord 18 , r 1 ) . |
| 2 | I replied that of course such decisions were entirely his prerogative , then I fell into a musing mood and sought to recall something Rosa had asked me the previous week about English social customs . |
| 3 | When people objected that The Green Book was ‘ just words ’ — a strong condemnation in Huaiwiri — Salah said that of course some parts of it were not as good as others , but it was foolish to condemn everything in it just because some parts of it were wrong . |
| 4 | In these areas development is not normally permitted and will be approved only if there are exceptional circumstances , although in practice these guidelines are not always adhered to ( Davidson and Wibberley 1977 ) . |
| 5 | On paper all have done so , although in reality most statements of departmental objectives have tended to be rather vague and generalized , describing functions or responsibilities rather than underlying goals or objectives ( Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 ; Gray and Jenkins , 1985 , pp. 84–7 ) . |
| 6 | The charity argues that in return those parents deserve far more support than they currently receive . |
| 7 | The difficulty of this model is that in actuality some businesses are still run by families , and a good deal more have started as family enterprises but , in time , have gone public . |
| 8 | Complaints about government appointments or policies could only be met by Law with the barren reply that the party could not expect total control and that in coalition such things must happen — which is just what the critics were saying too . |
| 9 | And indeed , given the number of dwellings that are proposed by the County Council , we see from completion rates that in fact those figures , broadly compare to the sort of completion rates we 've had through the recession . |
| 10 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |
| 11 | Speaker Boothroyd has decided that in future all menus in her house will be in English . |
| 12 | In the past few months the Executive Committee has been considering most carefully a proposal of the Membership Working Party that in future all teachers , in addition to their membership subscription , should be asked to pay an Affiliation Fee . |
| 13 | In order to make accounting simpler , for both you and the Treasurer , the Finance Committee have decided that in future all payments will become due on the 1st . |
| 14 | We are working to ensure that in future all paints have even less effect on the environment . |
| 15 | The SEC , however , explained that in reality many ministries did not have their quota . |
| 16 | We are not accomplishing anything keeping the Teller here , except to fuel more rumours . ’ |
| 17 | Billeting allowances were available to cover the cost of hosting an evacuee ( for unaccompanied children , 10s 6d per week for the first child , 8s 6d each for subsequent children ) and billeting officers had powers of compulsion to utilise appropriate accommodation , but most , being from the locality themselves , preferred to ruffle as few feathers as possible — with the result that on arrival many evacuees found themselves in a scene ‘ reminiscent of a cross between an early Roman slave market and Selfridge 's bargain basement ’ , as one witness put it . |
| 18 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 20 | I would surmise that at adolescence such fears remain with girls , whereas boys are diverted towards other anxieties connected with proving themselves . |
| 21 | Owing to the spontaneous resolution seen before and after operation all children with glue ear should be examined with pneumatic otoscopy and tympanometry on at least two occasions over three months before the decision to operate is made . |
| 22 | As everywhere , labourers ( and of course many artificers ) virtually accounted for the two lowest levels of assessment . |
| 23 | However , the range of popular titles available at under £10 drew appreciative comments from many booksellers ; in particular Bloomsbury 's Joanna Trollope collection , novels from Julian Barnes , Michael Stewart and Stephen King , the word-of-mouth seller Donna Tartt 's The Secret History , and of course many titles in the Everyman adult and children 's ranges . |
| 24 | And of course many candidates of seeming calibre failed one or another of the diagnostic tests … |
| 25 | And of course these things are extraordinarily flexible . |
| 26 | We fought as one nation during the war and of course those Englishmen here today old enough to remember the period will recall , I 'm sure , the young American G Is who were part of our community . |
| 27 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 28 | It 'll give many people the chance to see toys no longer made and of course some others which are just ageless . |
| 29 | And of course some points of law are very involved . |
| 30 | There 's no point in estimating a model if in reality those coefficients are not fixed , they 're jumping all over the place . |