Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other cases , e.g. for a closed domain and/or for a non-linguistic task such as database query , CLE-1 's behaviour is probably preferable . |
| 2 | For most people , a penny on or off the standard tax rate — that formulation again ! — pales into insignificance compared with their pre-tax income , the inflation rate , the size of their pension and their mortgage interest rate . |
| 3 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 4 | Hockey is a very low game and it 's all in the quads in your upper legs and I can move into the ball without slowing down , where as a bigger guy has to run in and stoop down ’ . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister dominates the cabinet , its members wait upon a summons ; there is control and prior approval of the agenda from the Prime Minister ; the skilful exploitation of collective responsibility by the Prime Minister can neutralise and isolate a recalcitrant cabinet minority which has no choice but to ‘ shut up or get out ’ ; the Prime Minister has wide access to a network of policy-making cabinet committees , and ‘ deals ’ can be made in inter-departmental committees , cabinet committees , or between the Prime Minister and individual ministers . |
| 6 | The third method for assessing the effects of exposure is one in which the subjects are required to learn a discrimination between pre-exposed stimuli ( or between the pre-exposed stimulus and some other ) . |
| 7 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 8 | Reuter says that with the help of General Media International Inc , the Penthouse magazine empire has just launched a dial-up service in the US where for a monthly fee plus usage , lechers can view their favourite Pets from their personal computer , ask them to perform various acts — and play photographer , taking shots with the mouse while the model performs … |
| 9 | A necessary condition , where for a steady state is that . |
| 10 | So , where for the great mass of its members , the success of a consumer co-operative is now no more than a matter of marginal interest to them , for the members of an industrial co-operative it is quite otherwise . |
| 11 | Although there was a reduction in mental hospital beds of 17 per cent between 1955 and 1975 , this hardly bears comparison with the trend in the USA where for the corresponding period the reduction was 66 per cent . |
| 12 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 13 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 14 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 15 | And it can quickly produce a list of signs that need to be altered for a relief route or during a major road repair . |
| 16 | COHORT — A group of persons that has experiences the same event ( e.g. birth or marriage ) at the same time or during a specified period ; for instance , birth cohort or marriage cohort . |
| 17 | Holders of one of the qualifications listed below who , in addition , may be required by the centre to undertake , prior to or during the early part of the course , a centre devised programme of bridging studies . |
| 18 | At night , however , or during the long school holidays , she read detective stories , earning the contempt of her father who told her that his answer to the question ‘ Who dun n it ? ’ was invariably ‘ Who cares ? ’ |
| 19 | They have erm in breaking new situations , if there is something big going on , you know , or during the democratic convention or whatever it is , or this Iraq thing , the anchors stay around the studio and then maybe do a replay , so to speak . |
| 20 | Mean arterial pressure was not different between the two groups during the placebo period 98 ( 7 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 97 ( 9 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.9004 ) or during the whole treatment period ( 88 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the enalapril group and 90 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.5263 ) ( fig 2 ) . |
| 21 | Was the figure of 40,000 million gallons of flood water to which James Rougvie refers passing Perth in an hour , a day or during the whole period of the flood ? |
| 22 | The croak is produced by rapid fanning of the pectoral fins — a typical action when two male fish meet or during the mating period . |
| 23 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 24 | People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all . |
| 25 | This option is available at any time but will be particularly useful where equipment is too large for transport or for a screened room and where harmonised standards are unavailable or where the nature of the product means that evaluation by an expert would be useful . |
| 26 | For shorter sessions or for a wandering style on rivers , a combination chair/rucksack , fold-up stool or chair , are better . |
| 27 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |
| 28 | It is also worth working out a scale of charges which can be used if an author or editor asks to buy equipment which has been used in tests for a book or for a comparative feature . |
| 29 | ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor . |
| 30 | ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor . |