Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody else remembers the uproar in what was known grandly as the palm Court , the former bar and dance hall where during the day several lessons were held simultaneously , including at least one assault on the piano . |
| 2 | Where in the past this tended to be a self-contained exercise — and perhaps more obviously artificial because of it — the pattern nowadays is for the group treasury function to be moved offshore en bloc . |
| 3 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 4 | On location or in the studio some subjects are just not very interesting , and anything which can be used to add interest will be very helpful . |
| 5 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 6 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |
| 7 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 8 | The mixed ESS could be realized in nature either by a population containing W÷D hawk individuals and 1 - ( W÷D ) dove individuals , or by a population all of whose members behaved as hawks in W÷D of their contests and as doves in 1 - ( W÷D ) of them . |
| 9 | Example 2:5 Declaration as to party structures It is hereby agreed that : ( 1 ) one half in thickness of every internal wall floor and ceiling separating the demised property from any adjoining property is included in this demise ( 2 ) each such structure is a party structure ( 3 ) the tenant shall maintain each of them as such and shall be liable to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing or maintaining any such structure which shall have been incurred by any adjoining occupier or tenant or by the landlord such proportion to be determined ( in default of agreement ) by an arbitrator appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| 10 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 11 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 12 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont broke his silence on the economy yesterday with the stunning claim that despite the recession all is really well . |
| 13 | It is vital that throughout the installation all positive lines are fused . |
| 14 | The implication was that with a bit more happening in the sack , hubby would n't have felt he was getting past it and tried to prove his virility by punting up the north face of the Thames . |
| 15 | ‘ She did n't do that , but I 'm sure that with a bit more time she would have . |
| 16 | encouraged or put under pressure erm , I would think that with a lot more talking we might actually be able to work out something between surrogate mothers and nurturing mothers , they can do it with open adoption , other countries were learning how to do it . |
| 17 | ‘ I treat that with the contempt most people in the Conservatives reserve for Mr Heath . ’ |
| 18 | The result is significantly lower figures for ownership control than with a methodology such as that of Nyman and Silberston , discussed above . |
| 19 | Our self-appointed mentor , the Old Stager , tackled him in the same vein , although with a shade more directness : ‘ Why do n't yer niver get no runs ? ’ he asked , by way of leading up to the subject . |
| 20 | There again , that 's the best of both worlds ; I have a chance to go out and play stadiums and arenas and then I get to go home and go back to the way I was , although with a lot more experience under my belt . |
| 21 | There is nothing wrong with selling except in the way some people do it . |
| 22 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 23 | No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs , although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there . |
| 24 | There are many advantages to having a care manager , ‘ someone in charge out there ’ , and this has long been recognized as essential , although in the past this recognition has not been focused on as closely as under the current care management system . |
| 25 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 26 | Putting aside these perhaps superfluous thoughts , it is nevertheless evident that from the beginning some students prefer to write ‘ differently ’ but lack the technical resources to do so competently . |
| 27 | They predict that within a decade such polymer films will be able to store Gigabits of data in a film the size and thickness of a dime . |
| 28 | But the difficulty with taking the Nun 's Priest 's Tale as a successful harmonization of instruction and entertainment is the fact that within the tale any explicit approaches to didactic seriousness are continually subverted . |
| 29 | You do n't need the brake lights of the guy in front of you to tell that he 's gon na stop , you 've anticipated that in a minute this guy 's gon na stop so you you 're already er braking and slowing down . |
| 30 | One set of scenarios for the engineering industry suggests that in a country such as Norway , with small communities at the heads of the many fiords , an appropriate use of the technology would be for each community to have some equipment to produce particular parts of a product or to engage in particular parts of a production process . |