Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg . |
| 2 | In accordance with general practice in Jamaica the prosecution disclosed to the defence the depositions of those witnesses taken at the committal hearing , but not their earlier statements to the police ; they did not disclose to the defence before or during the trial a statement made to the police by the deceased 's husband and two statements made by the deceased 's sister , relating to incidents not covered in their depositions , which were inconsistent with their evidence at trial . |
| 3 | I think we 've only got four which er this aircraft can fly or for the moment the three tornado F three bases and the one jaguar base er is the ministry says they 're looking at cutting back on those ? |
| 4 | Please do keep telling us of any complaints or suggestions you have either about the Journal or about the way the Society is being run . |
| 5 | it is not restricted to conduct causing or intended to cause injury or damage but includes any other violent conduct ( for example , throwing at or towards a person a missile of a kind capable of causing injury which does not hit or falls short ) ( Section 8 ) . |
| 6 | Save for one matter , to which I shall refer later , there is no criticism of the judgment or of the order the judge made on the material that was available to him at the time . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 8 | In Chapter 6 we shall find that it is a matter of perplexity where along the chain the fixity sets in which determines a particular result on a particular occasion . |
| 9 | In the illustrations of projection so far I have suggested that broadly speaking there are two kinds : ( 1 ) where the participants are allowed to be passive observers becoming more actively engaged as and when they wish , and ( 2 ) where from the beginning the participants are required to do something . |
| 10 | He did n't know how — perhaps a different feel to the tiller or in the way the bows felt at the sea . |
| 11 | Or in the end the crisis may become a fact of life . |
| 12 | If you fancy a tour today or over the weekend the mansion and its famous gardens are still open . |
| 13 | Where on an arbitration an award has been made against a party in his absence , the award can be set aside , but , in this instance , by the arbitrator only ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) ( Term 6 ) ) . |
| 14 | A 'sham " has been defined by Diplock LJ ( as he then was ) in Snook v London and West Riding Investments Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 QB 786 ( at p802 ) to include : [ A ] cts done or documents executed by the parties to the " sham " which are intended by them to give to third parties or to the court the appearance of creating between the parties legal rights and obligations different from the actual legal rights and obligations ( if any ) which the parties intend to create . |
| 15 | Comedy is radical , too , in the sense of forcing the reader to reconsider traditional reverences : tragedy can flatter and soothe with an assurance that even in the dungeon or on the scaffold the heroic mind is invulnerable . |
| 16 | The Rentcharges Act 1977 prohibited the creation of further rent-charges , and provided also for the extinguishment of all existing rentcharges at the end of sixty years starting on 22 July 1977 , or on the date the rentcharge first became payable , whichever is later . |
| 17 | In truth Emily did have dreams that one day in a park or on the street a talent scout would stop and see the perfect features and flawless skin of this child and come to the house begging on bended knees to transform her life . |
| 18 | The whole question of national health is bound up with that of efficiency and output and it is impossible to rank as a ‘ burden ’ on industry or on the community an outlay which safeguards wellbeing and ( to put it no higher ) conduces to the efficiency of the machine . |
| 19 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 20 | Where by the order a party is first ordered to do the act , and there is then added a clause in the order that in default of so doing specific consequences will follow , the part that directs the act to be done must use one or other of the above forms of wording . |
| 21 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 22 | The international banking community was so nervous that for a while no forward foreign exchange markets operated properly anywhere . |
| 23 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 24 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 25 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
| 26 | Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak . |
| 27 | Horror coursed through Grainne , so that for a moment the stone room tilted all about her . |
| 28 | He laughed softly , the wind catching the low rumble of sound and tossing it around so that for a moment the very air seemed to be filled with it . |
| 29 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 30 | It is assumed that for every action the operator has a purpose , the choice of the particular action at the particular time or point in the sequence is triggered by some other event , usually the successful completion of an action is indicated by a particular information presentation which also is noted on the chart . |