Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A paragraph , on the other hand , has its main point or direction indicated in the opening sentence , which is sometimes called a TOPIC SENTENCE . |
| 2 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 3 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 4 | Evidently it was one of Marcel Boulestin 's favourite sweetmeats ; a recipe for tomato jam or preserve appears in every one of his cookery books . |
| 5 | Occasionally , courts and tribunals take the view that a dismissal or resignation given in the heat of the moment can be withdrawn . |
| 6 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 7 | He does say that the word ‘ universal ’ is ‘ never the name of any thing existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind ’ . |
| 8 | On present trends there will be little ice or snow left in the Alps by the year 2100 , and lack of snow could eliminate winter sports from many mountain regions within 30 thirty years . |
| 9 | He suggests the construction of a continuum of categories , each with its set of conditional factors , in which the practitioner could decide upon the degree of directiveness or non-directiveness needed in a specific situation . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) Unless a licence is transferred to another employee or agent within eight weeks from the time when the employee or agent named in a licence ceases to be responsible for the day to day running of the premises to which the licence relates , the licence shall cease to have effect . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) ( a ) A licensing board shall refuse an application of the type described in subsection ( 2 ) below if it finds that one or more of the following grounds for refusal , being competent grounds , applies to it ( in ) that the applicant , or the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the applicant will manage the premises or , in the case of an application to which section 11 of this Act applies , the applicant or the employee or agent named in the application is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence ; ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not suitable or convenient for the sale of alcoholic liquor , having regard to their location , their character and condition , the nature and extent of the proposed use of the premises , and the persons likely to resort to the premises ; ( c ) that the use of the premises for the sale of alcoholic liquor is likely to cause undue public nuisance , or a threat to public order and safety ; ( d ) that , having regard to the facilities of the same or similar kind already available in the locality , or to facilities of the same or similar kind , in respect of which the provisional grant of a new licence is in force , which are to be provided in the locality , the grant of an application would result in the Over-provision of such facilities ; and otherwise shall grant the application . |
| 12 | These sequences may give rise to a kind of play , in which they are exaggerated , inverted or otherwise re-ordered in such a manner that a regular pattern or rhythm emerges in the finished product . |
| 13 | These famous short stories by the master of horror explore the dark world of the imagination , where the dead live and speak , where fear lies in every shadow of the mind … |
| 14 | So the Center Parcs leisure experience includes playing badminton , squash or tennis wreathed in the fog of a hundred Silk Cuts . |
| 15 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 16 | By the time a new process or machine appears in the USSR , it is invariably on the point of obsolescence in the exporting country . |
| 17 | A mix of peppercorns , mustard and ginger spiced up a fillet of beef — it 's wonderful served hot , or cold mixed in a Christmas salad of broccoli and cherry tomatoes . |
| 18 | There were no vegetables or corn growing in the fields . |
| 19 | Er many points which Mr has made about the nature of the landscape in the southern part of the Hambledon District , would apply equally to large tracts of er Harrogate District in terms of it being an open erm rural landscape , intensively farmed and relatively little woodland cover or topography to assist in the assimilation process . |
| 20 | And by using either lean-burn combustion systems ( where fuel burns in an excess of air ) or an exhaust catalyst , very low emissions of toxic gases are possible . |
| 21 | They can involve further investigation of a problem or need identified in the placement year , or they might be related to staff research interests . |
| 22 | Do not use any insecticide sprays in the house , or pesticide sprays in the garden . |
| 23 | There may well be an area where the interest at stake in an application for a licence is considerably more important than that involved in a forfeiture or failure to renew in a different context . |
| 24 | The interest protected must be such as the court would enforce against the land or charge , and the cautioner must be a person interested in any land or charge registered in the name of another person . |
| 25 | The vast majority of items for which there is a strong intuition either of meaningfulness or meaninglessness respond in the appropriate way to the test of recurrent semantic contrast . |
| 26 | The existence of a public sector that did not have significant intended distributional consequences would be one that involves universal marginal benefit taxation for each good or service provided in the public sector . |
| 27 | If your bench top or surface used in the gluing process requires protection , a sheet of melamine on a thin backing to prevent curling , or polythene can be placed under the work being glued . |
| 28 | With regard to the debate about c and Doppler shifts in the letters pages , light ( velocity c ) reflected or emitted from a surface moving with velocity v towards an observer appears to be blue shifted , or red shifted in the case of a receding surface . |
| 29 | Mehtab , for instance , had never seen her mother or father sunbathing in the back garden . |
| 30 | Ubbink 's Sim-Fix is a simple yet effective way of fixing slipped or replacement slates in an existing roof . |