Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , she was in the swimming suit right , and she diving off the board or off the side or something . |
| 2 | For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state . |
| 3 | The transfer of energy caused by a difference in temperature between a system and its surroundings or between a system and another system is called heat . |
| 4 | Certain treaties have been entered into between States , or between a State and an international organisation , to give protected status to an identified group of people . |
| 5 | Even more striking testimony , however , of the indissoluble and complex bonds between the church and the crown , or between the church and the realm , is the nature of Stratford 's principal antagonist and the defender of the crown 's position : William Kilsby , canon of York , and archbishop-elect there ( though unsuccessful ) . |
| 6 | It is to capture this function that Althusser defined the state to include almost all non-economic organizations , except the revolutionary party of the working class , in the process definitionally obliterating the difference between input politics and state organization , or between the state and society ( Polan , 1984 , pp. 34 — 5 ) . |
| 7 | Between the single or divided trochantin and the episternum , or between the trochantin and the precoxal bridge , there is frequently an inner sclerite or antecoxal piece . |
| 8 | At this point , the forces of surface tension between the water and the fabric , or between the water and the tube , balance the weight of water . |
| 9 | Detectives want to hear from anyone who saw a light blue Ford Transit van , registration number GIB 915 , in Castlerock yesterday morning or between the village and the secluded spot on Springburn Road , Milltown , where it was burnt out at 9.35am . |
| 10 | It stands ( just ) on the river Bidouze , or between the Bidouze and a stream called the Joyeuse . |
| 11 | Open decision-making should prevent LMS from driving a wedge between governors and staff or between the headteacher and other members of staff . |
| 12 | The latest results are that , genetically , the difference between humans and chimpanzees is certainly less than the difference between the chimpanzee and the gorilla , or between the horse and the zebra . |
| 13 | One crucial factor was whether the king in appointing a count or missus had any real choice : for instance , as between kinsmen , or between an outsider and a local man . |
| 14 | We should like to call the attention of your readers , if we may , to the Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea in the Book of Common Prayer — still the standard authorised prayer book for the Church of England , which include prayers before or during a storm and thanksgiving for safety and deliverance , as well as the very beautiful collect which begins ‘ Prevent us , O Lord , in all our doings ’ , in which the word ‘ prevent ’ is used in its original sense of ‘ go before us ’ . |
| 15 | always spread a and I I was listening to or or during a programme and it said er , we 're always told how firms are going down the shoot ! |
| 16 | ‘ Background ’ shall mean any inventions designs computer software reports drawings and other works and information made available before or during the Project but not generated under the Project and either belonging to the contributing Party or to which the contributing Party has the necessary rights for the purposes of the Project . |
| 17 | Specialists exist who undertake the drafting of the bill , usually for a commission calculated on the total amount of the bill or for a salary if employed by a large firm of solicitors . |
| 18 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |
| 19 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 20 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 21 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 22 | At least where a right to trial by jury exists , the courts are reluctant ( in cases where national security is not involved ) to allow the Attorney-General to side-step it by approaching the High Court for an injunction to stop the publication or for a declaration that the publication is unlawful : The Voluntary Euthanasia Society published a booklet entitled " A Guide to Self-Deliverance " which discussed the pros and cons of committing suicide and described in detail a number of efficacious methods for so doing . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) ( a ) ( i ) Subject to paragraphs ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of this Rule a member of a recognised body shall not hold any share in the body for another person save as nominee for a solicitor , a registered foreign lawyer or a recognised body who or which is himself or itself a member or officer of the recognised body or for a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is working in the practice of the body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of any such solicitor or registered foreign lawyer ’ and |
| 24 | ( 2 ) ( a ) ( i ) Subject to paragraphs ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of this Rule a member of a recognised body shall not hold any share in the body for another person save as nominee for a solicitor , a registered foreign lawyer or a recognised body who or which is himself or itself a member or officer of the recognised body or for a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is working in the practice of the body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of any such solicitor or registered foreign lawyer ; and |
| 25 | The package is controlled from the tablet 's ce , the only time you need to use the keyboard after loading the program is when you want to enter text to appear on the screen or for a filename when saving or loading pictures . |
| 26 | Kuwait 's Ministry of Power and Water last week estimated that water supplies would last for 12 days if the slick reached desalination inlets , or for a month if the population was rationed to 4 litres per person per day . |
| 27 | Designed long ago , the defences of Famagusta consisted of towers and wallwalks , battlements and arrow slits , without proper seating for cannon , or for the ventilation that cannon demanded . |
| 28 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 29 | That discretion would not be exercised reasonably if no reasonable Minister could conclude that the issuing of the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security or for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 30 | The expression ‘ dishonestly appropriates ’ in clause 1(1) means the same as ‘ fraudulently converts to his own use or benefit , or for the use or benefit of any other person ’ in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 20(1) ( iv ) ; but the former expression is shorter and , we hope , clearer . |