Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deciding for oneself what to do causes anxiety , exhaustion , or involves costs in time or resources the avoidance of which by following authority does not have significant drawbacks , and is therefore justified . |
| 2 | And the college has a special unit for people who want basic education anyone who is not numerate or wants help with reading or writing in a one-to-one lesson . |
| 3 | If , therefore , a person occupies or uses land by licence of the owner with the paper title and his licence has not been duly determined , he can not be treated as having been in " adverse possession " … |
| 4 | If the fish ceases to feed or shows signs of distress I would recommend you to seek the advice of your vet concerning antibiotics . |
| 5 | I see no cause for alarm unless it does it during the day , or shows signs of sickness . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding , it is an ideal volume for a bright 12–14-year-old , especially one who is ( or shows signs of being ) addicted to computers . |
| 7 | The nodes or links point to text blocks , but the semantic net can be seen without necessarily seeing the text blocks . |
| 8 | Where judgment is given for a sum which exceeds £200 and represents or includes damages in respect of personal injuries , or in respect of a person 's death , the court must include in that sum interest on those damages or on such part of them as the court considers appropriate , unless the court is satisfied that there are special reasons why no interest should be given ( ibid , s 69 ) . |
| 9 | A similar duty to notify exists where a local authority varies or suspends arrangements for contact between the child and any person which are made voluntarily and not under a s34 contact order . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) The consent of the Secretary of State is not required for the disposal of land which is or forms part of property mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 1 ) above where the disposal is in consequence of the compulsory acquisition of such land by any authority in pursuance of any power of compulsory acquisition under any enactment ; but the Funding Council shall inform the Secretary of State of any such compulsory acquisition . |
| 11 | Not one of us begins life feeling angry or frustrated , no one as an infant is dissatisfied or lacks feelings of self worth . |
| 12 | The mental element or mens rea under section 6(3) should be considered at this point . |
| 13 | The history of welfare state legislation and of political interventions to manage economic development is interpreted as a fairly consistent chronicle of dominant business interests recognizing that government regulation protects their established position from new sources of competition at home or abroad , or fosters growth in demand which they could not secure by other means . |
| 14 | Or chucks cartons of orange juice . |
| 15 | In Stage 1 of the project the DCSL recommends or nominates schools for inclusion in the project team 's selection process for each " wave " . |
| 16 | Pete designs some of his own gates , like this imaginative entrance that plays tricks with perspective . |
| 17 | Excess is insidious because at the time it seems a bonus but later on it can be an expense that diverts resources from development areas . |
| 18 | Victim Support , our Charity of the Year 1992 ( patron , HRH The Princess Royal ) , is an independent charity that offers victims of crime everything from practical advice to a shoulder to cry on . |
| 19 | Now the business that supplies products for use on structures from bridges to oil rigs has launched Ecotech alternatives to mainstream coatings that form the basis of its standard range . |
| 20 | In the heart of one of Herefordshire 's oldest tracts of forest , Richard Fleming is just starting the twenty hour long process that turns wood into charcoal . |
| 21 | It is called fear — massive , overwhelming , paralytic fear that turns legs to jelly , hands to castanets , and hearts to pumping turbines . |
| 22 | There is also the element of heightened excitement that goes hand in hand with the sort of work that he does . |
| 23 | However , previous research by this group has shown that some diabetic patients suffer a decrease in visual sensitivity that precedes loss of acuity and retinal changes , and the present study is designed to assess the prevalence of this preclinical dysfunction . |
| 24 | There 's always the danger of the learner 's experience looking more like a patchwork quilt than an ordered and informative sequence of events that builds knowledge on knowledge , experience on experience . |
| 25 | I 've just mentioned the taunt that drives Sonya to prostitution . |
| 26 | Anything that involves hand to eye co-ordination , Andy 's your boy ’ . ’ |
| 27 | This part of continental-margin orogens can therefore be viewed as a kind of subduction zone , albeit one that involves orders of magnitude less convergence that oceanic trench subduction zones . |
| 28 | The opposition between automatism and making strange which underlies the one between material and device draws a line in a quite different place from the line that separates form from content . |
| 29 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 30 | It is also right that there should be in new rule eight five , a declaration on the part of prospective E C candidates that contains details of nationality , address and last constituency in the home member state and evidence that the individual is not standing as a candidate in another member state . |