Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems may arise in respect of expatriates working in the same location on longer-term postings or even local company employees who are dissatisfied with their rates of pay in comparison with salaries and/or bonuses earned by fixed-term contract workers . |
| 2 | The fibres they use may be long creepers , thin rootlets , ribbon-like leaves such as those of grasses or reeds , or strips torn from broad leaves such as bananas . |
| 3 | Since the tendered bills were issued by NVOCC 's , and the NVOCC 's had issued the bills while placing the goods on the first means of conveyance and not on the ocean going vessel , banks either rejected such bills or required additional statements or notations attesting to actual loading on the ocean going vessel . |
| 4 | These are : ( i ) no television picture may be used in any light entertainment programmes or programmes designed as political satire ; ( ii ) extracts from televised proceedings may be used in broadcast ‘ magazine ’ programmes which also contain music or humorous features , provided that the different types of item are kept separate ; ( iii ) televised proceedings may not be used in party political broadcasts ; and ( iv ) no extracts of televised proceedings may be used in any form of advertising or publicity , other than in the form of programme trailers . |
| 5 | It asked the troops whether they had ever been linked to a group who aimed to overthrow the authority of the State , or if they had any family members , friends or associates connected with such organisations . |
| 6 | ( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm . |
| 7 | A combination of vulnerable classes or groups living in vulnerable and ecologically marginal areas in many cases causes a failure to create sufficient income for food to feed themselves . |
| 8 | A sub-theme of many such articles has been the supposed toughness of the British government 's proposals or policies compared with alleged sloppiness or ineffectiveness elsewhere in Europe . |
| 9 | In time other tracks or roads developed from this central market to smaller towns and villages in the area , and so York grew in trade and importance . |
| 10 | Holders of non-British passports and those issued outside the UK should check with their own embassy with regard to any special permits or visas required for all countries they will be visiting or passing through . |
| 11 | Do n't buy curios or trophies made from wild species . |
| 12 | The large urban or dockside warehouse is a building type strongly related to the grander grain and textile mills , not only because it often stored the raw materials or products processed by these latter buildings , but also in its constructional composition . |
| 13 | For example , will cause all subsequent characters to be printed to the screen in inverse video until the command or returns printing to normal . |
| 14 | Such imprecision creates the greatest problems within a legalistic approach to restrictive practices , where courts faced by inadequate definition have had to develop their own interpretations . |
| 15 | There were eighty-eight photos or illustrations relating to this court case and the aftermath , virtually equalling the number found for all the other rape cases in the year . |
| 16 | Flatworms , tapeworms or threadworms make for lurid and colourful pictures in the horror section of Koi manuals , but their life cycle is invariably so complex that not all the vectors will be present in the pond . |
| 17 | A member state may call upon the chair of the committee of senior officials to make contact with the state or states involved within 24 hours if its concerns about another member 's " major disruption to peace " are not adequately answered ; the committee 's chair in turn calls an extraordinary committee meeting , involving the full CSCE membership , within 2-3 days if 13 members support such a meeting . |
| 18 | The crucial role for the researcher thus becomes one of establishing the factors or characteristics associated with actual or potential cases of child abuse . |
| 19 | Intensive rearing practices have been blamed , where animals kept in cramped and often unhygienic conditions are fed on high protein feeds often containing the remnants of slaughtered chickens contaminated with salmonella . |
| 20 | Dark hardwood floors , polished to a deep , waxy glass , and plain white walls provided a simple backdrop for throw-rugs , tapestries , ornate cabinets and large pottery urns or figurines standing on carved stands . |
| 21 | It frequently involves following signals or indicators unearthed during environmental scanning . |
| 22 | Nuclear extracts were also immunoprecipitated with CREB antibody ( Anti-CREB ) or proteins purified by sequence-specific DNA-affinity chromatography ( DNA-affinity ) and probed as above . |
| 23 | All the local army was ranged up on either side and in front , the chiefs a mass of colour , with their gold-embroidered robes and jewelled crowns and shields , the lesser chiefs in lion- or leopard-skins or sheep-skins dyed in brilliant colours . |
| 24 | In addition , many schools were failing ‘ to venture beyond undemanding popular authors or books associated with favourite television characters ’ when it came to encouraging children to read novels . |
| 25 | Much is sometimes made of the rivalries or jealousies fostered by these networks ; a ‘ revolution ’ occurred in 1974 when the person appointed to head the CNET , Jean-Pierre Souviron , was not , like his predecessors , the product of ENST but of another engineering ‘ grande école ’ — l'Ecole des Mines . |
| 26 | With primaries or caucuses held in 28 states , the nature of the campaign altered from the close-quarters politics of New Hampshire , to the continental sweep of regional campaigning . |
| 27 | Accordingly , no account is taken of unrealised profits or losses arising on such forward exchange contracts . |
| 28 | Profits or losses arising from these arrangements are accounted for in the financial year in which the contract matures . |
| 29 | Type D may best be described as a culture of relations and co-operation , where opportunities exist for creative thinking . |
| 30 | The state of how things are , as evidenced by who has rights over what and over whom , is justified by " myth " , that is to say by tales about the past which have a sacred or religious quality ( after the fashion of the Christian Bible ) , rather than by legislative enactments or precedents recorded in historical documents . |