Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors . |
| 2 | Translating language meanings and obtaining the desired effect , i.e. a wording immediately intelligible to listeners , is impossible , not because there are doubts as to the intended meaning of words or phrases but because the resulting translation of such words and phrases would fail to carry sense adequately in the other language . |
| 3 | If we define style in terms of stylistic variants , we assume that language specifies a repertoire or code or possibilities and that a writer 's style consists in preferences exercised within the limits of that code . |
| 4 | Projection of another dimension or dimensions as when the sun breaks through a cloud and washing-up powder , launderette , what else was Jacob 's ladder ? he wrote , and Goldberg , staring at his friend 's manuscript all those years later , typed that in and put a little question mark in the margin of his typescript . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal held that the evidence did not establish that there had been any direct procurement by the defendants of any wrongful acts by the drivers or loaders or that the latter had committed any wrongful acts ; also that there was no evidence of any actual knowledge by the defendants of any contract between Bowaters and the plaintiffs . |
| 6 | Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously . |
| 7 | The Board is entitled to require you not to attend at any place of work and they may otherwise suspend you from the performance of your duties under this appointment where that course is a necessary precaution in the public interest or otherwise in the interests of the Board pending the outcome of criminal , disciplinary or other investigations or proceedings and where no alternative course is reasonably appropriate . |
| 8 | They were all very good , but perhaps it was because all the Packs excepting the 3rd Shortfields had chosen characters from well-known books or plays or nursery-rhymes that when the 3rd Shortfields appeared in the quaint uniforms of Brownies of earlier days they won the loudest and longest applause of all . |
| 9 | He must know — as I know — that some managers are more acceptable to some of the employees than others and that the employees may wish to follow those managers down this road . |
| 10 | We 'll end up with all the fruit and vegetables and and the bread buns and the biscuits all over the floor . |
| 11 | If radical alterations are to be debated and believed in by heads , staffs , governors and parents and if the management of improvement is largely in these same people 's hands , the task is broader than the School Management Task Force 's concern with national curriculum — and broader than the SDPP 's recommendations about planning . |
| 12 | He said Darlington had attracted a lot of new companies and businesses and if the town was downgraded it could actually deter others from coming to the town . |
| 13 | There was a company rule incorporated into the woman 's terms and conditions that where an employee exceeded 26 weeks ' continuous sick leave , he or she would be dismissed . |
| 14 | However , most would accept that ideally elderly people should have a choice of agreeable alternatives to suit their circumstances and conditions and that a majority would choose to remain in their own homes . |
| 15 | and it 's a , it 's a belt and braces because if the other form of paramixa virus did come in , it would affect the poultry industry . |
| 16 | Both kinds of workers , even though in different ways , split from the social structure of their enterprise and both kinds see little political connection between themselves as workers and managers except that the latter are dominant . |
| 17 | But we do not have , today , the same quality of expertise available all the time , especially for the night shift and holidays or when the expert is off sick . |
| 18 | Willie carried on imagining that his dirty feet were wrapped in rags and newspapers and when the scene came to an end he shuffled slowly off the stage . |
| 19 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 20 | It showed not only that there was no correlation between expenditure and results but that the rather ridiculous pursuit of ideology involving child-centred education led to a reduction in standards because of the pressure on teachers . |
| 21 | We are ( sadly ) used to antagonism from some anglers and landowners but when a leading conservation officer says ( as has been reported ) that the World Wild Fund for Nature 's contribution of around £40,000 would be well worth while if boats were kept off one mile of water , it is hard to swallow , especially when you bear in mind the relatively few miles of water which are available to use even with the protection of the Rights of Way Act ! |
| 22 | It is popular for its special scenery of lakes , hills , woods and forests and because the M6 motorway makes it easy to get to from many parts of England . |
| 23 | However , at the centre of the understanding must lie an awareness that schools and colleges have always been in the business of change , created by responding to the needs of individual children and students and that the child at school or the student at college must continue to be the central focus of all educational activity . |
| 24 | She was not heeded and later she argued that the party provided an extraordinary , unparalleled forum for kings and communists , dictators and democrats and that the attention given around the world to Iranian history and culture was invaluable . |
| 25 | She looked almost as if she was standing on the surface itself , although Pete knew that there were rocks and shallows and that the effect was no more than illusion . |
| 26 | Like the great civil servants of the eighteenth century , nearly all the great civilian politicians of liberalism were trained as lawyers and until the emergence of the technicians in the twentieth century — their first rivals were railway engineers — they constituted the professional class par excellence . |