Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 For desserts and digestifs where better than the Christ Church Picture Gallery , Canterbury Gate & Oriel Square where a selection of the College 's renowned collection of Old Master drawings will be on view .
2 However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect .
3 Statutory water quality objectives , once set , will be reviewed by the government every five years , or sooner if the NRA considers it necessary .
4 This was compounded by an insane suggestion that rather than the England team owing their cheering 4–0 win over Turkey to Gascoigne , he owed his performance to them .
5 This example was worth discussing in more detail than most because the Argille scagliose type of " catastrophic " deposit is now recognised in many parts of the world , from California to Formosa .
6 An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty .
7 There is still a lot of competition from cheaper second-hand aircraft , although now that the Piper Cadet seems no longer to be in production perhaps the market is somewhat more restricted .
8 A recent Dataquest survey showed that even after the IBM world had taken 60% of the overall market Apple retains the largets single share , 27% .
9 The point he seems to have missed is that even if the BBC had not been outbid by Sky for coverage , it was , I think , unlikely that we would have seen ( a ) ball-by-ball-by-ball coverage ( not highlights ) during social hours on the following day .
10 Indeed , it could be said , that even if the Kouros does turn out to be a fake , it will have generated more detailed research into Greek sculpture than any other work in existence .
11 Mr. Gardiner submitted as an alternative that even if the Woolwich principle did not apply , nevertheless the payment to the revenue was made under duress and was therefore recoverable .
12 Nor even when the d'Arquebus family was demoted .
13 Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures .
14 The latter package is designed to be broadcast during the peak viewing hours of 8pm and 10pm when the BBC has traditionally been unable to do it .
15 The latter package is designed to be broadcast during the peak viewing hours of 8pm and 10pm when the BBC has traditionally been unable to do it .
16 I drove slowly and unambitiously and the Brooklands responding with smoothness and quiet to rival the best , all the time asking so little of the driver that it was positively soporific .
17 There was nothing more to say on that and so that the Shah started talking quietly about Iran .
18 He insisted he had not abdicated , but what should he do know ? *q Before any advice could given , at least by the British the Shah and Soraya flew on to Rome — perhaps because King Faisal was embarrassed by his presence in Baghdad and perhaps because the Shah thought they would be sager and more comfortable in the Italian capital .
19 This was not the most logical of arguments , it would seem , if only because the Hudson recommendations were concerned with craft courses , while TEC and BEC , the latter of which in any case was only likely to be peripherally involved , were supposed to be operating at technician level .
20 Ever since then — and especially since the US politician and writer Ignatius Donnelly published his Atlantis , the Antediluvian World in 1882 — the legend of Atlantis has captured the public imagination .
21 Of course , ‘ capitalism ’ is not identified as such , just as Barthes ( 1972 ) has claimed that the bourgeoisie is ‘ the social class which does not want to be named ’ , and just as the YCs themselves preferred the label of ‘ ordinary ’ to a class identification .
22 But there is unity in diversity and just as the OlHebrews developed their monotheistic religion out of the mish-mash of cults in Palestine , so the unity of the Book of Genesis developed out of sacred writings .
23 Lambert dropped his right wing and dummied to go around the right of the balloon , and just as the Triplane started firing he banked steeply to the left and got away .
24 I must admit I like it more and more and the Commons less and less . ’
25 Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers .
26 The US military is worried about the long delay while the new facilities are being built and also that the US is selling tritium to civilian users in the US , Britain , Japan and Canada .
27 In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts .
28 However as intra-EC trade in manufactures expanded relative to extra-trade , and as tariff rates were reduced under the auspices of GATT , and also as the EC moved towards self-sufficiency in agricultural products , this revenue from customs duties and agricultural levies was hardly buoyant .
29 There can be no doubt , however , that there is more to latent inhibition than this because the effect is routinely observed both when the stimulus evokes no very marked UR ( e.g. Carlton and Vogel 1967 ; Domjan and Siegel 1971 ) and also when the CR required is quite different from the UR .
30 The success of the new Continental R , and before that the Bentley Turbo , shows that if it can make the sort of car that new customers approve of , it should still be able to find 3,000 buyers a year around the world .
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