Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requested him " to direct the Board of Education to set up an inquiry into the present state of the education of the deaf or to direct that a combined system of oral and manual instruction should be adopted in the schools for the deaf " . |
| 2 | 24 quails ' eggs , fresh or smoked or a mixture of both 25g/1oz softened butter 240g/8oz/carton strained Greek-style yogurt 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped chives 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped dill 50g/2oz pine kernels salt and pepper freshly grated Parmesan cheese to serve |
| 3 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 4 | ‘ One firework somehow went wrong and exploded and a fragment hit the baby . |
| 5 | The use of a software package such as ‘ Office Power ’ with the ability to generate on-line a standard response to correspondence would dramatically improve the response time in dealing with most enquiries from individual and ensure that a response is made within a matter of days . |
| 6 | Charlie was already up , washed and dressed when a man with two stripes on his sleeve marched in . |
| 7 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |
| 8 | This is true of all the special need problems discussed in this book , but particularly so in the case of the mentally ill and handicapped when a breakdown in normal social relationships is often part of the actual disorder . |
| 9 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 10 | The disorganized and diverse activity that precedes the formation of a science eventually becomes structured and directed when a single paradigm becomes adhered to by a scientific community . |
| 11 | Occasionally one could dispense with the bran and undersheet and purchase a tailored mattress ; likewise the sides could be padded and buttoned and a pillow provided . |
| 12 | The bite marks are very deep and indicate that a large powqerful dog like a lurcher made them |
| 13 | The transactional test of market counterparty relates only to the particular transaction concerned and applies where a person deals with the firm as a principal or as an intermediary for an unidentified client ( or , alternatively , an undisclosed intermediary ) , if he does so in the course of investment business of the same description as the investment business the firm is carrying on with him . |
| 14 | He pulled it farther open and saw that a bunch of quill pens in an elastic band had been moved . |
| 15 | If an admissible statement is identified , the legal adviser may then be required to conduct a more rigorous examination of the subsequent parliamentary proceedings to establish whether the statement has been repeated , varied or withdrawn and a — somewhat less onerous task whether there has been a relevant subsequent amendment to the provision . |
| 16 | Backbencher Mr Sijaona stated that the TBC was uneconomic and recommended that a committee of enquiry be set up to examine possible alternatives . |
| 17 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 18 | A club spokesman said Gaydon , who joined the club from Winstonlead Kent League Cray Wanderers , was made aware when appointed that a low league position had to be avoided . |
| 19 | Arguments that there was no human author and , consequently , the lists of numbers drawn by the computer were not protected by copyright were rejected by Whitford J. who said that such a claim was as silly as saying that a pen could be the author of a literary work . |