Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 32 | The next couple of moments were total disbelief as the rod arched over and a powerful fish made a bee-line towards the far bank , ’ Cat on , ’ I shouted to Rick and a bleary-eyed bearded creature emerged from next door ! |
| 33 | She had sprinted over the drive and was halfway across the stone-flagged terrace when a figure appeared around the corner of the house . |
| 34 | The body should not push the club through , the correct feeling should be one of curbing the power of the right side so the clubhead pulls the body through . |
| 35 | Beatty sealed his reputation by funding a ground-breaking movie where the violence is shockingly off-hand , viscerally captured by director Arthur Penn . |
| 36 | Contraband was discovered in interesting concealments such as a spare piston assembly in the engineroom of a Dutch ship ( found by Bob , our chief engineer , of course ) , and a spare drilling core at the bottom of the hold of a Spanish ship contained products more akin to a Spanish distillery than the bed of the North Sea . |
| 37 | loss or damage caused by theft or attempted theft when the caravan or towing vehicle is left unattended without being securely locked |
| 38 | Like all transmitters , glutamate is released from a presynaptic terminal when the nerve axon running to that terminal fires . |
| 39 | The Education Committee evaluated Village school for possible closure because the teacher had reached the age of retirement . |
| 40 | The offspring will probably be selected to want a greater quantity of parental investment than the parent because again , a little bit extra for the offspring probably means more than what to its reproductive success , than it er would mean to the reproductive erm , success of , of the mother , as far as the offsprings are concerned . |
| 41 | The large sail , now unfurled , was billowing in the strong wind as the ship circled across the water towards the far-distant shoreline . |
| 42 | The remedy may come as a liquid potency when the dose is one drop , as granules when the dose is 10 or 20 grains ( like sugar grains or the ‘ hundreds and thousands ’ used to decorate cakes ) or , most commonly as tablets when the dose is one tablet . |
| 43 | On council estates every tenant will have the right to call in a private contractor if the council fails to do a minor repair . |
| 44 | On the other hand it is difficult to argue that the Revolution resolved the major issues that had been sources of political tension since the Restoration , and it certainly did not restore the political consensus that had eluded the nation in 1660 . |
| 45 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 46 | Indeed , it was usual practice where the land was already registered , and buyers ' conveyancers would call for proof of title at the outset of a new conveyancing transaction . |
| 47 | The level of commitment increases monetary outlay as the corporation commits to higher levels of an idea 's growth . |
| 48 | Recently , the gallery was under the threat of total closure as the centre had lost its local funding . |
| 49 | No sooner had he freed the platform of the Collector 's superfluous presence than the Doctor sprang into his place and held up his hand for silence . |
| 50 | It is not a painful experience provided the patient is being treated by a trained and ethical therapist who will also give the kind of follow-up treatment described in the case histories detailed in later chapters . |
| 51 | Schuman had not wished to introduce the measure in the French Parliament after the treaty was signed in 1952 because he feared that he could not guarantee its success . |
| 52 | A transaction may be more attractive to a foreign buyer if the invoice is expressed in the currency of the buyer 's country . |
| 53 | Warming up by straight-driving Rajesh Chauhan for four , he then took 12 from one over from the off-spinner — an off-drive , a full-blooded swing over midwicket and a dismissive pull as the bowler wilted under the assault . |
| 54 | It can not be an informed decision unless the person who has provided the specimens of breath knows that there are two possible specimens which can be substituted for them and has been given the opportunity of making representations as to which of the two types of specimen it should be . |
| 55 | The question , however , is whether that risk is worth taking in the interests of preserving the prospect of an informed decision when the question arises for mature consideration . |
| 56 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 57 | The life of a river has nothing to show more resonant of changeless change than the life cycle of the mayfly , a genus known even in the dry language of science as Ephemera . |
| 58 | The ‘ movement ’ seemed to lack organisation or clear direction as the end of the year drew close . |
| 59 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 60 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |