Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 2 | Do n't blame me if you only read about Drayton and Taverham classes . |
| 3 | It still only failed by inches and you can argue , that , finishing farther in front of Gyr and Blakeney than at Epsom and Ascot , Nijinsky ran to form . |
| 4 | We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning . |
| 5 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 6 | He suddenly muttered in exasperation and took her arm , making short work of the steps . |
| 7 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 8 | As he watched , a young lad suddenly stooped behind Stewart and made a piggy-back , another lad shouldered him , and over he went , falling heavily while people nearest roared and laughed . |
| 9 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 10 | This habit apparently began in Southampton and rapidly spread nation-wide . |
| 11 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 12 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 13 | In case anyone should question these financial allocations , can we point out that they only move the film and crafts sectors towards the level of support long enjoyed in England and Wales . |
| 14 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 15 | It has to be remembered that both the much tinkered with constitution and the parliament date from Soviet times . |
| 16 | The bleeper attached to his belt suddenly shrilled into life and after silencing it he eased the hook from the mouth of the pike thrashing about at his feet and brushed it back into the water with the side of his boot . |
| 17 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 18 | She was mated to Ajax and produced two litters , the first one , in 1938 , contained five dogs , four of which apparently went to India and Pakistan , for reasons which seem to be obscure . |
| 19 | I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’ |
| 20 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 21 | She was just clipping jewelled studs into her ears when the tannoy system suddenly burst into life and the strident , adrenalin-boosting words filled the ship . |
| 22 | Previously it only ran on VAX/VMS and DOS-based LAN environments . |
| 23 | Was it a household so permeated by dislike and distrust that only the bald fact of dependence constrained them to preserve an uneasy peace ? |
| 24 | He began pony racing and as his father actively encouraged him , he naturally progressed to horses and by coincidence landed his first winner on his first ride — Final Assault on the Flat at Naas in March 1983 . |
| 25 | It will be noted they provided the bulk of the players for the Canadian side which so impressed against France and New Zealand in the World Cup . |
| 26 | Differences soon arose between Reagan and , in particular , Helmut Schmidt , on a growing crisis in Poland , where a series of strikes , sparked off by high prices and food shortages , had broken out during 1980 . |
| 27 | I find it difficult in my notes that they 're all so mathematical , that you just read through lines and lines of equations and there 's very few sentences in between to explain what 's going on . |
| 28 | finally got to Monica and we thought that was enough , so we just wrote Monica , we thought they 'd accept that and they did n't . |
| 29 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I just got into town and she said if ever I was here , I should look you up . ’ |