Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could be dining on board or coming across to dine here later . |
| 2 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 3 | Weeks in a special baby unit , difficult feeding or breathing constantly remind parents how precious the baby is . |
| 4 | For example , loading the stomach with food or water directly has some satiating effect , but not as great as when the substance is also allowed to pass into the intestine or has previously passed through the mouth . |
| 5 | If you 've got a boy of 12 or 14 and he missed his tea or came home acting strangely you would know , ’ the woman said . |
| 6 | Occasional gestures towards the girls being included in maths are made , typically , via a girl sipping tea or standing decoratively posed in a mini skirt in a phone booth . |
| 7 | The guilt , anxiety , fear or anger still stem from within but are not , at least consciously , self-directed . |
| 8 | The power to define and enforce consents is ultimately a power to put people out of business , to deter the introduction of new industry or to drive away going concerns . |
| 9 | Sensations such as pleasure or dislike therefore reflect the degree of control exerted by an object over the perceptual effort necessary to make it intelligible . |
| 10 | As soon as practicable after the pre-trial review , if the action or matter still remains to be heard , the court fixes a date for hearing and gives notice to all parties ( Ord 17 , r 9 ) . |
| 11 | If an expatriate , rather than a local employee is really needed , the organisation has to consider whether to relocate an existing employee or recruit specifically to fill the post . |
| 12 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 13 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps this is one experiment that had better remain a computer simulation , at least for now . |
| 15 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |
| 16 | In terms of active , practical government and politics , however , it was the Investiture Contest that had already begun to change the face of European government . |
| 17 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 18 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
| 19 | ‘ Every club that comes here loves to beat Leeds . |
| 20 | They are part of a three-year programme that has already seen the opening of six new nurseries with a further eight expected to open later this year . |
| 21 | Wherever you look England appear likely to encounter the sort of quality of opposition that has usually ended their World Cup ambitions in the past . |
| 22 | This is neither brash , spotty punk nor controlled smoothly executed musicianship but a careful balance which utilises the expertise of the latter and loses none of the instantaneous excitement of the former . |
| 23 | Will the Secretary of State explain to the House the confusion that arose yesterday following the Prime Minister 's statement on the United Nations meeting ? |
| 24 | Above , I saw where a hole in the tin roof had been repaired with a flattened-out biscuit tin that had once contained Huntley and Palmer 's ginger nuts . |
| 25 | Adam scanned his taut features , uncomfortable and slightly puzzled by the undercurrent of tension that had suddenly sprung up . |
| 26 | As the responsibility of the Department of Employment , TVEI represents a determined government effort , practically by-passing the government department that has traditionally exercised responsibility for the schools and the school curriculum , to effect a swift and decisive orientation of the curriculum towards what is considered to be of immediate relevance to the skills and know-how required by a technological society . |
| 27 | But no-one in Tokyo dares say with any confidence it spells the end of a collapse that has nearly halved the value of Japanese shares since 1989 . |
| 28 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 29 | Inside the parcel was a battery-operated vibrator that had somehow become switched on during transit . |
| 30 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |