Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engineer would have headphones on while Keith was blasting away ; he 'd move the mic around until we found the right place , then he 'd bolt it in the stand where the speaker 's sweet spot was , and there it would stay . |
| 2 | Originally established in 1889 to ‘ provide for the poor of the neighbourhood … nursing in their own homes in maternity and other cases ’ ( Plaistow Maternity Hospital 1903 ) , it charged no fee for the attendance of a midwife where the husband 's wage was less than 21 shillings . |
| 3 | Turn left onto the main road , go downhill to the car park where the Badger 's Holt tearoom serves a welcome cuppa . |
| 4 | The unreadiness of governments to put money where the minister 's mouth is , however notorious , not the issue . |
| 5 | On at least one trip to the town visitors must be sure to take the cable-car up to Saint Ubaldo 's basilica where the saint 's remains are housed and from where the views of Gubbio are simply spectacular . |
| 6 | Newspapers love a good disaster , and a wedding where the bridegroom 's trousers fell down at the altar would stand a far better chance of being reported than one that went without a hitch . |
| 7 | In a few cases , the manager may decide that the recruit is unsuitable but more normally they will be given a chance at a formal interview where the manager 's opinion will be taken into consideration . |
| 8 | Also , unsecured creditors will often be deterred from seeking a winding-up since such creditors would readily appreciate the futility of such action where the company 's assets were charged up to the hilt . |
| 9 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 10 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 11 | Playing an investment banker , something which perhaps requires greater suspension of disbelief than the film 's vision of the spirit world , Swayze gets to make all his crowd-pleasing moves in a novel setting . |
| 12 | He was always impressed with Leonard 's room , which he found to resemble more a study than a youth 's bedroom — already the style was evident . |
| 13 | Once unfurled , his wings beat aster than the female 's and so produce a higher hum . |
| 14 | From the outset , Nigeria and Iran sought quota improvements and in the late 1980s there arose some aggrieved discussion of the UAE 's insistence on setting its own unilateral quota ( 1.5 million as against the 0.948 set by the Vienna conference in 1987 ) and vehement debate with both Iraq and Iran , neither of which was willing to accept a lower quota than the other 's . |
| 15 | The one dissenting voice that is made explicit to us is the Reeve 's : As has been noted , the Reeve 's Tale is often read as a much darker piece than the Miller 's Tale , and such readings are usually rooted in the reading of the Reeve 's character : a character who may be presented as corrupt , as well as frightening , in his General Prologue portrait . |
| 16 | The European Parliament 's Transport Committee has called for a 40 per cent cut in carbon dioxide by the year 2010 — a far more ambitious figure than the Community 's official target of a freeze at 1990 levels by 2000 . |
| 17 | However , where the landlord opposes the grant of a new tenancy on redevelopment grounds , the tenant may be entitled to a new tenancy of an economically separable part of the holding if the landlord 's redevelopment would not be impeded ( s31A ; s32(1A) ) . |
| 18 | A care order other than an interim order will continue in force until the child 's eighteenth birthday unless it is brought to an end sooner ( s91(11) ) . |
| 19 | At a time of militant unionism in the country generally , both the FA and the Football League feared disruption of the football programme if the players ' union got involved with disputes in other industries . |
| 20 | In the first , the Home Secretary proposed a fixed ( ie mandatory ) sentence of imprisonment for life as an alternative penalty for murder if the abolitionists ' amendment were carried . |
| 21 | A DoH source describes cases where a decision is taken not to record an interview because the child 's lack of English , learning difficulty , or age mean workers believe the evidence may not stand up under cross examination . |
| 22 | They 'd been out of action because the church 's spire was too weak to support them . |
| 23 | There had been speculation over the candidacy since the SPD 's defeat in the 1990 general election and Engholm 's election as party chair the following May [ see pp. 37904-05 ; 38199 ] . |
| 24 | was flashed to all mobile units across the city — with the added instruction that no attempt was to be made to stop the car while the driver 's life was being threatened . |
| 25 | The record is played during the advert while the gig 's details are broadcast . |
| 26 | It runs on Compaq Computer Corp Contura notebooks , complete with colour screens and internal and using BSD 386 Unix with X Window software , and has been designed with user friendliness in mind since the nation 's cricket scorers are largely computilliterate 70- to 90-year-olds . |
| 27 | It runs on Compaq Computer Corp Contura notebooks , complete with colour screens and internal and using BSD 386 Unix with X Window software , and has been designed with user friendliness in mind since the nation 's cricket scorers are largely computilliterate 70- to 90-year-olds . |
| 28 | Moreover , I believe that few people in this room will step forward to denounce the idea of animal welfare , as if it is a matter of indifference whether an animal 's life is good or bad . |
| 29 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 30 | She wore a short grey habit and behind her glasses , her eyes were as bright and dark as a robin 's . |