Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instonians were dismissed for 122 , the Co Down side easily passing that total in just over overs . |
| 2 | If variation rather than fidelity is required in the management of change , then the restrictive views of professionality and management currently underpinning much thinking would not seem to be the most appropriate model for the future . |
| 3 | In the 1950s and early 1960s , there was , it is true , a slightly revitalised extreme right in Britain , represented by Mosley 's postwar reincarnation of the BUF , the Union Movement , and by the British National Party ( not the same as the group currently bearing this name ) . |
| 4 | He looked up , and rubbed his forehead excitedly leaving another smudge of brown shoe polish above his nose . |
| 5 | However , is he aware that the Royal Navy is proposing to hold a similar exercise in the same waters on the day immediately following that anniversary ? |
| 6 | If there is spare accommodation available during the school day then turning some space over to use as a parents ' room is well worth while . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a fine young gentleman and his lady come in a chaise in the parlour now taking some tea . ’ |
| 8 | Capricious economic forces were managed by democracy so that slump and unemployment were things of the past , and a welfare state had been created by democracy so ensuring that wealth and poverty ( and hence any material basis for class conflict ) were also cast into the dustbin of history . |
| 9 | He had come straight from receiving a shock like that to find another woman apparently destroying another marriage , probably because he was half expecting her to do so at that stage , viewing all women with newly disillusioned and suspicious eyes . |
| 10 | I never found anybody with any trouble ever having any trouble with it . |
| 11 | This results in the neighbouring part of the axon also reaching this potential , thus causing its ion channel to open . |
| 12 | Records of achievement also play an important role ill developing this coherence . |
| 13 | Instead , as I sat in my cabin moodily pouring another Freezobalm , I was facing a good chance of losing my valuable reputation as an interplanetary courier . |
| 14 | ‘ Is the old man still playing that game ? |
| 15 | Examples are circling your arms around from your shoulders ; toe-touching ; standing upright then bending your body sideways to the left then right ; lying on the floor then raising each leg as high in the air as possible ( keeping the leg straight ) . |
| 16 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
| 17 | Investment projects involve combinations of risk and yield , those with more risk usually providing more yield . |
| 18 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 19 | A horrible time , truncating the night 's slumber yet eliminating any chance of a soothing return to bed for an hour before the day 's work . |
| 20 | They go to bed as strangers and then spend the weekend alternately insulting each other and making up , trying to find out if they are fond of each other . |
| 21 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 22 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 23 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 24 | I do not want to waste your time today discussing this rubbish . |
| 25 | One player definitely missing this weekend is Llanelli and Wales B scrum-half and captain Rupert Moon , who injured his collarbone in the East Wales v West Wales match in Cardiff on Monday . |