Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He looked up from his reading and the beard parted in such a way as to suggest that there might be an affable grimace lying some way behind it . |
2 | Conditions could be imposed on the planning permission which would overrule the general permission given for such a change in use by the Use Classes Order ( Class 11 is ‘ use as an office for any purpose ’ ) . |
3 | Mrs Rundle also sent a squashy parcel addressed to all the three children . |
4 | The creature was sketched and the drawing witnessed by all the crew before it was decapitated . |
5 | When I went to visit him we sat in his book-lined study surrounded by all the trappings of an academic career but in his garage there were untreated specimens and a range of specialist tools . |
6 | The dun 's handler plucked a tail feather and held the down at the quill-end against a neck wound to staunch the blood . |
7 | The nationality of the owner was the criterion applied by all the member states of the Community . |
8 | The specific term used for such an exercise is ‘ one-step semi-free sparring ’ . |
9 | opaque material or masking tape used to block-off an area of the artwork . |
10 | To put it another way , if the principal element is an E , then the complex produced by such an extension remains an E ; and if the main element is a P , then the complex is a P. Qualification has the effect of indicating that the subordinate element is to be used in the identification of a single entity or of a single property corresponding to the complex as a whole . |
11 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , thanks to the Government 's progressive policies in privatising the electricity industry , that area of south-east Essex deserves a visit because methane produced by all the muck that comes out of London is being dumped at Mucking Flats , converted into electricity and sold to the national grid , thanks to the enterprise of Cory 's , which is in my constituency ? |
12 | In his statement of claim the plaintiff admitted that since termination of the contract he had by reason of continuing to work within the insurance industry acted in such a way that , if the contract were still subsisting , he would have been in breach of clause 9A . |
13 | The Association issued in 1975 a compendium , Not by books alone ( Waite and Colebourne 1975 ) but few of the reprinted articles were initiated within the SLA , which has unfortunately tended to resemble a pressure-group of teachers of English i/c Libraries rather than an innovatory body . |
14 | We had a photograph taken of all the family and my mother kept saying , ‘ Could you move a little further over there , Jack , move a bit more … . ’ |
15 | There should be a card signed by all the friends . |
16 | It has been given a signed framed photograph of Gary Lineker and a football signed by all the Tottenham Hotspur players . |
17 | But , if that 's the case , why was the deal handled in such a sly and back-handed manner ? |
18 | Sperber and Wilson suggest that the effect achieved by such an utterance can be termed a poetic effect . |
19 | With the great flood rising fast , Noah slammed the door of the ark shut in such a hurry that he accidentally severed the cat 's fine bushy tail . |
20 | Without that elimination of the anomaly created in 1902 the necessary reconstruction could not have been accomplished . |
21 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
22 | One of the three members had been unable to attend the meeting at which these appeals were heard and a decision made on all the appeals . |
23 | In the ordinary case , the law applicable to a decision made by such a body is the general law of the land . |
24 | This was the configuration of the rectal CSA change seen in all the balloon inflations . |
25 | Was the original purchase made with such a money-making end in mind ? |
26 | I fully recognise the knowledge and experience possessed by both the hon. Members who have spoken in the debate . |
27 | This committee addressed in particular the issues of development priorities for the 1990s and implications for the World Bank Group , and human resource development . |
28 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
29 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
30 | It would be premature to conclude , however , that the transfer seen in such an experiment depends on the acquisition of distinctiveness by the critical cues as a consequence of phase-one discrimination training . |