Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures . |
| 2 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 3 | Although France had a railway line from the coalfield of Saint Etienne to Lyons in 1832 , it too was slow to develop a national network , partly because of governmental reluctance to embrace the new form of transportation and also because the economy remained predominantly agricultural and the road system was more efficient and extensive than Britain 's . |
| 4 | That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement . |
| 5 | I still think the culture has a positive potential , being one of the most powerful forms of youth culture and entertainment since punk and even since the Sixties . |
| 6 | No er at er briefing , officers are again reminded of their responsibilities within the law , as to reasonable force and even when the officer issuing firearms , which is not myself , er an officer of inspector rank issues the firearms , er arms to the individual officers , they are again reminded of their responsibilities within the criminal law . |
| 7 | John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys … |
| 8 | In 1710 Prince Eugene ordered that all soldiers found more than a hundred paces from his army on the march and more than a thousand from it when it was in camp should be hanged . |
| 9 | That will be to you better than a light and safer than a known way ’ . |
| 10 | The head is still the leader and acts as chief executive from the viewpoint of governors — partly being told what to do , partly being expected to put forward alternatives of policy and plans for action , partly being used as their principal adviser and partly as the intermediary and negotiator with the other parties . |
| 11 | For the last three years the number of fires recorded during the Amazon burning season , July to October , has fallen , partly because of government action and partly because the economic slump has affected cattle ranchers and farmers . |
| 12 | So , for example , the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ( CICB ) is amenable to judicial review even though it was not set up by statute and even though the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme ( CICS ) , which it administers , is non-statutory . |
| 13 | Swimming forms the backbone of triathlon and actually provided the 20-year-old Queen 's architecture student with his introduction to the sport . |
| 14 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 15 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |
| 16 | Cadbury Schweppes seems unaware of the recession and all because the public love its chocolates , sweets and soft drinks . |
| 17 | He was lying on the offside lane and soon after a car went straight over him . ’ |
| 18 | He said we must come back again and he 'd show us his cow He said he 'd show us his cow and then where the gulls nest , up on the mountain … |
| 19 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 20 | It accepted that someone could be guilty even though unaware of the falsity of the description and even though the description was applied to the goods by another person . |
| 21 | ENGLISH law governing remedies for interference with goods is exceedingly technical , partly because of the long survival and overlap of a number of different heads of liability and partly because the law , though tortious in form , is largely proprietary in function . |
| 22 | As old age advances this can become a very disturbing experience and even where the medical problem is not grave the hospitalization itself can accelerate confusion and frailty among old people . |
| 23 | This was undoubtedly due partly to the war and partly because the statutes contained criteria which were felt to be less justiciable : if the minister stated that a regulation concerning trademarks was necessary for securing the safety of the realm the court would not adjudicate upon this . |
| 24 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 25 | This is how we pole a raft and just because a white man is watching through his funny machine we are n't going to do it any differently . |
| 26 | The defendant occupiers were held not liable , as they could assume that sweeps would be aware of this particular danger and also because the sweeps had been warned of the danger . |
| 27 | As predicted , most passives were produced when the acted-upon was more animate than the actor and least when the actor was more animate than the acted-upon . |
| 28 | Yeah but I agree totally with what , and the other lady has just said , but the other thing is is the amount of money that is spent when , you know , someone royal is coming for a visit because all of a sudden , you know , you have people in this country who are living in absolute poverty and yet because the royal sort of erm limousine is going past erm , for a few seconds where they stay all of a sudden the front of the house is painted ! |
| 29 | The question was whether the reasonable business man would have considered that the new value was extended at the same time as the execution of the charge and not whether the new value was extended because of the existence of the charge . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , ordinary people relate to such a race and particularly because the Grand National keeps on delivering the most remarkable moving stories . |