Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 2 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 3 | Her patience paid off at last when she heard Miss Hardbroom tell the girls to pack up their books , and after much clattering and bustling , the door closed and the laboratory fell silent . |
| 4 | After much huffing and puffing , the government backed down from implementing most of these proposals . |
| 5 | BZW 's cheapest option — pulling out of Tokyo — is barely feasible , given that it got its TSE membership only last November after much huffing and puffing from Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister . |
| 6 | But Mrs Thatcher was adamant about not reflating and this resolution , in spite of the sharply increased unemployment , was important in sustaining the government 's credibility . |
| 7 | Jones et al showed significant differences in DNA ploidy state between preoperatively irradiated and non-irradiated rectal cancers . |
| 8 | He made pressure of work into an excuse for not seeing as much of her as usual . |
| 9 | Now we have a corps of locally born and educated doctors with foreign sounding names in search of a medical career facing the same circumstances others faced before . |
| 10 | In addition to the thousands of locally made or used objects , recreated shops and streets , displays of the recreational , educational life and working conditions of local people , the Rock Cottage also houses a schoolroom and toy shop of the 1930's . |
| 11 | The blue-flowered garden species of this genus ( N. x faassenii ) , also called catmint , is highly decorative , with its grey leaves and long-lasting flower spikes , but N. cataria is the true herb , of little known but considerable medical use , for which it has a long history , back to Gerard 's day and earlier , though it is not so used nowadays . |
| 12 | While it may be straightforward to think of school development planning , teacher appraisal , the identifying of remediable faults and the training or retraining of teachers as one set of loosely connected but manageable disciplines , it is less straightforward but equally urgent to expect that other connections should be more systematically organized in order to give assurances of quality . |
| 13 | In his judgment the magistrate said a large quantity of drugs , including pentobarbitone , had also been found and that evidence was given that it was used mostly for ‘ the humane euthanasia of badly injured or ill dogs or other animals . ’ |
| 14 | Its immediate result was to divide the aeroplane up into a large number of badly ventilated and inaccessible compartments . |
| 15 | This is a very simple example ; it is easy to conceive of extremely varied and complex patterns of linkage appearing in various contexts . |
| 16 | Self selection bias — for example , because of better informed and motivated patients seeking advice from specialist clinics — can not be excluded from this study . |
| 17 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 18 | The violence associated with the BUF from the outset , and which continuing throughout its history , represented an interaction of mutually opposed and conflicting forces . |
| 19 | And Dounreay , which for the moment is the major employer of highly trained and specialised employees ; wage packets are accordingly high . |
| 20 | The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people . |
| 21 | In the Leisure Society the employed are an elite of highly educated and skilled professionals who work full-time , but the wealth created by the equipment they have designed and operate is dispersed rather widely so that the mass of the population are able to live reasonably well off the products of the automated machinery cared for by the core elite . |
| 22 | 5.8.2 Immediately to repair cleanse maintain and paint the Premises as required by such notice [ 5.8.3 If within [ one month ] of the service of such a notice the Tenant shall not have commenced and be proceeding diligently with the execution of the work referred to in the notice or shall fail to complete the work within [ 2 ] months [ or if in the Landlord 's [ Surveyor 's ] [ reasonable ] opinion the Tenant is unlikely to have completed the work within such period ] to permit the Landlord to enter the Premises to execute such work as may be necessary to comply with the notice and to pay to the Landlord the cost of so doing and all expenses incurred by the Landlord ( including legal costs and Surveyor 's fees ) within [ 14 ] days of a written demand ] While it is recognised that the landlord should have the right to enter the premises from time to time to ensure that the tenant 's covenants have been complied with , this clause could cause severe disruption to the tenant 's business and should be amended accordingly . |
| 23 | 5.8.3 If within two months of the service of such a notice the Tenant shall not have commenced and be proceeding diligently with the execution of the work referred to in the notice or shall fail to complete the work within a reasonable period to permit the Landlord to enter the Premises to execute such work as may be necessary to comply with the notice and to pay to the Landlord the proper and necessary costs of so doing and all necessary expenses incurred by the Landlord ( including reasonable and proper legal costs and surveyor 's fees ) within 28 days of a written demand . |
| 24 | Some problems we have in common with other schools e.g. ( a ) Shortage of normally qualified and experienced Staff and high turnover of Staff , though our pupil/Staff ratio is the best in London . |
| 25 | while you 're still able sort of comfortably to drive and that sort of thing , I mean if you put it that way and you 'll be saying anyway she 's my er she 's my only living |
| 26 | ‘ The problems came when I protested at the removing without consultation of Christmas bonus pay and the halving of overtime paid while accompanying residents on holidays . ’ |
| 27 | Thousands of richly carved and gilded temples are strewn throughout its hills — the fabulous Holy Temple at Besakih , the Sea Temple at Tanah Lot or the highest in the island at Penuslisan . |
| 28 | However , under section 15 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 it is lawful for a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to attend at or near his own place of work ‘ for the purpose only of peacefully obtaining or communicating information , or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working . ’ |
| 29 | Ex-alignment maps are vital to good railway understanding while on the walk and I really ca n't understand in these days of easily accomplished and cheap computer graphic why Martin plumped for his own blobbing pen . |
| 30 | Actuaries in the United Kingdom are ready and able to play their part , not least following the recent growth in the number of suitably experienced and qualified actuaries . |