Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official posts could be held by four principal types of tenure : durante bene placito , or during the King 's pleasure , which was the least secure ; quam diu se bene gesserit , or during good behaviour , which placed the holder a little more firmly in the saddle ; for life , which made him virtually irremovable from his office , although he could , for flagrant misdemeanours , be suspended from its functions ; and hereditary tenure , which converted the post to a transmissible freehold property . |
| 2 | Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday . |
| 3 | Still fresh and green at the back end , it could provide a juicy supplement to the diet of a early calving cow , or for the smallholder 's animals newly brought in to the byre for the winter . |
| 4 | Erm a late picture , say on or about the day befor when it packed up which was erm July nineteen fifty nine for passenger servicing . |
| 5 | ask questions about a short passage of simple text , or about the student 's situation . |
| 6 | There is plenty of good material here — about the proliferation of prostitution around foreign military bases , for instance , or about the men 's club atmosphere of international policy-making circles . |
| 7 | When looking in a shop or through a manufacturer 's or mail-order catalogue for hot water cylinders , you will find several different types . |
| 8 | Traditionally parents , through direct appeals or through a parents ' organisation have provided additional funds for ‘ extras ’ for the children and the school . |
| 9 | School and college come together in a variety of other ways too , most notably through In-Service provision either on a direct one-to-one or collective basis , or through the Church 's own national structures . |
| 10 | Any good training service should provide this , either as part of the standard training package or through the dealership 's normal help desk service . |
| 11 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
| 12 | ‘ But the really bad apples in the seismic barrel , and a very sinister lot those are , too , are the so-called thermal hotspots , plumes or upswellings of molten lava that reach up to or through the earth 's crust , giving rise to volcanoes or earthquakes or both . |
| 13 | One : choose a new car and sell the old one yourself or through the dealer 's Resale Club . |
| 14 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
| 15 | The agent and artist do n't care what happens to the other 50p , whether it is spent either as the show 's costs or as the promoter 's profit . |
| 16 | The information provided in this prospectus is correct at the time of going to press , but the course programme is subject to continuing development and the University reserves the right to make changes at any time , before or after a candidate 's admission . |
| 17 | He has known no want either materially or of a mother 's love for you have supplied both abundantly and he will be reminded of this all his life you can be sure . |
| 18 | You would never guess from the text that he was an alcoholic , and there is no mention of the cause of death or of a coroner 's report . |
| 19 | Impairment can be of the sensory receptor , or of the pathway carrying the impulse to the brain , or of the brain 's interpreting ability . |
| 20 | The action may be restored for hearing on application or of the court 's own motion ( Ord 21 , r 1(3) ) . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , imitation makes special demands upon the child 's pragmatic skills and may not , therefore , always provide an accurate indication of the child 's ability to produce language spontaneously ( Ingram 1974 ) or of the child 's underlying linguistic competence ( Slobin and Welsh 1973 ) . |
| 22 | or of the Princess ' joke |
| 23 | This argument does not really count against Freud , who was well aware of the cultural , institutional character of religious rituals , or of the magician 's role . |
| 24 | Instead of the Roman damnum fatalis , the common law carved out exceptions for inherent defects or vices of the goods , shipper 's contributory negligence , and acts of God or of the King 's enemies . |
| 25 | But in return for its rich density of lovingly dwelt-on , almost novelistic detail , what you lose is any sense of a strong forward pulse or of the play 's irresistible sweep towards doom . |
| 26 | The policy of the solicitors ' governing body is encapsulated in Rule 1 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 ( and of earlier editions ) : A solicitor shall not directly or indirectly obtain or attempt to obtain instructions for professional work or permit another person to do so on his behalf , or do anything in the course of practising as a solicitor , in any manner which compromises or impairs or is likely to compromise or impair any of the following : ( a ) the solicitor 's independence or integrity ; ( b ) a person 's freedom to instruct a solicitor of his choice ; ( c ) the solicitor 's duty to act in the best interests of the client ; ( d ) the good repute of the solicitor or of the solicitor 's profession ; ( e ) the solicitor 's proper standard of work ; ( f ) the solicitor 's duty to the Court . |
| 27 | There was a picture of the terrace on which meals were taken ‘ except during thunderstorms ’ and several of the garden , but none of the kitchen or of the children 's accommodation . |
| 28 | To dismiss them out of hand is a sign either of defective knowledge or lack of imagination on the reader 's part or of the author 's incapacity to convince . |
| 29 | The person called responds by giving one sharp tap on or near the receiver 's telephone mouthpiece for ‘ Yes ’ , two taps for ‘ No ’ . |
| 30 | ( 1980 ) concluded that climatology must systematically investigate the exchanges of heat , water and momentum that occur at or near the earth 's surface and should focus upon topoclimatology as well as on transfer processes . |