Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In another pan , cook the chopped onion and celery with the tomatoes and 150 ml ( 6 fl oz ) water , or if using tinned tomatoes omit the water .
2 or whether to bring disciplinary charges against the officer in question .
3 When either looking for blocks of text from other documents to include in the new document database or when considering new additions to the semantic net itself , preference was given to additions that would make the semantic net manifest more analogical inheritance .
4 Sometimes we are not convincing because what we say is belied by our actions — for instance , a woman who wears a permanent fixed smile while trying to reprimand a subordinate , or when returning faulty goods to a shop .
5 It may well give me a reason to break the law when encountering the secret police , when coming up against censorship , or when confronting other forms of injustice or repression .
6 These are not recognised by the elder as a social error ( something possible at the level of practical consciousness ) nor as having hazardous consequences ( which perhaps requires verbal consciousness ) .
7 The document said the Government was aware of concern about the time taken to complete assessments and that admitted unnecessary delays caused ‘ undue anxiety ’ to parents .
8 The government claimed that the decision was a procedural one and that holding local elections in November would conflict with the elections for the DCC .
9 Robert Hardy taught him to drive and that produced enough stories for half a night 's drinking in Stratford 's actors ' pub , the Dirty Duck .
10 In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code .
11 There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned .
12 Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned .
13 As Klein had so cruelly observed , he was a technician without a vision , and that made these days of meandering difficult .
14 After the revolution there was a general amnesty for prisoners and that included criminal elements .
15 And that included two tours as well .
16 The demonstratives this , and that occur eight times in a connective function ( " sounds that note " ( 3 ) , " this pretext " ( 7 ) , etc ) , and personal pronouns are also heavily used ( 66–68 ) .
17 A decade passed before there was any general awareness that it is more difficult to stop taking benzodiazepines than to start , and that weaning dependent patients from their drugs could be a painful process .
18 Produce letters that are recognisably formed and properly oriented and that have clear ascenders and descenders where necessary .
19 Though you will note differences in the focus of their individual approach , as stated previously , all cognitive therapy techniques are based upon the premise that an individual 's maladaptive behaviour is a function of distorted and irrational thinking and that altering these ways of thinking is an effective technique for changing behaviour .
20 Security lighting was sabotaged before the theft , and that alerted local fishermen .
21 Rather , the involvement of bacteria has been inferred from studies showing that pretreatment with broad spectrum antibiotics may prevent small intestinal ulceration caused by indomethacin and that germ free animals do not seem to develop the lesions .
22 Questionnaires sent out as part of the HSC employment department 's 1990 labour force survey showed that only about a third of reportable accidents appear in official statistics , that 2 million people have illnesses they believe are caused or made worse by work , and that work related accidents and ill health are probably resulting in about 30m days off work a year in the UK .
23 The Queen 's Bench Division Direction says that the wording must be specific , and if prescribing unpleasant consequences unless a particular act is done , the order must make clear the precise period within which the act is to be done except that unless the court otherwise specifies , no time need be specified in the case of judgments or orders for the payment of money , for possession of land , or the delivery of goods ; in those cases , the order , unless some time is specified , may be enforced immediately .
24 The Driver in the case of a light engine then goes to the telephone to inform the Signalman each end of the tunnel and give them all particulars and if blocking both lines .
25 A and and to say twenty days when somebody might need much more than that , somebody might need
26 You have to write and and write more details or put more pressure on and have more people write .
27 To imagine that the revived realism of the 1950s and after excluded other possibilities , then , is to misunderstand its nature , and the chauvinism of the school was always something of a pose .
28 She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them .
29 It remains extraordinary , though , that with a brain of only 950,000 neurons — less than a thousandth of those in the human retina — bees can learn colours , textures and smells as well as motor skills , and when set appropriate tasks can show most of the features of conditioning , associative and non-associative learning and relatively long-lasting memory found by mammalian psychologists in organisms with many-fold larger brains .
30 This underlines the fact that in nuclear matters , as in the laws of war generally , domestic law may be very important both as a source of the law and as providing some sanctions .
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