Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely this was another clue , another coded reference ; either that or my capacity for fantasy , temporarily dislodged from my visual imagination , had taken up residence in another realm , polluting my very ability to comprehend . |
| 2 | He announced his decision yesterday , saying : ‘ I have n't lost my edge or my appetite for boxing . ’ |
| 3 | And I do n't know which has nagged at me most , the lack of courage shown by this brave man in fending me off and declining to discuss what he had done , or my lack of courage in declining to write about it . |
| 4 | In the United Kingdom , as elsewhere , continuity of support for disabled individuals or their families through transition is rarely available . |
| 5 | Abuse of possession which the defendant already has may take many forms , such as sale accompanied by delivery of the plaintiff 's goods or their documents of title to another , pawning them , or otherwise disposing of them . |
| 6 | All they wanted was to live out their lives in a peaceful and financially comfortable exile and they had no thought of putting themselves or their positions at risk by indulging in some political adventure . |
| 7 | Those who carried their counties or their countries to victory are featured to the exclusion of all else , and the result could serve as a visual aid to motivation . |
| 8 | But the principal purpose of the Forest system was by this time the raising of revenue : in most cases the wardenships were restored to the offenders or their heirs on payment of a fine to the king . |
| 9 | The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate . |
| 10 | Either taxes will have to increase to cover the social and medical needs of the retired and elderly , or their standard of living will diminish sharply . |
| 11 | Alongside this , the US Supreme Court has expanded citizens ' rights to sue police departments or their chief for officer misconduct . |
| 12 | Others are amnosics either because they have no sense of smell , or their sense of smell has become temporarily impaired due to prolonged exposure to an odour . |
| 13 | It is essential , as HMI argued in 1983 , ‘ that all pupils should be guaranteed a curriculum of distinctive breadth and depth to which they should be entitled irrespective of the type of school they attended or their level of ability ’ . |
| 14 | Straight lines can be found in shadows , rays from the sun or moon or their reflection on water , the stem of a tall grass , rock strata or clear waterfall . |
| 15 | It is merely a contract between the creditor and the joint debtor which does not affect the liabilities of the other joint contractors or their rights of contribution or indemnity against their co-contractor . |
| 16 | ‘ Few people can visualise the size and nature of new civil engineeering works or their impact on landscape before they happen . |
| 17 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 18 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
| 19 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |
| 20 | People came in and out , but he did n't really notice them or their words of encouragement . |
| 21 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 22 | ‘ Industrial democracy ’ on the other hand is a term which is generally taken to refer to particular practices of management already operating in certain capitalist economies ( e.g. West Germany ) or specific proposals such as those of the Bullock Committee ( Bullock , 1977 ) , practices and proposals which give some role to workers or their representatives in enterprise decision-making , but which are not necessarily linked to the overall social planning of the economy in the interests of working people . |
| 23 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 24 | The Christian who puts his or her trust in reason commits the folly of hubris , putting faith in something that is human . |
| 25 | Hence , where a particular company , individual or government is not observing Community law , the person who is adversely affected by this failure may commence an action to enforce his or her rights under Community law ; this may have profound effects . |
| 26 | In this novel the reader is the one irreducible gap or ‘ spot of indeterminacy ’ which roves the text at will and fills holes in his or her knowledge on whim . |
| 27 | A local authority applicant may call a parent as witness and compel his or her attendance at court by issue of a witness summons , where necessary ( see Chapter 5 , 14(c) ) . |
| 28 | Confusing : A sufferer may be highly intelligent , have a responsible job , be very caring and concerned for his or her family and yet still be drawn by this compulsion to use his or her drug of choice and , as a result , progressively to destroy everything of value . |
| 29 | The people that your toddler feels most confident in showing generosity towards are you , her parents , so encourage this trait by asking her to give you things : for example , ask her to give a toy , drawing or her teddy to Daddy . |
| 30 | The scheme was that a depositor should formally transfer and assign part of his or her deposit to family members or close friends ‘ who can be trusted . ’ |