Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since rhetoric involves argumentation , then a basic question should be asked of any political discourse which appears to be using a rhetoric traditionally associated with the critics , rather than supporters , of the discourse : is the speaker or writer actually arguing against their own ideological tradition , or are they using a complex rhetoric to conduct an argument within their own tradition ? |
| 2 | In addition , removal of the protective vegetation cover and its replacement with a crop or pasture often results in accelerated soil erosion that exacerbates nutrient deficits . |
| 3 | See Chapters 3 and 16. ( 3 ) " Dwelling house " includes any building or part thereof used as a dwelling . |
| 4 | Is the activity an occupation or function actively pursued with reasonable or recognisable continuity ? |
| 5 | In the meantime , I made inquiries with the old-folk of the village to see if they remembered any house or cottage ever standing on that particular field . |
| 6 | Thou or You forms are frequently used to address personifications , at which point the Friend or Mistress often slips into the third person , as part of an imagined triangle . |
| 7 | Each arrangement had a blank label or card prominently attached to it . |
| 8 | In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence . |
| 9 | It is the period during which a boy or girl also grows from a child to an adult in body , mind and personality — a considerable transformation . |
| 10 | Such a definition also excludes approaches to modernity and modernism which focus upon an outlook or attitude usually restricted to elite sections of the population such as artists and planners ( for example Berman 1983 ) . |
| 11 | But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey . |
| 12 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 13 | Closeness to a grandmother 's death seems never to have invoked the intense emotional experiences which those who nursed a parent or spouse sometimes recall with such striking physical intimacy . |
| 14 | Although he lacked the wit , pathos , or imagination traditionally associated with distinguished advocates of the Irish bar , his scrupulous fair dealing and evangelical propensities led Hugh Percy , third Duke of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , to appoint him chairman of the Londonderry quarter sessions in 1830 . |
| 15 | Even our local guillemot or tystie rarely comes on land except to nest . |
| 16 | Green Lady is also used to describe a greyish-green GHOST or PHANTOM often found in Scotland . |
| 17 | However , the most vital feature in eligibility for participation in the committees was the attitude or relationship previously adopted to the Japanese : if village elders had shunned the colonial regime , they could be chosen to play a leading part in the work of the committees . |
| 18 | The sports man or woman simply walks to the top of a hill , carrying a special mountain skateboard , and when at the top climbs on the board for a thrill-of-a-lifetime journey down the hill . |
| 19 | I have no doubt myself that a man or woman earnestly seeking in grown-up life to be guided to wide and suggestive knowledge in its largest and most uplifted sphere will make the best of all the pupils in this age of clatter and buzz , of gape and gloat . |
| 20 | Coleman & Co. successfully applied for an adjournment of his examination to enable evidence to be filed in support of his summons . |
| 21 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 22 | The appeal of drugs or alcohol probably lies in their ability to induce a state of transient mania which serves as a defence against the fundamental depression which dependency-through-loss brings about . |
| 23 | 1 If you can get a coach or supervisor then go for it ! |
| 24 | a legendary figure supposed to have reigned as John VIII in the ninth century who gives her name to a card game for 3 or more players , played on a circular painted tray ( or specially marked table ) , and with ‘ fish ’ ( counters of bone or ivory often shaped like fish ) . |
| 25 | but erm , I , I thought it was both yours and Mr contention that through the doctoring of extensible authority and by , because of that doctoring your clients are not alleging that any contracts of insurance or re-insurance simply made on their behalf is unenforceable |
| 26 | A firmer Hong Kong stock market pushed HSBC Holdings 2p ahead to 608p , with Mercury parent Cable & Wireless also benefiting by 5p to 733p . |
| 27 | One does n't miss the odd stem in a large clump , and you can also divide old clumps in spring or autumn , planting the surplus into rows in the vegetable garden or allotment purely to cut for the house . |
| 28 | The settlor is able to recover the tax paid by him from any trustee or person to whom the income arises under the settlement , subject to crediting any allowance or relief so obtained by the settlor . |
| 29 | Other examples of discrimination are to be found in role titles such as foreman or tradesman widely used in business which imply the positions are normally ( and rightly ? ) filled by men . |
| 30 | In the countryside , matters were no better ; the smaller shops in the villages and towns often produced insufficient income to support a family , so that the wife or daughter often looked after it while the man pursued another occupation . |