Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 2 | The West Highlands moved south in mid-June when the pier at Portencross became the mythical West Highland port of Portacraig . |
| 3 | 2.1 The Publisher agrees to provide statements of sales twice a year and to render this statement with a cheque within six months of the accounting dates . |
| 4 | 2.1 The Publisher agrees to provide statements of sales twice a year and to render this statement with a cheque within six months of the accounting dates . |
| 5 | Only a handful of reporters now cover the inquiry , and their stories slip day by day down the news schedules , overtaken by fresh nightmares and by disasters which are simpler , easier to comprehend . |
| 6 | ‘ Black magic ’ is apparently now considered racist in America so the term ‘ Chinaman ’ must also be the same , ’ Professor Jones said . |
| 7 | Another difference between the Act and The Stock Exchange rules is that the latter specifically permit pre-emptive offers to exclude holders of shares when the directors ‘ consider it necessary or expedient … on account of either legal problems under the laws of any territory or the requirements of any recognised regulating body or any other stock exchange . ’ |
| 8 | My own favourite , putting price aside , was the Western Systems , but if you want value for money then the Phoenix is well worth a look . |
| 9 | Sometimes they caused havoc in gardens where the gates had been incautiously left open . |
| 10 | His main target was again British imperialism , and he compared Burma with India where a ‘ Divide and Rule ’ policy had ‘ estranged ’ Hindus and Muslims . |
| 11 | Higher taxes and minority earnings in Germany drove earnings per share down a sharper 38 p.c. to 36p . |
| 12 | ‘ The Government spends millions of pounds warning people about Aids yet the police have this incredibly sloppy procedure . ’ |
| 13 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 14 | Art could not speak , he had become so used to meeting Daphne for lunch once a week , it was part of his life , he felt shocked , strange , bereft . |
| 15 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 16 | Jowell has drawn attention to examples where the concern of policy is with ‘ standards ’ that are not susceptible to precise factual definition . |
| 17 | We impose conditions on others where the love of Cod would impose no conditions at all . |
| 18 | If one believes that industries should be owned by the government then one will argue that the level of taxation should be such that , taken with the government 's other financial resources , it should provide capital for investment wherever the government considers it necessary . |
| 19 | This means we can use governors in areas where the above |
| 20 | Throughout this book we will see examples of situations where a facility ( for example stacks in 3.2 , store protection in 5.1 , and sophisticated transput operations in 6.2 ) could be provided by means of a piece of software . |
| 21 | Local authorities do have the power to subsidise services at times when the provision of a service might not be a commercial proposition . |
| 22 | Wear shorts on Monday when the temperature is 65 degrees and be in winter clothes the next when it drops to 35 degrees . |
| 23 | But the offspring will only favour acts of altruism where the benefit exceeds the cost discounted by the figure we agreed . |
| 24 | Could we put on the agenda for a future meeting something called review of guidelines where the , this is exactly the issue . |
| 25 | Set side by side again the pieces do n't exactly match . |
| 26 | Section 18 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 requires officers of courts to give particulars of cases where a disqualification order is made . |
| 27 | A runaway hamster called Sophie takes pride of place where the school rat once roamed . |
| 28 | If the service company were allowed to generate profit of £35,000 then the 15% tax saving would be approximately £5,250 . |
| 29 | It can cost £2,000-£3,000 to kit out a disabled person with all the equipment needed to communicate . |
| 30 | The firm began production in Abingdon over a hundred years ago . |