Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | overseas tax , relieved and unrelieved , specifying the part of unrelieved overseas tax which arises from the payment or proposed payment of dividends . |
| 2 | for the construction or extension of a building or other erection on land ( Nevertheless contracts for repairs and improvements are not excepted unless they are secured by a land mortgage ) , |
| 3 | Its members represent a combined total of 2.5 million people who care about the conservation , protection or quiet enjoyment of landscape , wildlife or amenity in Wales . |
| 4 | Applications should be made for Biological Sciences , Agriculture or Ecological Science through UCAS , but only for one specialisation within an area . |
| 5 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 6 | Clearly there 's sexual interaction or social interaction between men and women that one person would decide is sexual harassment and another would n't . |
| 7 | Anti-discrimination and equal opportunity legislation is often said to promote reverse discrimination or preferential treatment in favour of the minority or group the law was designed to protect . |
| 8 | Later the masculine myth is restated as a phallic ‘ spiral … like a ziggurat or seven-terraced Tower of Babel ’ ( 139/533 ) . |
| 9 | Tazieff maintains , however , that there is no contamination or any release of radio activity from underground testing , and that it is ‘ scientifically impossible ’ for radio active debris to be spread beyond Mururoa by storms . |
| 10 | Always cut back to clean , healthy wood , with no discolouration or other sign of disease . |
| 11 | Until very recently , supporters of animal protection or environmental causes appear to have been motivated primarily by feelings of empathy , sympathy or personal identification with animals , especially large , appealing and anthropomorphic animals . |
| 12 | The first is the selection as the primary or preferred mode of transmission of the indirect consular channel . |
| 13 | So , the primary or preferred mode of transmission was the indirect consular channel , from the consul of the requesting State to an authority designated for the purpose by the State addressed ; a Contracting State could , however , still insist on the use of the diplomatic channel , and the new Convention did not preclude more direct communication between competent authorities by agreement between the States concerned . |
| 14 | There was no continuous , uninterrupted growth of scientific expertise or medical control over sex throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Yet if they report to a GP or social worker with complaints about this , they risk being written off as neurotic middle-aged women . |
| 16 | The nature-versus-culture model of analysis was first developed within anthropology to help account for the universal subordination or secondary status of women in all societies at all times . |
| 17 | Material objects may become temporary substitutes for important relationships , like the mauled soft toy or ragged piece of blanket in childhood , but it is only when relationships with ‘ things ’ rather than people become an established pattern for ‘ shutting out ’ that there is cause for concern . |
| 18 | Rather as the soft toy or ragged piece of blanket provide transitional objects in early childhood , these figures provide transitional attachments , and reflections of an ideal self , which help the individual towards autonomy . |
| 19 | So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project . |
| 20 | With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) . |
| 21 | ( 3 ) For purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( b ) a person induced to take in payment a cheque or other security for money by way of conditional satisfaction of a pre-existing liability is to be treated not as being paid but as being induced to wait for payment . |
| 22 | For a copy of the National Trust Holiday Cottage brochure send a cheque or postal order for 75p to the National Trust ( Enterprises ) Ltd. , PO Box 101 , Melksham , Wiltshire , SN12 8EA . |
| 23 | To obtain your set , send a cheque or postal order for £13.99 payable to Royal Mail International together with your name and address to : |
| 24 | To obtain a copy please write enclosing a cheque or postal order for 50p to National Trust Enterprises ( Holiday Cottages ) , PO Box 101 , Western Way , Melksham , Wiltshire SN12 8EA . |
| 25 | For a list of registered practitioners send a cheque or postal order for £1 to the |
| 26 | If you want to get hold of the Mega Disk in 5.25-inch format , all you have to do is send a cheque or postal order for £1 ( made payable to PC Wise Ltd ) to : PC Wise Ltd , Dowlais Top Business Park , Dowlais , Merthyr Tydfil , Mid Glamorgan CF48 2YY . |
| 27 | As the building trade is notoriously unstable financially and B might have gone out of business , many actions were brought against local authorities for negligently approving plans or negligent inspection of houses under construction . |
| 28 | Four or more whole milk , semi-skimmed milk or skimmed milk for students . |
| 29 | Many political debts were paid with a word in the right ear at an appropriate moment , and the friends of naval officers were never slow to ask the aid of their member of parliament or another politician with reason to maintain good relations with them . |
| 30 | It is therefore particularly suitable for estimating maximum temperature exposure or maximum depth of burial . |