Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the system of brick flues that runs under the entire floor of the caldarium — the hot room of the baths — to circulate the hot air from the furnace . |
| 2 | Sir Ivor Jennings once said " If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence then , in the eyes of the English Courts , it is an offence . " |
| 3 | We 'll be having er our usual comprehensive coverage of the , five past seven the programme starts and included in the programme we 'll also be talking er basketball , we have er guests from the city 's basketball team , the Nottingham Cobras . |
| 4 | When the polyps are retracted the polypary looks and feels like a piece of wet leather , hence the common name for these animals . |
| 5 | The study complements and builds on the work , mainly on urban and industrial populations that has been conducted in the course of the Scottish Social Structure project developed in the Department of Sociology and the Research Centre for Social Sciences since 1980 . |
| 6 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 7 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 8 | Pristina is surrounded by artillery ranges that belonged to the old Yugoslav army . |
| 9 | For the couple made their wedding vows while floating in a balloon 600 feet above the ground in Orlando , Florida , in a sensational start to their married life . |
| 10 | Best practice suggests that to comply with the law employers must identify and document the requirements for a position in terms of skills , experience and education , and should apply job analysis techniques to catalogue the essential functions of the post . |
| 11 | I suppose the most regular walk I do around Malham begins and ends at the village itself , going first by Janet 's Foss to Gordale Scar then on to the Tarn and back by the Cove . |
| 12 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
| 13 | Tests include stack checking ( ie file formats ) , identifying system calls , portability issues and dynamic parameter tests that run with the software 's own quality assurance suite . |
| 14 | The dominant issue in most searches is how well the executive search consultant understands and relates to the culture of the client . |
| 15 | It is a difficult question to know how far they merely duplicate the existing common law powers that arise from the obligation imposed upon the police to preserve the peace , which plainly permit the police to give instructions to limit the numbers at a gathering if that should be necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 16 | A sensitive back titration technique was therefore used in 15 experiments to determine salivary and oesophageal alkali outputs , and to compare these with bicarbonate outputs as determined by the pH/ pCO 2 method . |
| 17 | ‘ It means that the introduction of any new technology is a seamless process : the training machine looks and operates in a familiar way . |
| 18 | And before most ministerial committees an equivalent official committee meets and goes over the points , so that the meeting can proceed without a hitch to an agreed conclusion , provided none of the ministers wishes to interject a personal note . |
| 19 | Most animal groups have the musky-scented pheromones that act as a form of communication . |
| 20 | It 's your moral and legal responsibility to find out what the law says and to comply with the law . |
| 21 | It looks like 16mm film because it 's Kodak Gold and that 's because I wanted it to look like good-quality home snaps as opposed to a kind of beautiful , arty shot . |
| 22 | In his footnote , John Stuart Mill objects that economising in the use of names is not the sole purpose of classification : ‘ We could not have dispensed with names to mark the points in which different individuals resemble one another : and these are class-names . ’ |
| 23 | But a Harris poll conducted in February indicates that support for the arts is up significantly , now over 60% as opposed to 48% in 1974 . |
| 24 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 25 | Visual information from neurons in these zones supplements that provided from the three semicircular canals and is distributed in parallel with it to the part of the brain that controls our balance , the cerebellum . |
| 26 | Turkey 's primary interest is in gaining access to the European Community and Ankara believes that support for the West in the Gulf will hasten the day when Brussels will have to admit , albeit reluctantly , its first Muslim partner . |
| 27 | Accordingly , the issue arises as stated at the outset of this judgment . |
| 28 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 29 | There is an immediate contrast with the literary criticism and theory of the early twentieth century , in that most recent work begins and ends in the academy , and has little contact with current literary practice . |
| 30 | Mick Cleary argues that claims for the 1995 RWC are not as persuasive as at first they may seem |