Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many turners appreciate pleasing curves but like me , do n't possess the ‘ eye ’ or the skill to create them on a lathe . |
| 2 | When it is difficult for the family or the child to attach themselves to each other , then at the end of the day the child will leave the family and become attached to the black community . |
| 3 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |
| 4 | Walking near doorways or the kerb puts you within range of a hidden attacker or a parked car . |
| 5 | A hearing may be adjourned if either you or the Council say anything to the Committee , or produce something in writing which the other did not know about beforehand , and it is so important that you or the Council want time to think about it before proceeding . |
| 6 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity or his ownership of any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 7 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity , his ownership of , or responsibility for , any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 8 | The infant was classified as Maori if either the mother or the father considered themselves to be Maori . |
| 9 | He is a double winner of the rally but that was some time ago and since then McKinstry has made the place very much is own , his sequence of victories punctuated only by the years in which he did not have a competitive car or the opposition included someone of the calibre of Mikael Sundstrom . |
| 10 | Generally the offence is straightforward as outlined but if an unlicensed pillion passenger on a motor bicycle persuaded the rider to take off his ‘ L ’ plates or the passenger took them off himself he would aid and abet the rider 's offence of no ‘ L ’ plates . |
| 11 | I have heard several organisations talking about the magic million , but as soon as you probe deeper , you soon discover that they do n't have the expertise or the infrastructure to collect anything like this sum . |
| 12 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 13 | Until recently it has tended to be a middle-class , if not an upper-class , home where the father prides himself on being able to provide well for his family , and the mother prides herself on being a good ‘ homemaker ’ who runs the establishment with precise efficiency , giving careful consideration to the basic ( i.e. material ) needs of all the occupants . |
| 14 | Hospital doctors , with some marvellous exceptions , have clung to old patterns of training where the doctor protected himself from the patient 's feelings of panic and terror in the face of illness and death . |
| 15 | Similar reasoning could be applied where the plaintiff puts himself in a position which is not dangerous in itself but he is aware of circumstances which make it more likely that he will suffer harm . |
| 16 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |
| 17 | Similarly there is no liability if a railway company , acting upon A 's directions , carries B's goods , honestly believing that A has B's authority to give such directions or , of course , where a finder removes them to a place of safety . |
| 18 | However , where a company establishes itself in another member state all the rules of that member state which Apply to its own nationals apply equally to that company . |
| 19 | At common law , it was an affray where a person armed himself with ‘ dangerous and unusual weapons , ’ so that displays of force were technically affray . |
| 20 | The court held that where a person places himself in danger and it is foreseeable that another person may attempt a rescue , the rescued person owes a duty of care to the rescuer . |
| 21 | But where a decision affects everyone in general and no one in particular it is much harder to define sufficient interest . |
| 22 | Children were carried shoulder-high to the road , where a bus took them to a seafront hotel . |
| 23 | Where a lease defines something by reference to a statute or statutory instruments ( eg the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order ) , a change in the statute or statutory instrument will not alter the terms of the lease ( Brewers Co v Viewplan [ 1989 ] 2 EGLR 133 ) . |
| 24 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 25 | It may be lack of understanding of the appropriate diet or an inability to put it into practice . |
| 26 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 27 | The logical structure admittedly is independent of the desires of the thinker , but the drive behind it is an enthusiasm , or an obsession to rid himself of an intolerable burden ; at the point when we notice there is no more joy or stress in his thinking , that it has become a routine , we begin to be afraid that his creative phase his passed . |
| 28 | But , for a long time , she had neither the intelligence nor the insight to associate them with herself . |
| 29 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 30 | It will be argued that the decision to put something in other words is essentially a decision about style , a point which is , perhaps , anticipated by Burton-Roberts when he describes loose apposition as a rhetorical device . |