Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have paid for , or returned , any items it would be helpful if you could give some indication of the date of payment or return and whether a cheque was used . |
| 2 | The doctors detailed the attempts made at resuscitation , but by 2.40 it was concluded that there was no activity in either heart or brain and that the President must be declared dead . |
| 3 | In some of the early work on TL dating of ocean sediments , it was thought that the TL observed was produced by foraminifera or radiolaria and that the zeroing mechanism was the formation of their shells . |
| 4 | Letter signed ’ , as distinct from ‘ Autograph letter signed ’ , means that the letter has been written by a clerk or secretary but that the king has added his signature . |
| 5 | Nato has also been used for the neck and fingerboard and while the overall appearance of the SW213 wo n't compete with more expensive instruments it 's quite good enough for a 100 quid guitar . |
| 6 | In his libel action seeking aggravated damages , Donovan claimed he suffered serious injury to his professional and personal reputation , considerable distress and embarrassment and that the article implied he was guilty of gross hypocrisy and deceit by denying that he was homosexual . |
| 7 | One of his killers is the high-minded Virginsky who ‘ will never , never abandon these bright hopes ’ ( my italics ) , and another member of the quintet is Shigalov who pulls out of the affair at the very last moment , not from fear or pity or remorse but because the murder ‘ is in direct contradiction of my programme ’ — of Shigalov 's own brand of revolutionary ideology . |
| 8 | Now we 've just said there needs to be some level somewhere if you 're right down this end of the curve here you 're either asleep or dead so there 's some peak performance at some level of anxiety or arousal and as the anxiety increases the performance drops off . |
| 9 | Projection of another dimension or dimensions as when the sun breaks through a cloud and washing-up powder , launderette , what else was Jacob 's ladder ? he wrote , and Goldberg , staring at his friend 's manuscript all those years later , typed that in and put a little question mark in the margin of his typescript . |
| 10 | The Committee itself concluded ‘ that the overall technical standard of the operation has been high , both in the sense that the signal itself has been generated with great skill and proficiency and that the practical and logistical problems associated with presence of televising personnel and equipment have been kept to a minimum ’ . |
| 11 | They could also argue that in general there is frequently a difference between morality and legalism and that the former has a greater claim on their allegiance . |
| 12 | It should be clear from the last chapter that they both play a role in determining the equilibrium level of income and employment and that a change in any one of them will cause the level of national income to change via the multiplier effect . |
| 13 | The physics and cosmology that provided the framework in which this astronomy was set was basically that developed by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. In the second century A.D. , Ptolemy devised a detailed astronomical system that specified the orbits of the moon , the sun and all the planets . |
| 14 | The extent of the warranty of title implied at common law is that the possession given to the purchaser will be undisturbed by the vendor or auctioneer and that the latter knows no defect in the vendor 's title ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 15 | The distal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter represents the true oesophagogastric junction or cardia and if the squamous columnar junction is located 3 cm or more proximal to the proximal limit of this sphincter , a true Barrett 's oesophagus is present , which has been our criteria . |
| 16 | The police have traditionally treated rape complaints with a certain reluctance and suspicion and where the complainant has been diffident about prosecution , have been only too content to let the matter drop . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 18 | Even in a healthy society it is enough that the officials accept the secondary rules of recognition , adjudication and change and that the citizens acquiesce . |
| 19 | The unacceptability of certain conversion methods is accentuated for Gandhi by his belief that all religions have elements of truth and error and that no particular religion can lay claim to a monopoly of the truth . |
| 20 | But we do not have , today , the same quality of expertise available all the time , especially for the night shift and holidays or when the expert is off sick . |
| 21 | Take the right fork at the Square and Compass and after the stone houses cross the stile on the right . |
| 22 | That the directors of the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 to exercise all powers of the Company to allot relevant securities , as defined in that section up to a maximum nominal amount of £114,533,413 provided that this authority shall expire fifteen months from the date of this resolution , or , if earlier , at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company in 1994 , save that the Company may before such date make an offer or agreement which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such date and the directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired . |
| 23 | and shall expire fifteen months from the date of this resolution or , if earlier , at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company in 1994 , save that the Company may before such date make an offer or agreement which would or might require securities to be allotted after such date and the directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired . |
| 24 | The Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the powers conferred thereby had not expired . ’ |
| 25 | unless renewed , expire fifteen months after the passing of this Resolution or at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company , whichever is the earlier , save that the Company may prior to such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired . ’ |
| 26 | If we define style in terms of stylistic variants , we assume that language specifies a repertoire or code or possibilities and that a writer 's style consists in preferences exercised within the limits of that code . |
| 27 | In fact swimming is undoubtedly the b–st possible form of exercise — not only because it develops stamina , suppleness and strength but because the buoyancy of the water removes the danger of straining an otherwise unfit body . |
| 28 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 29 | and it 's a , it 's a belt and braces because if the other form of paramixa virus did come in , it would affect the poultry industry . |
| 30 | Of these 123 , a full interview was obtained with l04 principal carers at the time of the patient 's referral to the project ( six carers refused to be interviewed , and it was not possible to interview a further nine for reasons such as the carer 's ill health or death or because the patient and carer soon moved out of the area ; for the remaining four some information was obtained by telephone ) . |