Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , counter-indemnities relating to death or personal injury suffered by the indemnifier were void under s 2(1) , without the need to consider s 4 , and all counter-indemnities relating to other loss or damage suffered directly by the indemnifier were subject to the reasonableness test under s 2(2) , and/or s 4 if the indemnifier was a consumer . |
| 2 | The development of the exchange , from a meeting place for buyers and sellers , to futures trading in a pit or ring leads logically to the assumption that every member of the floor should be aware of the prevailing price of business being done and have an equal opportunity to participate in it . |
| 3 | The assumption made is that the capital gain or loss occurs evenly over the remaining life of the bond . |
| 4 | While in the long term the mother may well be able to obtain employment in Australia , as she has done in the past , understandably it would not be her wish or intention to do so in the short-term . |
| 5 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 6 | This technique retains the constant mean heat input but instead of measuring the temperature difference during a change a servo-system immediately increases the energy input to either sample or reference to maintain both at the same temperature . |
| 7 | Certain things are excluded from registration such as a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration dictated solely by the function the article has to perform , or which depend upon the appearance of another article of which it is intended to form an integral part . |
| 8 | The only other items you need to record are debits or credits made directly by the bank to your account . |
| 9 | When people talk , air from the lungs is forced through the larynx into the mouth or nose to escape finally into the outside world . |
| 10 | He will at a very early stage have taken steps to preserve evidence , possibly by photographic and other means , of an ephemeral or fleeting nature such as ice ( if he is lucky the temperature on the ground since the crash could still be below freezing ) , or fuel leaking away from a damaged tank or fuel filter , or soot deposits indicative of fire in the air which could be washed away by rain or other disturbance . |
| 11 | Do Protestants or Catholics achieve more in the educational system , for example ; or are Catholics more likely to end up in prison than Protestants ? |
| 12 | They can put in ramps instead of stairs , widen doorways , fix rails in bathrooms , lower working surfaces in kitchens , extend tap handles , place electric points within reach , etc. all these things can make life much easier and increase the independence of a disabled person , though clearly it would be simpler in many cases to provide bungalows or flats designed especially for the disabled , in particular those confined to wheelchairs . |
| 13 | You and I are both free , there 's no husband or wife languishing somewhere in the background , no children involved . ’ |
| 14 | The paradigm underlying this family of methods is that patterns or clusters appear nonrandomly in the training set , for some unknown underlying reason . |
| 15 | An awkward party could block the procedure by declaring unacceptable every expert or appointing individual or authority put forward by the other party . |
| 16 | In the council meeting , Kleinwort Benson and UBS Phillips & Drew objected strongly to the two proposals . |
| 17 | Do n't expect meetings , discussions or journeys to go smoothly between the 12th and 16th . |
| 18 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 19 | But to see his face light up with pleasure as his eye lighted on a child 's painting or model spoke more to the teacher ( and the child ) about the sincerity of his concerns than a hundred words would . |
| 20 | Companies , other organisations What other companies or partnerships operate already in the country , that might be a suitable target for a takeover , merger , joint venture , licensing deal etc ? |
| 21 | He was just telling the driver of the light engine that he would be away in a minute , when from Bradley Fold station box came the 4-5-5 signal ( train or vehicles running away on the right line ) . |
| 22 | One or sometimes two newsreaders or reporters present straight to the camera , and these " talking heads " often have some form of visual " headline " behind them . |
| 23 | The French investors are starved of the kind of new issues common to the British market -big , well-publicised privatisations or pseudo-privatisations aimed more at the general punter than the institutional investor . |
| 24 | The old , traditional method of exchange of contracts for sale by the buyer 's solicitors or representatives calling personally on the seller 's is very rarely used . |
| 25 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 26 | Finn looked up angrily and Melanie ran upstairs before the sharp words and blows began . |
| 27 | Weir and Wainwright did well at the line-out and the loose forwards were just as quick and creative as their much more illustrious opponents . |
| 28 | On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas . |
| 29 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 30 | Lightning forked overhead , illuminating the camp like day , and thunder crashed deafeningly through the deep darkness that followed . |