Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear whether the plan foundered because of legal or constitutional doubts about the governor 's interim council lacking authority to incorporate such a bank , or due to opposition from the mercantile , creditor interest . |
| 2 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 3 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 4 | In all cases where unmet needs were identified referral was made to the appropriate agency or professional after agreement with the client 's general practitioner . |
| 5 | In the early 1960s , wheat beers had only 1 or 2 per ent of the Bavarian market , or at most 2 or 3 , reckons Erdinger 's second generation owner , Werner Brombach . |
| 6 | We have suggested that the latter are confirmable or disconfirmable by appeal to the former ; but how are the two related so that such confirmation can take place ? |
| 7 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 8 | We need to refer to more general and conventional assumptions and beliefs which define what is accepted as normal or typical in respect of the way reality is structured and to the conduct of social life . |
| 9 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 10 | The best showed children , in groups of two or three at work around the school . |
| 11 | One of the major criticisms , therefore , that arts teachers have advanced against formal systems of assessment , whether for internal or external purposes , appears as Goodman ( 1981 ) observes , to rest on the argument that the majority of assessment techniques used in education are inappropriate or inadequate for use in the aesthetic area , since they invariably tend to emphasize mathematical and statistical forms of measurement . |
| 12 | He or she is disadvantaged , dissident or deviant in relation to a great mass of laws , norms and customs which regulate the society of which both the client and the social worker are a part . |
| 13 | Recall that parasitic oscillation takes place if the magnitude of the loop gain is greater than or equal to unity at the frequency at which the phase shift becomes . |
| 14 | The French aims to pass on enough ‘ to prevent getting lost in the Metro or starving to death in a cafe ’ while the Environment will look at national and local industries and their emissions . |
| 15 | Life in this part of Poland is changing rapidly and now is the right time to see it and to meet the Polish people who live here or those on holiday from the cities . |
| 16 | True four-wheel drive vehicles or those with time for a 30-kilometre trek could have probably made it , but we , having neither time nor lockable differentials , carried on across the edge of Mývatnsöræfi , a huge featureless desert of lava and ash fields . |
| 17 | A pump at the store provides the motive power and typically will send slurry through 1000m ( ⅔rds of a mile ) or more of pipe to a nurse tank on the headland . |
| 18 | Even when there is a grain or more of truth in a criticism , you may not be wholly or , indeed , mainly to blame . |
| 19 | All those individuals who supported the adoption of the Second Choice above , were , unbeknown to themselves , bringing about events the effect of which could , many years later , be adjudged either good or evil or neutral in accordance with the rule proffered earlier , and therefore be available for incorporation as units of ‘ goodness ’ into the Created God . |
| 20 | It is offering double the usual trade-in credit for customers turning in a System/36 or 38 in exchange for an AS/400 9404 or 9406 F model — and for the first time , the credit is more than you could get for most of the System/36 models on the used market . |
| 21 | The effect of task difficulty in terms of whether a purely lateralised effect or a bilateral effect ( symmetrical or asymmetrical with respect to the two hands ) is observed thus appears to depend upon the nature of the two competing tasks . |
| 22 | Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories . |
| 23 | However , it looks as though the volcanic sequence is thin or absent on part of the western margin of the Rockall Trough , where there is known to be a block faulted margin structure . |
| 24 | Here the Polytechnic took established courses , often at a different level , which upon review no longer seemed appropriate or sustainable as part of the institutional profile , and redesigned them as fields on the Modular Course . |
| 25 | Early this morning there were ‘ road closed ’ signs at Gubberford bridge and near the bottom of Tithebarn Lane , although by then there was only an inch or two of water across the road . |
| 26 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 27 | When I wrote a line or two of Lover at the Gate I felt at ease , buoyantly happy , confident . |
| 28 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 29 | After a day or two of confinement in a darkened room he returned to the hospital and took over his ward again . |
| 30 | Add a drop or two of MEM to the syringe , making the volume up to 1 ml . |