Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At point B workers have been pushed off their labour supply function but employers remain on their labour demand function , albeit at a different point . |
| 2 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 3 | Fifty or sixty perfect , pointed teeth gleamed between his parted lips . |
| 4 | But the robots carry more formal titles painted on their sides , like ABB or Kawasaki . |
| 5 | A head with two huge eyes and antennae pressed over its back pushes through the pupa at one end . |
| 6 | The French several times reneged on their pledges of future autonomy for the Lebanese . |
| 7 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 8 | Acrobats , clowns and musicians jostle for your attention . |
| 9 | The role of the project leader takes a number of forms depending on his level of authority . |
| 10 | However where possible , eg. if there are several hours to wait before your return flight , and this is often the case in low season , a room will be made available for changing and storing hand luggage . |
| 11 | On the other hand , as his awareness of his own homosexual tendencies developed during his teens , the deep emotional dependence on his mother was complicated by a contrary feeling of resentment , based no doubt on guilt . |
| 12 | However , the growing budget deficit and lax credit policies led to its devaluation from parity with the rouble and caused a near breakdown in trade between Ukraine and Russia . |
| 13 | However , his policies led to his being condemned by Schumacher as ‘ the Chancellor of the Allies ’ . |
| 14 | Of those who had previously worked , the reasons given for their current unemployed state were as follows : short-term MSC contract , or redundancy , 36 per cent ; dismissal because of lateness , etc. , due to heroin use , 23 per cent ; imprisonment , 14 per cent ; collapse of business , 9 per cent ; pregnancy , 9 per cent ; boredom with job , 9 per cent . |
| 15 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Mustill , I would allow this appeal . |
| 16 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Mustill , I would allow this appeal . |
| 17 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 18 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 19 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 20 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , I , too , would allow the appeal and dismiss the plaintiffs ' action . |
| 21 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , I , too , would allow the appeal and restore the order of Mervyn Davies J. |
| 22 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , I agree that this appeal should be allowed , and I hope that some action might follow from the observations made by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with which I agree . |
| 23 | But , for all the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with whose speech I entirely agree , I am not placed in that invidious situation . |
| 24 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 25 | This is good news to anyone who has witnessed the way art museums have come to regard paintings and other objects placed in their perpetual trust as a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will . |
| 26 | The soft , shy fingers quivered in her palms , the half-formed flower of a mouth tasted of the spring and the sun . |
| 27 | Downstairs , Teppanyaki San is Japanese food as theatre , with knife-juggling , joke-telling chefs cooking at your table — express lunches from £5.50 |
| 28 | It is necessary first to consider an argument which has throughout been presented by the Attorney-General as decisive ; namely , that the answer to this question must inevitably be negative because the district judge had no power , or no power that he could properly exercise , to do anything other than proceed with the cases assigned to his court , without any regard at all to the pendency of the B.M.F.L. prosecution , destined for committal to the High Court . |
| 29 | As noted earlier Mrs Thatcher was virtually vetoing European policies favoured by her two most senior ministers . |
| 30 | Continued to support elderly owner occupiers to remain in their own homes . |