Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which made the announcement yesterday , will be looking for voluntary redundancies where possible and the losses will take effect from June 21 . |
| 2 | The submission was however inconsistent with the law as stated by this House in Reg. v. Governor of Pentonville Prison , Ex parte Sinclair [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 64 , 81–92 , in which it was made clear in the speech of Lord Ackner ( with which the remainder of the Appellate Committee agreed ) that , under the provisions of the Extradition Act 1870 , the powers of the magistrate are specifically laid down in sections 3(1) , 8 , 9 and 10 of the Act ; and that in consequence , apart from consideration where appropriate whether the offence in question was an offence of a political character , the magistrate is not concerned with questions of foreign law at all , being concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to an English crime or crimes specified in the Secretary of State 's order to proceed . |
| 3 | An adjustment for wear and tear will be made , where applicable if the sums insured are inadequate or there is no intention to replace or repair . |
| 4 | An adjustment for wear and tear will also be made , where applicable if the sums insured are inadequate or there is no intention to replace or repair . |
| 5 | The first spread is used where small or no price movements are expected . |
| 6 | personal contact and explanation are available where necessary but the risk of interviewer bias is small |
| 7 | Simple measures such as keeping doors and windows closed , providing adequate containers for odorous material , covering the contents , refrigeration where necessary and the careful disposal of odorous or potentially odorous waste , are just a few preventative measures which ought to be taken in all trades , but particularly so in the animal byproduct industry , where putrescible matter is concerned . |
| 8 | Wet wood is rather easier to bend than dry but the principal agent for bending wood is heat . |
| 9 | And those who could n't afford a half-crown fine , but would rather wait until nightfall to sweep or cause to be swept their bit of pavement , must have been more than grateful that the Trustees would also kindly provide ‘ Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed into , upon , or against the Walls or Pallisadoes of any of the Houses , Tenements , or Buildings within the said Town , . |
| 10 | Although acute and an emergency at presentation , they do not fall within the definition used here of acute renal failure as they do not have adequate recovery . |
| 11 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 12 | The windows were fairly clean — well , you could see through them — the layer of dust on the woodwork was thinner than usual and the compartment was reasonably warm . |
| 13 | It was larger than usual and the grave had to be widened . |
| 14 | Although most of those named in the letters are well-known for their persistent campaigning over Northern Ireland , there are still more than usual and the timing created maximum embarrassment for the Government . |
| 15 | ENO performs the five-act version which includes the opening Fontainebleau scene , but this is longer than usual because the prelude and opening chorus about the privations of the French populace have been reconstructed from Verdi 's cuts by Andrew Porter ( whose excellent translation is used ) and Sir Charles Mackerras . |
| 16 | Tonight her skirt was rucked up almost to her waist and she found this was even better than usual because the bulge fitted neatly between her thighs and touched even deeper chords of excitement . |
| 17 | A couple went by on bicycles , less hindered than usual because the roads were n't busy , the woman riding with one hand resting on the man 's shoulder . |
| 18 | It was later than usual when the lord of Parfois came . |
| 19 | You can use more glue than normal as the picture will not be displayed , and it is essential that the flowers should remain in their exact position . |
| 20 | The head itself , with a non-reflective black surface , was larger than normal and the back of it was formed into an oval shape . |
| 21 | James had stated in the prologue to ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ that he had written the book with the independence of Africa in mind and he had considered it more than fortuitous that a number of other books by black writers had been published around the same time . |
| 22 | To experiment with weaving , choose a backing yarn which is no thicker than 4-ply and a thicker weaving yarn . |
| 23 | One option that had been canvassed was for staffing ratios and care standards merely to be maintained rather than improved as the hospitals declined . |
| 24 | Feeling more put out than embarrassed when the theatre management turned them away , the six complained that they had understood that ‘ you had to be in the nude in order to get in ’ . |
| 25 | So we went and had and there was a little space , you know normal bit bigger than average and a little hooked thing and it opened up and down came some steps and we went up with trepidation I must say . |
| 26 | At first , studies of the revolution written in this spirit were impressionistic rather than scholarly and the voice of criticism from the Left was barely audible . |
| 27 | In some areas , of course , the changes may have been more apparent than real and the necessity of being eligible for election may not have changed the actual personnel who continued to dominate rural politics . |
| 28 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
| 29 | It is more than likely that the emergence of a truly acceptable definition of ‘ god ’ would provide the necessary connecting link , and open the door to the development of ‘ faith healing ’ with a future of undreamed-of promise . |
| 30 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |