Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | The same principle , looked at from its negative side , may be thus stated : There is no person or body of persons who can , under the English constitution , make rules which override or derogate from an Act of Parliament , or which ( to express the same thing in other words ) will be enforced by the courts in contravention of an Act of Parliament . |
2 | PHOTOGRAPHY NOW represents artists who function as artists , indeed , but also as cultural critics responsive to the new circumstances of the visual arts . |
3 | I goes Annemarie I doubt if there would be any chance for you even under Munn and Dunning unless you can conquer the capital letter . |
4 | NOW that we have come back — with our half-used tubes of Factor 20 sun-cream , the remnants of a jar of Arnica ( for bruises ) , and the broken paper umbrella that decked my son 's wiener schnitzel for our last supper — I can give the lie to all those Doubting Thomases who said that five small boys on skis was a recipe for disaster , not a holiday . |
5 | The human being as " producer " is forced to perform grotesque alienated tasks at work to provide products which exploit and dominate the very same human being as " consumer " . |
6 | All levels relate to and interact with all others , and in 12 , we shall consider activities which practise and develop this relationship . |
7 | Accordingly , it submitted that a member state might introduce rules which entailed that nationals of other member states might utilise that member state 's quotas only if they had a close connection with that state . |
8 | In other words selecting cases via referrals to psychogeriatric departments did not guarantee clients who needed and were acceptable for enhanced home support . |
9 | When , however , in one district , private hospitals attempted to provide data they found that in most cases they could not identify patients ' districts of residence ( S Israel , personal communication ) . |
10 | When the Spanish conquerors entered Mexico they found that a special variety , the fire opal , having a clear orange or yellow body , was held in high esteem by the Aztecs . |
11 | Now it was Maggie , soaking wet and still oozing blood who turned and took Phoebe in her arms . |
12 | Secondly , the citizen body excluded foreigners who lived and worked in Athens , the metics . |
13 | THE plasma precipitating into the Earth 's dayside auroral atmosphere has characteristics which show that it originates from the shocked solar-wind plasma of the magnetosheath . |
14 | As soon as Angela could think of anything except the pain of returning circulation she saw that they were outside the gate of a walled enclosure . |
15 | He is also afraid that the paint may have a tendency to absorb oxygen which means that it will eventually become brittle : ‘ I suspect that the paint will start showing cracks within a few decades ’ . |
16 | I do n't know Hugh you see because my friend got off with him on holiday |
17 | Checking logbooks I note that on March 20 , 1952 F/L Easter was airborne in Washington WF512 from Coningsby at 1330hrs en route for a practise radar bombing trip to Germany . |
18 | It 's still not uncommon to meet people who declare that if one were seated in a Parisian cafe , rather than a British pub , then the conversation would be on a different level . |
19 | In particular , they do not include patients who died or were lost to follow up in the prolonged interval between treatment and the onset of symptoms . |
20 | Similarly , his work for St Augustine 's Canterbury was assisted by a lengthy stay there , while his Life of St Edith of Wilton , written for the nuns whose testimony he cites as an authority , contains details which suggest that he was familiar with their house , its traditions , and possibly records in Anglo-Saxon . |
21 | On bail bandits people who offended while on bail he promised to bring in legislation to increase the penalties and set up bail hostels . |
22 | Although E. coli has enzymes which detect and repair such faults , a minority escape repair and produce true mutants . |
23 | Campaign to reinstate members who resigned or were terminated during the recession.E |
24 | The Committee would have liked to secure legislation which ensured that at least the existence of every computerised system handling personal information was known : such provisions apply in other Western democracies , but the British tradition of shielding National Security matters even from Parliamentary scrutiny militated against such disclosures here . |
25 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
26 | The firmness of the French reaction was probably inevitable , given the circumstances , but it was also highly dangerous for it meant that if and when Bismarck sought to provoke France he knew that he had exactly the cause he needed . |
27 | I found peasants who sheltered and fed me that next day . |
28 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
29 | As most actors are looking for someone they 'll be happy to hang around with for years to come , they tend to choose subjects they like and approve of . |
30 | The phosphate manufacturers are now vainly trying to reverse this by publicising research which shows that zeolite forms a nasty sludge in sewage works , while phosphates , soluble in water , flush through . |