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 .
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