Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Sicilian tyrants also look backwards to the archaic age of mainland Greece : Gelon 's appeal to the Syracusan populace is demagogy of a kind that recalls Pisistratus , as does Dionysius ' demand for a bodyguard . |
| 32 | Though he greeted her in good English , he looked curiously ill at ease , his brown eyes repeatedly sliding away from hers . |
| 33 | The Northern Ireland Institute of Coaching presents eight different awards each year with the winners automatically going forward to the UK finals . |
| 34 | Venturers also worked closely with locals to build an adventure playground for an orphanage in a settlement in the Namibian Desert . |
| 35 | Other churches in the area which have similar Byzantine characteristics also differ mainly from the Constantinople pattern by their ovoid domes , elongated and double curved pendentives , their Romanesque fenestration and arcading ; also these churches are built on the western style Latin cross plan . |
| 36 | Dinosaurs probably lived individually for one hundred years . |
| 37 | Before and after this period , subjects also pointed either at an auditory target or using a non-preferred hand in order to identify the mechanism by which this adaptation occurred . |
| 38 | The second of the two brothers also died soon after the events I have described , and it is probable that Gunhilda then returned to Wilton , for she was later remembered there with honour . |
| 39 | The Avars also raided westward into Italy , following the routes taken in previous centuries by Theodosius and his Gothic allies in 394 ; by Alaric the Goth advancing towards Rome , which he sacked in 410 ; by Attila the Hun in 452 ; and by Alboin and the Lombards in 568 . |
| 40 | Although Lampsilis showed the most frequent and radical rates of shrinkage , Anodonta shells also decreased significantly in size . |
| 41 | However , unlike ventricular fibrillation caused by coronary artery disease or other organic heart conditions , the tachyarrhythmia in LQTS subjects often reverts spontaneously to sinus rhythm , whereupon the patient regains consciousness . |
| 42 | With the reduction in stop-start driving , exhaust pollution is much reduced , tyre noise is low , and engines are idling as cars typically proceed smoothly at 20–30 km/h . |
| 43 | The computers here know only about airport matters . ’ |
| 44 | Just as manufacturers increasingly supply directly to stores , so I believe we will see changes in this area affecting the book trade . |
| 45 | Watch alcohol content too — drinkers sometimes react unfavourably to high-alcohol wines from California and Australia . |
| 46 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 47 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 48 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 49 | My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position . |
| 50 | Dalgliesh had last seen Blaney six months earlier splashing alone along the edge of the beach , painting gear slung over his shoulder , and was shocked by the change in the man . |
| 51 | The genealogist who has traced his family tree as far back as is possible through the use of the civil registration records kept at St Catherine 's House , London , and local registry offices then turns naturally to the baptism , marriage and burial registers of the Church of England for the preceding generations . |
| 52 | Boxers are less susceptible because many schools do not include the sport in their curricula and , as a consequence , many kids either start independently of school or get involved shortly after leaving school . |
| 53 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 54 | Chelating agents can come from various sources , but most are organic compounds either secreted directly by organisms such as lichen , or formed through the decomposition of humus in the soil . |
| 55 | Thought to be quintessentially English , primroses actually grow right across Europe from Majorca to Iran and wherever you look they vary slightly . |
| 56 | They had been a team for years : the tiny wiry Eve with her restless eyes never settling long on anything or anyone ; the big handsome Benny , with her green eyes and chestnut-brown hair , tied back with a bow always , a big soft good-quality bow a bit like Benny herself . |
| 57 | I was also taken by the way the cute-looking tawny owls just sat there on their perches , looking at each other with one eye open . |
| 58 | Norms thus relate overtly to behaviour but covertly there is convergence of expectations , attitudes , beliefs and feelings among members of the group . |
| 59 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with its vote . |
| 60 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with a planned impeachment vote . |