Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Judge Mark Dyer told Bailey there was no comparable case law to base a sentence on because of the immense damage he had caused .
2 First , a look ahead to the cup game with Bath on Saturday , which Mike wo n't be able to take part in because of a recent injury .
3 Consciousness is ideological in the sense that in human , historical life-processes ‘ circumstances appear upside down as in a camera obscura ’ and the ‘ phantoms formed in the human brain are also , necessarily , sublimates of their material life process ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 47 ) .
4 I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again .
5 A short waddle down and across the Champs Elysees found us sitting , once again , around a restaurant table .
6 A tiny point of bright golden pus appears and spreads like some fierce eczema down and across the right-hand side of her face .
7 With a quick nervous glance up and down the road , she stepped into the house and closed the door .
8 Oncoming bikers seemed intent on taking the short cut up and over the Aussie 's Nissan .
9 We 'll be on that boat up and down the River Tyne at the finish , that 's were we 'll end up I think .
10 It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down
11 Ear infections with eczema around and behind the ears .
12 From this perspective , the growth of government may well owe something to the need by capital to socialise demand and legitimate the mode of production ; on the other hand , political power is relatively open and the growth of government may be driven by pluralistic bargaining , rising expectations and through effective working-class parties seizing power due to a fortuitous combination of forces in the political struggle over and around the state .
13 To my knowledge , no class can hold State power over a long period without at the same time exercising its hegemony over and in the State Ideological Apparatuses .
14 Or , even better , find a shield which can also be used as a ram ( like a chair , stool , dustbin or small table ) to knock the knifeman down or against a wall .
15 One of these base pairs erm another combination is substituted , either by , by er some kind of error in or by the influence of something like erm bac background radiation or some kind of chemical effect or something like that .
16 As you may remember when the flood bank was built the local residents were very disappointed that Lancashire County Council could not see their way to install a footway along or beside the flood bank .
17 In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood .
18 The then general manager of ScotRail , John Ellis , anxious to push the work through because of the poor condition of the signalling at Westerton , had offered to introduce temporary safety measures while the Chief Inspector of Railways considered the implications of the Bellgrove crash .
19 I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt .
20 This generally approving judgement has characterised work on the Poor Law up until about the time of the American Revolution .
21 Our nightly promenade up and down the road has put us on speaking terms with the whole neighbourhood .
22 Helping bring their compulsory competitive tendering and privatization plans to a halt up and down the country .
23 Set your work out as in the above example .
24 That was done and completion actually took place is pleaded as the twenty second of November , the er defendants admit completion took place on or about the twenty fifth of November .
25 Erm cos I think a lot of the , I mean a lot of land redistribution had already been taking place in since about the since about January of nineteen forty six , so I think the May the fourth directive is just erm an official , well a secret official acceptance of this .
26 The main impediments to the free flow of people are those placed there to facilitate the free flow of motorised traffic , particularly road crossing barriers , signs embedded in the pavement and steps and ramps to carry the walker over or under the roadway. little seems to have been done in the way of formal schemes of assessment of pedestrian problems or of priorities for maintenance or design .
27 That 's the compound radius fingerboard for you , and having just come straight from playing a ‘ 62 reissue Strat , the Manson 's fingerboard around and above the octave felt virtually flat in comparison .
28 It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens
29 Callum held her close in the darkened room and she smelt the slightly sour smell of beer on his breath , felt the too intimate touch of his hands on her body as they moved in a slow circle around and among the tightly packed bodies .
30 In view of the widespread and sometimes ill-founded criticism of the recent franchise round and despite the uniform excellence of the successful tenders , will my right hon. Friend nevertheless consider the possibility of providing a review system so as either to show up ways in which it could be improved in future or to demonstrate that an extremely good job has been done by the Independent Television Commission ?
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