Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peterson , who lost his own seat , accepted responsibility for the defeat and immediately resigned as provincial Liberal leader . |
| 2 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 3 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |
| 4 | gained credit via APL for up to 50% of the areas of study and successfully completed and passed the assessment schedules for the other 50% of the areas of study . |
| 5 | Example 3:11 Option to renew ( 1 ) The tenant may by notice in writing served not less than six months before the date on which the term hereby granted is expressed to expire call upon the landlord for a further lease of the demised property ( " the further lease " ) provided that up to that date he has paid the rent and reasonably performed and observed his covenants ( 2 ) The further lease shall be for a term of ten years from the said date upon the same terms and conditions as this lease ( save as to rent and as to this option for renewal ) and at a rent to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( 3 ) In determining the rent payable under the further lease the arbitrator shall have the same powers as would be enjoyed by the court determining a rent for the demised property under section 34 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and shall disregard the same matters as are therein specified ( 4 ) This option shall be of no effect if the tenant fails to register it as an estate contract within three months from the date of this lease Example 3:12 Option to renew contracted out tenancy If : ( 1 ) the tenant wishes to take a further tenancy of the demised property for a term of five years from the expiry date of the term hereby created ; and ( 2 ) the tenant gives written notice of his desire to the landlord not more than six nor less than three months before the expiry of the term ; and ( 3 ) up to the date of the notice the tenant has paid the rent and substantially performed his covenants ; and ( 4 ) the tenant joins with the landlord in making an application to the court for an order authorising the exclusion of the provisions of ss24-28 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 in relation to the further tenancy ; and ( 5 ) the court makes such an order then the landlord shall let the demised property to the tenant for a term of five years from the expiry of the term hereby created at a rent to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be determined by arbitration and otherwise upon the terms of this lease ( except this option for renewal ) Example 3:13 Clause negativing perpetual renewal Nothing in this clause shall entitle the tenant to renew the tenancy for any term expiring more than twenty years after the beginning of the term of this lease |
| 6 | This was put through the confusion simulator and then used as input to the overlap program . |
| 7 | Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river . |
| 8 | Tom by this time had joined the Navy , was in the Pacific as a Wireless Telegrapher and probably hoped that this Kapok life jacket was up to Stoddard 's normal BS 5750 standards . |
| 9 | You further agree that it is the complete and exclusive agreement between you and DW/LD and supersedes any proposal or prior written or oral agreement , or any other communication between DW/LD and you relating to the subject matter of this Agreement . |
| 10 | For professional staff , external or off-the-job courses were most likely to be mentioned , generally either management or highly specialized and usually within an overall developmental context . |
| 11 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 12 | It is highly regrettable that the Minister can not provide information that must be available to the police and to the Northern Ireland Office about the number of people in Northern Ireland who have been questioned under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and subsequently charged and convicted . |
| 13 | One was my fox terrier dog Simon , whom I loved passionately in my loneliness and shamefully deserted and neglected in my adolescence . |
| 14 | Tolbukhin 's forces advanced into the British Zone and only stopped when , on 9 May , they met troops of Gen Keightley 's 5 Corps . |
| 15 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 16 | Mittal asserted that he had been abducted from outside his home and later beaten and tortured with electric shocks before being left at a police station . |
| 17 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 18 | On the second floor rose three very high , curved windows , originally , he suspected , an open loggia but now glazed and fronted with a low stone balustrade . |
| 19 | In the autumn there had been a great commotion when a large party of the King 's and Warden 's men , some fifty of them , mounted and heavily armed , gathered on Steep Ridgery and carefully marked where the plumes of smoke were rising — often there were more than one — and made off purposefully towards them . |
| 20 | As well as that , the laundry was a steamy , rather smelly place where sheets were stewed in the boiler and then hand-scrubbed on a ridged board and further rinsed and processed before they progressed in a wooden tub , a girl at each handle , to hang under the sun or the rain in their private drying ground , screened by laurel and flowering currant from the sensitive eyes of the gentry . |
| 21 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 22 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 23 | He joined his father 's portrait photography business at the age of 16 just after the war and soon realised that selling cameras was more lucrative than taking pictures . |
| 24 | Referring to a comrade of her son 's , she wrote : ‘ This boy and mine were together all through the African war and only separated when they were preparing for France . |
| 25 | Carloman , however had been born after Pepin had been crowned king in his own right and so considered that he held a superior claim to kingship . |
| 26 | Racialized and ethnic discourses and encounters are also inevitably suffused with elements of sexual and class difference and therefore fractured and criss-crossed around a number of axes and identities . |
| 27 | Mies saw no intended musical difference and therefore suggested that editors should use only dots . |
| 28 | In some case ( slot-blot ) , DNA was applied directly to nylon membrane ( Gene-screen DUPONT ) with a slot apparatus and then hybridised as described for Southern blot . |
| 29 | He was a born teacher and soon found that he gained great fulfillment by teaching and training others for the profession for which he was so ably fitted . |
| 30 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |