Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it expects ‘ considerable improvement in profits in 1993 ’ : it expects the strong order intake seen last year to continue despite a recession and notes that orders for Ericsson 's mobile systems , which grew by 58% in 1992 , are expected to grow by around 60% in the current quarter . |
| 2 | And to a court case in which she accused George Best of stealing her fur coat and jewellery — a case that collapsed after she failed to give evidence . |
| 3 | ‘ You could nip across and introduce yourself — chat her up a bit and try and mention the possibility of anonymous letters . |
| 4 | We contemplate the cube for a bit and see that we can move any four edges into the four working locations of F , and we can put the edges in either way round . |
| 5 | We played in Guernsey and this man came after us waving a stick and shouting that we were heretics and ‘ Thou shalt not be a false Messiah ’ . |
| 6 | Large firms generally face a choice between making components and other intermediate products themselves , or buying in from outside — in other words , a decision whether to internalize or externalize a particular stage of production . |
| 7 | After the shadow cabinet met in London to draw up a campaign strategy , the Labour leader dismissed reports of a split and said that any perception of divisions in the party was without foundation . |
| 8 | After she had gulped the pancake , she picked up a shrimp and ate that saying : ‘ I like that . ’ |
| 9 | To note the work done by course team/module leaders in beginning to address ‘ enterprise skills ’ within a course but to note that further work would be required to be done . |
| 10 | There were in this dingy , badly heated studio , moments of rare artistic quality of a kind that occurs but rarely in a century ’ . |
| 11 | Hand her a tea-strainer and see if she can carefully lift out all the fish . |
| 12 | It was like being in a loo that rose and fell . |
| 13 | The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 14 | He never wears a watch whether racing or training , never records his mileage , and has no idea what his personal bests are over any time or distance . |
| 15 | She was quite calm and told me to get a watch and try and time how far apart the pains were . |
| 16 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 17 | The animals were chased across a field and drowned when they tried to escape by jumping into a brook . |
| 18 | ‘ ( 1 ) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only — ( a ) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance ; or ( b ) that it consists in his threatening that a contract ( whether one to which he is a party or not ) will be broken or its performance interfered with , or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance . |
| 19 | But , however confident you are after being wooed and won by an overseas recruiter , you may feel isolated and vulnerable once you have signed a contract and find that you are on your own . |
| 20 | On either side of Thorfinn , there was a rustle and dash as men shifted . |
| 21 | Please tick the relevant boxes if you require further details , or would like to make a donation or feel that you can help us and return this form to the appropriate address below . |
| 22 | Brutus compares Caesar to a snake and says that as it is bright day which brings forth the adder it will be Caesar 's crowning that would bring out his bad personality . |
| 23 | ‘ Turn into a snake and slither after you ? ’ |
| 24 | A Bertola Pale Dry Fino or Manzanilla is worth a try and proves that this well known house produces more than the famous Bertola Cream . |
| 25 | His hope was that he would be able to spend the Easter weekend in peaceful anonymity away from the media , not foreseeing that the press conference would merely be the beginning to a story that grew and grew . |
| 26 | He had gone down to the cells to have a look and discovered that the prisoner was his former schoolmate . |
| 27 | Have a look and decide if there are any that seem to go together . |
| 28 | I tell Marie I 'd like some gloves cos I lost mine , and she says we 'll have a look and see if there 's any good cheap ones . |
| 29 | could speak to them and say erm give them some encouragement to go and have a look and see if there 's any hostels or something . |
| 30 | Have a look and see if that sums it up . |