Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 32 | Employers in this period were either providing from the resources of their businesses or demanding from the state such measures as pensions ( which it was hoped would remove from workers worry about their future in old-age , and would enable employers to dismiss less efficient older workers with clear consciences ) , sickness benefit and medical care ( which would enable them to recover more quickly and fully from sickness ) and , more occasionally , unemployment benefit , which it was also hoped would increase the workers ' sense of security . |
| 33 | The authority conferred by the resolution may be general for that purpose or limited to the purchase of shares of any particular class or description , and may be unconditional or subject to conditions ( s166(2) ) . |
| 34 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 35 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 36 | Week two , an analysis written , hand or drawn or painted of an example of pre-Raphaelite work . |
| 37 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 38 | Snowy white in plumage , with a black beak and large jet black eyes , it lays a single egg on the bare branch of a tree , choosing a little hollow or crack in the bark so that the egg does n't roll off . |
| 39 | This leads to an immense amount of detailed design in terms of the location of every bolt , nut or fastening throughout the whole 17m boat . |
| 40 | 1805 The stent includes " The Sum allow 'd Mrs. MacMillan , Professed Midwife , for her encouragement to attend & remain in the Island for this year . |
| 41 | The expression of synaptic potentiation probably involves both pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms , not necessarily in the same proportion at each stage , the one leading to an increase in transmitter release and the other to an increase in the number or change in the properties of the ion channels which mediate synaptic transmission . |
| 42 | Many situations predispose to spatial disorientation — The main ones are : a ) Any situation involving a reduction or change in the way essential cues are available to you , eg on transition from visual to instrument flight or attempting to fly visually when what you can see is inadequate as in poor light , haze or high altitude . |
| 43 | In addition , human systems may well respond or adapt to the predictions of a model , which become , in effect , self-fulfilling prophecies . |
| 44 | Lack of privacy in hospital may also be a cause of problems with bladder or bowels ; for example most patients find it difficult to use a bedpan , or commode in the ward area , even when well screened from other patients . |
| 45 | A student having completed Music Making : Solo 1 may proceed to Solo 2 or remain at the same level , provided that the study employs different techniques : for example , voice and keyboard ; guitar and bass guitar ; violin and sitar . |
| 46 | If you go abroad to live , or remain outside the UK for three months or more , you can continue to receive the pension , but you may not get any increase when the pension goes up . |
| 47 | At eleven a child might transfer to a grammar or central ( technical trade ) school or remain in a ‘ reorganised secondary school ’ . |
| 48 | Other groups , such as single-parent families , the poor and the disabled , will gravitate to or remain in the cities , partially as a result of the relatively greater availability of rented accommodation . |
| 49 | They were watching , because a machine rolling around by itself is something that you do watch , even if you 've just had to climb a tree or hide behind a hedge . |
| 50 | Or hide behind the curtains and bark like a Rottweiler . |
| 51 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 52 | Walker ( 1981 ) , for example , has shown how psychology regards the male as ‘ norm ’ ; any results which show that women behave differently tend to be either ignored or dismissed as an anomaly . |
| 53 | The training committee continued to advise the training officer , but all real initiatives were overturned or dismissed by the management committee . |
| 54 | Marooned in that room or dawdling on the shore . |
| 55 | WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children . |
| 56 | Finally , whatever the future of state schools ' funding , whether it be grant maintained or devolved under the local management of schools , all schools must be fairly and adequately resourced . |
| 57 | Remember that once a design is either drawn on screen or recalled from the disk into the working memory , it will remain in the working memory as long as the controller remains switched on , or until you erase it from the screen with the ERASE DRAWING option from within the FUNCTION menu in the menu bar at the top of the design screen . |
| 58 | What " the " does is to tell the reader that what the noun phrase names is something ( or belongs to a group of things ) which is already familiar to the reader . |
| 59 | However , when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate . |
| 60 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |