Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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31 Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church .
32 Then , for a quarter of a century , the Eardisley station building was to linger disturbed no more by the rumble of trains passing between Hereford and Mid Wales or arriving along the former Great Western branch from Kington .
33 Although recognizing the dangers of verbalizing about art , Greger is adamant that ‘ … without analysis , without thinking or talking about the many interrelated meanings of an art form , the process of coming-to-know , or of ‘ growing up ’ to a work is probably not possible' ( ibid ) .
34 When the criminal proceedings in the youth court end , and the same young person who has been held in secure accommodation or remand on the same day may be the subject of an application in the family proceedings court , with a guardian to represent them .
35 Possible definitions of co-ordinate are , to place or classify in the same order or rank ; to combine or integrate harmoniously .
36 In the British test-tube baby programme , viable embryos are either implanted or destroyed after a few days .
37 You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on .
38 Suppose that the ‘ wall-of-money ’ theme plays through December , and that share prices move sideways or fall by no more than , say , 10% .
39 Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens .
40 The annual rate of loss by shipwreck or burning during the same period may have been about 4 percent .
41 And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax .
42 But particularly intriguing is the phenomenon of syncretisation itself , as an artistic process , and its relationship to meaning : the process whereby something new is created that can not simply be reduced to either side of two antagonistic forces , or returned to a former ‘ purity ’ .
43 Overall , almost three-quarters of the participants either reduced their intake ( 61 per cent ) or remained at the same level ( 11 per cent ) between the first and the last three weeks of the course .
44 This common bond can be based on living in the same area , or working in the same factory , or attending the same church , or being members of the same club .
45 As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ .
46 Although yeast bHLH proteins that bind to the same DNA sequence as Myc and Max have been described , they are unlikely to play a significant role in our experiments .
47 They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs .
48 In March , as in past years , we had two members in the delegation that met with the all party committee for pensions in the House of Commons where we raised many of the matters that are worrying our generation including community care .
49 Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality .
50 James Anderson , of Jarrow , asks how we managed to miss the series of disasters at nuclear power stations that occurred in the former Soviet Union during the mid-1990s , causing the flight of tens of millions of people towards western Europe and triggering the ‘ Refugee Wars ’ of 1995–96 .
51 NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period .
52 PERINATAL MORTALITY RATION — The annual number of late fetal deaths plus infant deaths during the early neonatal period ( sometimes infant deaths during the first month of life ) per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same year .
53 Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices .
54 Smith , the car 's owner , told magistrates at Eastbourne : ‘ It was just one of those things that happens after a few bevvies . ’
55 They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst .
56 But they only had one goal to show for all that effort , that came on the half an hour from top goal scorer Martin Foyle .
57 Brilliant and that came to the same as one quarter .
58 Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source .
59 I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end .
60 Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect .
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