Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cross is issued un-named but recipients for family often have them engraved . |
| 2 | This may partly explain why self-poisoning and self-injury among patients sometimes occur in ‘ epidemics ’ ( Hawton 1978 ) . |
| 3 | As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials . |
| 4 | See also Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. , above p. 30 , Shadwell v. Shadwell , below , p. 225 and Combe v. Combe below , p. 255 . |
| 5 | William 's attempt to achieve a pacification of the Highlands turned into a disastrous tragedy , when the dreadful massacre at Glencoe was carried out in February 1692 because MacDonald of Glencoe accidentally missed the deadline imposed by the government for swearing the oath of allegiance to William by five days . |
| 6 | ‘ There has , however , been a boom in the use of credit insurance to insure all or part of turnover almost directly as a result of the recession . |
| 7 | An exclusive purchasing agreement obliges a retailer to purchase its supply of a particular good or set of goods solely from one manufacturer . |
| 8 | Make sure that changes of formation really work . |
| 9 | Out of the office , Muriel 's preferences are for classical music , a quiet existence , with knitting , visiting the elderly and church on Sundays pretty well top of the list . |
| 10 | Reaction to the show was encouraging and word of mouth most rewarding of all . |
| 11 | It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray . |
| 12 | In The Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co v Bennett ( 1913 ) 6 TC 327 , a UK company carried on a trade in the United Kingdom and overseas and income from investments overseas ( interest and dividends ) arose to the company . |
| 13 | One third of the population is clinically anaemic and 80% of children under 5 years of age suffer from malnutrition . |
| 14 | She was in her late thirties , lean and strong , too neat and plain of feature ever to have been beautiful but her large grey eyes were intelligent and full of wilfulness and energy . |
| 15 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 16 | Water from Lambeth was much safer than water from Southwark further downstream . |
| 17 | Will he now announce an increase in investment in housing in Scotland and , more particularly , persuade the Cabinet to restore benefit to 16 and 17-year-olds in Scotland immediately ? |
| 18 | Paid in part by the Crown and in part by ecclesiastical benefices , they were Crown servants first and ministers of God only in a fairly casual sense . |
| 19 | It takes the useful and practical form of a general introductory chapter , a second chapter presenting the form of tender and form of agreement both with commentary , an extended chapter 3 which presents the conditions of the International Civil Engineering Contract ( 5th edition — 1973 ) with a running commentary not in every case clause by clause but certainly confining the commentary where it is not upon an individual clause to a small group of related clauses , and a final chapter dealing with conditions of particular application . |
| 20 | By stock market value it becomes Britain 's biggest and second in Europe only to Deutsche Bank , leaving Union Bank of Switzerland and Barclays trailing . |
| 21 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 22 | Majority verdicts , a mechanical adjustment to the process of criminal trials rather than a genuinely new policy , touched a nerve in the body politic as matters concerning juries often do . |
| 23 | It is true that policy-makers in Washington often saw themselves as using financial inducements to compel the British to act as they desired . |
| 24 | Hospital nutrition was bad and standards of cleanliness worse : dysentery and louse-borne typhus , known as ‘ hospital fever ’ were common . |
| 25 | A preacher waxing eloquent in his sermon on hell-fire exclaimed : ‘ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there ! ’ |
| 26 | In one study the mortality ranged between 2.5 and 33% in patients over 70 years depending on the surgical approach used . |
| 27 | Although invariably fewer , smaller , and less multifunctional than central governmental departments , the differences are relative and problems of co-ordination both within and between departments are nevertheless frequently found within local authorities . |