Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lines of humour fanned out from his mouth , and his teeth gleamed whitely in the darkness . |
| 2 | Importantly , Gramsci did not believe that consent was produced as the result of a ruling class conspiracy to hoax the workers ; for him , ideologies arose out of the material realities within which human beings live and work . |
| 3 | The calls come via three sources : personal requests made by members of the public at the station 's enquiry desk ; telephone calls made directly to the station ; and messages relayed from BRC , the central communications network . |
| 4 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
| 5 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 6 | Quacking and complaining , the ducks hopped back into the water and swam away . |
| 7 | This ‘ Winnie the War Winner ’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m² ; ) . |
| 8 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 9 | You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself . |
| 10 | It emphasized that many people considered that direct contact between boards and course teams was ‘ one of the most valued aspects of the Council 's operation ’ , and the Council concurred with this view as long as boards worked within the policies laid down by the committees . |
| 11 | The district council claim that unauthorised use of the farm shop for the sale of goods not produced within the farm holding is not a use ancillary to agricultural use , and is contrary to policies laid down by the district local plan . |
| 12 | Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels . |
| 13 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 14 | ( WES ) Almost all the club 's riders have refused to agree to new pay scales laid down by the sport 's governing body . |
| 15 | What they suggest is that the roots of these activities lay deep in popular or folk culture but that ultimately the new urban manifestation of these activities revealed more about the values of the business classes than they did about the masses themselves . |
| 16 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 17 | Finally , there is the suggestion that organic molecules arose elsewhere in the Universe , perhaps on dust particles in space , and were first carried to Earth on meteorites . |
| 18 | Conservation programmes arose both within the United States , and , more or less independently , in the colonies of sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 19 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 20 | One such example is the large number of hoards of very debased silver Roman coins hidden in the later third century AD , which comprise coins made just before the currency reforms of that period . |
| 21 | The Commission made a provisional determination that the plaintiffs had failed to establish a claim according to the rules laid down under the statute . |
| 22 | Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible . |
| 23 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 24 | Claims brought in respect of loss of cargo will be governed by the rules laid down in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 , the Hague-Visby Rules . |
| 25 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 26 | Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention . |
| 27 | The personal estate was distributed in accordance with rules laid down by the Statutes of Distribution of Charles II 's and James II's reigns . |
| 28 | But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself . |
| 29 | True , the police do at times breach the rules laid down by the law . |
| 30 | The deliberations in Bonn were guided by rules laid down by the Allies . |