Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the cause or matter is properly characterised as criminal , it can not lose that character simply because at one stage it is carried forward by techniques which closely resemble those employed in civil matters , or which lead to relief often granted in civil matters , or which are available in civil or criminal matters alike ; any more than , having gained this new character by the employment of such techniques , it would revert to its former status when the deployment of the techniques came to an end . |
| 2 | The development of such ‘ industries ’ has also been facilitated by improved communications and transport as well as the need to generate income in areas that have been adversely affected by the economic recession of the early 1980s or which are unsuitable for other kinds of economic activity such as agriculture . |
| 3 | If they are arthritic , their sight is poor , or they are subject to dizzy spells they may trip over the flex . |
| 4 | quite away beyond just trading standards issues to cover for example , things like fund control , matters are concerned with the district council and er environmental issues erm and I am able to anxious to get some views from authorities including the County Council so that it can form a debate and discussion with central government about possible wa , was forward . |
| 5 | ‘ Your brother and I are busy with high finance . ’ |
| 6 | You move on , and thank you , and I 'm sorry if you 've been disturbed , and I 'm sorry about Demian , and I shall shed the deceptively comforting skin of this house , and all will be well , Larry , you shall see , the estate agent will save the day in the end . ’ |
| 7 | And I 'm happy to general background like I 've got so many staff . |
| 8 | Mrs Roper and I were entitled to legal aid , but unfortunately Mrs McNeil was n't , and that proved disastrous . |
| 9 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 10 | There are other varieties of deposit , which are made for special purposes , e.g. for housing , and which are subject to special conditions . |
| 11 | The first makes it easy to see which foods are low in calories and which are high in dietary fibre by listing the calorie and fibre content of average or easily recognizable portions of all the basic foods . |
| 12 | If , for example , the reasons described seem unfair or conflict with what was said to you at the time of your dismissal , and you are eligible for unfair dismissal rights , the next step might be for you to make a complaint to the industrial tribunal . |
| 13 | I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain . |
| 14 | ‘ In a free democratic society it is almost too obvious to need stating that those who hold office in government and who are responsible for public administration must always be open to criticism . |
| 15 | ‘ In a free democratic society it is almost too obvious to need stating that those who hold office in government and who are responsible for public administration must always be open to criticism . |
| 16 | ‘ In a free democratic society it is almost too obvious to need stating that those who hold office in government and who are responsible for public administration must always be open to criticism . |
| 17 | In practice there were two types of member : the fifty or so of middle-class or petit bourgeois origin who formed the backbone of the appreciative audience at Leese 's regular Wednesday night diatribes against the Jews at his London headquarters represented the core of the IFL ; there were also working-class members who engaged in street meetings at intermittent intervals and who were involved in direct conflict and physical violence with members of the Jewish community . |
| 18 | And she 's ready for early nights . |
| 19 | Pharmaceuticals is a growing area of business and we are involved in major projects for . |
| 20 | This system is fairly crude , though , and we are bad at discerning small differences in temperature . |
| 21 | The group has also explored other areas and agencies that could provide financial support including Glasgow District Council , Glasgow Development Agency and various Charitable Trusts and we are hopeful of encouraging levels of support . |
| 22 | ‘ Both me and Vinny had a good sleep on the plane and we are ready for hard training . |
| 23 | We know more , we discover extra documents , we use infra-red light to pierce erasures in the correspondence , and we are free of contemporary prejudice ; so we understand better . |
| 24 | We publish a handbook for our members , provide appraisal services , and we 're active in legislative matters . |
| 25 | Most had ‘ No Photocopying ’ notices attached , and one was unavailable for inter-library loan . |
| 26 | Of thirty-four statutes repealed along with the general act in 1824 , twenty had been passed since 1714 ; ten of these had been passed in Dublin and did not apply to England and one was specific to Scots miners . |
| 27 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's in the cottage hospital , still unconscious as far as I know — I 've left one of my boys there in case she comes to , but she 's running a high temperature and they 're afraid of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 29 | On the other hand , they are employees in that they do not own the organisation for which they work , they are salaried agents , and they are subject to superior authority . |
| 30 | Their forms of organization are partly structured by the dominant network of power and authority and they are dependent on specific languages to endow their protests with meaning . |