Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a visit to Vanessa , ‘ humming & booming & flourishing over the hill ’ in a household of children , could make Virginia feel suddenly diminished , her life thin and pale by comparison , Monk 's House poky and mean . |
| 2 | ‘ Thus , within each homogeneous unit , individual action is considered typical or atypical as judged in the light of the social roles determined by the group ’ ( Wagner 1979c:59 ) . |
| 3 | Enforcement agents who adopt a compliance strategy , however , are preoccupied with securing conformity to a rule or standard when confronted with a problem . |
| 4 | The tail is vibrated and shaken against rocks when the snake is irritated or alarmed and serves as a warning . |
| 5 | These include land designated for compulsory purchase , or allocated or defined by a development plan for any functions of a government department , local authority , statutory undertaker , or the National Coal Board , and land on which the secretary of state has given written notice of his intention to provide a trunk road or a ‘ special road ’ ( that is , a motorway ) . |
| 6 | Advice and assistance in making a will can only be given to a client who is over 70 , or disabled or suffering from a mental disorder ( or a parent or guardian wishing to provide for such a person ) , or a single parent wishing to appoint a testamentary guardian . |
| 7 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 8 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 9 | For example , the OALD is a learner 's dictionary , and it employs a style that seems almost informal or colloquial when compared to the comprehensive , encyclopaedic style of the OED . |
| 10 | Dersingham looked to neither left nor right but strode across the hall and began to mount the uncarpeted wooden staircase . |
| 11 | Moreover , their vast size , around 2,000 patients in many instances , together with their past custodial traditions , tended to produce a form of organization that was rigid and hierarchical and threatening to the patient . |
| 12 | These expressions , Ustachi or Chetnik , cover anything from guerrilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and Croats and Serbs to fight Tito , and armed and maintained by the Germans — to people who , either because they are Roman Catholics or Conservative in politics , or for whatever cause are out of sympathy with revolutionary Communism , and therefore labelled as Fascists or Nazis . |
| 13 | Then we come to the problem of sequencing which , one again , can be visual and auditory and connected with the hearing . |
| 14 | these proposals we regard as doing no more than initiating a programme of family welfare which will have to be kept under continuous review and modified and expanded in the light of experience and deeper knowledge . |
| 15 | But if criteria for inclusion and exclusion are not technical and professional but based on a philosophy about what human beings are , then parental expertise can not be different in kind from that of professional ( unnatural ? ) experts . |
| 16 | He became very gloomy and depressed and according to the girl it was only then that he interfered physically with her . |
| 17 | Naturally it should be clean and unrumpled and worn with a clean shirt and shoes . |
| 18 | The main house is long and low and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 19 | Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems . |
| 20 | Above all he had conceived a mission to " clean up Cardiff " by " fighting The System " by which the " slimily cunning oddments of humanity " , the boarding house keepers , the cafe owners , the Red Lamp proprietors , even the laundrymen , battened on the sailors and their families The Achilles Heel of " The System " was , he concluded , the Chinese element in the port , especially when Chinese seamen were brought in from outside and used as blacklegs by the employers . |
| 21 | After sorting out our bases we cut a couple of small gaps in the reeds to our left and right and put in the rests for the cat rods . |
| 22 | As I panted into Stranraer Gardens , following the no-hopers rule for cross-country — never run in a straight line — I was flailing my arms left and right and zigzagging at an angle of about ten degrees to the horizontal . |
| 23 | For this , you don a neoprene suit , boots , flippers and life-jacket and take to the water in a specially adapted inflated lorry inner tube . |
| 24 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
| 25 | Do n't go about much ; no late returning in crowded streets from Earl 's Court or elsewhere ; no dissipating jabber and smoking and drinking with the Andrews [ where Helen was employed ] . |
| 26 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 27 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 28 | Mrs McNee said she had watched her children become disillusioned and despondent and feared for the long-term effects on their emotional as well as physical health . |
| 29 | The time specified on a let-down chart such as 1 , 2 or 3 minutes , etc , is in fact quite meaningless and dangerous unless associated with a specific distance and speed . |
| 30 | I was somewhat less impressed by Demidenko in the smaller-scale pieces : his Rejoice beloved Christians sounds slow and bland when compared to the super-human wizardry of Frederic Chiu on his stunning début recital of transcriptions for Harmonia Mundi , ( — a ‘ must ’ for all Busonians ) whilst the slower chorales on the Hyperion disc are given the visionary touch on MK by Tatiana Nikolayeva . |