Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhetorically , Spenser 's text is organised so that it increasingly appears that Eudoxus has no counter-arguments to put to Irenius , such is the ostensible soundness of Irenius 's evidence and arguments . |
| 2 | This time , things proceeded in a more civilised manner and the arrangements concluded at the imperial conferences were enshrined in the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 of which provided , amongst many other things , that for the future , no Act of the imperial Parliament should extend to any of the six Dominions listed above unless it expressly stated that the Dominions in question had requested and consented to the |
| 3 | A hole was blasted in the floor near Mr Redmond 's feet and part of his seat was ripped away but he only received minor leg injuries . |
| 4 | If he had done so because he genuinely believed himself to be alone and was unaware that a mounted rider was behind a clump of trees nearby , though the horse as a result took fright , he might still plead that his action was not reckless . |
| 5 | The existing common law on breach of the peace has been continuously expanded so that it now adds greatly to the non-statutory powers of the police to restrict peaceful assembly ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 6 | ( His blood-pressure must have risen dangerously if he ever met anyone of the name of Hambly who also drank sherry ) . |
| 7 | Links between the two companies have grown quickly and they recently exhibited together at Houston 's Offshore Technology Conference . |
| 8 | Rober Mazur can reasonably claim to have done more than anyone else to bring down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 9 | He had done more than anyone else to make the new Government . |
| 10 | In his seventh year at Easter Road , Miller has probably done more than anyone else to keep Hibs afloat . |
| 11 | I hope that the Party can use Marxism Today as its ‘ front door ’ , and as a major interface with the wider movement : MT has done more than anything else to build up the prestige of the CP , and that contribution should never be forgotten . |
| 12 | A mixture of series and parallel , which you 've done before but you probably need a bit of revision . |
| 13 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 14 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 15 | Now they may all look dirty to you but this one has been used less and it therefore has less . |
| 16 | The oral shield is a rounded rhombic to pentagonal shape ; often the proximal angle is acute and produced so that it almost separates the adoral shields . |
| 17 | These notes , however , should be used sparingly as they soon pall on the ear . |
| 18 | Equally , if the board of directors could be restructured so that it effectively monitored the executive managers of the company , who would monitor the board itself ? |
| 19 | ‘ Debbie was born there and we still have a place there , but not the same one that she grew up in . |
| 20 | This should be set so that it only comes out under considerable pressure . |
| 21 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |
| 22 | One doctor was being driven home when he suddenly said : ‘ Stop the car and let me out ’ , at which he leapt out and ran off down the road into the dark . |
| 23 | The Index will be updated regularly and we really do need to know who to send the updates to . |
| 24 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 25 | They were already fulfilled long before you ever met me ! ’ |
| 26 | The red stockings and garters are stored away but you never know — they may soon be out again for another airing . |
| 27 | Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel . |
| 28 | Contrary to the suggestion in para 18/8/10 of the 1993 White Book , it has been held that a claim for interest under s35A is sufficiently pleaded even if it only appears in the prayer and not also in the body of the pleading ( McDonald 's Hamburgers Ltd v Burgerking ( UK ) Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 112 ) . |
| 29 | Acting for a seller , who may be at risk of heavy damages payable to a disappointed buyer , the seller should be asked explicitly whether anyone else has an interest in the property : if so , that person 's written consent to the sale should be obtained , or he or she should join in the contract for sale to declare and relinquish his or her interest , if any . |
| 30 | At the same time , I would warn Obair * , the same as I would warn anybody setting up a scheme , to make sure that the scheme is properly run , to make sure that the scheme is n't used to take jobs away from either the domestics , the home helps or any other jobs in the health service — make sure that abuse is taken away and I certainly wish them luck in the future and I thank you for inviting me here to speak . |