Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The anti-lobby group 's tactic , which became a habit , was to report particularly sensational comments made by Sir Bernard or his underlings and to name the source .
2 Section 11(1) of the 1968 Theft Act provides : … where the public have access to a building in order to view the building or a part of it , or collection or part of a collection housed in it , any person who without lawful authority removes from the building or its grounds the whole or part of any article displayed or kept for display to the public in the building or that part of it or in its grounds shall be guilty of an offence .
3 Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above .
4 The Association has over 600 voluntary welfare workers throughout the U.K. who are able to help ex-serving R.A.F. personnel or their dependents .
5 Also removed , to avoid presidential veto , was the clause revoking a ban on abortion in US military hospitals for military personnel or their dependents .
6 Richard Peck House provides a convalescence not readily available through the NHS for serving or ex-Service personnel or their dependants .
7 Richard Peck House provides convalescence not readily available through the NHS , for serving or ex-Service personnel or their dependants .
8 Every Elf city was required to have a martial field where its soldiers could train and fight mock battles .
9 ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows .
10 Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics .
11 He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results .
12 Major visitations were conscientiously carried out by the heralds or their deputes — assisted.by the sheriffs and their officers — for more than a hundred and forty years .
13 We may argue about the timescale of change or its effects on our lives , but what is beyond doubt is that change , massive and fundamental , is taking place in the way we acquire , use and are influenced by information .
14 Their brakes must have locked as they were coming down the slope , for there was a twenty-yard slice of chocolate loam where their wheels had scoured the turf .
15 To find the others , consult the five volumes of Seaby 's Roman Silver Coins & Their Values .
16 Chopper Harris , on the other hand , was a dullard who had a big heart where his friends were concerned , and it was he who often stood cups of tea or a pint for his friends .
17 Can you stop them taking your trade secrets or your customers with them when they leave ?
18 He was not someone whom Rigby or her classmates had seen as a pin-up type .
19 If the electorate disapproves of the policies or their outcomes , it has the opportunity to replace the government at the next election .
20 This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice .
21 Thus contempt is wider than simply breach of any of Parliament 's privileges but can consist of any conduct which interferes with the workings of Parliament or is likely to bring Parliament or its members into disrepute .
22 The court has no concern with the manner in which Parliament or its officers carrying out its Standing Orders perform these functions .
23 It was typical of his self-absorption that he displayed no curiosity about her sudden haste to return to her apartment or her plans for the evening and weekend .
24 Most solicitors are finding that a number of receipts issued by superiors or their agents are not completed by being signed in terms of Form 2 of Schedule I prescribed by the Act for redemption receipts .
25 The Operators & Observers of the River Adige & Its Banks are running a second Green Canoe Tour down Italy 's second longest river from 24th to May 7th to make the local population aware of the environmental threats to the river .
26 Gagosian does not represent artists or their interests , he simply buys and sells works on the market , and he is known to be spectacularly good at it .
27 The proponents of the law had proposed a fee of 5% of the sale price of the object to be paid to artists or their survivors for fifty years after the artist 's death .
28 Questioning does not take place only with essays or their titles .
29 Now they were going to be given a chance to put their money where their mouths were .
30 Factory farming will become a thing of the past if we put our money where our mouths are and support ‘ kinder ’ food with our purses , argues Audrey Eyton
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