Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 2 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 3 | Both had been in detention without charge or trial since their arrest following the coup d'état which brought Hafez al-Assad to power in November 1970 . |
| 4 | These particles may be atoms , molecules or ions and their diameters are generally less than 5 nm ( that is , ) . |
| 5 | In attack or defence and his distributuion is very good . |
| 6 | liability , injury , loss or damage if your motor cycle is transported by sea , air or rail within the United Kingdom |
| 7 | liability , injury , loss or damage if your caravan is transported by sea , air or rail within the United Kingdom |
| 8 | The micro-political dimension of budgeting is based on the view that budgetary decisions are not necessarily made on rational — economic grounds but that the deciding factors may be other influences such as the power base of individuals or groups and their value systems . |
| 9 | We knew nothing of Auschwitz , Belsen or Dachau until their purpose had been served . |
| 10 | An applicant for registration is asked , unless such confirmation has already been received , to produce confirmation from each of his or her home law societies , bars , chambers or courts that its professional rules do not prohibit practice in partnership with English solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 11 | Men like the radical literary critic of the 1840s , V. G. Belinsky , or Chernyshevsky and his colleague N. A. Dobroliubov , were cold and embittered men . |
| 12 | I want to thank Mum and Dad for throwing this lovely party so that you could meet Annabelle and her family ( or Steven and his family ) . |
| 13 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 14 | This preference for speech tends to be based on a logocentric assumption that speech directly expresses a meaning or intention that its speaker ‘ has in mind ’ . |
| 15 | If the module is of type SOURCE , FOREIGN or PMODEL and its name has only been reserved ( i.e. the module has not yet been entered into LIFESPAN ) , the Latest version field will display NONE . |
| 16 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 17 | He wore no hat or wig and his thick untidy hay-coloured hair was tied away from his face . |
| 18 | In the United States the first ‘ engineers ’ or drivers and their firemen performed other tasks , such as selling tickets and moving baggage and freight . |
| 19 | Surprisingly this does not conform to Egyptian conventions for depicting Semites or Nubians and their dress suggests that they are the first known representation in Egyptian art of the Mycenaeans , Bronze Age Greeks . |
| 20 | It does not matter that the plaintiffs ' cause of action against the third defendant arises from conspiracy or fraud whereas their cause of action against the third party arises from breach of a contractual or tortious duty of care . |
| 21 | It is dangerous to tell a 5 year old boy or girl that his or her mother uses language incorrectly . |
| 22 | These battery-operated devices fit tightly between the door or window and its frame , preventing it from being forced open . |
| 23 | Gradually all these societies came to be known as missions , their premises as deaf club or institute and their heads as superintendents , missioners or , if ordained by the Church of England , chaplains . |
| 24 | He did n't approve of smoking or drinking and my Dad was so dominated by him that he would hide his pipe behind a cushion — once setting fire to the chair — for fear of incurring his wrath . |
| 25 | The change in attitude was perhaps most clearly evident in Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities , where Urwick and his collaborators saw the boy neither ‘ as an amusing playmate nor as a vagrant from the ecclesiastical fold , but as the product of a still imperfect educational system and the embryo of the citizen who would decide the destiny of a still inchoate democracy ’ . |
| 26 | And they 'd start in with their bodhrans or spoons or bozouki or bones and their very heavy-handed accompaniment . |
| 27 | a statement that the list of the partners or directors and their professional qualifications is open to inspection at that office ( see also paragraph 1(d) ( ii ) above , the Business Names Act 1985 and Rule 23 of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules ) . |
| 28 | ( ii ) Any such list , as well as a list of the partners or directors in any other publicity conducted in England and Wales , must indicate the countries or jurisdictions of qualification of the partners or directors and their professional qualifications . |
| 29 | The results would be used to decorate the house or hall where her artistic flair again showed in the colour and composition of her arrangements . |
| 30 | Ignore , for the moment , the fact that many modern word-processors can check your spelling , punctuation and grammar , and that some can suggest alternate words or phrases when your ideas dry up . |