Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 2 | 5.11.2 the preparation and service of a notice under the Law of Property Act 1925 section 146 or incurred by or in contemplation of proceedings under sections 146 or 147 of that Act notwithstanding that forfeiture is avoided otherwise than by relief granted by the court |
| 3 | It remained empty or half-empty despite all the inducements . |
| 4 | Goods which are useless or unsuitable for any normal purpose will still correspond with their description ( here ‘ Norwegian Herring Meal ’ ) if it accurately identified them . |
| 5 | 1 The drills used are ill-designed or unsuitable in some respects for the learners for whom they are intended . |
| 6 | Is it a function of our body clock or our life-style , or due to some interaction between the two ? |
| 7 | The effects are plausibly perceptually based , memory based , or due to some combination of each . |
| 8 | A water authority will , therefore , be in breach of its statutory duty if it permits obnoxious odours , which amount to a nuisance at common law , to emanate either from its sewage disposal works , or due to any recycling of treated or untreated sewage sludge on to farm land , and it is open to a local authority or person aggrieved , in the absence of informal agreement perhaps via a Liaison Committee , to seek an injunction to restrain the water authority from causing the nuisance . |
| 9 | The woman , however , having attained one orgasm , can go on to another and even several during one coupling ; and may feel satisfied after one or unsatisfied without more . |
| 10 | Quickly she outlined the plan , explaining that the party was to be for local children who were handicapped or disadvantaged in some way . |
| 11 | Firstly , it is said that this is not a case in which interim relief is appropriate or possible at all . |
| 12 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 13 | The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance . |
| 14 | Next month we 'll see why the pentatonics can be taken from II , III or VI of any major scale/key and examine the sounds they create when superimposed over various chords . |
| 15 | But conventionalism can not be justified on the sole ground that surprise is inefficient or undesirable in these ways , because conventionalism does not protect against surprise as well as a simpler and more straightforward theory of adjudication would . |
| 16 | You can choose a white fir , green fir or blue-green fir and take it home already cut , root-balled or complete with all its roots . |
| 17 | I ca n't remember whether there were six or eight at this distance of time . |
| 18 | We have about seven or eight of those every year . |
| 19 | You would have to eat six or eight of these to put on weight . ’ |
| 20 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 21 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 22 | If they ‘ do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit , they must either have no existence at all , or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit . ’ |
| 23 | The question of poverty is that of death , disease , winter or that of any other natural phenomenon . |
| 24 | Where a person claims possession of land he alleges is occupied solely by a person or persons ( not a tenant or tenants holding over ) who entered into or remained in occupation without his licence or consent or that of any predecessor in title of his , the proceedings may be brought by originating application under Ord 24 . |
| 25 | Devine was particularly taken by the ornamental designs on the Scuttlers ' belts , produced with metal pins : ‘ These designs include figures of serpents , a heart pierced with an arrow ( this appears to be a favourite design ) , Prince of Wales ’ feathers , clogs , animals , stars , etc. , and often either the name of the wearer of the belt or that of some woman . ’ |
| 26 | Most caputs were in the lowlands , in river valleys surrounded by good quality fertile land , rather than in inhospitable uplands , and many were important manors by the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) , usually in royal ownership or that of some other great body , such as a bishop or an ancient abbey . |
| 27 | In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group . |
| 28 | This lays down cancellation provisions ( reg 4 ) similar to those applied under the CCA 1974 in relation to supplies by a trader of goods or services to a consumer which are made during an unsolicited visit to the consumer 's home , or that of another consumer , or the consumer 's place of work ( reg 3 ) for a VAT inclusive payment of £35 or more ( reg 3(2) ( f ) ) . |
| 29 | It was saddled and bridled which meant , so Allen reasoned , that either its rider had been thrown in the darkness of the Waste and the horse had bolted , or that for some unknown reason the verderers had been content to abandon the harness with the horse . |
| 30 | But there was nothing furtive or guilty about this customer , who radiated well being and contentment . |