Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistress Philippa smiled and stepped forward into the light and Athelstan realised just how boorish Cranston had been . |
| 2 | Mistress Philippa rose as they entered . |
| 3 | Today the branch chairman said that had Mr Taylor tried again , he might have faced a similar rebellion . |
| 4 | It was ten past seven and the saloon bar of the Duke of Clarence pub was already smoke-filled , the noise level rising and the crowd at the bar three feet deep . |
| 5 | Thus S. M. Lipset wrote that " The distinctive and most valuable element of democracy is the formation of a political elite in the competitive struggle for the vote of a mainly passive electorate . " |
| 6 | I recently wrote to all Second Division clubs asking if they wanted to retain terracing and every reply to date says yes . |
| 7 | At the request of an Abu Dhabi representative , PW drew up a report to help the majority shareholders decide whether to continue to support the bank . |
| 8 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 9 | Defence counsel contended that its only effect on any but a minute lunatic fringe of readers would be horror , revulsion and pity . |
| 10 | In one case , it was said that ‘ it was the 15-year-old girl who was the dominant partner in the relationship ’ with a 28-year-old woman separated from her husband , while in the other case ‘ a pretty 15-year-old schoolgirl skipped lessons to have a lesbian love affair ’ ; however the defence counsel said that her mother had told police she thought there was nothing wrong with a lesbian relationship and ‘ if it had not been for the age of the young lady , none of us would be here today ’ . |
| 11 | The defence counsel said that appeals would be made against the verdicts . |
| 12 | Defence counsel stated that Adams had made a full admission . |
| 13 | The old case authorities suggest that the nature of a share as property does not prevent such a course , but the more modern cases seem to incline towards some restrictions upon the use of votes where there is a conflict of interest involved . |
| 14 | In response Kosygin admitted that ‘ they may not be hurting us , but they give us no pleasure either ’ . |
| 15 | Trying to get an edge — which will count for very little unless the price is right , the IBM Personal Computer Co says that all its new business-oriented personal computers will be designed to comply with the most comprehensive worldwide health , safety and ergonomic standards by year-end : the promise covers desktop and floor-standing units , displays and keyboards ; it claims it will also be the first computer manufacturer in the world to test these products for compliance with the International Standards Organisation Standard 9241 , which addresses the health , safety and comfort of display terminal users starting with premium PS/2s . |
| 16 | It would reflect the differences in options open to people , being less ( more ) unequally distributed than money income according as the rich work harder ( less hard ) than the poor . |
| 17 | Continuing changes in university funding meant that finding an alternative source of financing the care of the Torrie collection and the university 's other artworks was essential , Dr Macmillan said . |
| 18 | They also criticized the evident lack of contingency plans to prevent or respond to accidents of this kind . |
| 19 | And the Bank of England 's ease in selling so many gilt stocks early yesterday is a reminder of just how great the budget deficit remains and how much more public borrowing must follow — taking cash that might otherwise have bought shares . |
| 20 | The German budget deficit soars as Chancellor Kohl bribes Hitachi and Toshiba to close their German operations and transfer them to Northern Ireland ; a relieved Toshiba says ‘ IRA terrorists are rank amateurs compared with Nazi thugs ’ . |
| 21 | The causal direction hypothesis predicts that performance will be better on the causal task than on the temporal task . |
| 22 | Animal protection groups claim that the EC cosmetic industry accounts for about 50000 of the 200000 tests carried out worldwide on animals . |
| 23 | Systems are build from board level products designed and manufactured somewhere in the Far East . |
| 24 | The BASS course board found that the older non-traditional students were high risk especially in the over 35 age group . |
| 25 | He subsequently received letters from CSRG and university counsel claiming that all the work he had contributed to Berkeley since NET2 was ‘ University proprietary , ’ a phrase he had never heard before . |
| 26 | The Queen 's Bench Division Direction says that the wording must be specific , and if prescribing unpleasant consequences unless a particular act is done , the order must make clear the precise period within which the act is to be done except that unless the court otherwise specifies , no time need be specified in the case of judgments or orders for the payment of money , for possession of land , or the delivery of goods ; in those cases , the order , unless some time is specified , may be enforced immediately . |
| 27 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 28 | Thus it is important for the computer experts to adapt if they are to maintain some grasp , albeit a tenuous one , on the computers in their organisations . |
| 29 | The scarcity of modern director 's negligence cases suggests that the likelihood of liability actually being imposed is currently minimal . |
| 30 | Review of the case notes showed that coeliac disease had not been considered in any of these patients and the diagnoses that had been made were not supported by satisfactory evidence . |