Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common law liability has been modified in respect of fires spreading from the defendant 's land by the Fires Prevention ( Metropolis ) Act 1774 , which provides that no action shall be maintainable against anyone in whose building or on whose estate a fire shall accidentally begin . |
| 2 | Therefore , there is no lack of commitment by the board or by me . |
| 3 | The service pipe from the Gas Board mains to the property must be laid by the Gas Board or by their nominee . |
| 4 | the likelihood of the damage or of its being severe was due to characteristics of the animal which are not normally found in animals of the same species or are not normally so found except at particular times or in particular circumstances ; and |
| 5 | ‘ wilfully and indecently ’ 'Wilfully' can be proved from the accused 's own admission or from his comments or actions at the time of the offence . |
| 6 | 1.1 Loss , whether of status , security , freedom or in its many other aspects is often an implicit part of the life situations of departmental clients . |
| 7 | Not allowing the family member to take any form of responsibility that : should rightly belong to the primary sufferer or to someone else . |
| 8 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 9 | Their perceptual distinguishability , alone , is no proof either of their actual existence or of their distinguishability per se . |
| 10 | Ever since , numerous writers have paraphrased these sentiments , either in their fiction or through their own self-scrutiny . |
| 11 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 12 | Jan 's pure voice rings out on quiet tracks such as Denim , Blue and Going Nowhere , accompanied either by fellow songwriter Tony Kirkham on acoustic guitar or by herself on piano . |
| 13 | Even when active , a time interval does not seem the same to a cicada as to a ground squirrel or to ourselves . |
| 14 | You can get help from your GP or from your local Social Services Department and you could contact a local rape crisis centre or women 's refuge . |
| 15 | Soon after the birth , you and your baby will be visited by a health visitor who will tell you about health checks for the baby either from your GP or from your local child health clinic . |
| 16 | You can get help from you GP or from your local Social Services Department and you could contact a local rape crisis centre or women 's refuge . |
| 17 | Soon after the birth , you and your baby will be visited by a health visitor who will tell you about health checks for the baby either from your GP or from your local child health clinic . |
| 18 | If the trade unions want to exercise that right , they will have to get the legal title to them whether by purchase or by what has been called euphemistically , and in criticism of Robert Owen 's failure to see the significance of ownership , ‘ revolutionising practice ’ . |
| 19 | By the mid-1730s the Upholders Company saw fit to make available to their members blank funeral invitation tickets for overprinting , affiliation to the company being shown by an inscription on the plate-mark beneath the illustration , reading ‘ Perform 'd by the Company of Upholders at Exeter Change & at their Hall in Leaden Hall Street . ’ |
| 20 | Finally , there will be a few situations in which local authorities have been almost entirely the innovators , in which they have sought to promote local acts through Parliament or in which they have interpreted general powers given to them in quite novel ways . |
| 21 | But he did n't come , either to her apartment or to her office . |
| 22 | She sat in the kitchen or in her boudoir . |
| 23 | We may efface the intellect in our teaching or in our practice , but we can not escape the uneasy conscience of a good mind trying to adapt to a bid faith . |
| 24 | Seventhly , if within five years before his election or since his election he is convicted of an offence and has passed upon him a sentence of imprisonment ( whether suspended or not ) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine . |
| 25 | So he shot forward , and what you are trained to do as a good removal man is you drop if you 're dropping anything you drop it on your toe or on your hand . |
| 26 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 27 | When were you last using it for knitting or for your tapestry ? |
| 28 | Talk about examples ( from their own experience or from their reading ) of changes in word use and meaning over time , and about some of the reasons for these changes , eg technological developments , euphemism , contact with other languages , fashion . |
| 29 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |
| 30 | I have my orders — come back with the money or without you . |