Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old deeds can be very useful for such a purpose , and certainly any containing plans should in general be retained . |
| 2 | Stylistics as a branch of literary studies can draw on this kind of work , but its concerns must in general be very different , because from a literary point of view the linguistic form of texts is of interest only in certain respects . |
| 3 | The sequence of landing was planned to put the raiders ashore in a fighting formation , and although all went to plan at Stamsund , indiscipline among boats ' crews would on other occasions cause difficulties for commandos landed late or ahead of their supporting Troops . |
| 4 | It was still believed , or at any rate hoped , that the refugees would in due course come to terms with their situation and accept resettlement . |
| 5 | It may also be that the agent would be asked to advise on the cost , and , as with civil legislation , costs in parliamentary matters can in appropriate cases be taxed under the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act , 1847 , and the 1849 Act on similar lines for the House of Lords , the only difference in Scotland being that taxation is done by the Auditor of the Court of Session . |
| 6 | Individuals may at various points in their lives experience discrimination in the allocation of resources either on the ground of being too old or too young . |
| 7 | In addition to the reduced Sports Council grant we have now been informed that facilities we have been able to use free of charge for QT Days would in future cost £210 for six hours , the maximum permissible time . |
| 8 | It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed . |
| 9 | These principal chief officers should in appropriate cases be responsible for more than one department . |
| 10 | Yet even the foreign secretary conceded that economic difficulties would in due course force a reappraisal of Britain 's military commitments within Nato . |
| 11 | The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " . |
| 12 | In a multinational empire such as that of the tsars , the divisions between Great Russians , Ukrainians , White Russians , Poles , Georgians , Armenians , Jews and the hundred other national minorities may at different times be of infinitely more significance than the divisions between classes . |
| 13 | Secondly , many people who take out credit arrangements would with good reason judge themselves to be relatively free from the risk of unemployment , or loss of earnings through illness — or at least would be ready and able to weather their financial difficulties in the event . |
| 14 | ( Certainly , Working for patients will in due course also require management accounting skills but these will be used to address different issues — such as how to ‘ price ’ contracts for clinical services — from those previously on the agenda . ) |
| 15 | In theory , if co is chosen in this way , the iterations will in due course yield ( 2 ) without further attention . |
| 16 | Only 6 per cent of education spending came from the federal budget and it was estimated that the cost of Bush 's proposals would at federal level absorb $820 million of the federal budget of $27,100 million for the fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1 . |
| 17 | But nevertheless , you may have different ways of getting from A to B but those different routes may in actual fact give a different set of benefits or perform different functions or not necessarily meet all the needs as you 're setting out to meet . |
| 18 | Pupils with physical disabilities should in general have the same attainment targets and programmes of study as their peers . |
| 19 | The genetically modified saplings will in due course be infected with the virus to test their resistance . |
| 20 | They do this by modifying the NTSC colour signal to mimic PAL , and relying on the fact that many modern PAL TV sets can by good fortune cope with 525 lines and a 60Hz field rate . |
| 21 | In Eastern Europe , meanwhile , new nation states are being formed out of the debris of the old system and nationalist feeling is exceptionally strong , and it is an open question whether some of these states will in due course be incorporated in an enlarged EC or perhaps in some still wider , but as yet only vaguely conceived , ‘ European homeland ’ ( to use Gorbachev 's expression ) . |
| 22 | 8 Third parties Without doubt the courts will in proper circumstances restrain a breach of confidence by third parties who have come by confidential information . |
| 23 | Oh dear , I thought , he reckons I 'm wheedling my way in , not for birthday greetings , but for contentious sexist matters — to grill him about tonight 's Lancashire cricket club annual meeting when the agenda is topped by a proposal that women should at long last be allowed full membership entitling them to mix with men in the pavilion . |
| 24 | While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed . |
| 25 | Owner is Dan McCue of Warbirds East who says that co-operation from manufacturers Aero at Vodochody was excellent and bodes will for other Eastern bloc aircraft being operated by civilians in the West . |
| 26 | ‘ … one who has seen many such cases can with tolerable certainty tell , without more minute examination what the nature of the complaint is. ’ — W. Cumming , London Medical Gazette , 1849 . |
| 27 | Warning notices may in certain circumstances absolve the occupier of liability for the visitor 's injuries . |
| 28 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Indeed it was the accepted orthodoxy that battles should in general be avoided as too risky and that skill in manoeuvre was the real criterion of ability in a commander . |
| 30 | was given it I think , all the sailors used to old sailors after they gone too old , was going in there all the day and a big fire there . |