Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 225g/8oz plain dessert chocolate , broken into pieces 3 × 15ml/tbsp rum or liqueur of your choice 225g/8oz unsalted butter 25g/1oz caster sugar 2 eggs , separated 150g/5oz blanched almonds , finely chopped 12 petit beurre biscuits , cut cleanly into halves icing sugar for dredging ( optional ) cream to serve ( optional ) |
| 2 | Thus in the absence of either a deliberate misleading by Moorgate Mercantile or negligence on their part , no estoppel could be raised against them . |
| 3 | The extent to which the member firm is responsible on a strict liability basis , regardless of any intention or negligence on its part , is a moot point . |
| 4 | This would have been , not because of the doctrine of estoppel ( which would have required either a deliberate misleading or negligence by her ) , but because of her signature on a document which , as was apparent on the face , was intended to have legal effect and which she had authorised the trader to complete . |
| 5 | I had seen my mother pregnant , and had been told that she was carrying a baby inside her , a little brother or sister for us all . |
| 6 | They had made the length of Loch Ness in one day , not bad going for an old man on horseback ; ‘ when he rode , ’ says Boswell at the end of the Life , ‘ he had no command or direction of his horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . ’ |
| 7 | Deuterium nuclei ( deuterons ) have a spin that will , in a magnetic field , line up either with the magnetic field or perpendicular to it . |
| 8 | The associated dipole changes must be perpendicular to the M-P bonds , but the dipole arrows may lie either in the PMP plane or perpendicular to it ( see Fig. 5.39 ) , and the two sets are not equivalent . |
| 9 | Most attention is usually given to correlations of the same component of velocity at points separated in a direction either parallel to that velocity component ( Fig. 19.4(b) ) or perpendicular to it ( Fig. 19.4(c) ) . |
| 10 | He should not seek information from other local authorities except through the chief executive or clerk of his own council . |
| 11 | At greater speeds they have a choice ; they can either swim at a greater depth ( away from the influence of surface drag ) or resort to their ‘ aquabatics ’ . |
| 12 | On the right of trade unionists to join a trade union of their choice , the hon. Gentleman seems to have forgotten that even Bill Morris , the general secretary-elect of the trade union that sponsors the hon. Gentleman , has said : ’ today when we are about choice and opportunity for the individual there is no choice in this matter or opportunity within them ’ . |
| 13 | JWP Inc , the Rye Brook , New York electrical and plumbing services conglomerate that bought struggling Businessland Inc and almost immediately regretted it , has decided that it has had enough of computers altogether and on Friday announced that it will sell its information services business ; it has retained Lazard Freres & Co as its financial advisor to attempt to find a buyer ; the unit now provides personal computer-related hardware , software and integrated services primarily to large corporate and institutional customers , has some 3,000 staff and had 1992 revenues of $1,700m . |
| 14 | One of the hillbillies , Evil-Eye Fleagle , could ‘ shoot a whammy , ’ put a curse or jinx on somebody , by pointing a finger with one eye open , or a ‘ double whammy ’ with two fingers and both eyes . |
| 15 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 16 | On the degree of evaporation or reduction to which the tomatoes are subjected the flavour of the sauce very largely depends . |
| 17 | Perhaps , more cynically , some clinicians are uneasy about information on their activities and costs being readily available fearing that RMI will ultimately be a means of control or reduction in their allocated budgets . |
| 18 | Senior house officers rarely , if ever , have a named educational supervisor or mentor with whom they can discuss problems about their training . |
| 19 | It is one 's motivation or intentionality in using one 's customs ( i.e. one 's poisonous capabilities ) ; it is one 's comprehension of them , and one 's responsibility or irresponsibility for their use , power , and force . |
| 20 | While there was little resistance to the purchase or expropriation of their land for cash crops , Fijian peasants refused to work the plantations . |
| 21 | for its test or trial or the test or trial of its accessories or equipment in the ordinary course of construction or repair or after completion in either such case ; |
| 22 | ‘ Here in the palace — though since none herein has seen hide or hair of him , one suspects that the king and his brother are under some form of house arrest . ’ |
| 23 | It will , however , likely be years before we see hide or hair of it — the company 's programming centre in Boca Raton , Florida , indicates that version 2.1 will be the next implementation of OS/2 , and even that is n't likely to hit the market until at least spring of next year . |
| 24 | However far out an animal may seem to be going there is a tendency to swing back into a pre-ordained behaviour or orbit within which motivational satisfaction may be most probably attained . |
| 25 | No hint or taint of him had touched her . |
| 26 | These animals possess the nettle-cells or nematocysts , which are arranged near their surfaces , and act as a weapon either of offence or defence for them . |
| 27 | At the other end of the spectrum , some farmers are so keen to pass on as much as they can to the next generation they leave themselves and their spouses with no capital or income on which to live . |
| 28 | If there is no qualifying interest in possession s48(4) ( b ) states that if it can be shown that all known persons for whose benefit the settled property or income from it has been or might be applied or who are or might become beneficially entitled to an interest in possession are persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom the gilt relief will be applicable . |
| 29 | It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes . |
| 30 | ‘ T was to stop you becoming completely distraught , but I was afraid to look at you , afraid to come to you that night in case I saw fear or revulsion in your eyes . ’ |