Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There tends to be more division between workers where the strike may be defined as ‘ illegal ’ ; employers are likewise more apt to continue production and employ strikebreakers ; and trade unions are more likely to elicit more public condemnation and encounter ‘ more vigorous state repression ’ when they deliberately flout the law ( ibid.:1125 ) . |
| 2 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 3 | Reda have introduced a new QA process at their Singapore manufacturing base for BP whereby every component is individually checked and numbered during assembly of the ESPs which are now well and vibration tested before shipment to the UK . |
| 4 | It 'll be nine thousand five hundred , take off N times zero over a hundred . |
| 5 | These might be to : ‘ go swimming for thirty minutes after work once a week ’ , ‘ use the stairs rather than the lift ’ , ‘ walk to the restaurant instead of driving ’ . |
| 6 | The seller will replace free of charge any goods proved to the Seller 's satisfaction to have been damaged in transit provided that within 24 hours after delivery both the Seller and the carriers have received from the Purchaser notification in writing of the occurrence of the damage and also , if and so far as practicable , of its nature and extent . |
| 7 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 8 | RESTRICTED CONTRACTS — the legal term for lettings where the landlord and tenant live in the same house . |
| 9 | But even when it breaks down there are all sorts of reasons why a couple could benefit by continuing to cooperate , and treating their divorce , too , as nonzero sum . |
| 10 | Other preparations recommended for minor burns include Nelson 's Burn Ointment and Pakua , a wonderful preparation which aids healing in all sorts of injuries where the skin is damaged . |
| 11 | And the notion of generalization decrement can also explain the effects of prior exposure to B alone if it is allowed that such training will make the B stimulus less effective and thus relatively unlikely to interfere with the perception of A when the two are presented in compound . |
| 12 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 13 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 14 | Officers have been combing scrubland and bracken on the outskirts of Bicester where the revolver was found , looking for other weapons , baseball bats used in the attack . |
| 15 | Whilst a number of considerations may limit the resort to force majeure , there is a sufficiency of means once the will to use them is present . |
| 16 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 17 | And perhaps most people qualified to judge would concede that there comes a time early in any study of Joyce where the student has to beat the Dublin streets on foot . |
| 18 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 19 | This was another futile pretension of formality , since anyone wanting to buy from Nana 's small , dusty stock of essentials when the window was shuttered simply wandered into the yard and called for attention . |
| 20 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 21 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 22 | There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation . |
| 23 | The Lorne plateau , between Loch Awe and Oban in western Scotland , lies to the north-east of Kilmelford where the Lagalochan intrusive complex has been investigated for copper and gold . |
| 24 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 25 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 26 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 27 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 28 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 29 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 30 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |