Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 2 | But it is the cinema which has blended all these different forms together to create potent and resonant imagery , a visual and aural imagery of powerful locomotives , billowing smoke , clattering rails , and melancholy train whistles , allied to the ideal dramatic potential of a mixed group of passengers thrown together by circumstance for the duration of the journey . |
| 3 | Next , Joan Oliphant-Fraser the Dame of Champagne and author of the book The Champagne Diet will discuss the benefits of drinking champagne daily to stay happy and healthy . |
| 4 | Consequently as T decreases ΔG M eventually becomes positive and phase separation takes place . |
| 5 | The end of this breakwater only becomes clear when fairly close , but otherwise the approaches to the main port are simple . |
| 6 | Work out exact dimensions and design before you start construction : steps only become difficult if you start building them , then try to work out step sizes as you go . |
| 7 | You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed . |
| 8 | But the seal just looked puzzled and kind , then smiled like the sun rising . |
| 9 | It was also at this stage of increasing daily use and possibly injecting that family relationships generally became strained and in many cases reached breaking point . |
| 10 | But in May 1981 the contradictions finally became irreconcilable when Elliott insisted on his right to hire prestigious journalists at ‘ appropriate salaries ’ . |
| 11 | Any normal man would find it a pleasure just to sit still and look at her , drinking her in . |
| 12 | Crerand bitterly resents Docherty who dismissed him as Manchester United 's assistant manager and according to the ex-Celtic halfback , the late Jock Stein once described Docherty as ‘ nothing but a Glasgow corner boy . ’ |
| 13 | A poorly-run gasifier rapidly becomes unusable and may destroy the engine to which it is attached . |
| 14 | Jargon words usually sound ugly and unintelligible to outsiders . |
| 15 | The department also offers first- and second-level courses as appropriate outside subjects for many other honours degrees . |
| 16 | The department also has extensive and state of the art facilities for modern investigations and diagnostic veterinary pathology . |
| 17 | Like the Normal channel , the Drive side also features treble and bass controls ( the treble comes ‘ post ’ distortion and so can be used to tailor the lead sound 's smoothness or harshness ) , but instead of a mid control this channel uses what Fender term ‘ Contour ’ . |
| 18 | A month later Kylie also made sure that Dennis and Joan were in the audience when she appeared before the Queen Mother at the Royal Variety Performance . |
| 19 | If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority . |
| 20 | Portugal also provided humanitarian and logistical support for the multinational force . |
| 21 | And Mr Wright also kept silent although his solicitor said he was happy with the verdict . |
| 22 | Before then , despite a number of chances , this game had nil all written all over it ; United did have their chances , they hit the post , Steve Foster and Martin Foyle both went close but the ball never appeared to be going into the back of the net . |
| 23 | The deal supposedly went wrong when bombers took advantage of the CIA protection . |
| 24 | Indonesia also has a large electrification programme underway involving hydro-electric and thermal power station projects but these and a number of large oil and petrochemical projects are threatened by balance of payments problems . |
| 25 | In many organisations , power relationships often go unnoticed because instructions and orders are often couched in polite terms — ‘ Could you , please , do this or that for me ’ . |
| 26 | All Gascoigne 's multi million pound move to Lazio now looks dead and buried . |
| 27 | Many people in the north-east often feel marginalised and that their views are not taken into account . |
| 28 | Birds ' songs often sound varied and melodious to us , but if they are recorded and played back at slow speed , they are found to have vastly more detail than we realise . |
| 29 | Some manufacturers now charge little or nothing extra for diesel . |
| 30 | Lacking any real context , unattached to any larger understanding of why relationships between managers and workers matter , the prescriptions often remain shallow and are treated as such . |