Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was heading for Inverness ultimately but made several sketching forays westward from Laggan Locks . |
| 2 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 3 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 4 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 5 | I 've been advised to stay away from political jokes ( they too often get elected ) but in the UK , party workers say : ‘ If you put a monkey up for Parliament here and stuck a red ( or blue ) rosette on him , he 'd get in . ’ |
| 6 | A defendant engaging in such conduct would , of course , be liable if injury to the animals ensued but his liability would be in what was classified before the abolition of the forms of action as case rather than trespass . |
| 7 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 8 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 9 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 10 | But most of the score-for 40 wind and percussion players without strings-is about immensity rather than detail , above all in the last movement . |
| 11 | Although there are laboratories in Europe and the United States that can grow chlamydia , again they are working as research rather than service units . |
| 12 | Bernard left for college early and said no more about Nerina . |
| 13 | You 're you 're proposing Tony that we do write to the bus company again and ask if the buses can come through just say through Halam rather than go down Station Lane at Edingley ? |
| 14 | Farmers , generally speaking , like to grow crops and look after livestock rather than sell — and they prefer privacy ; but if they are to make a success of opening their farm to the public they need to be professional about it . |
| 15 | Witnesses were found and coerced or bullied into telling what they had seen , by the simple expedient of sealing off the entire area for blocks around and threatening all-night interrogation sessions , unless information was forthcoming . |
| 16 | Just as the discussion of the inclusionary aspect of the definition of murder travelled beyond the concepts of intent and recklessness , so the discussion of the exclusionary aspect ( i.e. which killings fulfilling the definition should be classified as manslaughter rather than murder ? ) must consider the circumstances in which the killing took place and the culpability of the killer . |
| 17 | Three reasons may be advanced for labelling these cases as manslaughter rather than murder . |
| 18 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 19 | Is it not time that we took the Agenda for Peace seriously and gave the UN the resources it needs to save this and future generations from the scourge of war . |
| 20 | This also helps the printers with the positioning if you are supplying the images as artwork rather than treating them electronically . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm certain he will play for England again and put that first experience behind him . ’ |
| 22 | Although there is no direct evidence that the Baron saw cricket on his visits , he must have been well aware of its traditions of Play Up and Play the Game . |
| 23 | They are interested in what new machinery is available , certainly , but at the moment it 's a case of window-shopping rather than parting with hard cash . |
| 24 | By the use of this technique , it will be possible to gain precise information about the nature of reading difficulties at the time of comprehension rather than relying on inferences made from memory performance . |
| 25 | Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children . |
| 26 | The annual value of mergers more than trebled from a fairly stable trend in 1966 and 1967 . |
| 27 | just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say you 've achieved on this course . |
| 28 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 29 | OUR old friend John Dawson can show a clean heel , or pair of them , to all the hoppers in Christendom , of course especially when given a week off from Hartlepool post office . |
| 30 | yeah , I think it 's an organ , and that , that is all in those two recesses , now , you know if I find you know that I do n't get anywhere and I ca n't see that I wo n't , but if , because the bathroom is where the dog is there , of course consequently that comes through the corner of the lounge |