Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 always spread a and I I was listening to or or during a programme and it said er , we 're always told how firms are going down the shoot !
2 They are not taxed on dividends or except as a recapture of related deductible expenses , such as interest — capital gains derived from foreign affiliates under a participation exemption .
3 And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot .
4 So I chose general farming , and then you chose whether you wanted to go to a farm or and in a hostel , communal .
5 A service done out of friendship such as helping out at a barbecue or because of a threat is not within s.1 .
6 Taking into account all the adjustments , we can see that the bank bond ought to be trading at 5.61 lower than or at a yield to maturity of 1.14 per cent higher than the comparable government bond .
7 ( 2 ) Provided that where after a partner 's death the partnership business is continued in the old firm-name , the continued use of that name or of the deceased partner 's name as part thereof shall not of itself make his executors or administrators estate or effects liable for any partnership debts contracted after his death .
8 Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time .
9 Findspots and masons ' marks confirm Pausanias 's division of the subjects between east and west , and his order ( except that by a slip he omits the dragging of Cerberus from Hades ) .
10 It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism .
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12 The employers acknowledged that if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy .
13 I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland .
14 Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back .
15 It is assumed that because of a basin that is still strongly subsiding , the degree of coalification will not yet have reached the equilibrium which would relate to the present depth and temperature , and that gas generation and accumulation are still taking place here .
16 Legal experts have noted , in this context , that because of a loophole in the law an owner ( in this case British Coal ) is not responsible for the pollution caused by the abandonment of a mine .
17 Like the French and Burgundians , d'Ayala was aware of the fighting qualities of the Scots ; it was indeed , he claimed , because they preferred fighting to work that the country was poor , rather than because of a lack of natural resources .
18 A further advantage is that whereas with a series of debentures with a charge on the company 's assets it will be necessary to say expressly in each debenture that it is one of a series each ranking pari passu in respect of the charge ; debenture stock achieves that result without express provision .
19 ( 1990 ) report that whereas in a Yorkshire mining community the pro-Labour Daily Mirror was the most widely-read daily newspaper , both before and after the strike , in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the pro-Conservative The Sun was the most popular before the strike , and equally popular with the Daily Mirror after it .
20 Víctor Salorio Neyra , the head of the Labour Ministry 's office in the province of Manu , stated that while on a visit on July 17-29 to gold-panning operations at Waypethue and Choque , he had discovered 71 clandestine graves containing dozens of children .
21 Much better to be untruthful and leave Laura thinking that but for a migraine , they might have spent the night together .
22 He noted approvingly that ‘ in a state of nature wild female animals will not allow the approach of the male except when in a state of rut ’ .
23 Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark .
24 And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg .
25 Prevailing weather conditions dictate if and where in a lake carp will feed .
26 Not Terry Place , who , as far as could be judged , had never met any of the Pitts except the girl , and that on a day that nearly killed him .
27 Next , a comparison can be made between the viscosity of a polymer melt at a temperature , and that at a reference temperature such as and so
28 And that at a time when , as was realised , the stakes were particularly high , when the country 's prospective self-sufficiency in oil would provide an incoming Government with a stronger economic base .
29 They feel that , on alcohol advertising in particular , the EC has ducked the issues posed by a single market and satellite broadcasting ; and that as a result regulations may be cut back to the loosest common denominator .
30 But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated .
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