Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brambling in the pine tree was on its way back to its breeding grounds in birch woods or conifer forests — where insect populations peak during the short summer season in the far north of Europe . |
| 2 | There are five species of Dorylus or driver ants living in the same area of Africa . |
| 3 | It is no longer possible , in most cases , to rely on copyright in any drawings or computer data relating to the design . |
| 4 | Buff the wax with a soft cloth or polishing bonnet fitted to an electric drill |
| 5 | In spring the garden is a feast of blossom and bulbs : snowflake or Loddon lilies clustered around the base of the trees , violet scillas scrambling down the banks and big , old-fashioned daffodils crowded around the mulberry tree . |
| 6 | For accounting periods beginning on or after 2 October 1992 , insurance companies will be able to claim provisional repayments of tax credits attached to , or income tax deducted from , investment income linked to pension business . |
| 7 | London ! ’ cried Victoria every time the train , a slow , halting , bucolic train , drew to a standstill , either at a drowsy country station where cow parsley foamed along the line or simply nowhere , among the fields , to have a little rest . |
| 8 | Early next year , the company plans to produce a full-blown version where Progress applications reside on the HP 3000 . |
| 9 | Describes a project where case managers employed by social services , with devolved budgets , were located in a geriatric multi-disciplinary team . |
| 10 | Extracting water from deeper aquifers involves drilling a well and lining it with slotted steel or PVC pipes surrounded by a packing of pea-sized gravel . |
| 11 | I 'm too worried about earthquakes or nuclear warfare or extraterrestrial invasion or Judgement Day coming between me and my reward . |
| 12 | Very rarely did David Owen or Patrick Nairne intervene in a discussion . |
| 13 | Assistance was either manual help ( in the form of paid labour ) or contract work done on the farm . |
| 14 | This is realized phonologically as a tone group , with the peak of prominence or tonic accent falling on the new element . |
| 15 | The C&G is also unusual in offering its discounted rates without any compulsory insurance or endowment product attached as a condition . |
| 16 | A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts . |
| 17 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 18 | Remaining unmarried all her life , May Sinclair lived with her mother in Ilford , Cheltenham , Fairford , Wrexham , Salcombe Regis , and London , where Amelia Sinclair died in 1901 . |
| 19 | Cascade or waterfall units made of fibreglass or vacuum-formed plastic are readily available in a multitude of shapes , sizes and colours . |
| 20 | DORSET 7 , GLOUCS 8 FOURSOMES : T Lawrence & M Thompson bt R Broad & D Wood 3 & 2 ; I Donnelly & J Olsen lost to Thomas & O Layton 3 & 2 ; J Pounder & R Hearn bt M Stanford & D Young 3 & 2 ; S Edgley & L James lost to M Saunders & D Hares 1 hole ; W Raymond & P McMullen lost to J Webber & M Smith 2 holes . |
| 21 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 22 | Rationalisation — The social stigma of Chemical Dependency is such that reasons for drinking or drug use have to be found . |
| 23 | STEPHEN HENDRY was crowned the king of Wembley again last night as he won the Benson & Hedges Masters title for the fifth time . |
| 24 | STEPHEN HENDRY was crowned the king of Wembley again last night after winning the Benson & Hedges Masters title for the fifth time . |
| 25 | Voluntary personal abstention continued in a modest way through to the end of American slavery but plans positively to develop free-labour cultivation in the American South , India or West Africa came to little in the 1850s and the British government never gave any serious consideration after equalisation of the sugar duties beginning in 1846 to a policy of discriminating in favour of free-grown produce . |
| 26 | Nonconformist ministers , like Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Joseph Parker , Henry Allon , R. F. Horton , R. J. Campbell , John Clifford , F. B. Meyer , R. W. Dale , Alexander Maclaren , Hugh Price Hughes , C. S. Horne or Newman Hall ranked with John Keble , Cardinal Newman , Charles Kingsley , Bishop Wilberforce , E. B. Pusey or Archbishop Tait as household names to be adored or vilified , depending on one 's religious loyalties . |
| 27 | Named BSc degrees and honours degrees in environmental biology , human biology ( awarded retrospectively from July 1981 ) , earth sciences ( replacing double field in geology & environment ) , and physical sciences introduced ; also new fields in accounting & finance , and cartography ; food & nutrition field retitled as food science & nutrition . |
| 28 | Details of any import restrictions or payment restrictions imposed by the government of the foreign country . |
| 29 | ‘ What has the Faculty of Arts to do with Industry Year , or Industry Year to do with the Faculty of Arts ? ’ |
| 30 | All of these students were full time or sandwich undergraduates aiming for a first degree and enrolled on a course of three or more years duration . |