Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , looking at the contracts quoted on Hanson shares in Fig.7.2 , we can see that the highest exercise price is 160p and if the price of Hanson shares rose to 161 p for 4 consecutive trading days or rose to 170p the clearing house would create a new series of options with exercise prices of 180p . |
| 2 | Or swap for Fender The Twin amp , cash adjustment |
| 3 | You may have read in the press or seen on T.V. the proposed Regional Health Authority ( R.H.A. ) plans for ‘ improving ’ our health service , which include the closure of several of our local hospitals including ‘ The Sorrento ’ . |
| 4 | Roxburgh is undeniably aware of this but unwilling to name his side one month in advance or bestow on Ferguson the title of the finished article . |
| 5 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 6 | ( a ) Stamp duty Where there has been a conveyance or transfer on sale a PD Form will be required ; if the consideration is less than £60,000 and the property already has registered title , the PD Form should be sent to HM Land Registry with the application for registration of the transfer ( the Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1985 ( SI No 1688 ) ) . |
| 7 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
| 8 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
| 9 | Or Stretched on earth the heart-smit heifers lie . |
| 10 | Neither manager would give a clue as to his team , or discuss in depth a match which could see the Republic qualify for the finals for the first time . |
| 11 | The coheirs will be able to claim the share of the estate , with Titius retaining or taking in advance the amount with which the testator wanted him to be content . |
| 12 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 13 | But if a judge errs the other way and fines a rapist a few hundred pounds , or puts on probation a bank robber with previous convictions who clearly ought to go directly to jail , nothing happens . |
| 14 | They were too nervous and frightened of life to react to or put into words the sounds they heard from the room where their father was sleeping with Rose . |
| 15 | This prospectus contains information on full-time undergraduate courses which lead to a degree , diploma or certificate or fulfil in part the requirements of a professional body . |
| 16 | We need to beware of thinking a psychoanalyst 's couch would give us enough excuses either to blow away all our adult responsibilities , or to explain in detail every feature or peculiarity of our present thoughts or behaviour . |
| 17 | He was anxious about travelling , and worried that he might miss his train or enter by accident the wrong one : this was a fear that seems to have lingered since his youth when , as he said , " I found a variety of calamities to worry about . |
| 18 | Where the depths that made of Man a man ? |
| 19 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 20 | So that 's a that is n't a straight logarithmic curve , but that 's a thing that occurs in nature a lot and in electrical circuits , that 's a growth curve . |
| 21 | To what degree , however , such a view of time was developed in Mesopotamian thought is not revealed by the cuneiform records , although according to Seneca the late Babylonian astronomer-priest Berossus ( c.300 BC ) believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the universe . |
| 22 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 23 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 24 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 25 | We have seen no reports , however , that describe in detail the use of such a service by local clinicians . |
| 26 | Assuming that it is what it should be , it does no more than incorporate into law a moral right existing independently of the law . |
| 27 | His goal is no more than to conceal from others the discrepancy he feels between his own behaviour and what he knows to be the standards of his group , wider society , or religion . |
| 28 | Elsewhere tractors had scoured deep gullies separated by huge ridges that threatened to strand the little car with its wheels thrashing uselessly in space . |
| 29 | That 's the way he wanted it and his own bosses at American International Pictures made further changes through the difficulties they anticipated in getting the film distributed to the cinemas ; it was quite probable that it would arouse backlash over its drug content , although , as John Baxter wrote in his review of Sixties films , it was one of those films that exposed with skill the psychological moral pressures vexing society . |
| 30 | The Teutonic Knights had indeed penetrated eastwards , but their influence , when it was not military , had been to spread a lifestyle and set of material , cultural and linguistic bearings rather than set in motion the bodily removal and resettlement of vast numbers of Germans . |