Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should make several large caves out of well-bedded rocks , and/or well-weathered bogwood if you prefer . |
| 2 | Their instincts are a tight binding of mental or subtle structure and they are constrained to act accordingly . |
| 3 | If it 's an administration I E there 's no will it 's the er next of kin which in this context is the person next entitled to the estate so surviving spouse or surviving children if there is n't a spouse . |
| 4 | mother and she only had the one daughter and the daughter got married and oh she had about oh ten or eleven children and they 're all running round in this back yard |
| 5 | This is because St James 's Church was not listed as a building of architectural or historic interest after it was declared redundant and thus the cost of the building work would attract Value Added Tax at the standard rate . |
| 6 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 7 | The early or lower stages that he has identified are first , a stage in which children 's thinking is rooted in obedience to adults , fear of punishment and acceptance of authority ; then a stage of an essentially self-interested acceptance , for the sake of reciprocity , of a principle of fairness between peers ; and then a further stage of seeking approval and desiring to be well thought of by one 's community or group . |
| 8 | John Bitumen ( or Raging Bullshit as he 's known amongst his colleagues ) , is never one to sit on the fence ( vandalising it is more to his nature ) . |
| 9 | He made it clear that he would plead guilty to indecent assault but not to rape or attempted rape and he was allowed to do so . ’ |
| 10 | They still have discretion to determine whether it is long-term or short-term profitability that they should be striving to achieve and discretion as to how to go about realizing that goal . |
| 11 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 12 | T R E company Molecule theatre which came originally from the Mermaid in They came here two or three times a year for seven or eight years and we use to pack 'em out . |
| 13 | Nobody had , I 'd done it myself , you see and I did n't want to know and er I did n't want anybody to know you see but er , he was marvellous I know and I know there was something else tiny came away it 'd only be about six or eight weeks but it was , I think anyway what was lost was found and I was in hospital for about fourteen days . |
| 14 | And what I will do is to look erm tt in some detail at er an analysis of a man r called Richard Newstat I mentioned last time , Mr Shirley Williams , and Richard Newstat wrote a book in nineteen sixty called Presidential Power and that book is now in whatever , what it is , I do n't know , seventh or eight edition and it 's probably still the single best selling book on the American presidency and er for good reason because it , it , it raises an , an argument which is really quite simple but often neglected . |
| 15 | Because quite a l a number of members of the council had businesses and you did n't shut at six o'clock , it was seven or eight 'clock before they closed . |
| 16 | For the most part the rule of recognition is not stated , but its existence is shown in the way in which particular rules are identified , either by courts or other officials or private persons or their advisers … |
| 17 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 18 | Certainly it had none of the verve or joyous beauty that she associated with him . |
| 19 | Meaning may be wrapped in so many layers of words or unnecessary phrases that it almost disappears . |
| 20 | While such a proposal might well serve large cities with many facilities , Clemenhagen argues it would also benefit isolated or rural hospitals because they would have standards by which to compare themselves with their counterparts . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps some people need a psychological or emotional crutch before their faith will come back or to give them more confidence . |
| 22 | Many teenage children feel unable to talk to parents about intimate or emotional issues but it is important to be ready to talk , if they show that they want to . |
| 23 | It 's like a recipe — you leave out this or that ingredient and it kind of tastes the same , but not exactly . |
| 24 | At every point in those historic struggles which founded the Protestant and radical traditions in Europe , and which severed radicalism from the body of the Catholic Church , the struggle was as much for personal gain or for political or economic dominance as it was for any pure-hearted vision of goodness . |
| 25 | the difficulty quite frankly is that everybody wants to join the Study Groups on foreign affairs or economic policy and I am not at all sure that electorally these are the two most important . |
| 26 | However , particularly in long-settled countries , it is difficult to differentiate such biogeographical studies from those by historical geographers or economic historians and it was a historical geographer ( Darby , 1956 ) who mapped and compared the distribution of forest in AD 900 with that in AD 1900 . |
| 27 | The FHSA may be forced to use school dentists or mobile surgeries if they can not find a practice to take new NHS patients . |
| 28 | In addition , the court has a general power to include incidental , supplemental or consequential provisions as it thinks fit ( s11(7) ( d ) ) . |
| 29 | The principal debate about mode of origin initially centred upon the subaerial or marine hypothesis but it was later deduced , in the light of studies of contemporary shore processes , that marine planation could only be effective for less than one kilometre unless sea level was rising ( Bradley , 1956 ; King , 1963 ) . |
| 30 | At this stage the procedures are generally the same as for an ordinary cause and you have 366 days , or 367 days if it is a leap year , to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued . |