Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have , er have n't got all that worse then , here 's Tufnell comes up again , slightly faster than the other one , hits him on the pad or bit of that pad maybe , Robin Smith 's very close in there and once or twice he 's dived , he 's never quite sure whether off the pad or off bat and pad , everybody shouts at him poor chap , anyhow , catch it , a hundred and eighteen for three end of that one from Tufnell so he 's now bowled fifteen overs , two for seventeen that one was yet another maiden . |
| 2 | The offences may occur within the family or between acquaintances and to report them may be socially disruptive . |
| 3 | Solution amounts are also dependent on the relative stability of different grains ; stabilities may differ between mineral grains ( Fig. 5.20d ) , or between grains and mudrock clasts where the clasts undergo ductile deformation so that , in places , they simulate a dispersed clay matrix ( Scholle , 1979 , p. 162 ) . |
| 4 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 5 | Both areas are huge and good for storing gear or for shelter when cooking . |
| 6 | Also , no compensation will be paid for prohibited items , including monetary items , or for items that have been inadequately packed . |
| 7 | Following impregnation , small samples may have to be cast into blocks which are more convenient for the sawing or for hand-holding while grinding a face on abrasive paper . |
| 8 | It is possible to help a group share common concerns about experiencing another stage of oldness , or about being or becoming a resident . |
| 9 | The most likely routes for the lorries would be out of Redmire quarry and across to the tank roads in the Catterick training area , through Catterick Garrison and Colburn , or Tunstall , to the A1 and Darlington bypass , or through Scorton and Yarm to Teesside . |
| 10 | The typical situation is a hospital out-patient department ; the receptionist hands a questionnaire to the patient who completes it before or after treatment and returns the form there and then . |
| 11 | It is customary for a Toraja girl who feels amorous to walk alone into the rice-paddies shortly before dawn or after sunset and begin screaming . |
| 12 | It was obvious that the policies of the ‘ democrats ’ did not reflect the interests of blue or white-collar workers or of collective and state farm members . |
| 13 | There has been scanty analysis of either the individual members of the household 's different structural relationship to housing , or of households that do not comply with the nuclear family model . |
| 14 | Here the strange , tilted cliffs of the Corniche begin , layers of schist or of limestone that slide off into the water at an angle of 45 degrees and there make starkly visible ridges on the seabed . |
| 15 | Duress that invalidates consent consists either of a credible threat to take substantial action against the agent or against a person or a cause that he values if he does not consent or in the taking of such actions against him or against persons or causes that he values with an offer to restore the situation if he does consent . |
| 16 | These children would be put into orphanages or into care and have a greater possibility of leading an unhappy childhood which may afflict them with mental disorders . |
| 17 | Elephants are very intelligent , they tell me , and elephants do n't hide behind chairs or under beds and listen to people 's conversations . ’ |
| 18 | ( 3 ) Where a sum has been paid which is not due , but it has not been paid under a mistake of fact or under compulsion as explained under ( 2 ) above , it is generally not recoverable . |
| 19 | What was their history : had they progressed smoothly or with fits and starts ? |
| 20 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 21 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 22 | We will be looking at a wide range of candidates — you may be a new graduate , or in mid-career and looking for a change of direction , or returning to employment after a career break . |
| 23 | On no occasion did Pointer seem bemused or in doubt but led us on , disregarding the ankle-deep snow and the sudden flurries and falls from over-hanging branches . |
| 24 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 25 | A general module which enables the student to build upon basic music skills in an instrument or in voice and to take some responsibility in rehearsal rooms . |
| 26 | Whether you are out of work and applying for a lot of jobs , or in employment but looking to change , there is only any point in applying for positions where you have a real chance of being successful . |
| 27 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |
| 28 | Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa . |
| 29 | It is suggested that they have been deposited either from silica mobilised in solution or from colloids and attain their maximum development in areas of pervious quartzose rocks . |
| 30 | The more time you have spent making notes from lectures or from books and rewriting and ordering those notes , the greater the importance that material will be to you . |