Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So , smoker or not , drinker or latter-day prohibitionist , be sure to equip yourself with your full duty-free quotas of Marlboros and Bells afore ye go behind the remnants of the Iron Curtain .
2 Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends .
3 But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal .
4 Conciliation facilities are available in the county courts where you go for the divorce .
5 ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table .
6 The precedent has now been established that European Community law is invulnerable to deliberate Acts of Parliament , and that British courts are under obligation to disapply those Acts where they conflict with it .
7 Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair .
8 The children come dressed as animals or anything related to farms , such as scarecrows .
9 So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E .
10 Grass and tangled weeds criss-crossed the path , slashing their bare feet and ankles and saturating the clothes on their thighs where they brushed against them .
11 They originate from pluripotent bone marrow stem cells and migrate through peripheral blood to tissues and body cavities where they differentiate into specialised cells showing great diversity of phenotopic and functional characteristics .
12 There was some difficulty over widening in Stafford Road , which was already partly built up with houses and shops where it passed through Wallington .
13 It seemed to professionals and parents that there are certain ways in which young people can be helped : regimes they should follow ; treatments that are essential to their well-being ; skills and knowledge they require ; and risks that they need to be sheltered from .
14 All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run .
15 The greater understanding of the minds of our common farm animals that we gain from these experiments will undoubtedly be of use in designing housing systems which allow the animals both increased freedom , and increased control over their own lives .
16 It was then that I conceived the idea of getting a few fans that he had in those days to walk around the television company with placards saying Lets Be Fair To The Long Hairs , which did get press publicity , and in the end , the producer relented and he did his first TV show . ’
17 The methods that he employed in September and October 1962 — the referendum combined with a personal appeal to popular confidence and official manipulation of the mass media — were essentially those he had employed throughout the early years of the Fifth Republic .
18 African countries would be well advised to refuse many of the pesticides that they receive for free , according to a scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency .
19 Now I am wondering about the other lists that he annexed to his letter , of suggested colleagues , procedures and methods .
20 erm it 's it reminds me of the kind of embarrassments that we experience on a number of levels actually .
21 Used to let them at me mum leave er my kids that she made of hers , yet she , me mum never treated them all the same
22 The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action .
23 So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week .
24 The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat .
25 It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them .
26 But he can see from their eyes that they look upon him now as someone who will transcend the collective and desert it .
27 He was different from them , did n't eat in the kitchen with us , but had my mother bake him potatoes and grate carrots that he ate in the isolation of the dining room .
28 On 18 January 1984 she told a gathering of parliamentary lobby journalists that she wished to be remembered for breaking the consensus and tackling traditionally ‘ immune targets ’ .
29 The conferences were held actually , shall we say according to these guidelines that you have before you erm , and it was felt that the remit of these conferences has already and will in the future erm , increase democracy , accountability and the efficiency in decision making processes in our union .
30 During this period Stella is in hospital as she is in labour and Stanley changes into the marriage pyjamas that he wore on his wedding night as celebration .
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