Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This requirement reflects the policy of risk spreading so that the Law Commission First Report on Exemption Clauses in Contracts No 24 , para 82 ( 1969 ) justify distinguishing between private and business purchasers on the basis of the : … ability of the business purchaser to take into account the likelihood of defects , to reduce their incidence by arrangements for re-examination and servicing ( which may be allowed for in the price paid ) and to make suitable dispositions , by insurance and in his costings , to cover the risks which he has to bear . |
| 2 | She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards . |
| 3 | Four clearly identifiable characteristics which I have found in all the new churches — worship , fellowship , evangelism and training — are discussed in the chapters that follow . |
| 4 | He said that the agreement was on its face unduly restrictive having regard to : ( a ) its likely duration ; ( b ) the publishers ' right to assign copyright in songs which they had acquired in full under the agreement , so that it could not be argued that they would be unlikely to act oppressively and so damage their goodwill ; ( c ) the fact that the publishers were not bound to publish or promote the songwriter 's work if they chose not to do so , so that he might earn nothing , and his talents be sterilised , contrary to the public interest ; and ( d ) the absence of any provision entitling the songwriter to terminate the agreement . |
| 5 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 6 | One of Ariel 's songs which he appended went like this , and sometimes Serafine sang it , and Xanthe and Miranda both enjoyed singing it with her , calling it the song of Manjiku : |
| 7 | In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear . |
| 8 | But Marian continued to feel for some time that uneasiness in the legs which she knew meant that she wanted to run , to get away fast . |
| 9 | Also the methods which you have suggested are known to us . |
| 10 | She began working with ‘ handicapped ’ children and concluded that the methods which she had found most successful in dealing with feeble-minded children would be quite applicable to those who were normal and that ordinary schools needed the sort of transforma-tion she had accomplished at her own ‘ special ’ school . |
| 11 | In the final months of his life Atwater expressed remorse for some of the methods which he had employed during his career . |
| 12 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 13 | However , vibration of sounds at 800 cycles per second and below is the limit of information , the vibrator picks up unwanted sounds which may drown the signals which you want to receive . |
| 14 | Politics tends to develop and generate within all large groups of people , but in the bad organizations which I have described politics dominates everything . |
| 15 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 16 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 17 | He stopped and looked into her face with those dark penetrating eyes which she had noticed so vividly on the night of the fire . |
| 18 | If it is in the interests of the development , a single Stage 2 submission from a consortium may be accepted provided it sets out clearly the ability of each course team to deliver and the ability of each centre to support the course or the units which it proposes to offer . |
| 19 | David Hindmarch , of Deans Square , Topcliffe , near Thirsk was promised a prize of some kitchen units which he intended to use as part of a scheme to turn a garden shed into a workshop for his disabled wife . |
| 20 | ’ Donning a pair of small round plastic spectacles which he had extracted from a hidden pocket in the skirts of his frock-coat , he shambled over to the porter 's desk and ferreted around . |
| 21 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 22 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 23 | Looseknit networks are hard to deal with chiefly because a multi-valued speaker variable like social network involves comparing speakers who differ from each other in certain respects — let us say in respect of the multiplexity of the ties which they have contracted at the workplace — but are still similar enough to each other in other related respects to make such a comparison meaningful . |
| 24 | It seems to me that many of the people involved in our industry have a fundamental lack of understanding of the needs and preoccupations of the modern child , and there are far too many groups , circles , committees and working parties which we seem to form in endless pursuit of the Holy Grail of better children 's bookselling . |
| 25 | For example , if the accused was reconnoitring a home preparatory to burglary , he may not be guilty of this offence if he picks up some ladders which he has found in the garden . |
| 26 | Some dealers do supply second-hand computers which they have taken in part exchange and these may have the additional advantage of a short guarantee . |
| 27 | It is presently working on a Pentium-upgradable board for its Expresso line of personal computers which it intends to have ready by the summer . |
| 28 | At Level Two students will plan and organise enterprise activity , taking into account their personal abilities , preferences and the goals which they have set for themselves . |
| 29 | After the Summer Recess the Cabinet reverted to the subject of capital punishment on 3 November , with the Lord President of the Council reporting on the results of the soundings of Government supporters which he had taken at the request of the Cabinet at its meeting on 15 July . |
| 30 | For the moment , however , the Old King was content merely to resume control of those castles which he had granted to Richard before the outbreak of the war . |