Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , you are permitted to make a faithful copy of a famous painting if you wish , as a means to master a particular technique or learn something of a process or style . |
| 2 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 3 | This may mean demolishing the building or returning it to its original use . |
| 4 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 5 | Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute . |
| 6 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 7 | Nor can a single moment be cited when Poland , even if only in comparison with Russia , has successfully represented progress or done anything of historical significance . |
| 8 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 9 | Alternatively , by resting pasture or grazing it with another host , such as sheep , which are not susceptible to O. ostertagi , until most of the existing L3 on the pasture have died out . |
| 10 | Tip it into a food processor or mash it with a fork in a bowl , then return to the freezer . |
| 11 | If you have a friendly GP or know somebody at your hospital ask them whether they would be prepared to carry a poster or your brochures advertising your personal injury work . |
| 12 | Use the pips to make a necklace or stick them onto card to make a design . |
| 13 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 14 | Please pass on your ideas — whether they 're articles , photographs , or cartoons — to your local correspondent or send them to me directly at Key Street , and do not hesitate to telephone on with any suggestions you may have . |
| 15 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 16 | Consequently , many customers are banning smoking or restricting it to certain areas of the office or canteen , yet it is perfectly feasible to banish the smoke without banning smoking , by installing the latest electrostatic air filters . |
| 17 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 18 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 19 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 20 | on the training course or guide you through it on the training course . |
| 21 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 22 | I mean , you know , if you see an advert in the paper that tells you that every fifty pence you spend is going to save a child 's life by providing it with Diralite or providing it with food that it needs for a money , or something like that , I mean how can you justify keeping any fifty pences at all yourself ? |
| 23 | It 's the way to breach the drift defence — change direction or swamp them by numbers . |
| 24 | You are all familiar with our loyal supporters , but what about those people on the fringes who may have given a donation or done something for Save The Children in the past , but never really followed it up and there are the people who are interested who think , it 's a charity I feel I ought to support . |
| 25 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 26 | I 'm not asking for money or taking anything from you . |
| 27 | If the money so raised in a modern equivalent of this lottery is to be wasted on similar luxuries , it would be better if we saved our money or spent it on necessities . |
| 28 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 29 | Clicking with the mouse while the cursor is positioned over one of the buttons turns on the appropriate function or turns it off it is already on . |
| 30 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |