Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , sucralose maintains better acid stability than aspartame , which means a longer shelf life for products that use it . |
| 2 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 3 | They use their criticism not to refine plans for change but to block them . |
| 4 | She looked at Travis for support and found him grim-faced . |
| 5 | The point is to be specific about income and to plan it to meet your maximum budget . |
| 6 | Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things . |
| 7 | The dams also render the animals easy prey for hunters and trap them when the water is drained for irrigation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | George takes the responsibility for Lennie and accepts him gradually . |
| 10 | The other rib , of beef I mean , to get a piece that 's worth cooking cos to carve it and everything else you need at least three ribs and the ribs are sort of usually it 's about that sort of size |
| 11 | The whip is also used for correction when needed it should be used with discretion and never to vent one 's anger on a horse for one 's own inadequacies . |
| 12 | I talk about Bernard and tell them he is in publishing . |
| 13 | The completion of this work would increase the convenience of searching the General Catalogue for researchers and save them valuable time , and it would also create savings in time for Library staff . |
| 14 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 15 | On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch . |
| 16 | Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute . |
| 17 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 18 | As we shall see later in the chapter , however , there is a potential conflict between using interest rates to control the demand for money and using them also to control the exchange rate . |
| 19 | ‘ If she asks you for money and shows you the letters , you can say that you did n't write them . ’ |
| 20 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 21 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 22 | Sadly , experience suggests that most doctors would have thought the booklet to be just more advertising for Opren and thrown it straight into their wastepaper basket , unless the representative drew particular attention to the studies in question . |
| 23 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 24 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 25 | Er not if you stitch it properly , get it through the loops , do n't , just cast off slack and stitch them together , you not , you not be able to tell |
| 26 | To find it , follow a line from Alpha through Beta and extend it until you come to the next reasonably bright star , 41 Leporis ( 5.5 ) . |
| 27 | And in that twilight world between waking and sleeping she saw that it was a face she knew , her own . |
| 28 | ‘ Hate zoos , ca n't stand 'em , want to tear doors off cages 'n' let 'em all run out . ’ |
| 29 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 30 | UMWA women recently held a birthday party for Roberts and presented him with a plaque engraved with his now famous quote . |