Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a public house licence or a refreshment licence is in force shall be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening , except for Sundays when the permitted hours shall be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening but only in the case of premises in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been made to and granted by a licensing board in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act , which shall have effect . |
| 2 | This family is characterised by the disk covered with plates often carrying spinelets or granules which do not conceal them , except in Ophiopholis where the granules obscure the plates ; radial shields usually conspicuous ; one apical papilla flanked with rounded oral papillae often separated from it by a diastema and not forming a contiguous series with it , except in Histampica ; the second oral tentacle pore opening within the oral slit ; arm spines short , pointed and erect , not appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 3 | Police forces in this country are local forces accountable to local police authorities , except in London where the police authority is the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | This makes it difficult to form a view as to how much has been awarded for pain and suffering simpliciter , except in cases where a complete , or almost complete , recovery has been made . |
| 5 | However , giving rules for determining where the boundaries are placed is not easy , except in cases where a clear pause separates tone-units . |
| 6 | Except in cases where the winding-up is voluntary , the procedure starts with the presentation of the petition . |
| 7 | This algorithm assumes that for each sentence position only one of the candidates is correct ( this condition generally holds , except in cases where the correct word is missing from the list of candidates ) . |
| 8 | the freedom to communicate his thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man ; every citizen is therefore free to speak , to write and to print , except in cases where the law lays down that he is liable to prosecution for abuse of that liberty . |
| 9 | Not much is to be gained by unison doubling except in passages where the G string is in use . |
| 10 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with a sack-like disk covered with thickened skin or thin scales which often carry spinelets or granules ; radial shields variable in shape , either rib-like with only the distal ends not covered by scales or short with most of the plate visible ; the jaws distinctly longer than broad ; one or sometimes as many as three large blunt apical papillae flanked on each side by three to many oral papillae ; in most genera the second oral tentacle pore arising superficially or nearly so and the associated tentacle scales often forming a continuous series with the oral papillae ; the oral tentacle scales often spine-like and larger than the oral papillae , except in Ophiolimna where the second oral tentacle pore is obscured by a large opercular distal oral papillae ; nearly all genera with well developed elongated adoral shields and a large oral shield ; the tentacle pores of the arm mostly large and often with small spine-like tentacle scales although some genera with smaller pores armed with well developed tentacle scales ; the arm spines relatively short usually only slightly longer than one arm segment . |
| 11 | It is 4,348 kilometres from Perth to Sydney by rail and , except in spring when the flat underbelly of the continent is carpeted with wild flowers , the first barren miles of the Nullarbor Plain from the Latin meaning " no trees " east of Perth look the same as the next . |
| 12 | So too are personal social services , youth development and libraries ( except in Wales where a district council may exercise library functions ) . |
| 13 | Threshing machinery was driven by horse-wheel when mechanical threshing was introduced from Scotland late in the eighteenth century with the development of the threshing drum , to relieve men from the real hard labour of threshing with flails , although in areas where the straw was required for thatching , hand-threshing continued long after the appearance of machinery . |
| 14 | In contrast , some sort of appeal to , say , the authority of the government executive ( although in practice often the implicit outcome ) looks at odds with the individualistic framework of neoclassical economics . |
| 15 | In some areas of the country , where voluntary services are well developed , substitution of voluntary for local provision would be easier than in areas where the voluntary sector is weak . |
| 16 | Cameron ( 1984 ) argues , for example , that in countries where the labour movement is capable of reaching a political accommodation based on collective restraint in its economic demands , the rate of inflation is lower and employment higher than in countries where the working class is more militant . |
| 17 | He explored this theme most famously in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1930 ) and related works , arguing that Calvinistic Protestantism 's individualistic ethos and positive attitude to the accumulation of private wealth provided the key to understanding why capitalism had arisen in the West rather than in Asia where the economic conditions for capitalist development existed to at least an equal extent . |
| 18 | But chiefly he stresses the danger of salt spray , ‘ Never let the covers be off , except on days when the wind is not sufficiently high to beat the water into what the seamen call white caps . ’ |
| 19 | There are ten sessions each week — Monday to Friday , morning and afternoon — except on days when the University is normally closed . |
| 20 | There are ten sessions each week — Monday to Friday , morning and afternoon — except on days when the University is normally closed . |
| 21 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 22 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 23 | The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time . |
| 24 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 25 | The family must be able to accept the child as a black child in a positive way and not dismiss the child 's colour as insignificant , because in society generally the truth is the opposite . |
| 26 | The products of all three genes are required for restriction [ 3 ] , while for modification only the products of genes hsdS and hsdM are needed [ 4 , 5 ] . |
| 27 | During selection with malathion and IBP , resistance gene frequency of a stock of Culex quinquefasciatus decreased at the same rate as untreated mosquitoes , whereas with malathion alone the resistance gene frequency increased fourfold in three generations . |
| 28 | South-west England recorded a 38pc drop , Wales and south-east England each dropped 22pc while in Scotland where the recession began later failures were up 16pc and there was a 3pc increase in north and north-west England . |
| 29 | Generally only calves during their first grazing season are clinically affected , since on farms where the disease is endemic older animals have a strong acquired immunity . |
| 30 | This was my most productive rig prior to the hair and I have used it since on waters where the hair has been banned . |