Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meh'Lindi commenced some isometric combat exercises as if to repel the oppression of being in the warp , which at times could generate a spiritual migraine , an ache of the soul . |
| 2 | She writes as if anticipating the publication of her diary . |
| 3 | Couples practises when he needs to and takes a complete break , normally three weeks , when he considers he has done sufficient to earn one . |
| 4 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 5 | Conversely an experienced marriage guidance counsellor who transfers to the CAB may be overwhelmed by the immense range of problems that the CAB deals with and find the information system threatening . |
| 6 | This is mental imagery , though not only visual , and it leads to and encourages a reconstruction of events and a process of creativity . |
| 7 | ‘ There is a dishonest appropriation for the purposes of the Theft Act 1968 where by the substitution of a price label showing a lesser price on goods for one showing a greater price , a defendant either by that act alone or by that act in conjunction with another act or other acts ( whether done before or after the substitution of the labels ) adversely interferes with or usurps the right of the owner to ensure that the goods concerned are sold and paid for at that greater price . |
| 8 | However , it can be argued under civil law the delivery of something under a contract which is voidable for fraud is the act by which the accused adversely interferes with or usurps the victim 's rights . |
| 9 | By defining the object of policy in spatial terms the contradictory interests represented may be understandably subsumed in a real or imagined community identity which stems from or reproduces the notion of shared interests ( see Sue Buckingham-Hatfield 's case study in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 10 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 11 | In science it is not always possible to find one theory which accounts for and describes every aspect of an event . |
| 12 | Order 6 , r 5 provides that in mortgagee possession actions — that is where the plaintiff claims payment of money secured or possession of the property mortgaged — the particulars of claim must state : ( 1 ) the date of the mortgage ; ( 2 ) the state of the account , giving particulars of the amount of the advance , the periodic payments required , the amount of any interest in arrear , the amount of the unpaid instalments , the amount of any costs or fines or insurance unpaid ; the daily rate of interest and the amount remaining due under [ and required to redeem ] the mortgage ; ( 3 ) what proceedings ( if any ) the plaintiff has taken against the defendant in respect of the money secured by the mortgage or the mortgaged property and , where payment of such money only is claimed , whether the plaintiff has obtained possession of the property ; ( 4 ) where the plaintiff claims possession of the property , whether or not the property consists of or includes a dwelling house within the meaning of s 21 of the County Courts Act 1974 ; ( 5 ) where a plaintiff claims as mortgagee possession of land which consists of or includes a dwelling house , he shall state , in his particulars of claim , whether there is any person on whom notice of the action is required to be served in accordance with s 8(3) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 and , if so , he shall state the name and address of that person and shall file a copy of the particulars of claim for service on that person ( Ord 6 , r 5(1A) ) . |
| 13 | Order 6 , r 5 provides that in mortgagee possession actions — that is where the plaintiff claims payment of money secured or possession of the property mortgaged — the particulars of claim must state : ( 1 ) the date of the mortgage ; ( 2 ) the state of the account , giving particulars of the amount of the advance , the periodic payments required , the amount of any interest in arrear , the amount of the unpaid instalments , the amount of any costs or fines or insurance unpaid ; the daily rate of interest and the amount remaining due under [ and required to redeem ] the mortgage ; ( 3 ) what proceedings ( if any ) the plaintiff has taken against the defendant in respect of the money secured by the mortgage or the mortgaged property and , where payment of such money only is claimed , whether the plaintiff has obtained possession of the property ; ( 4 ) where the plaintiff claims possession of the property , whether or not the property consists of or includes a dwelling house within the meaning of s 21 of the County Courts Act 1974 ; ( 5 ) where a plaintiff claims as mortgagee possession of land which consists of or includes a dwelling house , he shall state , in his particulars of claim , whether there is any person on whom notice of the action is required to be served in accordance with s 8(3) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 and , if so , he shall state the name and address of that person and shall file a copy of the particulars of claim for service on that person ( Ord 6 , r 5(1A) ) . |
| 14 | The notion that officials or ‘ bureaucrats ’ have a vested interest in the expansion of the public sector is a well accepted one ; it is reflected in C. Northcote Parkinson 's Law that ‘ work expands to as to fill the time for its completion ’ , as does manpower , and a persistent theme in the popular British comedy series Yes Minister was the importance to top bureaucrats of maintaining large numbers of officials to do nothing particularly useful . |
| 15 | And so the Western machine , although it was responsible for the growth of science , could claim no exclusive ownership of it : it belongs to and supports the materialistic world of modernity , not a particular political or economic system . |
| 16 | I wish he 'd get his teeth seen to ; do they have special police dentists or do they have to go to the ones everybody else goes to and hope the dentist does n't have some … have some grudge … some grudge against … ? |
| 17 | DEBATING POINT Good presentation points to and highlights the message at the heart . |
| 18 | Bell expresses the connection between these as " an axiom of sociolinguistic structure " , which he calls the Style Axiom : Variation on the style dimension within the speech of a single speaker derives from and echoes the variation which exists between speakers on the " social " dimension . |
| 19 | They have the ball out with Stewart on this right hand side , so much needed of him tonight , he gets that one across , it falls to and gets the shot in and makes the save . |
| 20 | Miss Snoot moves as if to draw the curtains , but her father forbids her with a shake of his head . |
| 21 | Many emotional stresses and tensions may , however , simply require that a health visitor listens to and supports the family , putting them in contact with another local adopting family may also help . |
| 22 | It is clear that the scheme needs to be administered so that it dovetails with and reinforces the benefits of other grant schemes which provide for hedge renovation and management . |
| 23 | For example , reacts with and to give the hexachlorometallate salts and it undergoes metathesis reaction with LiBr , Nal , and . |
| 24 | Historie can be seen as describing the past as past , and as fragmentarily reconstructed by the detached , scholarly and scientific method of the historian , ; Geschichte as describing a past which in some fashion also impinges upon and involves the present , a past which must be approached via subjective commitment rather than by a purely objective analysis of a more neutral kind . |
| 25 | She hopes to encourage other farmers to follow suit and help teach as many children as possible about where their next meal comes from and to respect the countryside that produces it . |