Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how it embarrasses or humiliates her children , action will now be taken to protect both the Queen and her grandchildren from what she considers the very real threat of the end of the monarchy . |
| 2 | Working in a situation which encourages general contact with the public or involves their active participation creates advantages for both the artist and his audience . |
| 3 | by dismissing her or subjecting her to any detriment which results in her dismissal or consists in or involves her demotion . |
| 4 | The result is a silent melodrama with a comic touch , as the heroine pilots the wounded hero through the desert to safety or drives her sledge across the snowy Canadian wastes . |
| 5 | This causes purchase intentions to fall , only to be followed by an increase as the salesperson overcomes the objection or substantiates his claim . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether that encourages you or discourages my friends , but I mean , up there . |
| 7 | It is not bad hygiene or insufficient cleansing that causes or encourages your spots . |
| 8 | But if she wants to get her own food , or offers her help to you with the family cooking , all this will have to be sorted out very carefully . |
| 9 | Edmund Burke said that ‘ people must be governed in a manner agreeable to their temper and disposition ’ , but the British Government frequently ignores or defies our temper and disposition . |
| 10 | Although in each one Ayesha is engaged in military as well as emotional conflicts , the sequence of events is suspended on endless dialogue as Ayesha defines or defends her amorphous philosophy . |
| 11 | This is so , for example , if its inclusion is not material for the purposes of giving a true and fair view or if , in effect , the parent is not able to exercise dominance over the subsidiary or holds its interest in the subsidiary exclusively with a view to resale , or the information necessary for group accounts can not be obtained without disproportionate delay or expense . |
| 12 | A co-ordinated lifestyle that enhances & enriches your living space , providing that individual stamp of luxury . |
| 13 | But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world . |
| 14 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 15 | is still enjoying her Glasgow life-style & loves her job … she 's going to Crete for 2 weeks in Oct. — we are going to the U.S.A. … to Oregon & Seattle from 12 th Oct. … to 2 nd Nov. … to see s brother & wife & family . |
| 16 | The child now turns the paper over , or covers his first attempt , if it was right , and writes it again from memory . |
| 17 | Similarly , under Rule 37.4 , if the offeror buys-in or redeems its own shares , this has to be disclosed as a dealing under Rule 8 and in the offer document in the case of a securities exchange offer . |
| 18 | Or has its value genuinely undergone a sea-change ? |
| 19 | there is only one exception : if a wife owns the property or has her name on the rent book or has the property because of her job , her husband is regarded as the head of household , provided that he is resident ( our italics ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you agree with us , ’ I am asked , ‘ or has your manliness been squashed by the hard feminists ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Or has your self-absorption swept the reason you came here from your mind ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Or has my grandfather had second thoughts ? ’ |
| 23 | Consideration means not so much that one party is profited as that the other abandons some legal right in the present , or limits his legal freedom of action in the future , as an inducement for the promise of the first . |
| 24 | Or loses its unique load bearing power . |
| 25 | Use ‘ time out ’ if the child becomes aggressive or loses his or her temper . |
| 26 | A worthwhile person is always competent : he never makes mistakes , slips of the tongue , errors of judgement or loses his thread halfway through a lesson or a meeting . |
| 27 | The irony is that Angus Wilson is , in the best sense , an experimental writer , by which I do not mean that he makes holes in the page or shuffles his paragraphs around . |
| 28 | Even if the child is a drain on her health , and she can not cope with it , public opinion will totally condemn her if she neglects or injures her child . |
| 29 | Rule 37.1 provides that where a company redeems or purchases its own voting shares , with the result that the directors and any persons acting in concert with them hold 30 per cent or more of the voting rights , then a Rule 9 obligation to make a mandatory offer arises . |
| 30 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |