Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In Varley v. Whipp ( 1900 Q.B. ) the contract was for the sale of a specified second-hand reaping machine which at the time of the contract the seller did not own but had still to acquire .
2 In the following passive sentence the writer does not tell us who did the associating ( newspapers ? literary critics ? the general public ? everyone ? ) :
3 Where , however , the settlor is not domiciled or not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in any year of assessment the term does not include income arising under a settlement in that year in respect of which the settlor , if he were actually entitled thereto , would not be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise by reason of his now being so domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident .
4 Just in case the music did n't work out .
5 If you have greenhouse or coldframe , a wise insurance policy it to root cuttings of susceptible species in July and over-winter these under glass just in case the parents do n't make it through a bad winter .
6 Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away .
7 Questions are often worded to cover only a fragment of a particular subject ; in that case the examiner does not want the whole of it .
8 This can be used to reinforce the differences between preference and ordinary shares although in this case the explanation does not lie in that direction as there are no preference shares ; rather the explanation is more to do with stability of dividends in an attempt to bolster shareholders ' confidence .
9 In this case the action did not subvert the common law but supplemented it .
10 In the present case the proceedings do not fall within section 31 of the Act of 1968 and the criminal charges to which Mr. Tully may be exposed do not fall within that Act .
11 In the present case the debtor did not apply for a taxation of Marshalls ' bills within one month .
12 But at the same time State thought the US might make some " minor concessions " to Mossadeq , in case the Shah did not return .
13 In the present case the plaintiff did not allege , nor did the judge find , any bad faith by the defendants .
14 Just in case the lesson does n't hit us immediately , Paul adds the closing verse of our reading which draws our attention to the greatness of God as shown in His glory :
15 But be warned , if you buy your machine from a retailer the manufacturer does n't have to fix it under law — this is the responsibility of the dealer you bought it from .
16 Note : Through an omission on my part the editors did not receive these notes for inclusion in the last Journal .
17 Le Rue the man does n't let his talents stop at the violin and vocal duties with the band as his guitar-playing proved .
18 On this level the jacket does n't disappoint .
19 At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals .
20 In approximately 30% of cases the epithelium does not change to a homogeneous phenotype and this is characterised by an ‘ incomplete ’ intestinal epithelium with both gastric foveolar and intestinal goblet cells and enterocytes .
21 In many cases the tile does not break in the middle where it is struck .
22 These results , however , are somewhat misleading because in most cases the wells do not appear to have been drilled for Zechstein objectives and were either off-structure or lacking in significant closure at Zechstein level .
23 In three cases the client did not like , or could not accept , the support worker .
24 He was left to lament : ‘ In many cases the party does not exist except in name , and the most urgent and repeated efforts to correct this meet with the indifference , carelessness , ignorance and , now , the obstinacy and hostility of the party leadership . ’
25 Pevsner again is dryly acute : ‘ Old Wolverton the traveller does not notice , New Wolverton he can not overlook . ’
26 Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods .
27 But of course the users do n't know what they want , so they end up getting another duff system .
28 Of course the police did n't know what it was : they threw it in the pig-bin .
29 Of course the elders did n't like it , they thought we were tomboys , but we loved it — the sound of the water , the rocking and splashing … .
30 It was not Gandhi 's intention when he originally decided to fast to exert moral coercion on the mill-owners , since coercion in any form was contrary to the aims of satyāgraha , yet despite the unexpected result of his fast Gandhi still felt that he had acted correctly in the circumstances.m The experience did not prevent him either from using fasts as a form of satyāgraha on other occasions with similar results .
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