Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The EPA wo n't till the soil with bugs until extensive field work shows whether the microorganisms will work outside the lab — a formidable task , explains David Watkins , manager of the agency 's microbiological degradation projects : ‘ How will you know you 've got complete degradation ?
2 As Lord Wilberforce said in Suisse Atlantique : One may safely say that the parties can not in a contract have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party 's stipulations of all contractual force : to do so would be to reduce the contract to a mere declaration of intent .
3 Humanity could then as a whole be thought to be summed up in Christ .
4 In Coke , Littleton 212b. , Lord Coke says : ‘ where the condition is for payment of £20 , the obligor or feoffor can not at the time appointed pay a lesser sum in satisfaction of the whole , because it is apparent that a lesser sum of money can not be a satisfaction of a greater …
5 David Parkin placed the crushed lager can back on the coffee table and examined it regretfully , like a faded photograph .
6 Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) .
7 War may once upon a time have been a reasonably satisfactory , or at least not utterly unsatisfactory way of securing certain kinds of social change .
8 That is not to say that further development on a case by case basis may not in the course of time add further grounds . ’
9 Our struggle has taught us also that black workers must never for a moment entertain the thought of separate black unions .
10 About half way back , he made a brief stop and flung the empty gasoline can far into the night .
11 Indeed , some sorts of pollution may also for a time evade detection in the laboratory .
12 The clause should therefore be amended to read : " the Tenant " includes the successors in title of the Tenant A landlord may nevertheless for the purpose of privity of contract wish to ensure that the person with whom it is entering into the agreement will be the original tenant under the lease .
13 Lee could n't with the dog .
14 The Marshal could n't for the life of him remember that .
15 11.1 During the continuance of this Agreement the Proprietor shall not without the consent in writing of the Publisher prepare or edit for any other publisher any work that is an expansion abridgement or revision of the Work or of any part of it or publish or cause to be published any work on the same subject which may reasonably be regarded as likely to conflict with the sale of the Work .
16 9.20 Limitation on liability Before leaving the provisos it may be worthwhile to include the following additional proviso : On an assignment of this Lease in pursuance of the Landlord 's licence authorising the assignment the Landlord shall forthwith at the assignor 's cost release the assignor from its future liability under this Lease in such form as the Landlord shall reasonably require Although this is unlikely to find favour with the landlord , it should perhaps be considered having regard to a recession and the outcry from tenants who , having assigned their leases , are being called upon to pay accumulating back rents as a result of the insolvency of the current tenant .
17 Theories may also in the US be more rigorously tested by the wealth of longitudinal studies and demographic statistics .
18 How much more wrong could Back To The Planet be ?
19 An educated democracy would never for a moment be influenced by the ill-balanced ideas of the direct actionists .
20 Those items would not in the event have been proceeded against , because prosecuting authorities would fear a jury acquittal .
21 To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself .
22 However , X can not without the seller 's consent assign his burdens under the contract ( i.e. the obligation to pay ) .
23 Critical of the US deployment , the Soviet Union would not for the time being join an international force , but would consider how to respond if the UN Security Council decided on military action .
24 However , if the Alu transcripts can once in a while , borrow the reverse transcriptase of a passing virus , there is nothing to stop them from propagating in increasing numbers in generation after generation of mammals .
25 It is that the senses of an ambiguous word form should not in every case be totally conditioned by their contexts , unlike the interpretations which arise as a result of contextual modulation .
26 I even found myself able to use acoustic feedback through the studio monitors at a sensible volume , with the A2 DI 'd straight into the board .
27 Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred .
28 Even if reinstatement or re-engagement is ordered , an employer can not at the end of the day be forced to take you back .
29 ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person .
30 We understand the company may reapply on the basis that Flue-Gas Desulphurisation ( FDG ) equipment will be fitted .
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