Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will be achieved in one of two ways : ( 1 ) by providing for its automatic accruer in consideration of or linked to an appropriate payment ; or ( 2 ) by giving the continuing partners an option to acquire the share at an ascertainable price . |
| 2 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 3 | The declaration stated that the testator in his lifetime ( in consideration that the plaintiff would marry Ellen Nicholl ) agreed with and promised the plaintiff , then unmarried , in the terms of and contained in the following letter : August 11 , 1838 , Gray 's Inn |
| 4 | This chapter focuses on the ways in which age discrimination is both a product of and manifested in the social security system . |
| 5 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 6 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 7 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
| 8 | Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British . |
| 9 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |
| 10 | After years of being cared for and protected in a human family , the elderly feline disappears one day and is then found dead in a corner of the garden shed next door , or in some even more secretive place . |
| 11 | ( Incidentally , I suspect the risks of abuse would be considerably less if the ‘ pay ’ were fought for and won by a united feminist campaign on the grounds that housewives work and deserve money for that reason , than if it were graciously granted by government in a mood of pronatalist , pro-family , antifeminist zeal to cut the costs of the social services . ) |
| 12 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 13 | In one of a series of flashy special effects that often intrude rather than enhance the action , Streep 's upper and nether regions instantaneously tighten as if bolted into an invisible vice . |
| 14 | The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth . |
| 15 | The smallest of the British gulls , it lay dead in the snow , pale grey and white plumage , grey cheek patch , greenish bill , short black legs ; quite frozen and in near-perfect condition — as if stored in an open air deep-freeze . |
| 16 | According to David Hume , Locke was not alone in thinking that visual perception involves something two-dimensional : ‘ It is commonly allowed by philosophers that all bodies which discover themselves to the eye appear as if painted on a plain surface . ’ |
| 17 | This triggers chemical changes in your body , which reacts as if threatened by a foreign substance . |
| 18 | Twist our arms and we 'll plump for his brilliantly-executed diatribe against the somewhat larger rock acts currently doing the rounds : ‘ Gim me something small and poisonous , with teeth , born out of the gutter , ’ oozed The Ig , eyes bulging as if strapped to the electric chair . |
| 19 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 20 | An order made by a court in any part of the United Kingdom in bankruptcy proceedings can be enforced in any other part of the United Kingdom as if made by the corresponding court in that other part except in so far as the order relates to property situated there ( unless the Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor make provision for this ) ( s 426(1)-(3) ) . |
| 21 | They seemed to glow in the flickering green-gold gold light , as if embraced by a holy nimbus . |
| 22 | ‘ Hand In Glove ’ , as if written in the euphoric condition of a new found love affair , holds all the ecstasy of that irrational condition with a typical defeatist twist in the tail . |
| 23 | It flashed from the woodwork and the walls ; it smote him with an awful , total power , as if generated by a vast mill . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Anything done … or having effect as done , under a provision reproduced in the consolidating Acts has effect as if done under the corresponding provision of the consolidating Acts . |
| 25 | He did not feel afraid of the ghost and tried to speak to him , but the figure was sad and morose as if struck by a remorseless tragedy . |
| 26 | ‘ Mrs Crump , I presume , ’ said Hope , gallantly slicing through the knot , and then he stood back as if struck by a startling thought . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , I 'm afraid they 're ruined , ’ the voice continued , as if engaged in a different conversation . |
| 28 | There are illusory curtains , from ceiling to floor , which gently billow into the room as if blown by a warm , gentle breeze . |
| 29 | In principle , an applicant who should have brought his or her case under Ord. 53 , but did not , will lose : there is no provision under which the case can continue as if begun in the correct way . |
| 30 | Suddenly the bird , as if influenced by the magical incantations against the picture below , twitched and dropped down dead . |