Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 2 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 3 | In allowing H Ltd 's contentions that the mezzanine platforms should be eligible for capital allowances , Mr Justice Vinelott said that the issue was whether the platforms passed the ‘ premises test ’ — in other words , whether the platforms were apparatus used for carrying on the trade or merely part of the setting in which the trade of the companies was carried on . |
| 4 | In Shah 's case Lord Scarman said , ‘ All that is necessary is that the purpose of living where one does [ eg , for education , employment , health , family or merely love of the place ] has a sufficient degree of continuity to be properly described as settled ’ . |
| 5 | Example 2:18 Covenant to yield up tenant 's fixtures at the expiry or sooner determination of the tenancy to yield up the demised property including all tenant 's fixtures in good repair and clean and tidy Example 2:19 Covenant to remove tenant 's fixtures if required if so required by the landlord by written notice given not later than three months before the term date to remove ( or pay for the removal of ) all fixtures affixed to the demised property by the tenant or such of them as may be specified in the notice Example 2:20 Covenant by tenant to inquire about removal of fixtures not later than six months before the expiry of the term to inquire in writing of the landlord which ( if any ) tenant 's fixtures the landlord requires the tenant to remove on the termination of the term |
| 6 | And it was , were you shop steward for the whole factory or just part of the factory ? |
| 7 | But a corporation created by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament is subject to the rule that it has only such powers as are expressly conferred , or are necessarily or reasonably incident to the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is established . |
| 8 | The threat of disciplinary action or even dismissal from the Library Association is empty when one can practise as a librarian without membership of the professional association . |
| 9 | Indeed , reports showing a reduction , or even disappearance of the asthma with surgical repair or medical management of the reflux have further strengthened support for a GOR-asthma association . |
| 10 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 11 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 12 | When money ran short , whether through neglect , illness or even death of the breadwinner , women would resort first to kin and to neighbours . |
| 13 | While recognising a variety of emphases and ideological leanings , Young suggests some common characteristics of these writers : a lack of interest in the causes of crime — or even opposition in the case of proposed social causes ; a voluntaristic , rather than deterministic , view of human action ; a belief in the effectiveness of deterrence . |
| 14 | Even then , the limits of such danger are bounded by the age of the child or children involved and the child 's socio-sexual maturity , while mitigation may lie in the knowledgeable cooperation or even encouragement of the youngster concerned . |
| 15 | The Germans have argued that these penalties should be economic sanctions against the offending member state , or even exclusion from the Community . |
| 16 | Conventional wisdom dictates that the experiences at school , in the transition to work , at work itself and in society generally , tend to imbue the black youth with a jaundiced view of the world ; recoiling from the ‘ pressures ’ , he retreats to a street-corner gang existence , detaching himself from society and cultivating a posture of indifference or even hostility towards the rest of society . |
| 17 | Equally the message conveyed by silence was increasingly one of indifference or even hostility in a world dominated by protest and the call to apostolic action . |
| 18 | For many troubled IBS patients seen by specialists , cure , or even acceptance of the diagnosis is an unrealistic goal . |
| 19 | Are late and all-night sittings really necessary , or simply part of the cachet traditionally associated with being an MP ? |
| 20 | Yet , it is debatable whether or how length of the interval influences the mother 's health or survival . |
| 21 | If an abatement notice , served in compliance with s.93 of the 1936 Act , is not complied with at the expiry of the specified time , or the local authority thinks that the nuisance , although abated , is likely to recur , s.94(1) of that Act provides that it is the duty of the local authority to institute summary proceedings for a nuisance order , in order to obtain compliance with the notice or otherwise abatement of the nuisance . |
| 22 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 23 | But they knew that on the left lay the Waste ; and that somewhere west of the Waste , no one knew precisely where , was the Great Camp of the outlaws . |
| 24 | Scientists at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at the University of Reading have found that only part of the nitrogen , phosphorus and potassium in slurry is in a form that plants can immediately take up . |
| 25 | Let us now make the problem a little more complicated by assuming that only part of the disc is in an appreciable magnetic field , as shown in Fig. 4.17(a) . |
| 26 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 27 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 28 | Scragg et al in a case-control study found that ever user of the pill was associated with an increased risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women younger than 29 years and a reduced risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in older women . |
| 29 | 373 , 377b ) that both larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences involved ‘ consent ’ by the victim , because what is involved is consent to two different things . |
| 30 | Moreover , modern legislation has made possible ( within limits ) the creation of an irrevocable power of attorney , so that even knowledge of the principal 's death or insanity will not affect the validity of acts done under it . |