Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law section three of the criminal law act nineteen sixty seven reads a person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large . |
| 2 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 3 | A student having completed Music Making : Solo 1 may proceed to Solo 2 or remain at the same level , provided that the study employs different techniques : for example , voice and keyboard ; guitar and bass guitar ; violin and sitar . |
| 4 | WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children . |
| 5 | Finally , whatever the future of state schools ' funding , whether it be grant maintained or devolved under the local management of schools , all schools must be fairly and adequately resourced . |
| 6 | However , when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate . |
| 7 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 8 | To the fields brought in by IPC had been added others , discovered or developed by the national oil company INOC , under new-style arrangements , notably the Brazilian discovery Majnun , prominent in the fighting near Basrah in the 1980s . |
| 9 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 10 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 11 | ‘ An early priority for an SNP government in an independent Scotland would be to remove any privatisation or franchising from the Scottish rail network and to expand the public service to meet the requirements of Scottish industry wishing to exploit the European single market . ’ |
| 12 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 13 | In the normal form we are forced to accept only one of these representations ; we choose the left hand one by insisting that pairs of expressions unc output on the same channel or assigned to the same variable be ordered . |
| 14 | The reasons for demanding that expressions output on one channel , or assigned to the same variable , be uniformly ordered have already been explained . |
| 15 | When he can walk outside confidently , the patient can plan to increase the distance he walks , or to go on the same route , but taking less time to complete his walk . |
| 16 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 17 | We have not intended in this article to prove any specific origin for UFO phenomena , or to appeal to the scientific community for greater respect . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 19 | Fitch reckons that not all bond insurers deserve the top rating ; those that do , it believes , suffer because investors do not trust the triple-As assigned to the insured debt by Moody 's and S&P . |
| 20 | The dressing table itself is basically a worktop : either a length of kitchen worktop or make from the same material as the rest of the system . |
| 21 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 22 | The essential difference here is that an arbitration award is subject to appeal to or review by the High Court . |
| 23 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 24 | So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service . |
| 25 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 26 | Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar . |
| 27 | Women had either been ignored or treated as the deviant half of humanity . |
| 28 | These restrictive measures , sponsored by Ramsay MacDonald , which are never to be forgotten or forgiven by the Labour party , were defended as the inevitable product of the continuing economic crises of the 1930s . |
| 29 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 30 | The squire and the rector , and the traditions which they represented , had no power or influence in the squalid housing estates which grew up round each new factory and mill . |