Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists and other criminals must not be allowed to escape justice or to retire abroad with the proceeds of their crime . |
| 2 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 3 | Furthermore , water running down the outside of the Pertex helps to draw out some of the water that penetrated through to the Parameta.a The rest stays there and evaporates in the wind or trickles down between the layers . |
| 4 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 5 | If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind . |
| 6 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 7 | This narrowing or furring up of the arteries can slow down the flow of the blood to your heart ( giving rise to the condition known as angina ) or even cut off the supply completely , at which point a heart attack then occurs . |
| 8 | He seemed to see men in winged helmets lounging around Frost 's , the late-night delicatessen , or peering oafishly into the windows of Sturgis , the estate agent . |
| 9 | Many wild and evil creatures are spawned in the mountains or drawn there on the winds of magic . |
| 10 | And before those following could rein in and look for cover , or dismount and string their bows , or drive headlong into the trees from which their death was launched , the second volley followed the first . |
| 11 | In any case , there are almost certain to be many transactions which are difficult to discover or to understand merely from the books and papers of the company . |
| 12 | We can make a choice between struggling on or surrendering forever to the forces of death . ’ |
| 13 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 14 | In the opinion of most ministers , however , the next election , like past ones , will be won or lost primarily in the pockets of the people . |
| 15 | For the new knitter there is an ‘ Introduction Day ’ on 26th September for anyone about to buy a machine or find out about the classes for beginners . |
| 16 | The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white . |
| 17 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 18 | Every winter large objects with large surface as get blown over ( or turn up by the roots ) . |
| 19 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 20 | ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car . |
| 21 | SI 1992 No 274 provides a complementary exemption , permitting companies which have ‘ relevant securities ’ traded or dealt in on the markets indicated above to issue investment advertisements provided that , in broad terms , they do not overtly advertise the company 's securities as investments or seek to advertise any other investments or investment services . |
| 22 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 23 | A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 24 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 25 | Has there ever been a tennis player that has written in to say ‘ thank you ’ to their fans who have stood by them through all their traumas and their losses , who have stood for hours in the rain or slept out in the streets to get a look at their idols ? |
| 26 | Behind the major properties were a number of cottages huddled together in yards or strung out along the lanes . |
| 27 | It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped . |
| 28 | This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk and the only ways in which this can be avoided are to select defensive ( low beta ) securities or to move out of the equities market into alternative investments or to reduce the market influence by combining equities with the risk-free asset . |
| 29 | Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials . |
| 30 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector with the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards Branch , said : ‘ The Order allows for the selling price to be indicated on the goods themselves , a ticket or notice close to the goods or grouped together with other prices on a list close to the goods to which it refers . |