Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 2 | ‘ Any person who , in the course of a trade or business ( a ) applies a false trade description to any goods ; or ( b ) supplies or offers to supply any goods to which a false trade description is applied . |
| 3 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
| 4 | In the US edition he wonders if ‘ this man … has been bribed or has used improper influence in any way ’ . |
| 5 | Wednesday have now gone seven League games without a win and must start taking chances or stop making basic mistakes at the back . |
| 6 | A candidate using or attempting to use unfair means in an examination or other form of assessment shall in the first instance be reported to the Secretary of the University . |
| 7 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 8 | As for chairmen , they do not like having to print millions of copies of their annual reports or having to answer tedious questions at their AGMs from Disgusted of Worthing . |
| 9 | In order to learn the conventional ways in which subject matter is organised and presented in these different forms , it is necessary for children to have plenty of opportunities to read or hear read good examples of a range of different types of texts . |
| 10 | Gabriel 's use of colour is sublime , often radiantly transparent , and occasionally accentuated by the addition of sand or tar to give full impact to the overall artistic image . |
| 11 | Estimate how many cups can be filled or try to pour equal quantities into a given number of cups . |
| 12 | But he asked nothing ; it was not his habit to woo men from their clan allegiance , or try to make dishonest use of a man he wished to employ honestly . |
| 13 | They may grumble , work to rule , sabotage industrial machinery , take strike action or attempt to organize other members of their class in an effort to overthrow capitalism . |
| 14 | And I frankly can see no way of being able to answer that question or attempt to answer that question without going through this form of exercise . |
| 15 | was intending to travel against the advice of a medical practitioner or intending to obtain medical treatment during the period of insurance |
| 16 | Spain 's relatively weak environmental protection laws could mean that its government would be compelled to purchase the land in order to protect it , or risk facing legal action from frustrated developers . |
| 17 | Those schools which had built up a good resource collection appeared to have allocated additional capitation to the school library or to have raised extra funds from other sources . |
| 18 | In this type , only the cap of the mill and sails rotate to work the grinding stones , so the wooden walls are either sloped or battered to allow free movement of these elements . |
| 19 | Next on the ladder is an offence which carries a maximum of 14 years and is perpetrated where the defendant , in committing a sexual assault , carries , uses or threatens to use a real or imitation weapon or threatens to cause bodily harm to a person other than the complainant or is a party to the offence with any other person . |
| 20 | Those who are not familiar with this background , or wish to take some advantage of it , be they customers , arbitrators , or the exchange 's own employees or members , are often suspicious about claims as to the form this business background takes , and its relevance to the matter in hand . |
| 21 | Or to stop making sardonic remarks about them . |
| 22 | ‘ A person is guilty of robbery if he steals , and immediately before or at the time of doing so , and in order to do so , he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force . |
| 23 | By s.8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 : [ a ] person is guilty of robbery if he steals , and immediately before or at the time of doing so , and in order to do so , he uses any force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force . |
| 24 | The obstacles included reduction of potential search areas as a result of house-building , roadworks and other developments ; anti-detectorist propaganda spread by professional archaeologists ; and ( most disheartening of all ) news that other detector owners had already searched these obviously attractive sites or had reached exclusive arrangements with their landowners . |
| 25 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 26 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 27 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 28 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 29 | Skim-reading is fine if you are hoping only to get the ‘ gist ’ rather than the finer points of a piece , but dangerous if you are hoping to absorb information , or need to consider all sides of an argument . |
| 30 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |