Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | So , though the place was as ill-furnished as it was ill-lit , they hung around there , putting books away in lockers , glancing at newspapers , knocking out their pipes or whipping through the odd bits of marking . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This leads to an immense amount of detailed design in terms of the location of every bolt , nut or fastening throughout the whole 17m boat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Empire army includes many devices invented or developed by the Imperial Engineers , including such strange machines as the Steam Tank and Helblaster volley gun . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( 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 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 16 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The reasons for demanding that expressions output on one channel , or assigned to the same variable , be uniformly ordered have already been explained . |
| 19 | There is a large literature focussing or touching upon the social effects of professional and middle class migrants on rural communities ( see , for instance , Ambrose 1974 ; Connel 1974 ; Crichton 1964 ; Forsythe 1974 ; Harris 1974 ; Newby 1977 , 1979 ; Newby , Bell , Rose and Saunders 1978 ; Pahl 1965 ) . |
| 20 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 21 | For that sum they could parade up and down the grounds at any time of day or sit on the grassy banks at will . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 29 | Nowadays there are still tourist boats taking visitors to see Cabo Girâo or Machico or to swim in the sheltered coves , but Madeira now has a fine road network stretching to every small hamlet , whether it be on the top of a mountain or in the bottom of a valley . |
| 30 | 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 . |