Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It also asks : ‘ Has plague occurred or been suspected among the rats or mice on board ? ’
2 So far of the thousand locusts a couple of hundred have perished or been eaten by the scorpions .
3 Either I get hooked on the story or message to the exclusion of the drawings , or am arrested by the designs and can not be bothered with the balloons .
4 The majority of animals are bred in the zoo as a part of a captive breeding programme or are exchanged amongst the zoos .
5 In this approach , solutions in the interaction region for or are related to the functions and , and hence S may be obtained as a function of f and g .
6 Official figures do not usually include animals that escape or are released from the nets but have nevertheless been mortally wounded .
7 It is therefore necessary to ask the question : in what circumstances can persons , other than the original landlord or landlady ( L ) and the original tenant ( T ) , sue or be sued upon the covenants in the lease ?
8 However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners .
9 They have been overthrown ( Asquith , Lloyd George ) , stepped down because of old age , ill health , or policy failures ( Balfour , Bonar Law , MacDonald , Chamberlain , Churchill , Eden , Macmillan ) , or were repudiated by the voters ( Attlee , Heath , Callaghan ) .
10 An expensive composite construction may be very fast , easy to lug about ashore , but will it stand the knocks of inexperienced users or being dragged across the pebbles or concrete sides of a reservoir ?
11 De Klerk stressed the need for " built-in guarantees and mechanisms which would prevent South Africa from falling into a one-party state or being delivered into the hands of an irrational dictator " .
12 Or be buried in The Times when the fateful question is asked .
13 The case of Goff v Gauthier ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 388 has shown that it must be fair and reasonable for the vendor to rely on this exclusion ( see page 62 ) ; ( e ) to state that the vendor will not be liable to the extent that any claim arises out of or is increased by the acts or omissions of the purchaser after completion ; ( f ) to provide that the purchaser must give credit for the amount by which assets are found to have been understated , or liabilities have been over-provided for in the accounts ; ( g ) to ensure that the purchaser pays to the vendor all amounts subsequently recovered from third parties relating to claims that have been paid by the vendor .
14 On the surface it has no problem with it — it either has or is moving towards the technologies at issue , but it wants more information before it lends any support .
15 Alternatively , the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets and arose or was derived from the places where those assets were when sold or licensed and remain ; all outside Hong Kong .
16 It would no doubt have upset Kumara Menon to be described as a member of the ‘ British bloc ’ ; Jacobs could not decide whether Menon was a visionary or was persuaded by the arguments of Patterson , Jackson and Djabi ( Syria ) .
17 The warranties that are obtained from the vendors are much less wide ranging than is the case in an " arms'-length " transaction .
18 plan research programs that are tailored to the needs of each different ‘ cluster ’ of countries .
19 The anthropic principle does provide some sort of explanation of many of the remarkable numerical relations that are observed between the values of different physical parameters .
20 The documents that are sent to the Companies Registration Office for the registration of a single-member company are the same as those required for multi-member companies .
21 The effective pollinators are a pair of Epicharis spp. but there are glandular trichomes inside the corolla , secreting oils that are deposited on the anthers , but this is collected only by Trigona pallens , an ineffective pollinator .
22 The Engineering Council also operates the Technology Enhancement Programme which is for 14–19 year olds and aims to increase capability in technology , mathematics and science , developing skills that are matched to the needs of industry .
23 A GIS stores both cartographic data ( showing topography or individual themes such as soils or geology ) and attribute data associated with the spatial entities ( points , lines and polygons ) that are represented on the maps .
24 Documents are comprised of words , and searchers and indexers use words to represent or convey concepts ; at this stage however , it is important for the indexer to attempt to identify the concepts that are represented by the words .
25 However , it will say that everything is being done to see that whatever attempts that are made on the whereabouts of its disclosures will be judged by their predicament and a positive answer will be prepared .
26 But the destruction of the old Communist Party is completed by two policies that are adopted by the Communists themselves , both a response to the defeat they have suffered in nineteen twenty seven .
27 Meagre villages that are blighted by the camps and their factories .
28 The stimuli that trigger this action are usually moving objects that hang down from above , or toys that are thrown to the kittens by their owners .
29 Would my honourable friend er recognise that just up the River Thames from er the South Thames tech is the Surrey tech which is doing and excellent job with local industry in re-skilling particularly younger people and this partnership with industry , not just dependent on what the government does , but what industry itself does to try and help people get back into jobs with the new challenges that are coming from the difficulties that are presented by higher calibre needed particularly for school leavers and other and will he w would she welcome the Surrey tech 's initiative ?
30 The unit should be used pre-U/V and pre-filter to take advantage of the following abilities that are claimed for the units :
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