Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A number of well-known and controversial incidents involving the security services — among them the Benjamin Greene affair , the Hess mission , and the Tyler Kent case — are either omitted altogether or merely mentioned in passing .
2 Unless otherwise expressly or implicitly provided by statute , illegality does not render a contract totally void only unenforceable .
3 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction and/or a Receiver being appointed to manage the Distributor 's business
4 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction
5 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction
6 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction
7 Once the body had been placed in the coffin and the fitted pillow positioned under the head , these ‘ sheets ’ were folded over the remains and either pinned together or roughly sewn into place .
8 For the serious enthusiasts , this was an opportunity to track down that long sought after plant .
9 For the serious enthusiasts , this was an opportunity to track down that long sought after plant .
10 ON THE Saturday night U2 played in Cork , Ireland 's second city and a place naturally if infrequently served with mainland rock acts .
11 Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 .
12 Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary .
13 A members ' club was obviously and clearly envisaged from conception , rather than a private company club as at Huntercombe .
14 An epidemic of infertility caused by widespread toxic contamination means that known ‘ breeders ’ are herded together and eventually selected for insemination by the powerful .
15 They co-authored three papers together in 1985 — their first work together though not related to test-tube fusion .
16 A further difference is that the other language , English , is not learned naturally and probably has to be ‘ taught ’ rather than simply acquired through access .
17 This limited degree of representation was in an important sense imposed from above , rather than actively won through struggle from below , in the same way that the 1947 Constitution was imposed by the US occupation .
18 Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times .
19 On April 1 , 1990 , pressure from US and Canadian companies led to the implementation a year sooner than originally scheduled of tariff cuts worth a total of about Can .
20 That the directors of the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 to exercise all powers of the Company to allot relevant securities , as defined in that section up to a maximum nominal amount of £114,533,413 provided that this authority shall expire fifteen months from the date of this resolution , or , if earlier , at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company in 1994 , save that the Company may before such date make an offer or agreement which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such date and the directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired .
21 ‘ That the Company be and is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with Section 166 of the Companies Act 1985 to make market purchases ( within the meaning of Section 163 of the said Act ) of Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company ( ‘ shares ’ ) provided that :
22 Among those large numbers of people are the physically and mentally handicapped on invalidity payments who now face the prospect of much larger contributions .
23 Consequently , they recommended that ‘ campaigning ’ should be funded from elsewhere and not undertaken by law centres .
24 Ought it also to include those forms of deaths , injuries , and economic deprivations which are not as yet covered by criminal , administrative , or civil law , even though they are violations of ‘ human rights ’ ( Schwendinger and Schwendinger 1975 ) .
25 I believe that the Bill , as it goes to another place , has been properly and fully scrutinised on Second Reading and in Committee — as will be shown in Hansard .
26 Hot-wire anemometers have been most widely and successfully used in gas flows .
27 Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament .
28 Once proposed , speculative theories are to be rigorously and ruthlessly tested by observation and experiment .
29 for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ;
30 Not all this legislation was quickly or completely put into force .
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