Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By comparison , following a chain or tag involves reading the link field , finding the key in it , picking up the address and searching for it .
2 Xerox is today expected to announce that it has called in New York investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co to try to find a buyer for the company .
3 Chartered accountants Cohen Arnold & Co have prepared a booklet , Charities Act 1992 , covering the most important aspects , particularly the new regime for accounting for charities .
4 Why should the government or industry consider funding the activities of scholars who are marginalized by their own professions ?
5 But it is not generally the stuff that appears on television , where self-restraint has become the norm .
6 Where absenteeism does become a focus of management attention , there are very tangible improvements .
7 A book of ethics does not have to spell it out , any more than a book about mathematics or zoology has to include the reminder ‘ Read me attentively , intelligently ’ .
8 When we take a belief , desire , or intention to have caused an action , as we commonly do , we are not thereby explaining the action by referring to other actions , let alone mere movements .
9 To withhold that assistance constitutes an irregularity which may be material depending on the circumstances , since , if the jury return a guilty verdict , one can not tell whether some misconception or irrelevance has played a part .
10 Whatever the subject of the release there are a number of simple questions to which the editor or journalist needs to have the answers .
11 No vast islands with walls of rock or ice stand to disrupt the progress of the wind .
12 Certainly , it is sometimes said that a claim for conspiracy gives the plaintiff procedural advantages , but the reality of this may turn on how far it is to be held on ordinary principles that instigation or procurement suffices to make a person who does not participate in the act a joint tortfeasor .
13 Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets .
14 In cases where a patient needed to be referred to a specialty , usually orthopaedics for digital nerve or tendon injuries , a registrar or consultant had made the referral on my behalf .
15 Where management has set the framework for efficient cleaning and supervision is adequate faults will rarely arise .
16 Using a finger or pen helps to guide the eye .
17 How would you establish at all reliably if a magistrate , politician , inspector , or teacher had made an error ?
18 Per Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. ( i ) In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or to cause irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance ( post , pp. 798G — 799A , H ) .
19 In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or threatens irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance .
20 The advertisement appeared more than once , but no error was pointed out to us or alteration made to correct the description . ’
21 A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change .
22 HM Customs & Excise have announced a change in policy on the recovery of VAT incurred by holding companies in carrying out their basic functions .
23 HM Customs & Excise have announced the introduction of a new warehouse facility from 1 January 1993 .
24 HM Customs & Excise have announced the introduction of a new warehouse facility from 1 January 1993 .
25 Where Thatcherism sought to limit the power of organized labour , the PSOE was closely allied to the socialist segment of the union movement and promised to extend the rights of unions and workers .
26 The other band members later adopted the term ‘ Shaunesque ’ , referring to aggressive discussion tactics or behaviour considered to show a degree of insecurity .
27 She kept her back rigorously straight : the foetus or baby seemed to like the bicycle : its movement usually , and she felt happily , ceased as hers began .
28 Once the child or baby has joined the family , practical concerns over childcare can arise .
29 Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law .
30 Indeed , the Consumers ' Association have a publication entitled Taking your own case to court or tribunal designed to assist the layman wishing to take his own case rather than instruct solicitors ; but it warns potential litigants that to take on a particularly complicated legal action without legal help would be madness .
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