Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 2 | If the interest which terminated subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include the tax . |
| 3 | The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it . |
| 4 | The fractional increase of volume fv in this case is and the specific volume of free space , or free volume Now if the coefficient of expansion remains constant throughout the entire range of temperature the fractional free volume fv is just . |
| 5 | In the modern period capital is instead organized at a national or transnational scale so that the previous ( capitalist ) rationale for sub-national government has withered away , except for a few spatially constrained sectors of capital , such as development interests or companies engaged in extracting mineral resources . |
| 6 | The routes to satisfaction are patterned by internal or dispositional constraints so that the behaviours concerned tend to lead to an end that is characteristic of a species . |
| 7 | The idea of ‘ bracketing out ’ all practical or theoretical concerns so that the immediate felt quality of a work is able to become the focus of attention is also of importance . |
| 8 | Moreover , about eight per cent of those who changed their minds with additional disclosure changed in the Wrong' direction : they made a blind or confused choice rather than a rational decision . |
| 9 | Inspect the flex carefully for any signs of damage or bare wires especially where the cores enter the lampholders . |
| 10 | Much of Joe 's business involves supplying second-hand weapons or unmarked arms so that the manufacturing country is untraceable . |
| 11 | He travelled up to Windermere to view the property and had exploratory discussions with Edgar , who indicated that he wished to retire but preferred to sell his hotel to an individual or small group rather than a national chain . |
| 12 | However , superficial reading of research findings , combined with prejudice , has led to a growing stress on workfare in the United States where mothers , whose children may be as young as six months in some States , could be forced to accept training or low-paid work even where the child care support services are inadequate . |
| 13 | Mask spotlights with dwarf shrubs or other plants so that the lamps are not obtrusive by day . |
| 14 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 15 | Wolfendale argues that the involvement of parents has been fostered by professional and parental convictions rather than the law . |
| 16 | A leading member of the Medellín drug cartel , Fabio Ochoa , wanted by the United States authorities for drug trafficking offences and the murder of an agent of the American Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , surrendered on Dec. 19 in what was seen as a vindication of the policy of President César Gaviria Trujillo , who had adopted legal and political methods rather than the previous military offensive against the drug cartels [ see p. 37772 for October proposals ] ; on Dec. 17 the government had said that it would waive extradition to the USA and reduce prison terms for those traffickers who surrendered and confessed to crimes . |
| 17 | In lieu of an overarching policy of universal nursery education , within which special needs would have an acknowledged place , we have the hotchpotch of provision with which practitioners are only too familiar , and which mostly reflects local and regional idiosyncrasies rather than a planned and coherent structure based on policy . |
| 18 | It is aimed at the trekker and European walker rather than the British winter walker and costs about £100 . |
| 19 | It tends to medicalise and individualise social and economic problems so that the stress of the effects of poor housing , for example , is treated as an individual depressive illness — to be treated with psychotropic drugs . |
| 20 | Subsidiarity has become a ( still at times contentious ) means of regulating areas of competence and especially of financial responsibility between state and private services rather than the rallying call of privatization . |
| 21 | This too was a small-scale and short-lived experiment rather than a serious innovation . |
| 22 | As indicated in Chapter 6 , the positioning and performance of automatic sprinkler systems should be such as to be capable of ultimate extinguishment and total cooling rather than the intermediate achievement of control , leaving a residual but still severe fire fighting problem . |
| 23 | Maybe the age of leisure will turn out to be a brief and unsustainable interlude rather than a new dawn after all . |
| 24 | I am planning performances with two sopranos and two basses sharing the soprano and bass arias so that the voices are really suited to the different vocal ranges . |
| 25 | Some women would want to link this with the consolidation of black consciousness and with the reclassification of lesbianism as a political and sexual choice rather than a congenital affliction . |
| 26 | It is also important to determine which activities and functions should be housed in the new and old locations especially if the organisation plans to carry out either a phased move or to keep a small presence in the old site after the main move has taken place . |
| 27 | It also compares policy areas such as education , fire and social work rather than the institutions of central-local relationships . |
| 28 | Spatially circumscribed definitions of an inner city problem can , we have seen , focus on the patterns of economic depression and social injustice rather than the processes at work behind them . |
| 29 | The production of these ideological forms would be by people whose labour is mental rather than material , whose product has effects in a world of ideas and social relations rather than the material world of objects . |
| 30 | To some extent there was a contradiction between the declared aim of the service , which was to organize the transition from school to full-time wage-earning in a thoughtful and informed manner so that the adolescents went into respectable occupations with long-term prospects , and the policy actually pursued . |