Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
2 ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
3 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 .
4 Put the soup in a food processor or blender , or push through a fine sieve , and return to the pan .
5 If there was a grievance the students would refuse to eat their evening meal , and parade and make noises , or sit in a solid wall of silence .
6 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 .
7 The essential difference here is that an arbitration award is subject to appeal to or review by the High Court .
8 So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service .
9 The story weaves the Japanese viewpoint widely through the film and presents , probably for the first time to most movie viewers , a rational reason why the Japanese felt they had to attack the United States or suffer as a second-class nation .
10 The squire and the rector , and the traditions which they represented , had no power or influence in the squalid housing estates which grew up round each new factory and mill .
11 Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time .
12 Or send for the new No. 10 Catalogue .
13 On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place .
14 There are few domestic burglaries that do n't include entry or exit through an external door .
15 If this value of fv is substituted in the Doolittle expression for viscosity we find An equation of this type had already been suggested by Williams , Landel & Ferry as an empirical way of combining data derived at different temperatures into one master curve .
16 This argues that the volatility of futures prices will be relatively high during periods when substantial amounts of uncertainty over the levels of demand or supply for the underlying asset are resolved .
17 FAST does not consider the possibility of a social discontinuity or rupture as a necessary Step towards the biosociety .
18 Many people even find themselves losing concentration or sleep after a bag-snatching incident .
19 Serve as a chunky soup , blend coarsely , or process to a smooth purée .
20 Instead of pitting the small firms against large firms , specialization by technique or process in a pervasive network of subcontracting forges a partnership which seems to have maintained the widely dispersed structure .
21 Instead of pitting the small firms against large firms , specialization by technique or process in a pervasive network of subcontracting forges a partnership which seems to have maintained the widely dispersed structure .
22 There will usually be an instruction which tells you to either steam , press , or cover with a damp cloth after blocking pieces so size .
23 Selling loan participations : Initial loan offerings are made by telephone or telex to a selected group of banks .
24 Less offensive is one that has been ‘ inlaid ’ or let into a stronger leaf so that both sides of the letter or document are visible by means of this window .
25 If you 've had to put a plan on ice or wait for an opportune moment to announce a life-expanding decision then you need wait no longer .
26 A senior Hong Kong Government official said the deportations would either have to begin this week or wait until the new year .
27 The penetrance ( probability of having the disease for given genotype expressed as P ( disease/genotype ) ) of the abnormal allele A' was almost the same for the liability classes above class 1 , being 0.26 in the heterozygote or homozygote for the highest incidence groups .
28 Showing an old photograph or object to an elderly person may be a means of jogging the memory , or breaking the ice , and may well prompt them to reminisce .
29 2 As an adjunct or object to the preceding verb which is usually transitive : She promised to write every day .
30 But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last .
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