Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 limits the extent to which liability can be excluded or limited for breach of contract , or for negligence , or under the terms implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and other legislation containing similar provisions , such as the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 2 | The essence of his argument was that life in general , and development in particular , could not be encompassed or explained in terms of physics and chemistry . |
| 3 | Certain things can never be blamed on or explained in terms of witchcraft . |
| 4 | Whether used around the garden or filled with flowers for display , prices start at £20 . |
| 5 | Biopsy specimens were mounted on filter paper or placed in cassettes before fixation in formalin and after routine processing were sectioned at three levels and stained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 6 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 7 | If you have too many pumpkin seeds they are delicious in stews or roasted on top of cheese on toast . |
| 8 | There were other dragons — gold , silver , black , white-flapping across the sun-shafted air on errands of their own or perched on outcrops of rock . |
| 9 | Those who refused to do so could be removed from office or fined for neglect of duty . |
| 10 | The criminal law includes and reflects our proper stance against ‘ murderous ’ acts of terrorism conducted by people who are usually exploited or oppressed by forces of occupation . |
| 11 | Walls and ceilings were marble faced or decorated with paintings in fresco , tempera or caustic medium . |
| 12 | The swords which had been clubbed or shortened into daggers for want of space to use them , now came into more orthodox play ; and the Welsh archers above on the hills were able to select their targets again without killing their own comrades , and worked with supercilious skill as long as there was light to slay by , and an Englishman still alive . |
| 13 | Their approaches have been included under the general category of ‘ administrative criminology ’ ( see Young , 1986 ) , or seen as varieties of control theory ( Downes and Rock , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | My judgment rests upon the view that the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 15 | ‘ the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 16 | But with this factory farming system , sows are confined in narrow stalls or tethered in rows by neck straps or girth straps shackled to the floor . |
| 17 | An undertaking which abuses its dominant position on a particular product and geographic market may be fined by the EC Commission or sued in reliance on Article 86 for damages and/or an injunction in a national court by a party that has suffered damage . |
| 18 | A number of cases have dealt with the valuation of fittings attached to or used in connection with land , whether freehold or leasehold , and associated products and machinery , whether in farms , public houses or factories : see : ( 1 ) for a farming example , Leeds v Burrows ( 1810 ) 12 East 1 , where the value of the outgoing tenant 's hay and a " spike-roll " had to be assessed ; ( 2 ) for a public house , Smith v Peters ( 1875 ) 2O LR Eq 511 , where the household furniture , fixtures and other effects were to be valued ; and ( 3 ) for a factory , Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 , where there was a small company carrying on a family business of manufacturing and retailing woollen goods , and there needed to be a valuation of the premises and the machinery . |
| 19 | 4 Reciprocal versus non-reciprocal bilingualism — that is , where language A is used or understood by speakers of language B but not vice versa . |
| 20 | But many of the Forest fines were never paid , and others were reduced or evaded by claims to exemption , pardons or royal warrants . |
| 21 | MPD frequently arises in people who were sexually abused as children , or who experienced what Putnam calls ‘ sensory deprivation ’ — being bound , gagged , stuffed in trunks or locked in closets for example . |
| 22 | Strike or industrial action existing or notified by declaration of intent at or prior to the date of purchasing insurance . |
| 23 | There is an exception however to this for delay due to strike or industrial action existing or notified by declaration of intent at the time of effecting the policy . |
| 24 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 25 | Finally , in azo-bound drugs , bacterial azoreductases liberate two 5-ASA molecules ( Dipentum ) or split off 5-ASA from sulphapyridine ( Salazopyrin ) . |
| 26 | Taxable profits , which are calculated in a similar way to companies ' taxable profits , are treated as personal income to the sole trader , or split between partners in proportion to their share of profits in the year of assessment . |
| 27 | Most were based in close physical proximity to each other in the City of London ; they were often related or united by ties of friendship , and had ample opportunity to meet one another informally in coffee houses or elsewhere . |
| 28 | Other writers , more pessimistically , have argued that as one household task is reduced or eliminated by advances in technology , then others are added to the list and standards are raised . |
| 29 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 30 | If you are going to eat in the kitchen make sure overall lights arc on a dimmer switch and that there is enough light over the table — use a rise-and-fall light fixture for example — which can , of course , be substituted for or combined with candlelight at night . |