Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 The external body features like arms , hands , legs , and genitals of the dolphin 's land-based ancestors , have either been eliminated or withdrawn inside the dolphin 's body to create the most beautifully proportioned and elegant of forms , perfectly streamlined for movement in the water .
2 ‘ ( a ) the name of any person is without sufficient cause entered in or omitted from a company 's register of members , or ( b ) default is made or unnecessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member , the person aggrieved or any member of the company , or the company may apply to the court for rectification of the register . ’
3 The arguments before us ranged far and wide , as they did before the judge , but in the end they resolved into the following issues which I propose to consider seriatim. ( 1 ) Can a non-trading corporation sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation when no actual financial loss is pleaded or established ? ( 2 ) Does the right to freedom of expression affect the position where the non-trading corporation is also a public authority ? ( 3 ) Does the operation of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 , or any other matter contained in or omitted from the council 's statement of claim , preclude the council from continuing with this action ?
4 Such a case was not pleaded or included in the judge 's summary of the issues : the nearest the issues come to such a claim is that if a conflict of interest arose , the defendants ‘ would inform [ the plaintiff ] of the conflict and , after due consultation with him , resolve it . ’
5 This chapter deals principally with the situation where the husband and the wife hold the matrimonial home in their joint names ( whether as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common ) and , as a result of property adjustments , the husband 's interest in the home is conveyed or transferred to the wife 's new husband or friend .
6 A spokeswoman at NCR said that the 80 UK employees involved will either be relocated to headquarters in Dayton , Ohio or absorbed into the group 's UK sales and marketing department in Chertsey , Surrey .
7 You have to offer customised make-up , which is mixed or matched to the client 's personal needs .
8 In addition to bills to restructure the military leadership and reorganize the broadcasting media , there was also a particularly sensitive measure to settle the level of compensation for those killed or injured in the government 's brutal suppression of the 1980 Kwangju uprising .
9 On the whole , the Labour Party took the old radical view that the task of Parliament was to enact the legislation foreshadowed or promised in the party 's election manifesto .
10 Alternatively the quantities can be taken off from the drawings or extracted from the builder 's estimate .
11 The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's .
12 Carpets can be delivered or fitted any day except Sunday or cut on the firm 's premises for the customer to take away .
13 If people are working in groups , anyone who spends too long recording or drawing will either be hurried up by the others or excluded from the group 's progress .
14 It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise .
15 Gallaudet , a firm believer of the combined system , and by leading deaf people like George Healey of Liverpool , and by experienced teachers or missioners of the deaf in favour of the combined or sign system like Elliott , Welsh , Rhind were all largely dismissed or ignored in the Report 's recommendations , which were in essence that the Pure Oral system should be used to educate the deaf and that teachers for the deaf should be properly qualified , experienced in teaching in ordinary schools , and be in possession of all their faculties .
16 Some are designated as threatened or endangered in the I.U.C.N. 's ( International Union for the Conservation of Nature ) Red Data Books ; others , are still relatively numerous in the wild , but offer an educational encounter of value .
17 The Federation established industrial co-operatives with the intent that they should not be absorbed into or controlled by the Consumers ' Movement .
18 Gregory himself did not doubt the efficacy of the saint , but clearly Leudast and his supporters were less than impressed by the bishop 's special relationship with his supernatural patron .
19 For an organ larger than this , there is no limit except that imposed by the customer 's ability to pay .
20 Although proposed by the UN 's International Law Commission , the idea has been widely criticised as legally unsound and practically unworkable .
21 His vote was more than halved in the party 's northern region , and nearly halved in both Yorkshire and the north-west .
22 He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering .
23 It is evident that the prosecuting authorities also had in mind to prosecute the applicant for implication in some of Mr. Turner 's offences , but a decision was taken in 1988 , and communicated to the applicant 's solicitors , that proceedings would be put back until after the B.M.F.L. trial .
24 Further complications raised at the symposiumover whether Mantegna or Antonio Pollaiuolo takes precedence in these crucial early years of printmaking threatened to take over the proceedings until halted by the discussion 's Chairwoman , Caroline Elam , Editor of the Burlington Magazine .
25 The matter was discussed and referred to the council 's working party for investigation .
26 Insiders claim the Okidata machine , with its fairly respectable 30 SPECmark rating , was badly mismanaged and misdirected by the division 's top echelons .
27 She managed to cook again , and her depression eased as she achieved a measure of independence and joined in the family 's social activities once more .
28 A lot of teachers jump to conclusions about pupils before they 've even come into contact with them and broken through the pupil 's resentment .
29 The first of these was shown on the opening night of the new Channel Four station on November 2nd , 1982 , and regarded as the channel 's first ‘ star ’ production .
30 The freedom is earned and justified by the poet 's acceptance of this responsibility , a responsibility more onerous than any incurred by the writer in regular meter .
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