Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3.5 You will ensure that in all respects ( except by way of design or specification where we have supplied the same ) the goods and/or the work comply with all relevant requirements of any statute , statutory rule or order , or other instrument having the force of law , which may be in force when the goods are delivered and/or the work performed as the case may be . |
| 2 | In addition , activities — whether due to muscle exercise , mental effort , or the excitement associated with social interactions — will alter the amount of nervous activity passing through this region of the brain . |
| 3 | The client identifier should be noted carefully and either the identifier or the title used in all further operations for this client . |
| 4 | The product identifier should be noted carefully and either the identifier or the title used in all further operations for this product . |
| 5 | We may doubt that Beerbohm had the acumen or the catholicity to respond to this provocation as conclusively as he should . |
| 6 | Guerrilla groups such as Carlos Marighela 's National Liberation Action in Brazil , Uruguay 's Tupamaros and the Montoneros in Argentina operated without Communist support and indeed were founded in the belief that the Moscow faithful lacked either the will or the capacity to engage in armed struggle . |
| 7 | The Law or the Church seizes on all talent which is not independently rich or careless about wealth . ’ |
| 8 | He is a husband who recites with dull pain the continuing succession of his wife 's lovers , while he must comfort himself with fantasies — his own , or the kind printed on cheap paper . |
| 9 | Armed with admittedly provisional hypotheses , Paracelsus explained in naturalistic terms and offered the possibility of relief to conditions that the Galenists treated as incurable , the church identified as demonic possession , or the public treated with fatalistic resignation . |
| 10 | For men on beach reconnaissance had further to go than the saboteur or the raider bent on mere disruption : the reconnaissance report had to reach the main force . |
| 11 | The Board has decided to change the rules to require duty solicitors to attend the police station where a suspect is to be questioned about an arrestable offence , when an identity parade is to be held , or the suspect complains of serious maltreatment by the police ; unless the solicitor can show exceptional circumstances justifying non-attendance . |
| 12 | The discovery of new sources of inspiration , world events , emotional and intellectual disturbances , or the stimulus provided by new contacts in his personal life , mark starting points for various periods into which his artistic career can be divided . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , other origins for the sacral horns have been proposed : the raised hands and arms of the goddess , or the sun-disc rising between two mountains , a symbol which in Egypt stood for Elysium . |
| 14 | Er whereby the procedures er at national level , you see the procedures at national level er are quite explicit that er in the national handbook , any matter arising whereby the tools or the materials or the conditions attached to certain jobs , are offered , then our members have the right er to take the matter up with the management . |
| 15 | These findings support our previous work showing that H pylori release of ammonia is unlikely to be responsible for either the hypergastrinaemia or the gastritis caused by this bacterium . |
| 16 | The document included no indication of the role of local authorities , or the resources needed by local authorities . |
| 17 | Did the things they told you about the ad or the product correspond at all to what you hoped they would get out of it ? |
| 18 | Obviously the teaching , or the learning , or the memory span , or the example shown by senior staff was defective . |
| 19 | The list might tactfully have been reduced by five or the age-limit raised to 60 . ’ |
| 20 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 21 | If we consider them stronger than the instinct to value the wisdom of old age or the instinct to care for those less able than ourselves , then we have to concede that the battle against ageism is a very hard one . |
| 22 | Cost , or the need to plan within specific budgets , was more likely to be mentioned by the training officer group , perhaps because they were more likely to have specific budgets . |
| 23 | Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur . |
| 24 | The style of the letter , the conversation , the catechism , or the lecture appealed to those popularizing science and afraid that the neophyte might be put off for life by too dry a style . |
| 25 | They found themselves squeezed by either Labour or the Democrats depending on local patterns of party competition , and they lost control of a wide range of district councils . |
| 26 | However , studies have shown ( Hood , 1962 , 1972 ; Parker et al. , 1999 ) that the chief formative influence on sentencing practice in magistrates ' courts is not the law or the advice received from other professionals in court , nor even the way similar cases have been decided by that particular court in the past . |
| 27 | It is impossible for Jarrow to raise the 80 per cent or the amount needed for new schools ; so the children will continue to suffer … . |
| 28 | The balance of petty cash is the difference between the total paid and the amount originally in the cash box ( either the amount in the float , or the amount left after previous purchases ) . |
| 29 | His case had rested in part on forged documents , though what these documents contained was not without authority , and the pope 's arguments concerned prescription or the power conferred by ancient right . |
| 30 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |