Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One who inherits a title whilst a Member of the House of Commons or a candidate for a seat in it can remain or become a Member for only one month before disclaiming . |
| 2 | And so the gulls can absorb or accommodate the pressures of the wind , standing apparently unconcerned in gusts which are tossing around 180-litre oil drums like playthings . |
| 3 | This is a very important stage in the development of a Rottweiler and the breeder can make or break a puppy at this stage . |
| 4 | As chairman you can make or break the meeting by rewarding the wrong kind of behaviour by participants . |
| 5 | They were the supreme embodiment of sovereignty ; the army owed obedience to them personally ; the debts of the State were their personal debts ; they could override or anticipate the decisions of any court of law . |
| 6 | Do they enhance or diminish a sense of self-esteem and a feeling of personal security or are they intimidating ? |
| 7 | Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends . |
| 8 | Paragraph one point four , legislation , figures prominent in here and Mr , legislation of course is currently a changing scheme in our service and perhaps the most important new act for several years is the New Road and Street Works Act , which is scheduled to be in action on the first of January next year and this will have two main effects for us , firstly the Local Highway Authority that is ourselves in Suffolk will be in a far stronger position to manage or influence or control the work of public utilities in public highways . |
| 9 | The practical effect of the amendment is to make it clear that an RFL can not supervise or manage the office of a multi-national practice , except where no right of audience or right to conduct litigation is exercised from the office or supervised from it . |
| 10 | Linlithgow 's Labour MP , Tam Dalyell , has aligned himself with local people fighting the proposed workings and has expressed concern that they could damage or destroy a line of beech trees bounding the site . |
| 11 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 12 | It is not difficult to see why in unplanned discourses speakers interested in successful communication should modify or correct the interpretation of utterances they have already made . |
| 13 | Neither , if you value your privacy and security , should you buy or rent a house on the end of a road where the public pavement runs alongside your house and garden . |
| 14 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 15 | 16.2 [ Subject as provided in clause [ s ] of the Lease no or No ] defect in the Works or the Premises at the date on which the Lease is granted shall in any way lessen or affect the obligations of the Tenant under the Lease |
| 16 | When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence . |
| 17 | The other partners are only safe if the individual who acted had no authority in fact and the party with whom he dealt either knew about the absence of authority or else did not know or believe the individual to be a partner . |
| 18 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 19 | It does not preserve or enhance the area in any way . |
| 20 | It is an inexpensive , simple procedure which could be performed as part of the diagnostic histopathological process and could direct or reduce the need for subsequent imaging procedures . |
| 21 | Clearly Luke had achieved the exorcism he had sought by making love to her and was now free to either pursue or resume a relationship with Cavell Fielding , with no danger of damage to his self-respect because he respected Cavell . |
| 22 | Socio-economic and environmental conditions and levels of medical technology and practice can either mediate or reinforce the influence of nuptiality and reproductive patterns upon fetal , infant , early childhood and maternal health and mortality . |
| 23 | The sovereignty of Parliament means that it can create , abolish or amend the powers of local authorities as it determines . |
| 24 | ‘ What do we know that produces a smell like that ? ’ |
| 25 | I made clear to the Committee considering the Bill , when we considered a similar amendment , that I do not consider that enlarging the size of boards would ensure that they are more effective . |
| 26 | Why did he say he would rather resign than do a deal over PR , unless he knew he would n't have to ? |
| 27 | The inclusion of Silk Protein helps maintain the natural water balance to protect , condition and restore the elasticity of hair . |
| 28 | To return to my burglary , it became possible to make alternative arrangements : to let family members know and to replace the presents with other things made available by other people or by just acknowledging that they would be replaced when the insurance money came through ! |
| 29 | I thought you should know and keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Our little friend is still listening and we do n't know and have no means of knowing how sensitive its hearing is . |