Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the insurer will be concerned to see that the vendor has not waived or limited its rights of subrogation . |
| 2 | However , it has yet to take concrete steps to stop atrocities , or bring their perpetrators to justice . |
| 3 | In the case of other loss or damage , a person can not so exclude or restrict his liability for negligence except in so far as the term or notice satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 4 | They must be kicking themselves ( or drowning their sorrows in Diamond White ) . |
| 5 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 6 | Or top your pies with meringue for a change . |
| 7 | No time to play with the children , no time to take the dog for a walk or to try their hand at painting , boating or simply thoughtfully chewing a straw . |
| 8 | An application to the court for judicial review of the Minister 's decision was not the appropriate means by which the council should seek to ventilate or pursue its differences of opinion with the Minister . |
| 9 | This has often treated technology as an end in itself , and not queried its wider relationship to firm activity or weighed its contribution to performance . |
| 10 | Unable to resist the opportunity to gloat , or realise his fantasies in language , he paused : |
| 11 | They feared that if they refused to marry or baptize their children in church , they would be ostracized in a particularly religiously minded part of Russia . |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't appear to have any qualms about spending the weekend with him , or flaunting your relationship in front of her day by day . |
| 13 | A person can not by reference to any contract terms or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence . |
| 14 | A person can not by reference to any contract terms or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence . |
| 15 | A person can not , by clause or notice , exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence ( s2(1) ) . |
| 16 | Or let my Lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . |
| 17 | The investigators suggested that the combination of communication deviance and critical , intrusive or guilt-inducing affect from parents meant that their adolescent child had ‘ little recourse through communication with them for exploring , clarifying , or correcting his feelings of unworthiness , rejection , or isolation ’ . |
| 18 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 19 | The black artist appeared on the threshold , wrapped in a swirling black cloak , smiling most ferociously , and the little tailor quaked and held up his splinter , thinking his foe would be bound to meet it magically , or freeze his hand in motion as he struck . |
| 20 | Failure to provide this care will not lead to imprisonment unless there is evidence of criminal neglect , but may well reduce or remove their claim to maintenance on their husbands . |
| 21 | In discussing the extent to which sentencing discretion in England and Wales has been subject to control in the past , or is likely to be in the future , we will adopt the threefold classification elaborated by K.C. Davis ( 1969 ) : viz. confining discretion ( or restricting the scope of discretionary power that is available ) ; structuring discretion ( or regulating its exercise in advance ) ; and checking discretion ( or reviewing the way it has been exercised in the past ) . |
| 22 | Return to Kreuzlingen either by the same route , or extend your run to Wil , then turn north for Weinfelden and Kreuzlingen . |
| 23 | Whichever of these two views is being proffered , pluralists are arguing that the creation of the military-industrial complex is a conscious decision by individuals who arc well aware of what they arc doing They are self-consciously striving to subvert the political system to enrich themselves or to strengthen their position in society . |
| 24 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 25 | Love requires vulnerability , being vulnerable enough to share weaknesses or confront our partner over problem issues . |
| 26 | ( 10 ) Throughout Stages 1 and 2 , DCSLs may be involved in advising schools , librarians , or library committees on practical matters , from suggesting trends in library layout ( for schools relocating or refurbishing their libraries in anticipation of , or as a result of , receiving a project grant ) to advising on precise requirements of order forms , the need to " weed " old stock to make space for the new acquisitions , and the desirability or updating or devising a new catalogue . |
| 27 | Laboratory analyses often confirm a field man 's suspicions or draw his attention to pollution previously unnoticed . |
| 28 | The banks normally could not restrict or avoid their liability for breach of their duty of care towards their customers , the plaintiffs in the case , but their lawyers suggested that the deed of release did just that . |
| 29 | We argue about whether everyone has a right that the state protect him from assaults by other citizens , or provide him a decent level of medical care , or guarantee his security from attack by foreign powers . |
| 30 | Friends , colleagues in the movement who 'd never left their bitter cells , or spent their lives in labour camps till they died of exhaustion . |