Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Where a surgeon has been brought in ‘ at the last minute ’ to prepare a Medical Report then his opinion and Report can always be made the subject of valid criticism in the event of being compared with the Report and opinion of a surgeon who has consistently treated and/or prepared Reports on a claimant over a lengthy period of time .
2 In order to break these lengthy causal chains and thus put a cap on liability by devising a test of personal responsibility , interests theories invoke such criteria as a voluntary act , consent , acquiescence , a duty of care and foreseen or foreseeable consequences .
3 3 Responsibility will not be accepted for any lost , delayed or damaged entries .
4 Difficulties may arise where equivalent terms do not exist in all of the languages of the thesaurus .
5 When the comparative method of land valuation is used problems may sometimes arise where unrealistic transactions are used as a guide or base value , particularly at the point when land values are about to fall , as happened in 1973 .
6 Difficult cases will arise where those arrangements do not exist , have not been documented , are ambiguous or are in conflict with each other .
7 Such a state can only arise where structural surfaces very nearly conform to an equilibrium profile .
8 A situation could arise where harmful bacteria , having become immune to disinfectants , survive to cause illness which can not be treated by antibiotics .
9 Difficulties can arise where overseas employees participate in a share option scheme approved by the Inland Revenue in accordance with UK legislation .
10 With a wet spring giving way to brilliant dry weather many of the mountain crags have been receiving attention , both in terms of new routes and repeats of less frequented or unrepeated lines .
11 " Unfair " workers , " knobsticks " as the calico printers called them , were not to be worked with , and in this defence , fundamental to all other purposes such as maintaining or improving wages or hours , the artisans were able to claim a legitimacy not only from the " customs of the trade " but from the statute of artificers passed in 1564 and popularly known as " 5 Elizabeth " .
12 Has a characteristic song , with a series of cooing or bubbling notes that run down and then up the scale .
13 Although often not practical , try to get dual experience at sorting out the landing after low final turns or upset approaches .
14 Below that the car risked bogging down in the mud or grounding on an obstacle , above it the tyres might lose adhesion on the continual twists and turns or cliff-like descents , or one of the vicious pot-holes or rock outcrops rupture the suspension or pierce the sump .
15 Why do some countries have a structure which is characterised predominantly by either highly centralised or industry-wide agreements , whereas others have far more decentralised arrangements ?
16 In India , ashrams and temples are likewise situated where electromagnetic variations evoke heightened mental responses .
17 Even in cases involving the interpretation of legislation the judges ' choices between competing or differential readings of the words of the statutory material involve judicial creativity or innovation .
18 Everyone wants to be able to design and create something with an individual touch , whether it 's an outfit to wear or soft furnishings for the home .
19 The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape .
20 Smoothed or polished slices can also be observed directly under cathodoluminescence ( see Chapter 6 ) ; they may be etched or stained for this purpose .
21 Lal rode them , so neatly and prettily , on as many days in a hunting season as her box could carry them to near or far-distant meets .
22 Enrolled or second-level nurses are especially vulnerable when attempting to convert to first-level registration .
23 We have undertaken a randomised trial of elemental diet v prednisolone , to consider these points , in patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent attacks of Crohn 's disease , and followed up the patients for one year after treatment or until relapse .
24 Normalisation is the process of transforming data into well formed or natural groupings such that one fact is in one place and the correct relationships between facts exist .
25 OND in hotel , catering or institutional operations subjects .
26 In ‘ thin-soiled ’ Attica ( Thuc. i.2 ) the olive was unusually important : its deep roots could penetrate the subsoil and get into the rocks , enabling the tree to thrive where other plants could not .
27 In every one of the cases to which your Lordships have been referred where such dicta appear , the source from which the evidence sought to be excluded had been obtained has been the defendant himself or ( in some of the search cases ) premises occupied by him ; and the dicta can be traced to a common ancestor in Lord Goddard 's statement in Kuruma v. The Queen [ 1955 ] A.C. 197 which I have already cited .
28 Regular cleaning of the keyboard should prevent dirt build up which can lead to sticking or non-operative keys .
29 These openings can be found by ramblers who prefer daylight to darkness and , like me , like to wander in search of them , but the black labyrinth to which they lead , the complex network below ground , is reserved exclusively for those experienced in subterranean travel , hardy adventurers who risk rockfalls and flooding to satisfy an insatiable curiosity to go where few men have been before , to see what few men have seen before .
30 There may of course also be hidden or indirect costs involved in training .
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