Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The source of irritation may be flies , an unpleasant smell , ticklish grooming or an unskilled rider . |
| 2 | Difficulty will also arise where the eleven wish to amend existing Directives in accordance with the policies of the Protocol and Agreement and the UK does not want to do so . |
| 3 | The same problem may also arise where the demised property is to include some projection . |
| 4 | Anyway , the perceived need since 1945 is said in the Report to have been ‘ to involve employees to a greater extent in company decision making ’ whatever involvement involves or a greater extent extends to . |
| 5 | Along at the river 's mouth , at the standing wave formed where the incoming sea and outgoing melt water meet , a flock of terns hover and dive like gnats in the summer air . |
| 6 | The Museums and Galleries Commission is hoping that these considerations will lead the Charity Commissioners to reconsider their decision under the cy-pres ( i.e. next best thing ) provision of the 1960 Charities Act , which allows a charitable bequest or trust to be altered where the original stipulation is no longer relevant . |
| 7 | The author directs attention to the all-important consideration of scale : ‘ We often see some of the smallest growing shrubs placed where the largest trees should have been planted . ’ |
| 8 | It is actively supported by a small part of the population , and tacitly tolerated by many more , out of either fear or a simple desire not to be involved in a political battle . |
| 9 | In recognising that fact , as well as the reality that this package can not be amended or the entire community ratification process goes back into the melting pot , it was the pressure point likely to offer the greatest temptation to the Tory anti-Maastricht brigade . |
| 10 | And with that he was gone to go where no other inventor has gone before … and no doubt to the top of the telly ratings . |
| 11 | But these conditions do not exist where the original parties have invested in transaction-specific assets . |
| 12 | They should have rushed back here , started up the engines and dashed out to sea , and we 'd have sent a police launch or the local equivalent of the Customs and Excise after them . ’ |
| 13 | YESTERDAY 'S Diary explained where the main parties stood on British Rail ( between carriages jammed against the netty door , very likely . ) |
| 14 | Haksar 's argument that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha as distinct from the threat of coercion , however , fails to take into consideration the difficulties involved in regarding morality as an infallible guide to conduct or an absolute rule . |
| 15 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 16 | One possible answer , which might be given where the relevant legal system remains close to the classical approach of the civil law tradition , would be along these lines : ‘ The court , having reviewed the written minutes containing the evidence as to the facts of the case , hears submissions on behalf of the parties as to the conclusions to be drawn in the light of the applicable law . ’ |
| 17 | A code is no more than a ‘ perspective of quotations ’ ( p. 20 ) , and ‘ its only logic is that of the already-done or the already-read ’ ( p. 19 ) . |
| 18 | In Aspinall v Sterling Mansell Ltd [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 866 it was said that there is a difference in kind between an ordinary medical examination and one involving experimenting or a diagnostic procedure . |
| 19 | Any of the following signs or symptoms may cause you to be suspicious : water retention asthma abdominal bloating migraine headache abdominal wind insomnia abdominal pain anxiety or irritability diarrhoea constipation eczema puffy eyelids rhinitis ( sneezing or a runny nose ) swollen fingers or ankles |
| 20 | Experimental cars are being developed where the rear lights are controlled by a digital code sent from a circuit at the front along an optical fibre . |
| 21 | In the 5th edition §246 footnote he advocates that ‘ … a single dose of a well selected homœopathic medicine should always be allowed first to fully extend its action before a new medicine is given or the same one repeated . ’ |
| 22 | The principles he acts upon are not adopted because of his social position or natural endowments , or in view of the particular kind of society in which he lives or the specific things that he happens to want . |
| 23 | It is a place where a great reputation can be won or an existing one extinguished . |
| 24 | We phoned the chemist to find where the nearest and best doctor was when we moved to Preston . |
| 25 | In Lahore , Karachi and other cities in Pakistan , small-scale melas are organised where the principal feature is a dance show performed by hijras . |
| 26 | The ‘ change of life-style ’ argument is unsound because the change is not necessarily greater the further you fly or the more time zones you cross . |
| 27 | If necessary the prosecution might call a vehicle examiner to give evidence where there is some technical failure of the handbrake such as a worn ratchet causing the brake lever to slip or a frayed cable which snapped under pressure . |
| 28 | But it might also be happening where the Communist Party have provided some sort of secure physical presence and where if , as a result of past exploitation , there was a substantial degree of antagonism towards landlords which , it would be that that was carried out . |
| 29 | Few disciples followed him , his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left . |
| 30 | The Army backs also had their moments , but too often the soldiers shot themselves in the foot as the critical pass was dropped or the wrong option taken . |