Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ( b ) alternative , as in the cases of the provision of alternative facilities for the production , exhibition or publication of certain kinds of work , where it is believed that existing institutions exclude or tend to exclude these ;
2 Or helping to write some plays .
3 Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk .
4 Retaliation would be allowed against a country which refused to implement a panel 's final report or failed to reach some other approved agreement within 30 days .
5 The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices .
6 The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected .
7 ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected .
8 ‘ Any person who , in the course of a trade or business ( a ) applies a false trade description to any goods ; or ( b ) supplies or offers to supply any goods to which a false trade description is applied .
9 A patent is also infringed if a person supplies or offers to supply some other person with any of the means , relating to an essential element of the invention , for putting the invention into effect .
10 No charge may be levied on any employee for anything done or provided to meet any specific requirement of health and safety at work legislation .
11 5.1.1 to pay the rents on the days and in the manner set out in this Lease and not to exercise or seek to exercise any right or claim to withhold rent or any right or claim to legal or equitable set-off
12 Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject .
13 I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise .
14 SI 1992 No 274 provides a complementary exemption , permitting companies which have ‘ relevant securities ’ traded or dealt in on the markets indicated above to issue investment advertisements provided that , in broad terms , they do not overtly advertise the company 's securities as investments or seek to advertise any other investments or investment services .
15 She says that the pupils were ‘ not pushed or encouraged to do more than the basic minimum ’ .
16 ( ii ) on either party assigning or attempting to assign this Agreement other than to a subsidiary or associated company .
17 Conspiring or attempting to commit such offences , inciting , aiding , abetting , counselling or procuring the commission of such offences are also arrestable offences .
18 No one is going to thank you if you end up making changes which either cause real hardship or bring the political roof in — or manage to do both .
19 Boycott was asked for ‘ constructive questions ’ but according to the chairman Brian Walsh , ‘ he had none or declined to ask any ’ at which point the former England opener left .
20 Mainly it will be the mathematics , science or computer studies teachers or the keen sixth-formers who are intrigued or stimulated to write such software .
21 For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult .
22 We could modify either LA or SEGLAB to reduce this problem .
23 In the event of the sub-contractor failing to complete the initial work or failing to rectify any defective workmanship , the retention would not be released .
24 1.6.1 not to incur any liability on behalf of or in any way pledge or purport to pledge 's credit or purport to make any contract binding upon ;
25 or crouch to read such recondite catalogues :
26 Anything in writing is a guarantee if it " contains or purports to contain some promise or assurance " ( s5(2) ( b ) ) .
27 The choice for us was whether to take a strike unprepared or to live to fight another day .
28 The quickening of awareness in pleasure and the shrinking from it in pain are spontaneous , as I discover whenever I suffer , or deliberately resist a temptation , or try to enjoy some cultivated entertainment which bores me .
29 Continually adepts are warned that they must not strain themselves or try to experience these unnatural things .
30 Similarly in a wedding speech statements about religion or politics might result in a quarrel or give offence by causing people with opposing views to disagree , insult each other , or try to convert each other .
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