Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Where a bankrupt has been discharged , whether automatically or as a result of an application to the court , the court must on the request of the bankrupt issue him with a certificate of discharge , and the bankrupt may also require the Secretary of State to gazette and/or advertise in any newspaper in which the bankruptcy was advertised a notice of the discharge ( r 6.220 ) .
2 The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme .
3 There is no record of John having been apprehended and/or fined at that time , but it is almost certain that he would be dealt with in some way .
4 1.3 Neither nor any of its subsidiaries , officers , agents or employees shall directly or indirectly seek customers , establish branches , maintain distribution depots or promote or sell in any way the Licensed Software in the Agreed Territories during the continuance of this Agreement .
5 Chambers ( 1983 forthcoming , and in shorter form 1980 a and b ) has exhorted government officials to be aware that ‘ in developing countries poor rural people and rural poverty in general are underperceived or misperceived by those who themselves are neither poor nor rural ’ .
6 This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way .
7 threatening or abusive or insulting words or behaviour or distribute or display to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation , namely … which is threatening abusive or insulting ,
8 ‘ threatening or abusive or insulting words or behaviour or distribute or display to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation , namely … which is threatening , abusive or insulting ’ The phrases mean the same as under the old Section 5 Public Order Act 1936 .
9 ‘ threatening or abusive or insulting words or behaviour or distribute or display to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation , namely … which is threatening , abusive or insulting ’ The type of actions used by the offender should be explained in the witness statement(s) .
10 10.3 The Tenant acknowledges that [ its ] obligations under this agreement and the Lease shall not be affected or lessened in any way by the fact that there may now or subsequently exist any Restrictions and the Tenant shall with effect from the Possession Date comply with and indemnify the Landlord in respect of any liability under any Restrictions ( whether made before or after the Possession Date ) save in so far as such liability arises from failure by the Landlord to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 2.2.2 It need hardly be said that the tenant 's solicitor should make all usual inquiries to ascertain whether any such restrictions exist at the date of the agreement .
11 Legitimate : ( a ) etymologically , the word expresses a status , which has been conferred or ratified by some authority ; ( b ) conformable to law or rule .
12 Who comes or goes in these rooms is my business , not yours ! ’
13 By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country .
14 For example , business liability for death and personal injury resulting from negligence can not be excluded or limited at all by section 2(1) and , in the case of other loss or damage , liability can only be excluded or restricted where the term or notice purporting to do this satisfies a test of reasonableness ; section 2(2) .
15 By this approach invasive fetal sampling techniques may be avoided entirely or limited to those cases where confirmation of a positive diagnosis is desirable .
16 This joy is not questioned or limited in any way .
17 A.1.2 is not to be affected or limited by any previous or other disclosures , express or implied , to the Purchaser , its officers , representatives or professional advisers .
18 To complete this discussion of exclusion clauses it should be noted that , by section 7 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , liability for defective products under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 can not be excluded or limited by any contract term .
19 By virtue of s41 of CPA 1987 , breach of a safety regulation , as distinct from the general safety requirement , is also grounds for a civil action by any person affected which can not be excluded or limited by any contract term or notice .
20 The name and age of the party boy or girl could be piped or painted on many of the cakes — perhaps across the large band of the hot-air balloon , on the space rocket or on the pop-up birthday card .
21 Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason .
22 The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods .
23 Distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation , should all be given their ordinary meanings .
24 " A person is guilty of an offence it he ( a ) uses towards another person , threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign … which is threatening , abusive or insulting … with intent to cause another to believe that immediate violence will be used … or to provoke ( such ) violence .
25 ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’
26 The forms of lighthouses and boats , while almost toy-like in their basic simplicity , are developed internally in terms of a large number of planes or facets , and since the sky receives the same treatment , the painting resolves itself into a mass of small , shifting planes , jointed together or hanging behind each other in shallow depth .
27 In this sense the neutralisation of a distinct country or region would be intended to lead to its withdrawal from the contest of interests between the Great Powers , at least in the military sphere , and would require assurances or guarantees from these powers to this effect .
28 But , although many babies pull off hats , socks and booties in their first year , they do n't really try to dress or undress at this stage .
29 Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination .
30 Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question .
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