Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the quarter bequeathed property , the majority has sold it or expected to do so . |
| 2 | The remaining 18 have , in the eyes of the EPA , failed to regulate enough pollutants or failed to set sufficiently strict limits . |
| 3 | In this case , people met at work or in the pub will not be asked home or invited to go out to a dance . |
| 4 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 5 | Only occasionally did the bubble burst , and he flashed anger at someone who argued back or tried to speak out of turn . |
| 6 | On the other hand , a photograph can not be generalized or simplified to bring out the important diagnostic features of a species ; it must be always of an individual at a particular time and place . |
| 7 | In order of seniority , they are handed fragments or allowed to tear off pieces . |
| 8 | Most units need to be on an outside wall or ducted to vent outdoors but others can be bought which are ventless , recirculating the air through activated charcoal filters which should be changed regularly . |
| 9 | Second , in the cases where the previous management was not invited to stay on , or declined to do so , lower levels of efficiency in management have proved disastrously expensive . |
| 10 | a passenger vehicle or dual-purpose vehicle being in either case a vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than 12 passengers exclusive of the driver ; |
| 11 | With effect from I January 1992 the ‘ old ’ offences at paragraphs ( f ) and ( g ) of regulation 27(1) of the 1986 Regulations no longer apply to passenger motor cars other than motor cars constructed or adapted to carry more than eight seated passengers in addition to the driver , or to goods vehicles with a maximum gross weight which does not exceed 3,500 kg . |
| 12 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 13 | James Cable claims that without " persistent British efforts the Geneva Conference would never have been held , allowed to continue , or permitted to end in even the limited measure of agreement actually achieved " over the future of Indo-China . |
| 14 | In most cases , the ministers not directly involved had either read the brief late the previous night , or started to do so as the argument proceeded . ’ |
| 15 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 16 | It happened suddenly , or appeared to do so ; he had always been quiet and uncommunicative , having few friends . |
| 17 | So then it went on from there to Canada so it just worked out or appeared to work out that right around the world at that particular time ten or eleven years ago , that nobody was bothered and as you said the Beautiful Dreamers and this sort of stuff until we came along and er but other than that we would be surprised . |
| 18 | You can slide the grill pan full of their favourite sausages under the high level Sola grill and when it 's all cooked and so evenly browned the Apex 's large 2 handled grill pan pulls forward and can be either lifted right out , or left to sit safely on the safety stops . |
| 19 | Are daisy-wheel printers shielded under acoustic hoods , or left to clatter away on desks every time someone prints a document ? |
| 20 | The colonial powers , and later the imperial powers , have disrupted the lives of hundreds of nations , denied or attempted to wipe out their cultures , exploited their natural resources and imposed alien rule on them . |
| 21 | Does it sound trivial or over-rarefied to make so much of such small points ? |
| 22 | If their tendency is that they are likely or intended to stir up racial hatred , that is sufficient . |
| 23 | I find nothing in the Act to indicate that Parliament thought or intended to lay down that indulgence in these practices is not corrupting . |
| 24 | Part of our reaction to that situation has been negative , especially the behaviourist interlude that sought to define out of existence many of the issues that confront us , but for the most part the approach has been a steady accumulation of experimental data in anticipation of the day when meaningful theories could be developed . |
| 25 | Those that sought to grow organically may have faced fewer problems of this type . |
| 26 | Shareholders had until 12th July to elect to accept the Scrip Dividend offer , those that failed to do so received the cash dividend in the normal way . |
| 27 | In Chapters 5 and 6 we counted only those paths which spanned the entire utterance , anchoring the beginning of the search at the left-hand end and ignoring all paths that failed to match through to the right-hand end . |
| 28 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 29 | So we got Mark I think was the only erm full timer off the compost plant that agreed to come in . |
| 30 | Not even light that tried to move directly outwards . |