Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convention be interpreted as meaning that there must be a connection between the actions against the various defendants ? ( b ) If question ( a ) must be answered in the affirmative , does the necessary connection between the actions against the various defendants exist if the actions are essentially the same in fact and law ( einfache Streitgenossenschaft ) , or must a connection be assumed to exist only if it is expedient to hear and determine them together to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings ( for example , in cases of ‘ notwengide Streitgenossenschaft ’ ( compulsory joinder ) ) ? |
| 2 | Was it birth and lineage , or could a man acquire nobility , and if so , how ? |
| 3 | Can a younger lover beat the ageing blues — or would a change of style do the trick for you ? |
| 4 | Are you interested in a plumbed-in water filter or would a table-top model suit you better ? |
| 5 | When has or will a person such a person as Miss Havisham exist ? |
| 6 | The packaging of the alarm also indicates that should a vehicle be stolen with the Nightstick in place the manufacturers will pay the owner some compensation . |
| 7 | The problem with using incomplete data is that should a transition occur that was absent from the training corpus then the model would assert that such a transition was impossible , assign zero probability and produce errors . |
| 8 | Nor should a partiality in our present preoccupations with the English Renaissance be objected to . |
| 9 | The cardiotocography machine must certainly not be used as a poor substitute for midwifery care , nor should a shortage of midwives be used as an argument for a policy of continuous cardiotocography . |
| 10 | These results are quite acceptable , but a picture at the blackout level should not show whole areas ON , nor should a picture more than two or three above the blackout point be black and neither of these happens . |
| 11 | Nor should a gentlemen ever discuss that most unfashionable subject religion , lest some fanatic ‘ cause him bodily injury ’ ( still good advice in Delhi today ) . |
| 12 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |
| 13 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 14 | I realised that I could have her full attention as long as I caught her interest , and I could only do this by telling the truth , for she could no more be bothered with the niceties of drawing-room small-talk than could a fox . |
| 15 | Nor would a test ban drive the declared nuclear powers out of business . |
| 16 | Nor would a suggestion that plaintiffs are poor — unless they are in business , and the implication is that they are unable to pay their debts . |
| 17 | A sale in the City of London by a member of the public to a shopkeeper would not satisfy this requirement and nor would a sale which took place in a private part of the shop , Hargreave v. Spink ( 1892 Q.B. ) . |
| 18 | Here , inferiority means that Friedman 's x per cent growth rule would imply greater fluctuations of real output around its natural level than would a policy of appropriately varying monetary policy as the economy moved into boom or recession . |
| 19 | A script recognition system would also be more easily adapted to foreign languages ( if the same alphabet is used ) , than would a speech recognition system which would require completely different information about the phonology of other languages . |
| 20 | If you do this sort of calculation and compare mice and monkeys you find that monkeys have much more brain than would a mouse of equivalent size ( Russell 1978 ) . |
| 21 | Here the in-kind transfer encourages consumption of good X at a cheaper cost to the Exchequer than would a cash transfer ; for a cash transfer to stimulate consumption of X by as much , it would be necessary to give the individual sufficient cash that the budget line would be pushed out to point 9 on the income consumption curve . |
| 22 | No poker player will sit with a man at his back or show his hand , but nor will a poker player have a cocky attitude to the game . |
| 23 | A tent will not be a building , nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop . |
| 24 | Nor will a history of art criticism be attempted . |
| 25 | Nor will a network of single-purpose bodies find it easy to co-ordinate services either with one another or with the services of the districts or boroughs . |
| 26 | A version of this suggestion has already been met with as a possible explanation for some DOEs when it was suggested ( p. 159 ) that an expectancy of a reinforcer evoked by a sample stimulus will be more likely to persist in memory across the delay of a delayed MTS experiment than will a representation of the sample stimulus itself . |
| 27 | Ministers can not vote against the government in the House of Commons ; nor can a PPS . |
| 28 | A paddock ca n't be full of trees , nor can a forest be all fields . |
| 29 | Nor can a notice in the foyer adequately forewarn an audience of a work 's potential for outrage . |
| 30 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |