Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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2 Warrants , addressed to the High Court tipstaff or the county court registrar and bailiff , can be issued to arrest a bankrupt where there are reasonable grounds for believing that he may abscond with a view to avoiding or delaying payment of his debts or his appearance to a petition or to avoiding , delaying or disrupting any proceedings against him or any examination of his affairs ( s 364(1) and r 7.21 ) .
3 The Association has over 600 voluntary welfare workers throughout the U.K. who are able to help ex-serving R.A.F. personnel or their dependents .
4 Also removed , to avoid presidential veto , was the clause revoking a ban on abortion in US military hospitals for military personnel or their dependents .
5 Richard Peck House provides a convalescence not readily available through the NHS for serving or ex-Service personnel or their dependants .
6 Richard Peck House provides convalescence not readily available through the NHS , for serving or ex-Service personnel or their dependants .
7 Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) .
8 You may gam status at work from your ability to make everyone laugh and to defuse tense atmospheres , from your informal counselling skills or your ability to see the down-side and to be eminently practical when others are dreaming .
9 Although the blindfold was removed as she was ‘ kicked out of the car ’ , Joanna did not catch a glimpse of her kidnappers or their vehicle .
10 He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results .
11 Major visitations were conscientiously carried out by the heralds or their deputes — assisted.by the sheriffs and their officers — for more than a hundred and forty years .
12 This dual role attributed to serpents or their image as symbols of the life-force and therefore ‘ consciousness , is universal , and indicates how life-force energy can be used for regenerative ends or sublimated towards purely mental or ascetic pursuits .
13 To find the others , consult the five volumes of Seaby 's Roman Silver Coins & Their Values .
14 The court then went on to say that it was impossible to provide a list of matters which will qualify as business secrets or their equivalent .
15 He pointed out that trade secrets falling in to the third category would subsequent upon the judgment of the Court of Appeal , be protected under an implied term of the contract and therefore an expressed restrictive covenant would not be needed to protect trade secrets or their equivalent .
16 Can you stop them taking your trade secrets or your customers with them when they leave ?
17 Marlowe chooses to escape from his own Elizabethan society to a land of innocent pursuits where his shepherd asks a young lady , ‘ Come live with me and be my love ’ .
18 If the electorate disapproves of the policies or their outcomes , it has the opportunity to replace the government at the next election .
19 Which proved more influential for the Liberal party before 1914 , its policies or its leadership ?
20 This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice .
21 For the very fountain head of the triboluminescent effect mentioned in these columns to the astonishment of the entire civilised world , had been unable to produce a single flash from a load of peppermints hot from the press or the ovens or whatever machinery is used .
22 But now , her pregnancy and his ever-increasing work-load meant that at the end of the day they were both so exhausted that there was only the desire for an early night and a brief conversation about all their plans or what Brian called , ‘ the state of play ’ .
23 Most solicitors are finding that a number of receipts issued by superiors or their agents are not completed by being signed in terms of Form 2 of Schedule I prescribed by the Act for redemption receipts .
24 But if your complaint is that a less tangible term of your employment has been broken , as when you have suffered harassment from your superiors or your status has been eroded , it may be difficult to establish a viable claim for compensation if you do not quit .
25 Gagosian does not represent artists or their interests , he simply buys and sells works on the market , and he is known to be spectacularly good at it .
26 The proponents of the law had proposed a fee of 5% of the sale price of the object to be paid to artists or their survivors for fifty years after the artist 's death .
27 Questioning does not take place only with essays or their titles .
28 Yes , I do still keep a diary , though it now shows my hospital , doctor 's and dentist 's appointments rather than my business meetings or my target dates and such .
29 Log accounts of meetings where your competence or character was attacked .
30 It is not possible to explain the reasoning behind the proposals or their details in this leaflet — these are in the Plan itself .
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