Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An act done before the giving of a promise to make a payment or to confer some other benefit can sometimes be consideration for the promise . |
| 2 | And it shows how a new and larger loan made to clear past debts or consolidate several separate debts into one can do the same . |
| 3 | So , according to the laws of Leviticus , women were forbidden to enter the Temple or touch any hallowed thing during their times of menstrual uncleanness , whilst with regard to childbirth they were similarly removed from cultic activity , this time for forty days following delivery of a boy and significantly eighty days after that of a girl . |
| 4 | Ultimately , de Gaulle 's aim was not to destroy communism or to meet any other specific threat . |
| 5 | A further elaboration of this technique is the use by the respondents of computer-linked handsets that can be simply manipulated to show their response throughout the commercial : they can be asked simply to indicate an overall favourable or unfavourable response or to reflect some more specific description of the film — ‘ exciting ’ , ‘ funny ’ , ‘ tasteful ’ , etc . |
| 6 | 10.2 The benefit of Condition 10.1 is granted to the Purchaser by the Seller only in the event that the Purchaser shall give the Seller the earliest possible notice in writing of any such claim being made or action threatened or brought against it , shall make no admission of liability or take any other action in connection therewith , shall permit the Seller to have the conduct of the claim pursuant to Condition 10.1 , and shall ( at the Seller 's expense ) give all reasonable information , cooperation and assistance to the Seller ( including without limitation lending its name to proceedings ) in relation to the conduct of the claim . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 8 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |
| 9 | It i it is I appreciate er a difficult er course now to steer between approaching head-on an objection which is a late objection and dealing by er reference to obliquely perhaps to matters that have been dealt with elsewhere to the question of washing-over , but I 'm sure that you can steer this particular course or cross this particular tightrope with success . |
| 10 | The plaintiff did not seek to question the correctness of an assessment or to have any underlying issue of fact adjudicated , but disputed the Revenue 's right to seek to vary the existing assessments by bringing s 485 into operation . |
| 11 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 12 | Section 1(8) prohibits insiders from communicating unpublished price sensitive information to any other person ( ie not only individuals ) , if the insider knows or has reasonable cause to believe , that that person or some other person would make use of the information to deal , or counsel or procure some other person to deal on a recognized exchange in those securities to which the communicated information relates . |
| 13 | But me and Nige are saving up hard to get some extra money or put another twenty thousand down . |
| 14 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 15 | Reporters spent the day scurrying around in far from dignified fashion but not even the foreign television networks , with the vast logistical operations they run , were able to establish any sightings or obtain any hard information . |
| 16 | Mr Browne , MP for Winchester since 1979 , said he was defending the right of his constituents to decide who they wished to have as MP , and added : ‘ None of the five ex-supporters is either my election agent or holds any other official appointment within my organisation . ’ |
| 17 | Try drinking lots of water instead : not eating at all for a day to clear out the system ( unless you are a diabetic or have some other dietary problem ) ; having a warm bath and a nap ; going for a long walk . |
| 18 | Fitting or removing these tiled surrounds is a relatively simple job , but you will need assistance , as the tiled units are very heavy . |
| 19 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 20 | Whereas Marx often used this term to refer generally to what I have called the division by sectors or branches many recent writers have used it to refer to the division of functions , found within all branches in a capitalist economy , between the ‘ exploiters ’ or ‘ controllers ’ of labour power and the direct production workers . |
| 21 | The judge or district judge may also at any time order that at the hearing of any action or matter any particular facts may be proved by affidavit ( Ord 20 , r 8 ) , or that the affidavit of a witness be read at the hearing on such conditions as he thinks reasonable ( Ord 20 , r 6 ) . |
| 22 | Erm , so what I promised to do in er er , a moment or two if people are to ask specific questions or comments to make arising from either of those printed reports on page six and page twenty erm , if you would make your point or ask your question now er , it will be recorded and transmitted to the officers responsible and they will take any necessary action or give any reverent replies to those questions . |
| 23 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 24 | solids Some of the characteristics that distinguish these three states of matter are shown in table 3.1 . |
| 25 | Sadly , if it was produced using the SEUCK utility it was n't tweaked enough — there 's no excuse for baddies that use such boring attack patterns . |
| 26 | Once again the newspaper cartoon was a favourite Iraqi medium for attacking the opposition , although in the US and other Western countries an independent press was more concerned with circulation than serving any political or military purpose . |
| 27 | IS Scissormen 's first release , a six-track mini-LP that goes some considerable distance towards explaining their steadily-growing popularity in the capital . |
| 28 | That generated a bonanza that kept many troubled banks afloat . |
| 29 | Behind all the razzmatazz of exploding cannons lies a movie that contains many more considered pluses , not least being Daniel Day-Lewis 's mesmerising central performance as Hawkeye . |
| 30 | We need a programme that involves all five permanent members of the Security Council and those Russian republics to which the Secretary of State rightly referred in his opening remarks . |