Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compensation will not be payable if we are forced to cancel or in any way change your holiday due to war , or threat of war , riots , civil commotion , industrial disputes , disaster , terrorist activities , technical or other problems with transportation , closure of airports or seaports , alteration or cancellation of scheduled services or other events outside our control . |
| 2 | It was n't that I disliked , distrusted or in any way doubted the sympathy of my friends . |
| 3 | The results of Warman 's experiments strongly suggest that in normal language comprehension syntactic processing is not autonomous , in the sense that the time taken to understand a sentence does not depend solely on the amount of syntactic analysis required . |
| 4 | The results of a study carried out by Johns ( 1991 ) suggest that in this genre simple verbs without modals or closely linked prepositional phrases are regularly fronted while long and syntactically complex subjects are not . |
| 5 | Other reports also suggest that in this disease there are circulating antibodies against antigens common to biliary and colonic epithelia . |
| 6 | Some gynaecologists may consider that there is a risk of missing serious endometrial pathology in such patients , although studies suggest that in this age group it is unlikely . |
| 7 | Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily . |
| 8 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 9 | as the norm for conversational speech ; that is , to accept that in informal speech there is an inherent tendency to a reductionism by which we say only that which is necessary to effective communication . |
| 10 | But I was also involved in an insurance policy that has been made available for my patients , when they have that worst moment in their lives , you 've got cancer , you 've had a stroke , to know that in this threat , to what 's going to happen to them , they at least have financial independence . |
| 11 | Admittedly , it probably helped that in real life , she came a cropper over Keifer . |
| 12 | We propose that in future advice and assistance , and where necessary representation before the immigrant appellate authority , should instead be provided by the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service . ’ |
| 13 | Marx maintained that in all class societies , the ruling class exploits and oppresses the subject class . |
| 14 | Counsel maintained that in any situation where the facts , as here , would give rise to such a verdict , the death should be regarded as ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8 . |
| 15 | The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts . |
| 16 | erm I think really what erm what should happen is that erm you , with your manager , ought to look at the the erm to establish and agreed job description and in addition to the notes that are are are there erm I have some sample job descriptions from other parts of the Press which have been completed as a framework job and erm we can discuss that in any kind of detail you want . |
| 17 | So effectively Robert Harris and Noel Timms ( ‘ Backs against the wall ’ , 15 April ) turn Parkinson 's Law on its head when they say that in residential care ‘ time expands in accordance with the potentially limitless tasks which exist ’ . |
| 18 | Since cats can see , hear and smell with more sensitivity than we can , it is reassuring to find that in one respect at least we have superior sense organs . |
| 19 | To put it differently , if spatiotemporal relations are to be appealed to in support of the thesis that there can be numerically , not just qualitatively , distinguishable ontological existents , it is necessary , in the first place , to clarify the conditions under which such relations can be significantly claimed to reflect the structure of an objective world , and in trying to do so we are likely to find that in some form or other we need to assume what such relations are supposed to explain . |
| 20 | ‘ It may seem strange , ’ I agreed , ‘ but you see , I was surprised to find that in this country the Houys are the sensitive and intelligent creatures . |
| 21 | Finlayson and Weir ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) found that in comprehensive education the academically bright pupil was constrained to conform to the anti-intellectual norm in the hostel community , a very different position from that obtaining in the days of Dr. Farquhar Macintosh , now rector of Royal High School , Edinburgh who remembers his hostel days on the mainland from a Hebridean background where the hostels housed an academic elite of Certificate pupils . |
| 22 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 23 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 24 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
| 25 | This approach accepts that in any merger there will be certain benefits and certain disadvantages ( ie costs ) and that some sort of assessment has to be made in order to consider the overall impact . |
| 26 | In some cases this field is inappropriate , e.g. in a design document , so it is recommended that in this case the status should , for example , read ‘ INAPPLICABLE ’ . |
| 27 | For a long time , workers on this topic have debated whether defined origins of replication are involved , as they are in bacteria , but only now count Arturo Falaschi ( ICGB , Trieste ) reported that in one area at least of the wild-type human genome replication can be shown to begin in a single defined phase . |
| 28 | Lal concludes that in this region the best methods of clearance and cultivation to conserve soil are manual clearing followed by no-tillage planting . |
| 29 | The first principle holds that in stable communication , it is conventional to regard the same word as having consistent meaning from one occasion of use to another . |
| 30 | Example 4:6 Rent geared to subrents receivable YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on 1 January 1 April 1 July and 1 October in each year per cent of the net rents which the tenant is entitled to receive for the whole or any part of the demised property and calculated in accordance with the schedule hereto SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " full rack rental value " means the best rent at which the demised property ( or as the case may be the part of the demised property in question ) might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing landlord to a willing tenant ( i ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 2 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it is actually occupied ( ii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 3 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) of this lease ( iii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 4 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it was last occupied and in any case disregarding the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) of section 34(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( as amended ) and on the assumption that the rent so determined will be revised every five years ( b ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales or the Association of Certified Accountants ( 2 ) If the tenant lets or permits to be occupied the whole or any part of the demised property in return for any pecuniary consideration other than the full rack rental value thereof as at the date of such letting or permission or in return for no pecuniary consideration then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date of such letting or permission and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 3 ) If the tenant himself occupies the whole or any part of the demised property then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date on which he went into occupation and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 4 ) If the whole or any part of the demised property remains vacant for three months or more then at the expiry of such period of three months the tenant shall until the same is next occupied be deemed to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date upon which the said period expired and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 5 ) The tenant shall one month before the beginning of each quarter ( time being of the essence ) deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant showing a true summary of : ( a ) the gross amount of all rents and licence fees which the tenant is entitled ( or deemed to be entitled ) to receive in respect of the demised property and each part thereof for that quarter and ( b ) the amount of any sum included in ( a ) above which the tenant is entitled to recover from any subtenant or occupier of the whole or any part of the demised property either by way of VAT or by way of service charge in respect of services or works performed or to be performed ( 6 ) Subject to paragraph ( 7 ) below the net rents shall be the difference between the two amounts shown in the said certificate ( 7 ) The net rents shall be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors if : ( a ) the tenant fails to deliver a certificate in accordance with paragraph ( 5 ) above ( in which case the tenant shall pay interest on the net rents at the rate of … per cent from the quarter day in question until payment ) or ( b ) any dispute or difference arises between the parties in connection with the calculation of the net rents ( in which case the arbitrator shall determine the amount of interest if any to be paid by the tenant ) ( 8 ) The tenant shall permit the landlord or his agent to inspect and take copies of the tenant 's books or account or any other document or record ( and if necessary the tenant shall procure any computer print-out ) which in the opinion of the landlord or such agent is relevant to the calculation of the net rents and shall bear the costs of such inspection if there shall be any material discrepancy between the certificate delivered by the tenant under paragraph 5 above and the results of such inspection . |