Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 2 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 3 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 4 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
| 5 | Well I , I , I , I think that you 've got to move in that direction rather than maintaining the status quo . |
| 6 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 7 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 8 | On 19 June 1991 Mervyn Davies J. [ 1992 ] Ch. 160 set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to apply to a foreign bank incorporated and resident abroad having no place of business in the United Kingdom , with the consequence that the court had no jurisdiction to make an order under the section against the bank . |
| 9 | In 1880 , that figure more than doubled to 14 and continued to rise . |
| 10 | His work showed that crime more than doubled during those years . |
| 11 | The Finnish government is to appeal to other Western countries to give aid to East European countries in the form of technical , industrial and scientific expertise rather than direct financial help . |
| 12 | Accordingly , there has been a gradual realization that the endeavour should advance over a broader field rather than trying to seek a ‘ universal ’ method ( Dearden , 1981 ) , that subjective methods are probably more cost-effective ( Price , 1976 ) , that any method should include room for different tastes ( Jacques , 1980 ) , and that much could be learnt from the approach of experts in the area of aesthetic and artistic judgement ( Carlson , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | A great deal has been written of the Pilgrims Road and its travellers and its river crossings and I 'm of the opinion that more Pilgrims to Canterbury follow this route now than followed it in Mediaeval times ( howls of protest ) . |
| 14 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 15 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 16 | First , since the ICC is not a lawmaking body it can not formulate rules of a mandatory character ; indeed , its rules are intended to encapsulate proper practice rather than to distribute legal liability . |
| 17 | Although British industry more than matched American in its degree of concentration it was far slower to adopt modern methods of business organisation , especially the multi-divisional company form which had been well established in the USA before the Second World War . |
| 18 | THE sudden popularity of the Portuguese escudo , which rose from obscurity to a position of strength inside the European exchange rate mechanism after it joined a week ago , could lead to the removal of restrictions on foreign investment earlier than planned . |
| 19 | By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications . |
| 20 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) In order to determine whether any particular item of information falls within the implied term so as to prevent its use for disclosure by an employee after his employment has ceased , it is necessary to consider all the circumstances of the case . |
| 22 | The temptation to stay alone at home and hear a favourite programme rather than go to a party is after all vividly real . |
| 23 | On one occasion he ostentatiously refused a challenge from an infuriated opponent in a lawsuit , preferring to endure public humiliation rather than call out his tormentor ( though he did complain to the Commons of the breach of privilege ) , and earned the public thanks of the Society for setting such a ‘ noble and Christian ’ example . |
| 24 | In 1905 its general manager and Wilson 's arch opponent , Cuthbert Laws , could claim thirty-six operational registry offices at the principal ports of the kingdom , a capacity to move free labour anywhere as required , equipment and stores to maintain 5,000 men , nine-tenths of UK seagoing tonnage in membership and an invested capital of almost £200 mn . |
| 25 | We have already indicated that CD-ROM is essentially a professional medium with only marginal appeal in the consumer market so DVI can also be seen addressing this sector rather than competing with CD-I . |
| 26 | If RBGE participation in proposals within this programme is approved , we are in an excellent position to take our own scientific work forward while making a substantial contribution to the Community 's international position in plant sciences . |
| 27 | The products of their industry were of course quite fresh and unpatinated , whereas the genuine flint artefacts had a white or brown patination especially if buried in chalky soil . |
| 28 | In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx describes how an authoritarian regime founded on the bureaucracy ( both military and civil ) enabled the state , led by Louis Bonaparte , to gain a measure of autonomy from the warring factions of the French bourgeoisie so as to preserve the bourgeois social order in the face of a mounting threat from the lower classes . |
| 29 | By dealing with the crisis in prisons by a Bill of this sort rather than dealing first and fundamentally with the overcrowding situation , the Home Secretary is attacking the symptoms , not the causes . |
| 30 | Your parents hate it and would gladly lynch this band rather than let them dabble with your adolescent hormones that ca n't help wanting to shag them senseless in a vat of cold custard . |