Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground . |
| 2 | The cost of a range of goods and services remained unchanged , however , this list including medical supplies , petrol and electricity , and also coffee and vodka ( the controversial decision not to raise the vodka price was justified in terms of preventing an upsurge in illegal distillation , as had happened when the price had been raised during the anti-alcohol campaign started in 1985 — see p. 35844 ) . |
| 3 | The old Grenfell charm must have been working even under all that hair not to mention the scruffy beard . ’ |
| 4 | Place the dough on greased baking sheets , raising the edges of each piece slightly to contain the topping . |
| 5 | Andy Thomson who , only three weeks ago , added the British Indoor singles and pairs championships to his growing list of titles , moved outdoors with equally devastating effect yesterday to sweep the world indoor champion , Ian Schuback , to a 21–9 defeat in the opening match of the Mazda International at the Tweed Heads Club on Australia 's Gold Coast . |
| 6 | Banking and Tory party sources say that ministerial proposals to charge students a proportion of their tuition fees and other more radical ideas have been abandoned in the face of tough Treasury opposition , the perceived weakening of Mrs Thatcher 's position following Mr Nigel Lawson 's resignation , and her declared intention not to serve a full fourth term if re-elected . |
| 7 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 8 | Jürgen Habermas in Theorie des kommunikativen Handels ? has used this framework specifically to analyse the cultural realm , and the sketch below follows partly from Habermas . |
| 9 | The sophistication of this turn is indicated in its formal lexicon and its syntactic and semantic complexities ( both visible when he reverses Wittgenstein 's famous statement to produce his own aphorism , " Whereof we can not speak , thereof we are by no means silent " ) but he uses this complexity deliberately to obfuscate the sense of his utterance and to enable a swift escape to the World Cup qualifier . |
| 10 | I 'm also changing the Description to read ‘ NATO — The great Hack ’ — I show you this trick only to emphasize the control you have over Windows ; not so you can sneak onto a friend 's PC and swap all their icons around ! |
| 11 | It is difficult in this case not to accept the view of the . |
| 12 | This is not , in any way , an attempt to teach British Rail how to run a railway . |
| 13 | This must have contributed eventually to the decision of the British Caledonian board reluctantly to consider a merger with the much larger BA . |
| 14 | after nine and half days on the road the Central South team have made it … the first british car ever to complete the Solar Challenge |
| 15 | To conclude , in order to examine an area which is rarely focused upon in itself , it has been necessary in this chapter artificially to abstract the object , considering it in rather universalistic terms , and in relation to a perhaps overdrawn dichotomy with language . |
| 16 | In the case of information relating to er say client A which is obtained by the auditor while auditing client B , the auditor ought as a matter of sound practice normally to use the information to make further enquiries for the purpose of the audit of A. These interpretations have been set out more fully in the statement of auditing standards and the professional guidance issued by the auditing practices board that will accompany this legislation and as matters of courtesy to the house er Madam Deputy Speaker , I ask that a copy of that be placed in the library . |
| 17 | But there has been some attempt also to undercut the basic level of the defenders ' case . |
| 18 | Dorset ran a diversionary group specifically to meet the needs of seven young women in the north of the county . |
| 19 | So , if you can get the occasional high point in to vary the scale , the difference will be as important as an interesting flash of colour or pattern . |
| 20 | Despite these manifold advantages it is often hard to persuade the commercial community even to take an interest in proposals for harmonization affecting their sphere of business , still less to give the proposals their support . |
| 21 | It is a risky business finally to draw a Tolkienian ‘ inner meaning ’ from these various ‘ applicabilities ’ . |
| 22 | It may be useful at this point simply to list the three main differences between the Near Eastern and the Indian religious traditions as they are often presented . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , British 800 metres record holder Kirsty Wade has arranged a social evening tonight to boost the trust fund set up for Cameron Sharp , the former international sprinter disabled in a car crash last year . |
| 24 | but I must make a historical excursion here to establish the background to this absolutely fundamental question . |
| 25 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 26 | They also have a gain setting which will allow a field of this magnitude not to overload the output of the stage . |
| 27 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 28 | The train is driven by Jack Warner , Mr Huggett himself , who the following year takes the part of a reliable policeman out to put a stop to juvenile delinquency in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) . |
| 29 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 30 | All that we are concerned to ensure is that the present applicants have a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they seek so that the grave allegations which they make — the very same allegations that troubled this court sufficiently to allow the appellant 's appeal — can be properly tested in the courts . |