Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , the speaker must make a Fel test ( modified by relevant skills , and by up to ±30 , according to how you rate the story ) , or the Oracle becomes hostile and attacks . |
| 2 | Once maintenance ceases , it is not long before the roof starts to leak , the plasterwork or the ceiling to become stained and damaged , and dry rot to take hold . |
| 3 | The perceived reward for increased productivity is insecurity either through job loss or the necessity to learn new skills and be examined . |
| 4 | They would highlight certain characteristics of human beings , such as emotions or the capacity to make moral choices , as characteristics that they wish to value above all others . |
| 5 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 6 | When the guarantee is released , or the deposit becomes recoverable , you must give us all assistance to obtain the cancellation of the guarantee or the return of the deposit . |
| 7 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 8 | Those on a budget will choose self catering or take-away some of the time , or when eating out will stick to more economic and filling pizza and pasta dishes , or the rosticceria selling tasty spit roast chickens . |
| 9 | He was far more at home in jeans and a sweater or the favourite scuffed old flying jacket he had inherited from his father , who had been a Spitfire pilot in the war and he wore them whenever he could . |
| 10 | Data is held temporarily within the cache until either a time delay expires , the computer is idle or the cache becomes full . |
| 11 | They ensure their own replication , but , instead of killing the cell they inhabit , they often code for proteins which help the host cell , for example by conferring resistance to drugs , or the ability to perform particular chemical reactions . |
| 12 | And there is no guarantee that either the metabolic pathways or the ability to repair genetic damage is comparable in mouse and man . |
| 13 | The bases of power are coercion , or the ability to apply physical sanctions ; remuneration or the ability to control rewards ; normative power or the control of symbolic rewards ; and knowledge , or the control of information . |
| 14 | The turning point may come when the US supreme court decides that genetic injustice is so immense that it is within the law to show an employer or the insurance falsified genetic identity . |
| 15 | If there 's any sign of pustular spots , spreading redness , or the skin becomes broken and bleeding see your doctor . |
| 16 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 17 | If the ship goes down or the basket gets broken , that 's what happens . |
| 18 | They do not , generally , have the time or the inclination to take financial statements apart . |
| 19 | Any combination of these types may be input or the field left blank , to indicate that the unit will perform none of these operations , at present . |
| 20 | In approximately half of the cases , the parent found out more directly : either the user told his or her parents , usually at a crisis point in the user 's career , for example , when undergoing ‘ turkey ’ during a time of drought ; or the parent found direct evidence of drug use , such as burnt scraps of tin foil , and confronted the user with this . |
| 21 | In places of special risk , such as hospital kitchens serving meals to the very old , the very young , or immuno-suppressive patients or the factory producing large quantities of cooked cold meats , disinfection may need to be more frequent . |
| 22 | Now it is quite evident that if the slightest thing goes wrong en route if the cornea is fuzzy , or the pupil fails to dilate , or the lens becomes opaque , or the focussing goes wrong — then a recognizable image is not formed . |
| 23 | Now it is quite evident that if the slightest thing goes wrong en route if the cornea is fuzzy , or the pupil fails to dilate , or the lens becomes opaque , or the focussing goes wrong — then a recognizable image is not formed . |
| 24 | For instance , if the dismissal was plainly fair or the executive lacks sufficient service to claim unfair dismissal , the first two elements may be irrelevant . |
| 25 | It can be used with or without quantities , and either the architect or the contractor produces detailed drawings . |
| 26 | If the metal discolours or the flux turns black , you are overheating the joint . |
| 27 | When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry or the district judge aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge ( post , p. 92D–E ) . |
| 28 | No ruler , possibly other than in Italy , had the means or the wish to employ large forces when there was no war . |
| 29 | This cause has been championed not because of the prestige which the word ‘ science ’ carries with it , but because it is only through the better employment of scientific method that sociology can hope to develop as a true academic discipline , free from the biases introduced by ideologists or the wish to sway current social policy . |
| 30 | When the situation seemed to warrant it , or the moment seemed opportune , these were dealt with briskly by the forces of law and order : there was little sign of any paralysis of will in this respect on the part of the British in India . |