Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 32 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 33 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 34 | This sophisticated-looking arrangement actually proved very simple to adjust — you just loosen the recessed screws with a coin and move the belt and harness up or down the base plat to the position you want , then retighten the screws . |
| 35 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 36 | All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree . |
| 37 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 38 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 39 | No surprises here , Galliano are neo-modernists , or so the style pundits would have us , and them , believe . |
| 40 | Every minute or so the telephone operator intoned in a bored sing-song , |
| 41 | ‘ If Anyone Can Canon Can ’ , or so the TV commercials tell us . |
| 42 | Thus , true poetry is an entity to which the property POETRY truly applies , while Charlie 's old school is an entity such that the relation between it and the description CHARLIE 'S SCHOOL belongs to the time labelled by the word " old " , and a certain winner ( when not used with the indefinite sense ) is an entity of whom or which the description WINNER certainly holds ( or so the gambler hopes ) . |
| 43 | After a minute or so the plastic card split where it bent , and Forester had to pull it out carefully . |
| 44 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 45 | Desktop publishing is dead , or so the marketing men would have us all believe . |
| 46 | Balance occurs when equals or Thus the input resistance at balance comprising ( ) in parallel with ( ) amounts to as required . |
| 47 | To maintain the same characteristic impedance as the prototype , the shunt impedance Z' 2 of the m-derived section is arranged to satisfy or Thus the shunt arm of the m-derived section must be formed from the shunt impedance Z 2 of the prototype divided by m in series with extra impedance as illustrated in figure 9.8(c) . |
| 48 | At the end of the day you are either a sticker person or not a sticker person . |
| 49 | However , as an illustration of the significance of the different approaches to public finance , we consider the recent debate in the UK about whether or not a poll tax ( ‘ community charge ’ ) should replace a system of domestic rates . |
| 50 | This too would have raised expenditure irrespective of whether or not a Speenhamland system existed . |
| 51 | a shop steward ) is liable for unprivileged acts in the course of a trade dispute , whether or not a trade union is liable . |
| 52 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 53 | In addition to the above elements , the King 's Fund also identified several other factors which determined whether or not a community care scheme would be successful . |
| 54 | Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case . |
| 55 | In a doorway , wedged between a Guardian leader writer and a Kleinian analyst , Alan Headleand and his ex-tutor Otto Werner from the LSE were debating with a fine abstraction and a noble disregard of interruption the question as to whether or not a television programme was a primary product or a service , and whether , by implication or extension , Charles 's production company , Global Information Network ( Telex GIN ) was allied in ideological terms with the manufacturing or the service industries : with equal commitment Esther Breuer and Jules Griffin ( colleague of Liz Headleand ) were discussing the nature of ancestral voices in schizophrenic patients and in the Homeric and Biblical epic , and the portrayal of the Holy Ghost in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts . |
| 56 | In the case of a company director , it will be important to establish whether there are director 's loan-accounts and , if so , whether personal guarantees have been given ; whether , if there is a buy/sell agreement , key-person assurance has been arranged ; and whether or not a pension scheme is in force . |
| 57 | In laying down the offences , s20 distinguishes according to whether or not the price indication was misleading when it was given . |
| 58 | Under an indemnity , a person is liable on a pound for pound basis for any loss , whether or not the purchase price would actually have been reduced if that liability had been discovered prior to contract . |
| 59 | Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit . |
| 60 | At a distance of 150pc , the distance modulus is 5.9 magnitudes providing a lower limit to the absolute magnitude of the companion of about 16 whether or not the candidate star is the binary companion . |