Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Brahim Ghali , a member of the Polisario Executive Committee , had stated in an interview given to the Madrid newspaper El País of Oct. 22 , 1990 , that if the Moroccan government decided not to agree to the holding of the referendum , or tried to interfere in the running of it , then the armed struggle would be renewed on all fronts . |
| 2 | All information held by or reasonably available to you regarding any potential hazards known or believed to exist in the transport handling or use of the goods supplied shall be promptly communicated to us prior to delivery . |
| 3 | Both parties need the right to end the agreement if the other goes bankrupt or is forced into liquidation , or ceases to operate in the music business . |
| 4 | The shadow budget 's tax bands gave Labour the look of punitive vindictiveness : it drew the line where , realistically , it reckoned people could afford it , forgetting that in post-Thatcher Britain , people calculate their tax liabilities not on what they actually earn , but how much they hope , desire or aspire to earn in the very near future . |
| 5 | He soon learns either to give you misleading information or delay sending in the document . |
| 6 | It means helping counsellees to make connections between what has occurred in the past , and how this affects what they are achieving or failing to achieve in the present . |
| 7 | Where the climate has frosty winters , containers enable the tender herbs to be grown through the summer so that they may be dried and preserved for use in winter , or kept growing in the greenhouse or home . |
| 8 | or stay put in the icy brine . |
| 9 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 10 | No pearly raindrops dripped from the gutters or lay trapped in the hollows of the leaves . |
| 11 | The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education . |
| 12 | The genes themselves do n't evolve , they merely survive or fail to survive in the gene pool . |
| 13 | Dine in style in the restaurant , or choose to eat in the bar buffet . |
| 14 | They can be planted out or left to grow in the pot , but will soon need re-potting . |
| 15 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 16 | Political-economic analysis could help professional economists both by providing a critique of their ideology , and also in assessing what is feasible , who will benefit and lose from their policies , what will tend to be done or left undone in the project and so on . |
| 17 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 18 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 19 | It is a common finding when we are jet-lagged or trying to sleep in the day after night-work . |
| 20 | Malicious acts and vandalism , except for loss or damage occurring in the circumstances detailed in * The Buildings Unoccupancy Clause in your Policy . |
| 21 | Escape of water from or frost damages to any washing machine dishwasher or plumbed-in domestic water or heating installation , except for loss or damage occurring in the circumstances detailed in *The Buildings Unoccupancy Clause in your Policy . |
| 22 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 23 | The reason why people sometimes think they ca n't shed weight on a strict calorie ration of 1,000 daily is that they are guessing at the weight — and thus the calorie content — of their portions of food , or forgetting to add in the calories provided by little items like the butter spread on that bread , or the milk in all those cups of tea ; or they fail to realize that innocent-looking things like that canned soft drink or glass of orange juice , or the mayonnaise coleslaw served in the office canteen ( 'Ca n't contain many calories — it 's salad , is n't it ! ' ) can add a sizeable number of calories to the daily total . |
| 24 | No account is usually taken of the care which the dependant may be giving or have given in the past to the carer . |
| 25 | Electronic surveillance ( bugging ) , telephone tapping , infiltration of political organizations and squats , photographing demonstrations , the maintenance of files on perhaps 2 million political activists and ( in London ) the systematic recording of all public meetings and demonstrations , including the names and addresses of speakers and chairpersons , are all practices that have been admitted by the police or have emerged in the course of court hearings . |
| 26 | The primary function of the centres is the documentation of modern and contemporary artists who work or have worked in the former Eastern-bloc countries and the promotion of living artists previously unknown to the West . |
| 27 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 28 | After all , what better way is there to get to know the countryside and to become aware of the natural world than to go walking in the countryside ? |
| 29 | and you said there was actually this the two Irish fellas that got killed in the tunnel ? |
| 30 | As Jakobson perceived long ago , those varieties that have supra-local functions and that tend to develop in the direction of koines display simpler phonemic systems than varieties that have purely local functions ( for an excellent discussion of simplification and complexity in a range of language situations , see Andersen , 1986 ) . |