Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing out our good clothes or wasting hot water to wash them ! ’ |
| 2 | RBS has taken a hard look at its branches in England , and decided to shut isolated outposts or develop new outlets to support them . |
| 3 | Actions are proceedings where the object is to obtain relief against any person or to compel any person to do or abstain from doing any act ( Ord 3 , r 1 ) . |
| 4 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 5 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 6 | In either event , the power to exclude or modify pre-emptive rights ceases with the expiration or revocation of the authority conferred under section 80 , ( or 80A ) though it can be renewed by special resolution when , and to the extent that , the authority is renewed . |
| 7 | Or flies electric shears fringed with steel |
| 8 | In the latter , the school which sets out to democratize education in its geographical or moral area ( that is , in a context of those who share beliefs and values ) or to enable more people to help themselves , brings with it a set of beliefs which go beyond the Plowden idea of the community making use of the physical amenities of a primary school . |
| 9 | During the union 's last strike on April 16 , Britain 's 11,000 mile rail network was brought to a standstill and nearly 100,000 London-bound East Anglian passengers were forced to either stay at home or make alternative arrangements to reach the capital . |
| 10 | Reverse engineer , disassemble , decompile , translate , transfer , modify or make any attempt to discover the source code of the Program . |
| 11 | Once again , no party except ours seems to have grasped this simple point or made any proposal to act on it . |
| 12 | The 600 Group made , or commissioned British firms to make , all the equipment in SCAMP . |
| 13 | Less is known however about the impact of second homes on the local environment , and although there has been a good deal of speculation about their impacts , as shown in Table 7.5 , there are few hard or agreed empirical data to back this up . |
| 14 | Radicals from across London , Britain , and Europe began to pour into the college to observe , participate , or make unsuccessful attempts to take the struggle into the correct channels . |
| 15 | This anxiety has been fuelled by , for example , changes to the basis of counting the numbers of unemployed people , changing the index for measuring poverty or using official figures to claim that the health service is enjoying unprecedented prosperity . |
| 16 | Either that or using one player to dribble the whole length of the pitch . |
| 17 | In a well-balanced individual , both aspects should be equally , or roughly equally , developed and we suppress or deny either aspect a– the risk of reducing our quality of life . |
| 18 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 19 | Whether they are crossing a river in a coracle to retrieve vital clues or assembling coloured cubes blindfolded and guided by duck whistles , each group 's success lies in working together as a team . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) The contract may limit liability to certain heads of damage : if the goods prove defective our liability is limited to the refund of all payments made by the Buyer or if the goods prove defective our liability is limited to the cost of repairing or making good the defects in the goods , provided that , if the cost of repair exceeds the contract price , we may at our option replace the goods or refund all payments made by the Buyer and such replacement or refund shall be in full satisfaction of all our liability under this contract . |
| 21 | Jose also pointed out that editors and journalists who had defied restrictions or offended powerful men had been punished , and he wryly quoted the memorable and often-repeated remark of the famous Kenyan editor George Githii : |
| 22 | The ancients had surfed while other nations floundered in the water or built unwieldy vessels to keep them precariously afloat . |
| 23 | As running or walking any distance becomes uncomfortable , it is avoided more and more . |
| 24 | Announcing " the end of the waste society " , Environment Minister Klaus Topfler said that the move would be implemented in three stages , as follows : , From 1 December 1991 , all external packaging used for transporting products must be recycled ; , from 1 April 1992 , shops will be under an obligation to re-use or recycle all packaging returned to them by consumers ; , from 1 January 1993 , there will be compulsory recycling of all bottles and containers for detergents and other household cleaning products . |
| 25 | However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness . |
| 26 | he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe that it exists : |
| 27 | he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the ( non-visitor ) is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case , whether the ( non-visitor ) has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and |
| 28 | Where the section states ‘ he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe ’ this applies to the situation where the occupier knows or is aware of the primary facts but fails to draw the reasonable inference that the premises are dangerous or that the non-visitor 's presence is likely . |
| 29 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |
| 30 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |