Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They should be lined and/or interlined to match accompanying curtains . |
2 | They may either be discouraged from having to care about the quantity or quality of what they produce , as their income will be guaranteed regardless or , conversely , they may be less concerned about the quality of the inputs they use , or the agricultural practices they employ , because they will be driven to compete on price in the market against imports dumped or produced to lower environmental standards If the EC demands higher environmental and animal husbandry standards than elsewhere , it must not export' its problems . |
3 | ‘ We are looking at the possibilities of using other Guinness commercials which we can edit or modify using local models , ’ says , the Guinness brand manager at PTGI . |
4 | Conveyancers are not trained or expected to prepare original plans : it is the duty of the client to supply these . |
5 | Or helping to write some plays . |
6 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
7 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
8 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
9 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
10 | Our criticism of the Bill rests on some of the ways in which the Government have approached the project , or failed to provide adequate safeguards . |
11 | The modern tendency is that the minister is not required to shelter a civil servant who has acted improperly , particularly if he has disobeyed instructions or failed to follow established procedures . |
12 | ‘ Any person who , in the course of a trade or business ( a ) applies a false trade description to any goods ; or ( b ) supplies or offers to supply any goods to which a false trade description is applied . |
13 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
14 | When you need a quick change of role — or want to take extra time to look stunning — start with your hairstyle . |
15 | But if you want a specific remedial programme for one child , or want to find one pupil 's strengths and weaknesses , the analysis is the best way . |
16 | 5.1.1 to pay the rents on the days and in the manner set out in this Lease and not to exercise or seek to exercise any right or claim to withhold rent or any right or claim to legal or equitable set-off |
17 | thought or expect to demonstrate one point |
18 | Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject . |
19 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
20 | However , many passages have been updated , or changed to reflect modern thinking , in accordance with my greater experience of a wider range of model types . |
21 | By 1983 , the EPA had already either approved or proposed to approve 150 bubbles , with a saving to industry of $500 million . |
22 | They would seem to be of integral importance to any manager or coach handling black sportsmen , yet few theorize at any level other than the physiological or , more occasionally , the psychological . |
23 | It has to do with ‘ the people ’ ( but who are they ? ) , though often this has the sense of the vulgus , the common people , and to describe something as ‘ popular ’ may then have the ( depreciatory ) implication that it is inferior or designed to suit low tastes . |
24 | This system has produced violently fluctuating interest rates , and one suspects that it is either the result of incredible stupidity or designed to discredit monetary policy . |
25 | An implication of the last point is that even when the initial exposure to the stimulus has been prolonged or has involved repeated presentations , it should be possible to detect some loss of the latent inhibition effect over time , provided the interval before the start of conditioning is long enough . |
26 | And if anybody 's been away and has got or has got missing sheets I 've got spare sheets down here . |
27 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
28 | In the US edition he wonders if ‘ this man … has been bribed or has used improper influence in any way ’ . |
29 | Often the file formats for hand scanners in particular depend on the program , and can be obscure — it 's not often , for instance , that you see a PCC or CUT file these days , yet some scanners still provide files in those formats . |
30 | Smith allocated orders to bring in new manufacturers where the existing ones proved excessively unreliable in breaking delivery promises or refusing to build new capacity . |