Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |
| 2 | Waivers may be permanent or limited in time or conditional on some agreed reorganisation of a firm 's practices . |
| 3 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 4 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 5 | Tabitha could see that many of the hangars were empty , or filled with equipment and odds and ends of machinery which were no longer ships , if they ever had been . |
| 6 | These also involve processing within the brain but are slightly different from what is normally meant by thinking or drawing on memory and experience . |
| 7 | The wine is filtered or fined with bentonite or gelatine and is then put into oak scantling pipes for a period of twelve to eighteen months to rest ( estagio ) . |
| 8 | As we have so much control in forming a horse 's habits it is up to us to teach it good ones ; and not through our own lack of thought or knowledge , or want of kindness and sensitivity , impair the horse ; or even worse , teach it such bad habits that its life will be a misery to itself or others . |
| 9 | Many of its own people have been displaced by civil war or uprooted by drought or flood . |
| 10 | Detergent responsive soils : are uncoagulated proteins including blood , meat extracts and gravy either alone or mixed with animal or vegetable fats or oils in their natural state . |
| 11 | Add the grated cheese ( which should be Parmesan alone or mixed with sardo or pecorino ) and blend well . |
| 12 | Details can be obscured or distorted between eye and pen and correct note-taking requires a strong discipline . |
| 13 | Eagle-spotting was becoming a national pastime and experts on birds of prey suddenly found themselves being quoted in every paper or interviewed on radio and television . |
| 14 | Added to this , a company may wish to cut its costs or to benefit from Government or local authority financial assistance . |
| 15 | A US army report released on Feb. 26 said that as much as 25 per cent of the population might either have died , have been injured or suffered from cholera or dysentery . |
| 16 | All contributions should be framed or mounted on board and deposited with Jill Morgan at the Rochdale Art Gallery from Saturday 12 October 1991 . |
| 17 | It could make or break with vibration or thermal expansion as the machine warmed up . |
| 18 | The term ‘ own account ’ includes ( in the words of the FTA ) ‘ the delivery and collection of goods sold , bought , used or let on hire or hire purchase or processed in the course of the operator 's trade or business whether transport costs are included in the price of the articles involved or charged separately ’ . |
| 19 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 20 | Around 4,000 koala bears are run down by traffic , killed by dogs or die from disease and lack of food in Australia every year , preservationists said . |
| 21 | Fire doors and shutters must not be blocked or prevented from opening and sprinklers or fire detection devices must be kept clear and unobstructed . |
| 22 | Write or telephone for brochure and price details . |
| 23 | 210 In all cases between landlord and tenant , as often as it shall happen that one half year 's rent shall be in arrear , and the landlord or lessor , to whom the same is due , hath right by law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof , such landlord or lessor shall and may , without any formal demand or re-entry , serve a writ in ejectment for the recovery of the demised premises , which service shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and re-entry ; and in case of judgment against the defendant for non-appearance , if it shall be made appear to the court where the said action is depending , by affidavit , or be proved upon the trial in case the defendant appears , that half a year 's rent was due before the said writ was served , and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises , countervailing the arrears then due , and that the lessor had power to re-enter , then and in every such case the lessor shall recover judgment and execution , in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded , and a re-entry made ; and in case the lessee or his assignee , or other person claiming or deriving under the said lease , shall permit and suffer judgment to be had and recovered on such trial in ejectment , and execution to be executed thereon , without paying the rent and arrears , together with full costs , and without proceeding for relief in equity within six months after such execution executed , then and in such case the said lessee , his assignee , and all other persons claiming and deriving under the said lease , shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or remedy in law or equity , other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment , in case the same shall be erroneous , and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease ; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bar the right of any mortgagee of such lease , or any part thereof , who shall not be in possession , so as such mortgagee shall and do , within six months after such judgment obtained and execution executed pay all rent in arrear , and all costs and damages sustained by such lessor or person entitled to the remainder or reversion as aforesaid , and perform all the covenants and agreements which , on the part and behalf of the first lessee , are and ought to be performed . |
| 24 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 25 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 26 | Some brachiopods are smooth , but many became corrugated or ornamented with course or fine ribs . |
| 27 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 28 | Section 2 does require that the abnormality of mind should be one ‘ arising from a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or any inherent causes or induced by disease or injury ’ , but this range of admissible causes is sufficiently general to encourage a broad construction of the defence . |
| 29 | These can be separated ( snipped-off ) and transplanted into flower-pots or seedtrays with mud or well-sifted loam . |
| 30 | ‘ Horology is the study or measuring of time or making of clocks ’ — that 's what our dictionary says and the latter is what we do ; we make clocks for a large company called the London Clock Company , but we had very humble beginnings … . |