Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a bankrupt has been discharged , whether automatically or as a result of an application to the court , the court must on the request of the bankrupt issue him with a certificate of discharge , and the bankrupt may also require the Secretary of State to gazette and/or advertise in any newspaper in which the bankruptcy was advertised a notice of the discharge ( r 6.220 ) . |
| 2 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 3 | 1.3 Neither nor any of its subsidiaries , officers , agents or employees shall directly or indirectly seek customers , establish branches , maintain distribution depots or promote or sell in any way the Licensed Software in the Agreed Territories during the continuance of this Agreement . |
| 4 | This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way . |
| 5 | 10.3 The Tenant acknowledges that [ its ] obligations under this agreement and the Lease shall not be affected or lessened in any way by the fact that there may now or subsequently exist any Restrictions and the Tenant shall with effect from the Possession Date comply with and indemnify the Landlord in respect of any liability under any Restrictions ( whether made before or after the Possession Date ) save in so far as such liability arises from failure by the Landlord to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 2.2.2 It need hardly be said that the tenant 's solicitor should make all usual inquiries to ascertain whether any such restrictions exist at the date of the agreement . |
| 6 | Who comes or goes in these rooms is my business , not yours ! ’ |
| 7 | By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country . |
| 8 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 9 | This joy is not questioned or limited in any way . |
| 10 | There has been no significant biological evolution , or change in human DNA , in the last ten thousand years . |
| 11 | The return on money spent or lent in Eastern Europe can be expected to be better , politically and commercially , than those from similar outflows into the gurgling sink of Latin America and other parts of the South . |
| 12 | ‘ The consequence of the combined decision not to recruit expert staff or to invest in extensive training could be considerable . |
| 13 | Some trilobites lost their eyes , probably those that burrowed in mud or lived in lightless parts of the ocean . |
| 14 | A : Obviously , I have personal feelings against Rottweilers , but I 'm calling for a total ban or muzzling in public places which should be extended to Dobermans and German Shepherds . |
| 15 | Inevitably , few Georgian beerhouses or coaching inns survive in anything like their original form , having been comprehensively extended or altered in subsequent decades . |
| 16 | The Children 's Act emphasises we have to do what is best for the child , and that has tended to mean more children are taken into care or placed in foster care , ’ he added . |
| 17 | Eventually , after considerable friction , an uneasy agreement is concluded between James and Paul , but Paul , soon after , is arrested — or placed in protective custody . |
| 18 | They must also take steps to reduce the need for children to be brought before a court ( whether in care , wardship , or criminal proceedings ) or placed in secure accommodation ( Sched 2 , para 7 ) . |
| 19 | There can be no doubt that the liabilities which the drafter might seek to exclude or restrict in standard terms of trading will be " business liabilities " and any exclusions in such standard terms are therefore potentially subject to the Act . |
| 20 | Other motivations may pull out of line this relationship between assuming and asking ; but at its purest , faith is strong or weak , advances or retreats in direct proportion to what it assumes . |
| 21 | To reach it other than by boat or wading in low tide would have taken an hour 's drive , so it was not often visited by the women . |
| 22 | Many mothers have difficulty in interpreting the demands of their baby and tend to feed rather than play or comfort in other ways . |
| 23 | Secondly , unlike the definition in ( 8 ) , it does not make the distinction between semantics and pragmatics along the encoded/unencoded line ; this is important because , as we shall see , there is still controversy over whether such pragmatic implications as presuppositions or illocutionary force are or are not encoded or grammaticalized in linguistic forms . |
| 24 | One of the most interesting and sometimes infuriating facets of running a reef aquarium is the apparently spontaneous appearance of various organisms which enter the tank either as larval forms or hidden in living rock or the bases of sessile invertebrates . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , Your Majesty , ’ I mumbled , hoping I would not lose control of my bowels or vomit in sheer terror . |
| 26 | ‘ is different from other interests because it exercises power or influence in two ways — directly through interest groups and structurally because of the crucial role boards and managers exercise over production , investment and employment decisions which shape the economic and political environment within which Governments make policy ’ . |
| 27 | Industrial yields have also dropped across the country , while retail yields have been static or fallen in all regions . |
| 28 | The country was divided into shires , themselves composed of units known as hundreds ( or wapentakes in some areas ) . |
| 29 | If two people meet socially , face to face , sooner or later one of them will speak , or acknowledge in some way the presence of the other — even if it 's only a nod . |
| 30 | A description of personality traits is beyond the scope of this book , but they may be categorised in a simple manner under three headings , thus : * role traits : which are those parts of the personality which determine how an individual will react or behave in particular situations , and will react to the expectations of others in that situation . |