Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the position where , the patient being incapable , the parent or guardian refused to sanction further treatment ? |
| 2 | However , where agriculture starts to become mechanized , usually under the auspices of the colonial powers and/or foreign investors , men begin to take more interest and to appropriate the economic gains for themselves ( see Boserup , 1970 ; Brydon and Chant , 1989 , ch.3 ) . |
| 3 | The beans are ground as soon as possible after roasting and either packaged for use in percolators and cafetières or freeze dried to make instant coffee of distinction . |
| 4 | If , however , a Cleric of Good or Law wishes to conduct some ritual cleansing , or calls down a blessing to effect same , then this is fair role-playing and the Cleric should not be grossly penalized ; all the same , something should take an interest ! |
| 5 | All these restrictions , whether carrying a right to compensation or not , are imposed in the public interest , and the essence of the compensation problem as regards the imposition of restrictions appears to be this — at what point does the public interest become such that a private individual ought to be compelled on to comply , at his own cost , with a restriction or requirement designed to secure that public interest ? |
| 6 | The new recruit into any organisation or group has to learn these norms and the codes of speech that groups employ before they can feel part of the group . |
| 7 | Books Tokens is planning a mailing to primary schools in the UK and Ireland in April , and would be interested to hear from any publisher or organisation wishing to reach this market with a view to sharing costs . |
| 8 | In many species , if a female mates with two males , the second male by some means or other manages to fertilize many more than half the eggs . |
| 9 | Typically the lender is a passive investor seeking to make a turn on his portfolio , while the borrower is an active investor or trader seeking to finance temporary shortages of securities and avoid the risk of settlement failure . |
| 10 | The standard variety is tubular with electrical contacts at either end , though there are now single-ended bulbs on the market which have conventional bayonet or screw ends to fit normal lamp-holders . |
| 11 | No city or government wants to build earthen structures or allow them to be built . |
| 12 | No need for your prize plants or garden produce to feel neglected while you take your annual holiday . |
| 13 | If you rate the difficulty or effort needed to achieve those objectives , it will help you to avoid choosing all the most difficult ones in the first week . |
| 14 | Professor Andrew Christie , convener of the taxation practices committee , said a good example of the programme was an architect or builder required to pay professional indemnity insurance long after he or she had retired . |
| 15 | A personal approach from a friend or acquaintance seems to sway many people to join . |
| 16 | Beginners and intermediate trainers rarely need to do more than squats or calf raises to achieve good leg development . |
| 17 | It was further expressed in the outlawing of certain categories of weapon , ‘ poison or poisoned weapons ’ and ‘ arms , projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering ’ . |
| 18 | In addition , Article 23 says that it is especially forbidden ( a ) ‘ to employ poison or poisoned weapons ’ ; ( d ) ‘ to declare that no quarter will be given ’ ; and ( e ) ‘ to employ arms , projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering ’ . |
| 19 | It does not include every instance in which the hearer or reader has to supply missing information , but only those cases where the grammatical structure itself points to an item or items that can fill the slot in question . |
| 20 | In effect he seems to be saying that Conservatism seeks to preserve social discipline through the maintenance of authority , and that therefore it stresses authority and social discipline . |
| 21 | ’ Fair Rates ’ says that Labour wants to cut unnecessary bureaucracy from local government finance , an admirable objective , but it seems that the Labour party can not help itself . |
| 22 | It is my earnest wish that rugby continues to fulfil this role . |
| 23 | Then society will learn from continuous impersonal accounts that attitude required to solve present social problems , and will scorn sporadic writing intended to titivate its humour or its soul . ’ |
| 24 | Those who take the view that capitalism operates to favour those with capital at the expense of those who merely have their labour to sell tend to believe that when new technology is developed and applied in a basically capitalist society the result is likely to be that jobs are degraded and the quality of working life of those in employment suffers . |
| 25 | Nor will plans to tackle controversial subjects such as terrorism have to be notified to the licensing body in advance of filming . |
| 26 | It points out that legislation designed to protect under-16s is not being monitored or enforced and argues that the draft directive presents an opportunity to carry out an urgent review of provision . |
| 27 | Dr Pertwee says the receptors are found in the brain areas where it is known that cannabis acts to produce many of its effects . |
| 28 | The fact that English tends to make these ‘ order errors ’ is not particularly surprising since its system of tenses and conditional structures allow easy reference to events out of sequence , for example : |
| 29 | This argument , however , seemed to defy the second law of thermodynamics which suggests that energy tends to become dissipated and order to dissolve . |
| 30 | As the war ended and BOAC prepared to resume regular commercial services with whatever aircraft it could obtain , the issues unresolved at Chicago continued to haunt British planners . |