Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — Moira E O'Meara and J Gareth Jones state that a laryngeal mask may prove life saving when a patient is impossible to intubate or ventilate by traditional methods . |
| 2 | Editor , — Moira E O'Meara and J Gareth Jones mention the life saving potential of the laryngeal mask when the patient is impossible to intubate or ventilate by traditional methods . |
| 3 | In the private sector a large number of estate agents , landlords , accommodation agencies and building societies have been found to operate discriminatory registers , refusing to let or sell or lend to black individuals and families , while direct and indirect discrimination in many local authority housing departments has led to black tenants being allocated inferior council housing ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Conversely , the assessment of insufficient performance points clearly to the sort of services necessary to redress or compensate for functional deficits . |
| 5 | New ramps that trucks could mount or circumvent at low speeds are one solution . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many mothers have difficulty in interpreting the demands of their baby and tend to feed rather than play or comfort in other ways . |
| 8 | The US National Commission on Air Quality ( 1981 ) typically found that models may overpredict or underpredict from actual concentrations by a factor of two . |
| 9 | The novel administrative tasks of industrialized and competing nation — states — public education , public welfare , urbanization — all create powerful pressures for centralization and bureaucratization , none of which would lessen or disappear under socialist governments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Technologies designed to replace or substitute for lost functions will also continue to improve , allowing if not complete recovery at least a greatly improved quality of life for patients . |
| 12 | This does not mean that adultery is the one legal basis for divorce among Christians , because Jesus never encouraged his followers to think or act in legalistic terms . |
| 13 | The Resource Options Programme is concerned to analyse the scope for and constraints upon ethnicity as a principle of economic organisation and group identity , paying special attention to localism as an alternative principle by which groups may organise or identify for particular purposes . |
| 14 | The regime established by the neutralisation of an entire region could be based on a framework of obligations undertaken by the Great Powers to desist or refrain from particular forms of military involvement in that region , in particular the maintenance of military bases , facilities and alliance systems . |
| 15 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 16 | At the far side , the peninsula of Northmavine forms a boundary which ends at Fedeland , one of the famous ‘ haaf stations ’ of last century , from which the Shetland fisherman used to row or sail in open boats to the ‘ far haaf ’ , the fishing grounds which could be as far as sixty or more kilometres from land . |
| 17 | ‘ Since that night fifteen years ago , can you touch , smell , or look at white roses — and not think of me ? ’ |
| 18 | A toy should not have sharp edges or be small enough to be swallowed or jammed in the throat , neither should it break or tear into dangerous pieces . |
| 19 | It is true that , as the term is commonly used , a representative , as opposed to a delegate , is not mandated to speak or vote in particular ways ; but it has always been a puzzle to me to understand in what ways such a person can then be said to represent , or speak for , those who sent him/her there . |
| 20 | ‘ Unbelievable ! ’ cried a media unused to hearing from singers who habitually hate to see the sun go down or sleep in hollow logs . |
| 21 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 22 | Should an instrument come with an option attached allowing investors to buy or sell at particular prices ? |
| 23 | They may be aggressive , self-abusive , and slow to move or respond to outside stimuli . |
| 24 | And that the reality of geography is that people will chose to live or develop in accessible locations . |
| 25 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 26 | We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person . |
| 27 | If we can not predict or cope with major discontinuities should we bother about them ? |
| 28 | Do not dress or interfere with severe burns until expert help is available but do treat the shock . |
| 29 | The increase in cattle killing was due to the sale-voucher systems making it more difficult for casual thieves to keep or dispose of stolen animals . |
| 30 | It would be preferable for Taiwan to be returned to Japan rather than fall into communist hands . |