Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( pp167-8 ) ( g ) Criminal use of ineffective exemption clauses Under the Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) , it is a criminal offence for anyone , in the course of a business , to display or publish or include in a written document , an exemption clause which is void by virtue of s6 of UCTA 1977 . |
| 2 | Choose one with a 300 or 350mm ( 12 to 14in ) blade and a plastic handle ( which wo n't split or crack like a wooden one ) . |
| 3 | Planning colour schemes involves choosing and balancing colours which will contrast or harmonise in a pleasing way . |
| 4 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 5 | Rights to either buy or sell at a specified price within a specified period ( 3 months ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Fans demand the right to sit or stand in a safe ground . ’ |
| 7 | … I can not find anything in the cases decided under the railway and electricity statutes which would necessitate or lead to a contrary view . |
| 8 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 9 | Thirdly , the purchaser will be concerned to ensure that once completion has taken place , the vendor does not establish or participate in a competing business . |
| 10 | Rule 8 : do n't daydream or drift into a negative frame of mind |
| 11 | States are free to waive , renounce , or dispose of a national 's rights or interests by treaty unless restricted by national law . |
| 12 | Rather than stay in a stuffy room we decided to carry on with our lessons out of sight of the road in the back garden , which was more distracting but more pleasant . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll let that set for a little while , then X-ray it again to check that it 's nicely lined up . |
| 14 | On a new housing estate the priority task is to establish Christian cells rather than launch into a brick-by-brick building scheme . |
| 15 | Rather than attempt in a short book a history of artistic developments at Rome from the early days on the Palatine to the rise of the Christian city , I have chosen to write about four important themes , which are briefly described in the introduction . |
| 16 | Small wonder , then , that A. J. P. Taylor 's advice was to ‘ run away to sea rather than go to a secondary modern ’ . |
| 17 | This is cheap enough for a user to want to buy one rather than go on a commercial training course . |
| 18 | Some people engaging in the issue of disability representation have tried to affect the taste of non-disabled audiences and supporters , rather than engage in a political creativity within and about the disability struggle . |
| 19 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 20 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 21 | The problem is no less with open-ended exercises and unstructured enquiry projects in humanities work , where the teachers need to anticipate and prepare for a wide variety of student response and reaction . |
| 22 | The trainers not only have to develop skills but also the professional maturity which enables the interpreter to use those skills responsibly to a defined code in the professional context and to confront and absorb in a positive way the inevitable stresses that come with the job — working in situations which may involve death , birth , bereavement , trauma or abuse . |
| 23 | It was frightening how hunger and lack of sleep could make you behave and think like a real bastard . |
| 24 | The Biolife filter functions well , although as the PFK test Review Update pointed out recently , the tiny suckers which the filter hangs on seem to give up sucking and can allow the filter to drop down and submerge below a critical level . |
| 25 | The answer is that to improve fitness , the body needs to respond and adapt to a gradual and continual increase in training load . |
| 26 | But although the cane continued to rise and fall with a terrible regularity , and they continued to hear the awful blows landing , no sound came from their brother . |
| 27 | She felt his chest rise and fall on a long , slightly unsteady intake of breath . |
| 28 | And as he did so he continued to speak , letting his voice rise and fall like a flowing stream , lulling the sleeping child . |
| 29 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 30 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |