Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ ( 1 ) A person who uses threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or displays any written material which is threatening , abusive or insulting , is guilty of an offence if ( a ) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred , or ( b ) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . ’
2 Sixthly , a councillor ceases to be a member if he takes or holds any paid office or employment ( other than that of chairman ) , the appointment to which is made by the council .
3 Section 4 provides : ( 1 ) A person applies a trade description to goods if he ( a ) affixes or annexes it to or in any manner marks it on or incorporates it with ( i ) the goods themselves or ( ii ) anything in , on or with which the goods are supplied ; or ( b ) places the goods in , on or with anything which the trade description has been affixed or annexed to , marked on or incorporated with , or places any such thing with the goods ; or ( c ) uses the trade description in any manner likely to be taken as referring to the goods .
4 Or has this whole summer for Mansell been a fabrication of what he really felt , a means of getting out of his Ferrari contract by saying he was quitting and then holding Williams to ransom after they had backed themselves into a corner ?
5 Whereas Marx often used this term to refer generally to what I have called the division by sectors or branches many recent writers have used it to refer to the division of functions , found within all branches in a capitalist economy , between the ‘ exploiters ’ or ‘ controllers ’ of labour power and the direct production workers .
6 A Marxist book , an anarchist 's guide , attacks on the institution of the family , songs celebrating illegal drugs , films and television plays celebrating physical violence or showing crime as justifiable or successful , can and do become , whatever their varying cultural sources , profitable commodities in a market within a state and culture which officially ( and no doubt , within the terms of its insoluble contradiction , really ) disapproves of or opposes all these things .
7 All these accusations , rebuttals and counter-accusations are largely covert and known in detail only to the prince or chief whose judicial oracle confirms or refutes all witchcraft-murder accusations ; hence the same death appears in different guises to the various parties concerned .
8 ‘ The matters to which regard is to be had in particular … are any of the following which appear to be relevant — ; ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practic-able ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . ’
9 The factors which the court is to take into account under Sched 2 are : ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence and extent of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practicable ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer .
10 These guidelines , although not exhaustive of the factors to be considered , include the following : ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence and extent of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practicable ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer .
11 But does that need to be in procedures or does that just need to be in the master job file .
12 Thank you very much Judy , er Simon or does any other member of the team .
13 ‘ ( 1 ) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only — ( a ) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance ; or ( b ) that it consists in his threatening that a contract ( whether one to which he is a party or not ) will be broken or its performance interfered with , or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance .
14 What 's Brewing and the Good Beer Guide are produced from head office which is also the home of Alma Books , the Campaign 's publishing company that produces such successful guides as Good Pub Food , the Good Cider Guide and Pubs for Families .
15 However , the approach in both methods is the same : first find what the group should do to maximise profits , then set a transfer price that encourages each divisional manager to decide to operate at that level .
16 IS Scissormen 's first release , a six-track mini-LP that goes some considerable distance towards explaining their steadily-growing popularity in the capital .
17 As is so often the case , the performer 's proximity to the work 's inception reaps an idiomatic bonus that transcends any technical shortcomings .
18 This view , while erroneous , is an understandable construction of a statute that defies any simple interpretation .
19 Although T-lymphocytes probably act as mediators in the pathogenesis of Dupuytren 's disease , we do not know whether they act as regulator or effector cells ; nor has any specific antigen been identified .
20 What does one do with an old piece of linoleum , especially one that covers another old piece of linoleum .
21 Danger signals arise when the normal pain and unhappiness that accompanies all emotional growth enlarges to become a depression which you simply can not shift , particularly if you feel ( for more than a passing moment ) that there 's nothing left to live for — or if you realise in time that you 've stopped being able to look after yourself .
22 Strict conventionalism would be a very restrictive conception of law for us because the explicit extensions of our putative conventions Of legislation and precedent contain very little that has much practical importance in actual litigation .
23 Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation .
24 The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute .
25 Candida is one of the yeasts that has this versatile approach to life , and the relevance of this will become clear later .
26 a country that has less developed countries
27 Dominant social attitudes towards retirement place the personal needs of older people in a subservient position to the perceived social and economic interests of the wider society , and it is this that causes many older people problems , bringing into question their personal value and worth , and placing them under considerable social stress .
28 Periodic variations in certain of these radio waves were observed , and now that Jupiter is known to have a large internal magnetic dipole moment and that the magnetic axis is inclined with respect to the spin axis , it seems fairly certain that it is the motion of the magnetic axis as Jupiter rotates on its spin axis that causes these periodic variations .
29 But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook .
30 While a number of different leeches will be seen in the garden pool it is only the fish leech that causes any serious problems .
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