Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE overwhelming feeling one got of the exhibition on the Royal Mile Traffic Calming ( Phase One ) Project was one of disappointment — not because the problem is easy or unimportant but because the analyses are so shallow and the solutions so insignificant . |
| 2 | Only at the end of the story do you realise that his parents are separated or divorced and that the journey is to return the child to his mother after an access visit . |
| 3 | It can apply only where the expression of the legislative intention is genuinely ambiguous or obscure or where a literal or prima facie construction leads to a manifest absurdity and where the difficulty can be resolved by a clear statement directed to the matter in issue . |
| 4 | It was for this reason that the halls were never radical or seditious and that the songs , like everything else that was on offer , were , as Colin MacInnes suggested , ‘ too inhibited emotionally , too limited intellectually , too commercial in their intentions ’ . |
| 5 | Thirdly , establishing that an admissible statement should be adopted as an expression of parliamentary intention requires establishing a negative , namely that the subsequent parliamentary proceedings do not reveal that the statement was withdrawn or varied or that a relevant inconsistent amendment was successfully moved . |
| 6 | The court may disallow an amendment on its own motion or on application , and shall do so where satisfied that if an application for leave had been applied for under Ord 15 , r 1 it would have been refused ( Ord 15 , r 2(3) ) . |
| 7 | It is hard to believe that it intended to withhold that protection in all cases where a jury might think that the place in question was not necessary or desirable or where the authorities could not by evidence justify their policies to a jury 's satisfaction . |
| 8 | By 1875 fashions in England and the USA decreed that coats should be whole-coloured rather than broken and that the skin should be yellow , the muzzle dark and the tongue and tail switch black , but the revised breed standards still did not specify colours . |
| 9 | Mountbatten 's personal view was that the new nationalist movements should be appeased rather than suppressed and that the old colonial powers should settle for the best deal that they could get , pledging independence in the near future and thus , he hoped , preserving the greater part of their economic advantages . |
| 10 | ‘ We failed to see there would come a point where additional leisure would become more stultifying than satisfying and that the mass of men would be incapable of absorbing any more , ’ wrote the Harvard sociologist , David Riesman . |
| 11 | He is old and sad and weak because while the sport dominates his thinking , he no longer dominates the sport , and his thinking , for many years now , has not really dominated the Ferrari sporting division at Maranello . |
| 12 | Therefore horns with loose wires where the sound emitted is not continuous and reliable or where the sound is too soft , etc. would not comply with this regulation . |
| 13 | Complaints begin a day or more after taking cold , especially if overheated or if the sweat is suppressed by cold air or water , or from exposure to dry cold winds . |
| 14 | If , objectively , corporate crime is the more serious , in the sense that more people are avoidably killed , maimed , and robbed and that the last of these aggregated far exceeds the value of ‘ conventional ’ theft , then that in itself would justify prioritizing its study . |
| 15 | Thus , writing C for the capacitance of C 1 in parallel with C 2 and eliminating between the two equations or where , and In terms of partial fractions it is convenient to express the Laplace transform of I 2 as so that taking the inverse Laplace transformation where Note that and are both positive and real since and The latter result follows because From equation ( 11.51 ) the time dependence of the output voltage is given by But when assuming capacitor C 2 is uncharged initially . |
| 16 | Note that where the offence in question gave alternatives of using , causing or permitting the use thereof , ‘ uses ’ is interpreted rather more strictly and restricted than when an offence commences ‘ Did use ’ , with no other alternatives . |
| 17 | The one point on which Mr Golyadkin and Double were agreed was that there is nobody like God , but it follows pat and false that if a man has nowhere to go God will look after him . |
| 18 | The prevailing ethos today is that the state not the individual is responsible for his welfare , that the erosion of private property rights and the control by the state of many areas of our lives is legitimate and welcome and that the distribution of wealth must take precedence over its creation . |
| 19 | It was obvious and natural that as the last report had dealt mostly with the more able pupils so its successor should focus upon the needs of the pupils of average and below-average ability — that 50 per cent of all pupils , in other words , who gave the Report its title , Half Our future . |
| 20 | Lancaster Hole was found in 1949 when a caver sitting having his lunch on a still sunny day noticed the grass nearby waving and stirring as though a wind were moving it . |
| 21 | The dexterity of the woman in the electronic industry is renowned and invaluable and if the new technology of computer science is to grow significantly it will do little to help the man of the house to regain his dignity as the main provider and head of the household . |
| 22 | The Law Society will peruse the bill and documents and certify that the sum charged is fair and reasonable or that a lower sum should be charged . |
| 23 | Because babies are delicate and vulnerable and because the mother — for all kinds of reasons — is compelled to succeed in caring for the child , the situation has a potential for much distress on the mother 's part if anything goes wrong . |
| 24 | Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful . |
| 25 | It meant that the moor had in the past few days become known not as somewhere unique and beautiful but as the place where a young girl had been killed . |
| 26 | However the Americans are so helpful and flexible that if a starter does particularly take your fancy you are perfectly welcome to make a meal of that and nothing else . |
| 27 | The remedy for this was an of Parliament , declaring that every election made by any Magistrates or Councillors , in opposition to the majority , were ipso facto null and void and that every Magistrate or Councillor concurring was to be fined £100 sterling . |
| 28 | Metropolitan Police Motion made , and Question proposed , That the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis do take care that during the Session of Parliament the passages through the streets leading to this House be kept free and open and that no obstruction be permitted to hinder the passage of Members to and from this House , and that no disorder be allowed in Westminster Hall , or in the passages leading to this House , during the Sitting of Parliament , and that there be no annoyance therein or thereabouts ; and that the Serjeant at Arms attending this House do communicate this Order to the Commissioner aforesaid . |
| 29 | The main problem then , inevitably when cutting at this distance from your eyes , is to make pruning cuts as clean and precise as when the secateurs are actually in your hand . |
| 30 | The maximum transport occurs in the breaker zone , where wave action is strong and continuous and where the lifting of particles by waves allows the current to operate to fullest effect . |