Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No description of the ammonoids is complete without mentioning the heteromorphs These are forms which abandoned the usual plane spiral mode of coiling , and instead became partially or even completely uncoiled , or became twisted in some other fashion . |
| 2 | Paige was glad of her strong boots , but she would gladly have thrown her bag away , for it either kept falling off or got caught on stray branches . |
| 3 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 4 | Their accuracy still depends upon the correctness of our assumptions about causal order and the operation of other variables ; if we had either specified the causal order incorrectly , or failed to control for other important variables , the coefficients would be meaningless . |
| 5 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 6 | Those designs could be , and were , constantly reused , either in their original form or adapted to accord with changing fashion and taste . |
| 7 | Overinvestigation or repeated testing without substantial indication undermines the patient 's confidence in the doctor 's conclusions . |
| 8 | So we 're extending the way that information systems can be used by users who traditionally have not been en empowered or enabled to get at that information . |
| 9 | Afterwards bleeding bull steaks hung from hooks in butchers ' windows , or lay overlapping on white plates . |
| 10 | Suttons ' ‘ Redmate ’ can either be eaten as a salad onion or left to mature for mild , red bulbs ( below right ) |
| 11 | was due wholly to anything done or left undone by another person , not being a servant or agent of the owner , with intent to do damage or |
| 12 | Between 1982 and 1986 , 137 of the top 1,000 quoted companies in the UK in terms of market value in 1982 were acquired or had merged with other companies … |
| 13 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 14 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 15 | But while the Section d'Or represented the high point of the Cubist movement as it was presented to the public , and while the influence of Cubism daily became more powerful and widespread , many painters who had been Cubist , or had moved in Cubist circles , were already abandoning the style or using certain aspects of it as points of departure for developing completely new art forms . |
| 16 | Over 80 per cent of cases in one series were either suffering from or had suffered from other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 17 | The alleged libel is contained in a letter written by the defendant to the editor of the ‘ Manchester Examiner and Times ’ , which charged , as alleged by the statement of claim , that bribery and corruption existed or had existed in three departments of the Manchester City Council , and that the plaintiffs were either parties thereto or culpably ignorant thereof , and that the said bribery and corruption prevailed to such an extent as to render necessary an inquiry by a parliamentary commission . |
| 18 | All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person . |
| 19 | At our conference in November we had a roll call of five hundred and six G M B members who 'd ha who were either killed in work or had died from work-related disease since May nineteen seventy nine those who attended may recall the emotional er |
| 20 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 21 | Helmholtz generalized what others had suggested , or had established in one context . |
| 22 | In this way , footpaths can be opened or closed according to erosional pressures and Aboriginal wishes are respected . |
| 23 | Sony had given no indication they were working on — or intended to work on any electronic stills camera . ’ |
| 24 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 25 | Announcing the changes in a Commons written answer , Lord James said that planned spending on legal aid would still rise by 40 per cent over the next three years , in spite of the changes , with more people than ever being granted legal aid . |
| 26 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 27 | I found , in retrospect , that my participant observation had a ‘ career ’ that seemed to proceed through three stages : passive , interactive and active . |
| 28 | Those light bulbs that seemed to go like mad are erm Tesco 's own brand . |
| 29 | Its sing-a-long chorus was tempered with a churning ending that seemed to stretch for half the song . |
| 30 | She looked from face to face in the darkness , faces that seemed to belong to hideous inquisitors , with the torch beams casting harsh angular shadows from below into their upturned faces . |