Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors . |
| 2 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 limits the extent to which liability can be excluded or limited for breach of contract , or for negligence , or under the terms implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and other legislation containing similar provisions , such as the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 3 | Similarly , he must hold that theories are eliminated due to the clash of experience ( for example ) , but not using criteria that are understood in terms of , or justified with reference to , the aims of inquiry . |
| 4 | There were lots of smaller snapshots of him sitting astride Trigger , or propped on cushions behind the steering-wheel of Buddie 's truck , or standing in the garden in his very smartest clothes . |
| 5 | In a similar way the phenomena of political philosophy , ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ , are , we shall see , reduced to , or explained in terms of , their causes in our basic desire for the pleasurable enhancement of the blood 's vital motion . |
| 6 | The essence of his argument was that life in general , and development in particular , could not be encompassed or explained in terms of physics and chemistry . |
| 7 | Certain things can never be blamed on or explained in terms of witchcraft . |
| 8 | This has been attributed to mere manipulation of the masses by irresponsible politicians , or explained by theories of economic and class conflicts . |
| 9 | A Go-Kart is in a similar position , but both a dumper truck and a Go-Kart can become ‘ motor vehicles ’ if it can be proved that they have been adapted or intended for use on roads . |
| 10 | 63% of those managing directors and IT directors interviewed had heard of DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer programme , with 47% having read or heard about aspects of Open Systems through DTI material — beating ‘ Technical Press ’ ( 44% ) into second place . |
| 11 | ‘ And you have n't seen or heard from Carol since last night ? ’ he said agitatedly . |
| 12 | The extent to which such rights might justifiably embrace ideas unrelated to government or public affairs , ideas of no value at all , or cloaked in images of a sexual or violent nature , has long exercised the finest minds not only in American jurisprudence , but in Europe and the Commonwealth as well . |
| 13 | The original may be physically damaged if a cup of coffee is spilt over it or the magnetic impulses on the disk representing the program may be destroyed or altered by exposure to a strong magnetic field . |
| 14 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 15 | Whether used around the garden or filled with flowers for display , prices start at £20 . |
| 16 | But because ‘ philosophic boxes ’ ( Wilson 1976a , p. 2 ) have not been created or examined in relation to this period , the subject has yet hardly developed beyond the accumulation and description of data . |
| 17 | Biopsy specimens were mounted on filter paper or placed in cassettes before fixation in formalin and after routine processing were sectioned at three levels and stained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 18 | Since it was first introduced in the late 1960s , it has been resisted or treated with indifference by all ranks . |
| 19 | In the Middle East more than 800 people were hanged , shot by firing squad or stoned to death in 1991 . |
| 20 | Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter . |
| 21 | fresh leaves in meat casseroles , soups , salads , vegetables , marinades , or eat as spinach ; seeds eve stronger , all meats , bread , game , cheeses ; shredded roots for soups or boiled without skin for a vegetable |
| 22 | Benefit was refused or withdrawn on grounds of ‘ cohabitation ’ ( as it was then called ) in about 8000 cases a year . |
| 23 | In its preamble , the Natural Death Act 1976 states that ‘ adult persons have the fundamental right to control the decision relating to the rendering of their own medical care , including the decision to have life-sustaining procedures withheld or withdrawn in instances of a terminal condition . ’ |
| 24 | They may be scattered randomly throughout the sarcoplasm or arranged between fibrils opposite the Z-disks ; in the flight-muscles of the Odonata they form large slab-like structures and in the powerful fibrillar indirect flight-muscles of Hymenoptera and Diptera the giant mitochondria form conspicuous " sarcosomes " . |
| 25 | Shetlanders see classes as aggregates of people who are ranked or arranged like layers on a cake . |
| 26 | Notice that , unlike the accumulator array , where each accumulator had generalized functions , each control register or portion of a register has a specific function , although it is accessed or manipulated by instructions in a general way . |
| 27 | All of us assumed that she 'd wandered off to die alone and that , sooner or later , we 'd come across her body , sprawled in a ditch or hidden from view in a clump of thorn trees . |
| 28 | Chevron 's decision to use a purpose-built vessel for storage poses a problem for authorities responsible for offshore safety : they will have to decide if it should be classified in the same way as a conventional ship or regarded as part of a fixed installation . |
| 29 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 30 | If you have too many pumpkin seeds they are delicious in stews or roasted on top of cheese on toast . |