Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water hawthorn , Aponogeton distachyus , will grow if sown straight away or if kept until the following year , but loses its viability if allowed to dry out completely . |
| 2 | They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 . |
| 3 | I have discovered that during periods of withdrawal from normal mental activity — during meditation , or while hovering on the borders of sleep , for instance — it is sometimes possible to look right into that ‘ teeming womb ’ and release its contents prematurely . |
| 4 | A gamble or a bet or wager was a way of life to the men of the village , and often a wager would be made at work or whilst drinking in the local . |
| 5 | She debated whether to reach the wherry by going through the Cathedral grounds and over the footbridge — the prettier way — or whether to use over the traffic bridge in front of the market square . |
| 6 | I did n't know whether to go for the oatmeal for second choice or whether to stick to the saxe , but I definitely did not want jet or donkey , that I did know . |
| 7 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 8 | 3.7.2 in accordance with the Plans approved by the Landlord pursuant to clause 3.3 Add the following words to clause 3.7.2 : or as amended with the approval of the Landlord ( such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) |
| 9 | Practical experience is gained during the week end exercises or as shown in the photograph , when bridge building in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | The Secretary to the Tribunal shall be the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee , or as supplied by the HCIMA secretariat . |
| 11 | These apparent exceptions can be justified as involving the exercise of a legal right , in the case of chastisement or correction , or as needed in the public interest , in the other cases . |
| 12 | The council may , with the consent of the Home Secretary make an order in the terms applied for or as modified by the Secretary of State . |
| 13 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 14 | To most of the questions the Head of Department answered ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ , with an occasional phrase or short sentence either offered in amplification , or as demanded by the question . |
| 15 | These were not in general obtained except when noted from scanning newspapers or when highlighted by the online services . |
| 16 | In addition , loss of acuity of the senses — particularly impaired sight and hearing — will reduce an elderly person 's awareness of danger , for example when crossing roads or when cooking in the kitchen . |
| 17 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 18 | Make sure to articulate these clearly , alternating your plucking fingers except where raking from the 1st to 2nd strings ( notes E to A and D to A ) . |
| 19 | Although there have been philosophers — Leibniz is an obvious example — who have tried to reconcile this view with the idea of a pluralist ontology , it is clear that if conjoined with the principle of independence the doctrine of the internality of relations provides a powerful support for the monist thesis . |
| 20 | In such a case , it is clear that if left to the Member States , the Community-wide action would not take place . |
| 21 | It undoubtedly appeals to the sadistic side of human nature and I must confess that while horrified at the idea of maiming or killing people , my first reaction is to laugh . |
| 22 | A French general , several times in the line at Verdun , recalled to the author that while marching through the devastated zone his soldiers never sang ; ‘ and you know French soldiers sing a lot ’ . |
| 23 | The truth is that while batting in the indoor nets he was struck on the toe by a ball from paceman Chris Lewis and an X-ray over the weekend revealed he had indeed suffered a cracked bone . |
| 24 | An additional problem is that while concentrating on the keyboard when using an interactive program the user may miss important happenings on the screen . |
| 25 | The Memorandum on the Mental Health Act 1983 ( 1987 ) issued by the then Department of Health and Social Security states , at paragraph 289 , that whilst calling upon the assistance of the police should be kept to a minimum , ‘ the police should always be informed at once of the escape or absence without leave of a patient who is considered dangerous or who is subject to restriction on discharge under Part III of the Act . ’ |
| 26 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 27 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 28 | Children under 14 are not permitted in bars except when passing through the bar to get from/to another part of the premises . |
| 29 | Light entering the sea penetrates at most to a depth of 1000 metres — and since the oceans have an average depth of 4000 m , this means that they are mostly dark , except when lit in the depths by bioluminescence ( see p.53 ) . |
| 30 | The Queen remains a remote figure , glacial and impenetrable except when caught by the press cameras watching one of her horses winning at the races . |