Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possibility is for the purchaser to provide that part of the purchase price will be reduced and repaid to the purchaser if certain material consents are not received or if only a proportion of material consents are received . |
| 2 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 3 | But I would say that if obviously a head gasket goes on a vehicle and somebody knowing that fact continues to drive the vehicle , yes — and damages their engine — yes I must say we would reject liability . |
| 4 | The purchaser hopes that if ever a court considers any one level of protection to be unreasonable , it may sever this from the agreement and leave the other covenants untouched or impose a more reasonable amended form . |
| 5 | Two readers , Meryl Emerson of Alresford and Mrs. D. Dibble of Farnborough , are both agreed that if ever a shopkeeper deserved our Gold Star , it is Lena Kerry of Woolwork in Grosvenor Road , Aldershot , Hampshire . |
| 6 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 7 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 8 | Baldwin , with a glowering Churchill beside him and uncertain followers behind him , took the opportunity to pay a notable tribute to the Viceroy and to end it on a curious note , half petulant , half menacing : ‘ I will only add that if ever the day comes when the party which I lead ceases to attract to itself men of the calibre of Edward Wood , then I have finished with my party . ’ |
| 9 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 10 | In many absolutist states the myth that if only the Tsar or the Führer knew about the people 's grievances he would act to resolve them was carefully fostered by state propaganda and even more so in Romania by the Securitate 's rumour machine . |
| 11 | This is a serious omission , redolent of the old habits of thought that if only the public will trust Whitehall , all will be well . |
| 12 | People who have been held awkwardly may in their turn be stiff , ashamed of nudity or partial nudity , or carry a fantasy that if only the scene were properly set , rosy lights dimly aglow , all would come right . |
| 13 | But he remained convinced that if only the Elector could hear him he would change his mind : |
| 14 | and that if only the balancing act was involved the registrar 's order should stand . |
| 15 | This means that , even if a given address is known , it will be reached no more quickly than if only the track on which the record is stored is known . |
| 16 | I would n't say that because still the problem is on the other side of the border and I have no indications of how many people will move , are on the move , are perhaps waiting to come in . |
| 17 | But then what he then went on to say was , that since only the wife would be able to spend from that account , then put the money after it had been dealt with for the wife 's tax purposes , into a joint account , on which both could draw . |
| 18 | It seemed that while both the crowd and adolescents had within them potential for good , they also had a destructive or anarchic potential ; in each there was a conflict , what Urwick had likened to Jekyll and Hyde . |
| 19 | Joanna Foster , chairwoman of the Equal Opportunities Commission , says that while virtually every politician and company has accepted that more must be done , there have been more words than action : ‘ Provision is patchy and mostly accessible only to high income groups . |
| 20 | We however consider it the best mode of instruction , as we are perpetually saying , that when ever a horse acts agreeably to the wishes of his rider , it should follow that he receive some indulgence from him . |
| 21 | They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up . |
| 22 | ‘ I found a hardness of nerve , a criss-cross of trip wires but no particular bliss , no particular revelation , or stimulation or irritation of the enlargening , fertilising , satisfying kind ; although as well no inclination towards toffee . ’ |
| 23 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
| 24 | A house that is furnished with good quality used furniture is generally much more interesting and more tastefully decorated than when twice the money is spent on new furniture that may not be a tenth of the quality . |
| 25 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 26 | Where failure is due to inadequate foundations , and where neither the cause nor the effect can be eliminated , then underpinning will stabilise the building and restore its use and value . |
| 27 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 28 | Relations with Austen Chamberlain were never quite the same and although only a handful of MPs refused to sign the memorial they included personal friends of Law like Amery and Aitken . |
| 29 | When the branch containing the reactances is nonreactive and if also the bridge is balanced . |
| 30 | Well , there were precedents for such things ; and if ever a monarch might not rest peacefully in the Fields of Aarru , that man was Akhenaten . |