Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means that the product has not been optimised for the 80486 or for Pentium , and wo n't take account of new Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the behaviour of the 80486 post technical documentation . |
| 2 | Some gave handouts in cash or kind , sometimes to specific groups such as widows , orphans , the unemployed or to Jews who converted to Christianity , sometimes to anyone in visible need . |
| 3 | The PCD saw three options for the Institute : to keep arrangements as they now stand , with private hearings followed by limited reports ; to make open hearings the rule , but granting the tribunal discretion to close all or part of the hearings in specific circumstances ; or to allow open hearings on the request of the accused or in matters of public concern . |
| 4 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly those working with the mentally ill or the handicapped or the senile or in health education may properly think it is . |
| 6 | Nor did Moscow raise the principles of non-alignment when it transferred arms on a large scale to radical ‘ non-aligned ’ African states in the 1970s or to Afghanistan in the 1980s . |
| 7 | The distinction between operative know followed by the bare or to infinitive could be imputed to dialectal differences if , as Quirk et al. |
| 8 | The Hadow Report of 1926 , and its successor the Spens Report of 1938 , had envisaged that not all children would want or could profit from the kind of schooling which was available in Cardiff in the 1930s or in Thame in the 1890s , and that different kinds of pupils deserved not only various curricula but also distinctive types of school . |
| 9 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 10 | No-one in the England camp was prepared to say whether there was less longing for the next tour of the Caribbean or to Pakistan , where the proposed 1996–97 series seems safely enough into the future . |
| 11 | This was done most dramatically and ruthlessly in Latin America , e.g. in Mexico under Juarez in the 1860s or in Bolivia under the dictator Melgarejo ( 1866–71 ) , but it also took place on a large scale in Spain after the revolution of 1854 , in Italy after the unification of the country under the liberal institutions of Piedmont , and wherever else economic and legal liberalism triumphed . |
| 12 | If the company fails to comply with its obligations under s426 ( explanatory statement to members ) then it ( and every officer of it who is in default ) is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine or on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum ( CA 1985 , s426(6) and Sched 24 ) . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable — ( a ) on summary conviction , to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both ; ( b ) on conviction on indictment , to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both . |
| 14 | The significance of this observation is still unknown , but it is thought that such larvae may resume development if the adult hookworm population is removed by an anthelmintic or at times of stress such as lactation . |