Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession .
2 We may doubt that Beerbohm had the acumen or the catholicity to respond to this provocation as conclusively as he should .
3 Guerrilla groups such as Carlos Marighela 's National Liberation Action in Brazil , Uruguay 's Tupamaros and the Montoneros in Argentina operated without Communist support and indeed were founded in the belief that the Moscow faithful lacked either the will or the capacity to engage in armed struggle .
4 One aspect of the organization underground has not been touched on directly ; that is the pressure on individuals either by the management or the owners to comply with their interpretation of the order of things .
5 We would expect an anchoring of the path at one end or the other to reduce at least a portion of the breadth-first search .
6 Or , as Niall Fitzduff put it , the community ‘ is not to be destroyed at the whim of mining company ’ while nothing could ‘ compensate us or the generations to come for the loss of our community ’ .
7 This will particularly be the case when the adverse effect is upon the livelihood or the ability to earn of the second person or body .
8 A few were prepared to take big salary cuts and throw away the security of their present employment — others were just grateful for a job or the chance to work on a national .
9 That we react with positive moral emotion to such qualities of character , even when they are not useful to us , turns on a mechanism of sympathy , or the tendency to fall into the feelings of others .
10 What we called in our tenth report ‘ the inviolability of practice ’ , or the tendency to skirt round the issues at the heart of education , needs to be breached .
11 He rarely seemed either to have the time or the inclination to return to Brougham .
12 She did n't have the energy or the resources to cope with the prospect of meeting so many people .
13 The main one is to put pressure on relationships to create anxiety or guilt or the urge to care for and protect the ‘ weaker ’ partner .
14 Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents .
15 If we consider them stronger than the instinct to value the wisdom of old age or the instinct to care for those less able than ourselves , then we have to concede that the battle against ageism is a very hard one .
16 The channel thus had financial security without either public subsidy or the need to bow to the ratings .
17 Cost , or the need to plan within specific budgets , was more likely to be mentioned by the training officer group , perhaps because they were more likely to have specific budgets .
18 Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur .
19 ‘ Planning ’ was judged to have taken place if the girl had known the man for at least six months before cohabitation and if she cohabited for positive reasons rather than because of outside pressures such as pregnancy or the need to escape from an unhappy home .
20 Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone .
21 Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally .
22 It is a ludicrous situation of expecting people in high areas of unemployment like the Falls or the Shankill to look for jobs that do n't exist , to train for jobs that are not there .
23 For offences against the moral code , the Church in the person of the parson was the confessor and imposed the penalty , though if the behaviour was particularly offensive ( e.g. adultery ) or pernicious ( e.g. heresy , witchcraft ) , then it would be brought before the archdeacon or the bishop to hear in his court .
24 or the body to shriek without pain .
25 Alyssia shrugged vaguely , knowing that this was n't the time or the place to confide in her friend .
26 Is it clear that the parties intended that no one but the actual party in the contract should have the benefit of the contract or the right to call for its performance ?
27 Subsection ( 2 ) of that section says that ‘ equity security ’ means ‘ a relevant share ’ in the company ( other than one taken by a subscriber to the memorandum or a bonus share ) or the right to subscribe for or convert into ‘ relevant shares ’ in the company .
28 The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them .
29 Then you can start looking at at er at alternatives okay , and what you end up with is a is a way of analysing er a decision or a choice to behave in a certain way , okay ?
30 Edge curtains with a row of co-ordinating fringing or a frill to add to the layered look .
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