Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 2 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 3 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 4 | However , many passages have been updated , or changed to reflect modern thinking , in accordance with my greater experience of a wider range of model types . |
| 5 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 6 | Also called virgin or extra virgin , according to acidity Oils , olive , grapeseed , sesame etc p29/ Culinary oils with characteristic flavours for various culinary uses Olives p42/ The fruits of the olive tree , eaten when ripe or crushed to make olive oil Olives , Marinated Green p44 Organic Foods p85/ Foods produced without the use of chemical at any stage , either to fertilise the land or to treat the crops or the food Oriental Beef p54 Osso Bucco p58 |
| 7 | Being too ill or debilitated to take any exercise . |
| 8 | Driftwood from freshwater should be dried out at least and probably boiled or disinfected to remove any insect inhabitants or potential fungus or bacterial problems . |
| 9 | It includes both an ObjectMaster Editor for non-programmers to build graphical apps and an ObjectMaster Application Folder that acts as a central repository for application modules that can be reused , recombined or extended to build additional application prototypes and ultimately components in production applications . |
| 10 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 11 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 12 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 13 | Our intention was to ensure that genuine cases could be dealt with properly , such as those where the claimant had contributed or had produced fresh evidence that was relevant to a particular decision . |
| 14 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 15 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 16 | The control under the Act covered all users of water , apart from those taking town supplies , whether they were pumping from a river or had installed extensive catchment works at their own expense . |
| 17 | — Fixed path man-rider order-picking cranes — shelved or closed binning back-to-back equipment . |
| 18 | Mobuto had never once referred to his father by name or attempted to make any apology for the abhorrent crimes that had been committed under his regime . |
| 19 | A person is guilty of assault if he intentionally or recklessly — ( a ) applies force to or causes an impact on the body of another ; or ( b ) causes another to believe that any such force or impact is imminent , without the consent of the other or , where the act is likely or intended to cause personal harm , with or without consent . |
| 20 | There is thus a rule of construction that if a provision in an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom is ambiguous , it should be given that interpretation which is consistent with international obligations rather than one which conflicts ( Inland Revenue Commissioners v Collco Dealings Ltd [ 1962 ] AC 11 ; similarly , there is some authority for seeking to protect fundamental constitutional statutes from unintentional repeals ( see , e.g. , per Lord Wilberforce in The Earl of Antrim 's Petition [ 1967 ] 1 AC 691 ) If , however , such devices do not evade the problem , then traditional notions of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament require that any provision in any later statute which is inconsistent with any earlier provision repeals the latter to the extent of any inconsistency , whether declared or intended to have this effect or not ( Vauxhall Estates Ltd v Liverpool Corporation [ 1932 ] 1 KB 733 ; Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [ 1934 ] 1 KB 590 ) . |
| 21 | The efficacy of speed limits thus depends on drivers ' self-discipline , but this is known to be lax , particularly as modern cars are neither designed nor advertised to encourage low-speed driving . |
| 22 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 23 | In 1897 he obtained a post at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , and planned to enter Imperial College , London , with a studentship in 1898 , intending to become a botany teacher . |
| 24 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 25 | Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) . |
| 26 | Five music schools will be contacted and asked to nominate one candidate each who will then be asked to play a short piece to be judged at the festival . |
| 27 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 28 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 29 | Presented with such explicitly racist material and asked to make intellectual sense of it , most people 's reactions are likely to be anchored to positions in which they have an emotional and material stake . |
| 30 | The Committee concentrated on the Scottish LFA and failed to take proper note of more severe problems elsewhere . |