Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rule 7(6) of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended so as to allow solicitors to go into partnership with registered foreign lawyers . |
| 2 | If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear . |
| 3 | Competency testing in high school , civil-service examinations , job-placement examinations , college-entrance examinations , and diagnostic testing in school have , as a result , been restrained , banned , or revised so as to reduce test accuracy . |
| 4 | Topping up is by a hose , placed so as to pass water through the filter before reaching the pond . |
| 5 | They signed a memorandum which read : ‘ I agree that the terms of the late Mr Farrington 's last will be varied so as to give Mrs Violet Peppercorn all of Mr Farrington 's personal chattels together with the freehold bungalow at 27 Washingly Road , Folksworth , of which she is currently tenant ( tax-free ) and to give a tax-free legacy of £5,000 to Mr and Mrs Arthur Peppercorn . |
| 6 | Organizations are seen as rational instruments for realizing explicit goals , with different parts that can be modified so as to increase efficiency ( Gouldner 1959 ) . |
| 7 | The data in Table 7 can be rearranged so as to rank universities in order of the proportion of Scottish theses to theses as a whole , and develop what might be called a ‘ Parochiality Index ’ . |
| 8 | Some people at the church door caught his eye and smiled and bowed respectfully but others looked away and exchanged glances with grinning friends . |
| 9 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 10 | Since that was highlighted , several witnesses have come forward and told Gilmour 's lawyer , Gordon Ritchie , that they were aware of a lorry-driver acting suspiciously on the afternoon of the murder . |
| 11 | ‘ Design ’ meant the arrangement of the various parts of a developed area — buildings , roads , spaces — so that they functioned properly , could be built economically and gave pleasure to look at and be in . |
| 12 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 13 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 14 | However , any final decision on holding an inquiry for the compulsory purchase order can be made only if planning consent for the scheme is given . |
| 15 | She sighed heavily as she realised that either she had to confess or , much worse , she was going to have to continue to lie to them by inventing , when asked , things which she and Cara had done together while touring Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 17 | One views unusual vertical arrangements with suspicion , presuming that they are made so as to prevent others entering the industry , to raise margins and thereby increase profits at the expense of consumers . |
| 18 | The 3rd Corps , meanwhile , though at great cost , had pushed eastward and reached Armentieres . |
| 19 | Then she had found out about the baby and realised the truth — that they had done more than draw comfort from each other as mere friends . |
| 20 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 21 | The modules in each sub-group have been written generically and have applications to a wide range of games and sports , aquatics , outdoor pursuits and dance forms . |
| 22 | Certain workers have been monitored for internal contamination by radionuclides and exposure to other forms of radiation such as neutrons since the 1950s , but this is not done routinely and monitoring methods can be unreliable . |
| 23 | Police raided a hotel room after the two men met there and found traces of cocaine . |
| 24 | Many other obstacles to review , such as collusive disregard of inconvenient problems , when management of an institution prefers not to recognize a problem , and a course team does not want to be seen either as having problems , or as inconveniencing management , must be addressed by incorporating external expertise into the review process at judicious points . |
| 25 | Our life preparation student numbers have grown continually and encompassed students from outside the district as happens on other such courses . |
| 26 | Some people , both in academic circles and within the profession , think that a single profession , i.e. that of an advocate who could both be consulted directly and have rights of audience in all courts , might be preferable . |
| 27 | I had always felt embarrassed and had to look at my feet in the presence of anyone playing any musical instrument , and had realised once when watching Syl spitting and squinting at his oboe that this was because it was irresistibly evocative of masturbation . |
| 28 | For example , hunters and gatherers were placed low while irrigating cultivators were placed high , then these activities were linked directly with such institutions as rules concerning property , the status of women , the type of government , and the kinship system . |
| 29 | The grizzle-haired lay brother had smiled toothlessly and waved Horne into the door-keeper 's lodge . |
| 30 | The focus of attention is upon whether the national law could be interpreted so as to give effect to Community law obligations . |