Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [vb pp] [subord] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Greater security is attained because if a keycard is lost or stolen , the lock code can be changed very quickly and simply to prevent unauthorised access .
2 Such a disposal is treated as if the outstanding amount of the notional loan had been released or written off .
3 Liability is anticipated except where the seller is not in fact selling in the course of a business and prior to contracting the transferee knows this fact , or reasonable steps have been taken to bring it to his notice .
4 The psychological power is eroded because although the community can still disapprove of you and make you an outcast if you defy the hierarchy , beyond the community is the world of English people — an unfriendly world , but it does exist .
5 Consideration means not so much that one party is profited as that the other abandons some legal right in the present , or limits his legal freedom of action in the future , as an inducement for the promise of the first .
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