Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 2 | B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) . |
| 3 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |
| 4 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 5 | The Arab League Secretary-General , Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) , had already resigned on Sept. 3 , over alleged accusations from Saudi Arabia 's Foreign Minister , Prince Saud al Faisal , that he had failed in his mandate to discover why some Arab countries had expressed reservations or abstained from voting during the August Arab emergency summit on Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 6 | Given that people die , sometimes fail to complete the registration forms correctly , or move without applying for a postal vote , the electoral register is never 100% accurate . |
| 7 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 8 | However , it seems that the relation is not quite the same , for there is no comparable way in which a hearer can express the same wonder or wish by assenting to the sentence as uttered by the speaker . |
| 9 | It was a toss up whether to try for acceptance in the front row ranks , or work towards qualifying for the back row . |
| 10 | DIEGO MARADONA could be fined or banned from playing in the Italian League because of his reported remarks that the World Cup draw was fixed , a spokesman for the Italian Federation said yesterday . |
| 11 | The women claim that the existence of commoners ' rights invalidates the defence bylaws under which thousands have been fined or imprisoned for trespassing inside the base . |
| 12 | Attention is consequently focused primarily on the manner in which a given novel succeeds or fails in conforming to an abstract , archetypal model of the genre , and only lip service is paid to the manner in which politics , ideology and history are mediated in the texts themselves . |
| 13 | SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not . |
| 14 | A name that appears in Halling for a period of around five centuries is of the family of Usher . |
| 15 | Indie rock is the traditional playground of scruffy teenagers approaching college age who prefer to celebrate gazing at the stars than admit to peeking at the opposite sex . |
| 16 | They 're sentiments that come from falling between the two factions that all but dominate life in Oxford 's social centre : the yuppified , well-heeled types who hang around in the bars and bistros of the city 's bohemian quarter , and the massive student population . |
| 17 | Poor Father O'Hara had contracted cholera and died shortly after the withdrawal to the banqueting hall ; when his body had been heaved over the ramparts for the jackals and pariah dogs ( the only way that remained for disposing of the dead ) , a number of heavy metal beads , crosses , Saints and Virgins had been discovered in his effects . |
| 18 | Alexander Cockburn on the fear that comes of living through an earthquake |
| 19 | AMERICAN DIARY April shakes Alexander Cockburn on the fear that comes of living through an earthquake |
| 20 | The Women 's Tennis Association have announced that fines for playing in an exhibition without approval in the same week as a major event have been sharply increased to a level which it is hoped will help to prevent it happening again . |
| 21 | Most had obtained that experience by operating in the older parts of the Nottinghamshire field further east , where the workforce was relatively quiescent , as illustrated for Hucknall ( D. Gilbert , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Industrialists , who have acquired power and influence without passing through the mollifying tunnel of public school , Oxbridge and the professions , have always represented a potential challenge to the old order . |
| 23 | Her other interests include classical music , the care of the elderly and the handicapped particularly with British Polio Fellowship and helping with riding for the disabled at the Diamond Riding Centre , Carshalton . |
| 24 | This contrasts greatly with another professional publication that I receive which is stodgy and insists on corresponding via an employer 's address . |
| 25 | Oxford 's forwards were slow and scattered in getting to the breakdown . |
| 26 | The couple were wined and dined before retiring to a plush suite for Valentine 's night . |
| 27 | You may prefer the flexibility over hours this offers , but you should weigh the pros and cons regarding working for an NHS employer and sickness pay , holiday pay , pension , study leave and so on . |
| 28 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 29 | It analyses the problem of marketing to multi-individual buying structures , and concludes by looking at the applications of industrial purchase behaviour models . |
| 30 | The Law Society has submitted its response to the Law Commission 's Consultation Paper on Fiduciary Duties and Regulatory rules , and concludes by disagreeing with the Commission 's preliminary proposals to overcome current difficulties which the Commission have been examining . |