Example sentences of "[noun pl] the [noun sg] [verb] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In personal injury cases the damage caused is usually all too painfully obvious even though its cause was a negligent act or omission many years before ; and time usually runs from the injury and not from the act or omission causing it . |
| 2 | In some cases the technology involved is not within the company 's competence ; in others it is so critical to the performance of the product that the company wishes to have it under direct control . |
| 3 | In some cases the technology involved is not within the company 's competence ; in others it is so critical to the performance of the product that the company wishes to have it under direct control . |
| 4 | In BSL this is two-handed but in most countries the system used is one-handed ( see fig. 6.12 , page 125 ) . |
| 5 | It is doubtful whether in either of these situations the action taken is primarily concerned with punishment ; but the first example could fall within the definition of corporal punishment in the Act , which requires the action to have been taken wholly or partly for the purposes of punishment . |