Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( i ) if either party shall pass a resolution for winding up or the court shall make an order that either party shall be wound up ( in either case other than for the purpose of reconstruction ) or if a receiver or manager on behalf of a creditor be appointed , or if circumstances shall arise which would entitle a court or a creditor to appoint a receiver or manager or which would entitle a court to make a winding up order ; or
2 This is not a very palatable view : each of us likes to think that we are ‘ some-body special ’ — which is why each of us accepts intellectually that someday we must die but at a gut level believes that , in our own case , God , Fate or whatever will make an exception .
3 The panel brought to last year 's assembly a modest am amendment of the nineteen sixty three act which it believed was theologically sound pastorally sensitive and which would provide a degree of flexibility .
4 The vicar and his team , led by outgoing churchwarden Robert Parker , envisage an extension which would double the width of the existing church , and which would include a parish office and a private room for counselling and other meetings .
5 If they do not , it will be for their auditors to discuss the matter with the Task Force , on a no-names basis , if they have misgivings about the acceptability of a treatment proposed by a client which hovers in the often grey border area between good and bad practice , and which might set a precedent for other companies .
6 Laches could amount to bad faith and , in any case , the longer the time lag the greater the likelihood that the partners will , even inadvertently , do some act which affirms their partnership with the offending partner and which might raise an estoppel to prevent their proceeding with his expulsion .
7 Later this year the DTI will be issuing a consultative document on its proposals for implementing the Third Life Insurance Directive , which is due to come into operation by mid-1994 and which will enable an insurer to offer insurance anywhere in the Community on the basis of a single authorisation in the state where its head office is situated .
8 In his first annual review as Chief Executive of LASMO , the international oil and gas exploration and production company , Mr Joe Darby describes his immediate objective as being ‘ to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow ’ .
9 In this environment , which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future , our objective is to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow .
10 During my discussions with President Yeltsin , he explicitly accepted the disproportion between the British nuclear deterrent , Trident , and the nuclear capacity that will be available to the Soviet Union even after it has carried out the reductions to which it has committed itself , and which will take a decade or more to implement .
11 A verb which has person , number and tense and which can take a predicate .
12 The colour of the duns varies from dark to silvery pale dun , and in fact is dun rather than red which is the common recessive in the breed and which could suggest a link with Scandinavia , where dun was a common colour .
13 And what can eat a yona ? "
14 In trying to determine the effect of , say , a new teaching style on academic attainment , factors extraneous to this relationship but which might have a bearing on attainment , need to be excluded or controlled in some fashion in order to assess the effect of teaching style .
15 A secondary objective will be to identify companies not in the business sector but which may have an acquisition strategy to diversify into that sector .
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