Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE substances could have been contaminated or tampered with . |
| 2 | Over the centuries the title of Count has passed from family to family as old dynasties withered away , intermarried or perished in battle . |
| 3 | If future league tables report disaggregated profiles for resources and costs for each study then the costs may be validated or recalculated for the decision maker 's own setting . |
| 4 | 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party . |
| 5 | Often on a business transfer , parties to contracts with the vendor will need to consent to or agree to the contract being assigned or novated to the purchaser . |
| 6 | Roles may be assigned or deassigned by a user with Project Administator privilege using option 7.2.2 — Update User Details . |
| 7 | Instead of being coerced or bludgeoned into submission , the Celtic Church was simply subsumed . |
| 8 | In the ‘ additional note ’ to Guy Mannering , Sir Walter Scott [ q.v. ] states that Billy was ‘ pressed or enlisted in the army seven times , and deserted as often ; besides three times running away from the Naval Service ’ . |
| 9 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |
| 10 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 11 | Section 1 covers all forms of spying making it an offence if any person , for purposes prejudicial to the interests of the state : ( a ) approaches , inspects … enters any prohibited place ; or ( b ) makes any sketch , plan , model or note which … might be useful to the enemy : or ( c ) obtains or communicates to any other person any information … calculated or intended to be , or which might be useful to the enemy . |
| 12 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 13 | Sets of spaces found not to conform to their specified relationships can be redefined or repositioned in order to reestablish those relationships . |
| 14 | It says that , in that short space of time , 317 historic settlements had been affected , 241 heavily or lightly , while 76 had been destroyed or burned down ; 358 individual monuments registered or filed as cultural treasures , including 26 museums , seven archives and 13 library buildings , had been damaged . |
| 15 | Thus , classical structuralism , with its cold , formal impersonality , occurs as a reaction to the 1940s existentialist emphasis on the individual ego ; and becomes itself overturned or deconstructed by poststructuralist ‘ playfulness ’ . |
| 16 | The radical translator is faced with the task of writing such a manual on whatever evidence he can glean ; roughly , on the evidence of sentences uttered or assented to by the ‘ natives ’ and the circumstances of those utterances and assents . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most convincing illustration of the power of the monarchical idea and the extent to which it was still unchallenged is the way in which almost everywhere opposition to rulers , insofar as it was formed or organized at all , tended to centre around the heir to the throne or at least some member of the royal family and to use him as a figurehead . |
| 18 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 19 | If the new issue is for cash , shareholders ' statutory pre-emption rights ( CA 1985 , s89 ) must be honoured or disapplied by a special resolution . |
| 20 | I do not believe it is merely the result of social conditioning that in the Scriptures , in the Jewish and Christian tradition , mankind and the Church is presented as feminine to God , to whom our response must be one of obedience in contrast to those religions in which the divine is regarded as contained within creation and is to be manipulated or cajoled in order to provide what man needs . |
| 21 | Many were poisoned or trapped as crop raiders , and if anyone needed an incentive , high prices were paid for skins . |
| 22 | Embalmers are additionally advised to wear a basic suit of some material which can be boiled or disinfected by chemical means , a cotton surgeons-type gown and a plastic protective apron as well as wellington-type non-slip and chemical proof boots of sufficient length that the plastic apron overlaps them . |
| 23 | Furthermore , where either depression or schizophrenia are provoked or triggered by an event , disorder typically follows so rapidly that intervention after the event and before the emergence of disorder is unlikely to be a practical possibility . |
| 24 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 25 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 26 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 27 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 28 | Hamburg , for example , has about 30–40 per cent of its road system designated as 50 km/h main streets , with all of the remaining non-industrial roads designated or planned as Tempo 30 . |
| 29 | The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal , say the tail , in which case the response reappears in all its original strength . |
| 30 | The ore/gangue mixture was cobbed or spalled by young women seated at anvils , holding the piece in one hand and beating it with a hammer . |