Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) To acquire or undertake the whole or any part of the business , goodwill , and assets of any person , firm , or company carrying on or proposing to carry on the business or any part of the business which the Company is authorised to carry on and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person , firm or company , or to acquire an interest in , amalgamate with , or enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits , or for co-operation , or for mutual assistance with any such person , firm or company , or for subsidising or otherwise assisting any person , firm or company , and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid or property acquired , any shares , debentures , debenture stock or securities that may be agreed upon , and to hold and retain , or sell , mortgage and deal with any shares , debentures , debenture stock of securities so received . |
| 2 | ( d ) To acquire or undertake the whole or any part of the business , goodwill , and assets of any person , firm , or company carrying on or proposing to carry on the business or any part of the business which the Company is authorised to carry on and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person , firm or company , or to acquire an interest in , amalgamate with , or enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits , or for co-operation , or for mutual assistance with any such person , firm or company , or for subsidising or otherwise assisting any person , firm or company , and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid or property acquired , any shares , debentures , debenture stock or securities that may be agreed upon , and to hold and retain , or sell , mortgage and deal with any shares , debentures , debenture stock of securities so received . |
| 3 | Signor Matarazzo personally looks after the comfort of his guests , and , if you decide to sample his restaurant , you can be certain that whatever is on the menu of the day will be well worth eating and reasonably priced . |
| 4 | The reps ' cabaret is well worth seeing as well . |
| 5 | Some people are worried about eating and here we are off on this whole rock 'n' roll circus . |
| 6 | An art in science is to judge when an outlandish notion is worth pursuing and when to ignore it . |
| 7 | Mr Walker said : ‘ Tyne Tees wanted a different starting time in order to show highlights during or after the European game but by that time Boro had made arrangements for policing and so on and they refused the request . |
| 8 | But I I mean we I do n't know whether you think it 's worth contacting or not . |
| 9 | The Borough has been penalised by the Government for overspending and now faces charge capping . |
| 10 | he , erm and he 'll tell you whether it 's worth repairing or not Joyce |
| 11 | The lessons of such experiences as NADP/GMTS and MESOL seem to be that the issues are as much about targeting and fully funding as about elitism . |
| 12 | They are particularly unpopular with women workers tending to snag their tights during handling and sometimes such incidents affect the acceptability of a produce more than any performance attributes . |
| 13 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 14 | ‘ I half-killed a man for sayin' that once tae me , ’ replied Tam , abashed . |
| 15 | Before we move on , it is worth noticing that just as the debate about the Bible rested to a large extent on a rather dubious notion of what kind of authority was in question , so too the argument about miracles was one in which both sides generally shared an equally questionable concept . |
| 16 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 17 | Many people suggest using corrugated card for pressing and indeed , most commercially made presses are supplied with corrugated card , but I have always had enormous difficulty when using this , finding that it leaves the imprints of stripes on the flowers and leaves . |
| 18 | This is the company or corporation which , to help it survive , needs to devise mechanisms for acquiring and appropriately responding to signals from the environment . |
| 19 | He then requested flares for landing and then put out an SOS that they were on fire . |
| 20 | None of the solo piano music is here ( see below for that ) , but one of the ballets , Les Aventures de Mercure ( usually better known simply as ‘ Mercure ’ ) along with pieces such as Geneviève de Brabant and the curious Le Piège de Médusa make for absorbing and very entertaining listening . |
| 21 | Colic and sore to pressure , worse ( < ) after eating and better ( > ) heat . |
| 22 | In essence , a student 's attaining the status of depended on his gaining the sponsorship , after completing or nearly completing his studies , of the holder of one of a number of high-ranking learned posts , the scholars who held these posts each having the privilege on certain occasions of investing a certain number of students , his own or others , with the right to become . |
| 23 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Twist And Turn , partnered Geoff Wragg 's Marling in a six-furlong gallop with Dorset Duke after racing and then confirmed he would ride the unbeaten filly in the 1,000 Guineas . |
| 24 | After commenting that not all the defendant 's statements appeared to be of a similar literary merit , the judge fined him $2,000 . |
| 25 | After sowing and gently firming in seeds with a circular tamper , water them in by placing pots in a bowl of water and removing them when the compost is dark and moist . |
| 26 | Since older samples of growing grass will contain senescent material it was felt to be worthwhile measuring the samples at various times after cutting and even after artificial drying . |
| 27 | Rose started a small flower garden in front of the house soon after coming and there he could often be found , at first helping Rose , then taking over and extending the garden across the footpath until all the green inside the thorn hedge was alive with colour : little beds of forget-me-nots and sweet william , rows of wallflowers that gave out their fragrance in the evenings , formal lilies and roses . |
| 28 | This service provides delivery by a Post Office messenger for letters and packets arriving at a delivery office on the next working day after posting but too late for normal delivery on that day . |
| 29 | The beans are ground as soon as possible after roasting and either packaged for use in percolators and cafetières or freeze dried to make instant coffee of distinction . |
| 30 | The debate within the EC over trans-frontier movement of waste [ see ED 61 ] has been fuelled by the French government , which has banned with immediate effect the import of all domestic waste after discovering that potentially harmful hospital waste from Germany was being imported illegally into France . |