Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard the ultimate nonsense from the hon. Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) , who has said that if a Labour Government order a fourth boat they will not put any warheads on it . |
| 2 | When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place . |
| 3 | When a certificate of insurance has expired or when a new insurance contract is being negotiated , insurance companies issue ‘ cover notes ’ which usually vary in length of validity from 15 days to 60 days . |
| 4 | Further , in a recent case the Court has held that unless an individual agreement can be shown in concrete terms to produce an effect on trade , it does not fall within Article 85(1) . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd hoped that after a love scene with you I 'd have no further interest in Rob . |
| 6 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 7 | I suppose I ought to have realized that if a boy could do that , then he would n't be open with anyone else . |
| 8 | She still found it hard to believe that any British ship could be in danger so near to home ; even when Jock had explained that unless a submarine was in water deep enough in which to dive , an escort was essential . |
| 9 | Cromwell had seen that while a monarch with some claim to divine authority could rule three separate kingdoms separately by virtue of his three separate crowns , a republic had to have a parliament that united all of the British Isles . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeal , the problem was considered in Mann ( 1972 ) 56 Cr.App.R. 750 where Lord Widgery C.J. had said that if an accused remained silent in response to every question it might well be that the evidence of the onesided dialogue should not be admitted . |
| 11 | Lord Wilberforce had said that where a person created a risk and injury occurred within that area of risk , the burden of proof was reversed and the defendant had to prove that his negligence was not a cause . |
| 12 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 13 | The decision in the case of Jean Sorelle Ltd v Rybak ( [ 1991 ] IRLR 153 ( EAT ) ) had decided that where an applicant acts on the advice of a member of the IT staff , it was open to an IT to hold that it was not reasonably practicable for the claim to have been presented in time . |
| 14 | The LEA had argued that if a particular type of educational provision was generally available to children of the applicant 's age in their schools , then it was not a special educational provision . |
| 15 | It was obvious that a major disaster had occurred and that a massive rescue operation must be started as soon as possible . |
| 16 | It was Taylor 's opinion that their experience had proved that although a considerable quantity of ore remained to be got from the various veins , the expenses of all kinds in the district , remote as it was from other mining fields , prevented fair remuneration for risking capital and exerting their skill . |
| 17 | It recommended that the concentration of Government Offices should take place on the site that Hunt had proposed and that an opportunity will be provided , ‘ without incurring any additional expense , to make a great opening from Whitehall to Westminster Abbey by erecting the new buildings on each side of such thoroughfare ’ . |
| 18 | To my dismay , the sexual charge between us had disappeared as though a switch had been thrown . |
| 19 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |
| 20 | The house was called Gibbet Hall ; not because this was the name the Swift family had chosen but because a long time ago enemy prisoners had been tied to the tree outside the front gate and threatened with hanging . |
| 21 | It did not take much to reason that international capitalism had failed and that a new order must replace it . |
| 22 | We have said that when a logogen reaches threshold ‘ a response is available ’ ; but since there are two output routes from the logogen system ( to the cognitive system and to the response buffer ) this term is ambiguous . |
| 23 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 24 | This interpretation could be applied to computer records , although some commentators have noted that where a document has undergone processing , as well as recording , it will not apply . |
| 25 | Studies in this area have indicated that too strict or too lax parental attitudes increase the risk of delinquency ( the work of John Bowlby , for example ) ; they have found that if a young child is deprived of close personal relationships with parents or parent figures then ‘ problem behaviour ’ is more common . |
| 26 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 27 | Many jurisdictions have taken the view that to insist on such service would unfairly disadvantage potential plaintiffs , and have provided that where an enterprise based abroad does business within the jurisdiction service may be effected at some business address there , without the need to serve any document abroad . |
| 28 | However , in other cases the courts have held that where a clause requiring best endeavours appears with an exclusion or force majeure clause , it qualifies the latter , so that the contractor can only rely on the exclusion or force majeure clause if it can establish that it used best endeavours ( see Yates and Hawkins , Standard Business Contracts : Exclusions and Related Devices , p165 ) . |
| 29 | The courts have held that if a public body exercises its statutory power for an improper purpose they can intervene . |