Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] then [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the position ultimately reached in the English cases is that if the primary reason for issuing new shares is to fend off a potential bidder for the company then the decision of the directors will be one that the courts can overturn even if the directors are acting bona fide in the best interests of the company . |
| 2 | If two girls applied for the job then the one whose shape filled the costume got the job . |
| 3 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 4 | As community education begins to work through the community then the colleges ( or any other resource of this nature ) should recede even further . |
| 5 | Trent was unable to read from the map for what distance the banks remained steep but if a fall had blocked off the riverbed then the banks had to be steep right up to where the new river cut away from it . |
| 6 | If it is worth the cost then the accruals system will provide the vehicle for this information . |
| 7 | When they do they start barking and run after the hare then the huntsmen and whippers in followed the hounds to make sure that they do not cross a field they 're not supposed to , the field ( people ) follow the master/masters and this is what hare hunting is . |
| 8 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 9 | The more that addiction comes to be understood and accepted as a disease beyond the control of the sufferer then the less acceptable or defensible will be dismissal . |
| 10 | Nationally , the polls suggest Labour is still short of the unprecedented swing needed to guarantee an overall majority , although if mood — particularly among the politicians and media most closely associated with the campaign — is a pointer to the outcome of the election then the Tories have lost . |
| 11 | As far as we were concerned , if you removed the architects and managers of the system then the whole thing would collapse , and who , we asked , in the massive majority of cases were they , if not men ? |
| 12 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 13 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 14 | This confused me until I realised that the more shadowy the figure of the ex then the greater her power , because no-one can compete with a phantom . |
| 15 | If Mark is the main source of the Gospel then the date of Luke must be later than his . |
| 16 | It should be noted that if only one of the shareholders of the company is not connected to a director or manager of the company then the exemption will be unavailable to both the vendors and the purchaser . |
| 17 | If operation of the model can , to some degree , accurately represent the workings of the market then an individual company may be able to gain a deeper understanding of the relative position that it has in that market . |
| 18 | ‘ If we believe the project is important for the well being of the economy then the money will be found . |
| 19 | I fear he may be right , and if it 's true of the profession then the publishers are right behind . |
| 20 | If the solicitor takes advantage of the option then the office monies must be transferred to the office account within seven days . |
| 21 | If you do not have the authority to enter the new version of the package then the following message will be displayed : |
| 22 | If this expansion is insufficient to accommodate the increased productive potential of the Community then the relevant scale economies may well be achieved by some rationalisation of existing production units . |
| 23 | If the balance conditions are independent of the frequency of the supply then the use of a nonsinusoidal source poses no balancing problems , the harmonic components of potential being balanced whenever the fundamental components are ( see section 11.1 ) . |
| 24 | If all scientists were critical of all parts of the framework in which they worked all of the time then no detailed work would ever get done . |
| 25 | If the strength of the interface is greater than about one-fifth of the general cohesion of the material then the interface will not be broken , the crack will cross it and the material will behave as a normal brittle solid . |
| 26 | The case is also authority for the fact that if the premises are out of repair at the commencement of the term then the tenant would be under an obligation to repair them . |
| 27 | I demure about continuing and if our support had n't forced me towards the river then the watching crowd would have done so . |
| 28 | If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km . |
| 29 | If a process is distributed across a number of elements of a system then the situation is much more complex . |
| 30 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |