Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it really required was probably sandbags or or steel in the base to keep the base |
| 2 | So did anybody else have that experience of of of caring for children and parents , or or parents-in-law at the same time ? |
| 3 | The neutrality of the counsellor , so necessary in order to develop mutual trust and confidence , has to be compromised in such a way that individuals are not annoyed or upset , or that members of the family begin to see the counsellor as partisan . |
| 4 | It may be apparent from the head chef 's comments that more time needs to be given to basic skills in the college 's scheme of work or that parts of the housekeeping syllabus need revision . |
| 5 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 6 | It can be more difficult when an elderly couple differ themselves as to what they wish to do , or if members of the family disagree . |
| 7 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 8 | Whilst there is no way at present to test whether this bacteria is carried , or if immunity to the toxin is low , awareness of the problem can minimize the risk , or the decision to use the tampon can be taken . |
| 9 | Whether because British engineers lack business vision , or because prejudices in the City of London , only financial entrepreneurs seem able to raise the backing to run companies like Norton . |
| 10 | He would be better employed as beadle , or as taskmaster in the Saxburgh Union . ’ |
| 11 | As with the history of the automobile , several radically different early designs were tried out before the main stream of development settled on the Von Neumann model ; some of these ideas have reappeared as specialized computers or as variations on the basic model ( for example parallel operation of components of the data manipulation unit ) . |
| 12 | There are a similar number of natural products known today , most of which are called by trivial names , or as derivatives of a trivially named substance . |
| 13 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 14 | The president of the United States is not free to appoint whoever he chooses as secretary of state or secretary of the treasury or as director of the C I A or director of the F B I or the secretary of defence or the justice of the supreme court or ambassador to London or anybody else except by and with the consent of the senate . |
| 15 | At the other end emerge still useful uranium , for potential reuse in reactors , plutonium , which , according to its quality , can be used for either bombs or as fuel in a fast breeder reactor ( see Chapter Three ) ; and a cocktail of liquid waste products . |
| 16 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 17 | But unsatisfactory in what respect : as representatives of a body established to negotiate on behalf of employees with management acting on behalf of owners ; or as representatives of the union but charged , along with representatives of the owners , with the corporate responsibility for the performance of the enterprise ? |
| 18 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 19 | No more universities would be created , either as new foundations or as promotions from the public sector . |
| 20 | More recent interpretations of religion as illusory self-projection ( Sigmund Freud ) or as expressions of the structure and self-understanding of human society ( Emile Durkheim ) owe a great deal to Feuerbach , in whom the broad lines are already laid down . |
| 21 | Infection is by ingestion of the L2 in the egg or as larvae in the tissues of mice and subsequent development takes place entirely in the wall and lumen of the intestine , there being no migratory phase . |
| 22 | They include , for example , dealing in investments as principal or agent ; arranging deals in investments ; managing investments ; giving investment advice ; operating collective investment schemes , including unit trusts ( ie. acting either as a manager or as trustee of a unit trust scheme is regarded as an activity constituting investment business ) . |
| 23 | Taxes Act 1988 , s683 provides that where income under a settlement is payable to or applicable for the benefit of any person other than the settlor then unless the situation comes within one of the following five situations ( listed in TA 1988 , s683(1) ) the income shall for the purposes of " excess liability " be treated as the income of the settlor and not as the income of any other person for tax purposes . |
| 24 | Good liaison should also ensure that duplication of content does not occur or that where repetition of a topic does take place , there is a significant variation in the depth , focus and treatment of such a topic . |
| 25 | It is thought that where acquisition of the outgoing partner 's share is subject to the option procedure , the consent of the court is required where the exercise of the option by the continuing partners has to be made ( if at all ) between presentation of the bankruptcy petition and vesting of the insolvent 's estate in the trustee since it involves a disposition of the partnership share of the insolvent partnersee s284 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 26 | Other exceptional items should be disclosed in the notes , except where disclosure in the profit and loss account is necessary to give a true and fair view . |
| 27 | In practice and are usually sufficient except where details of the tails of the distribution are needed . |
| 28 | Now to either hand was heather , at this season still dark and flowerless , except where patches of the early bell heather splashed their vivid purple across grey rock . |
| 29 | Well , except that work on the submission of twenty five percent going through the complaint examiner . |
| 30 | This is direct and the preparasitic phase is typically trichostrongyloid , except that exsheathment of the L3 of intestinal species occurs in the abomasum . |