Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Club was to look for a return on its money , as any other investing institution would , the criteria for that return would be two fold ; a boom in the popularity of tennis at grass roots level and/or impressive results at international level . |
| 2 | As there is no apparent difference in the digestion of gliadin in coeliac patients and control individuals , there may be a difference in the intestinal uptake and/or intracellular processing of the partly digested gliadin . |
| 3 | overseas tax , relieved and unrelieved , specifying the part of unrelieved overseas tax which arises from the payment or proposed payment of dividends . |
| 4 | And I took that little book up to the union and showed it to the branch secretary and still I never got my bike or any compensation for it . |
| 5 | for the construction or extension of a building or other erection on land ( Nevertheless contracts for repairs and improvements are not excepted unless they are secured by a land mortgage ) , |
| 6 | Section 11(1) of the 1968 Theft Act provides : … where the public have access to a building in order to view the building or a part of it , or collection or part of a collection housed in it , any person who without lawful authority removes from the building or its grounds the whole or part of any article displayed or kept for display to the public in the building or that part of it or in its grounds shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 7 | ( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm . |
| 8 | that , that would roughly be er three or four months into the building or six months before first occupation |
| 9 | Bondholders have begun demanding event risk protection or greater security in the form of asset-backing . |
| 10 | Its members represent a combined total of 2.5 million people who care about the conservation , protection or quiet enjoyment of landscape , wildlife or amenity in Wales . |
| 11 | Applications should be made for Biological Sciences , Agriculture or Ecological Science through UCAS , but only for one specialisation within an area . |
| 12 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 13 | Provided that at a meeting of a licensing board the chairman shall not have a second or casting vote on an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , and such an application shall be granted by the board only by a majority of the members thereof present and voting . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence . |
| 15 | The proviso , which provides that the grant or provisional grant of a new licence shall be only by a majority vote is difficult to reconcile with s. 17 , which provides that applications for new grants shall be refused if certain grounds are established . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) In the case of an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , the applicant shall , not later than three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , give notice in writing of the application to every occupier of premises situated in the same building as the premises to which the application relates . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 6 ) of this section , an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence ( other than an off-sale licence ) shall not be entertained by a licensing board unless there are produced to the board , in accordance with the provisions of this section , certificates from the appropriate authority as to the suitability of the premises for which the licence is sought in relation to planning , building control and food hygiene . |
| 18 | Never use silver dip or abrasive powders on gold and be sure to check that any commercial cleaner you are using is specifically designed for gold . |
| 19 | In order to use all this memory , to store large pieces of text or large amounts of data for pupils to work with , the newer computers will have to use hard disk facilities . |
| 20 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 21 | Clearly there 's sexual interaction or social interaction between men and women that one person would decide is sexual harassment and another would n't . |
| 22 | ESVEM showed no difference in the predictive accuracy of ambulatory monitoring or electrophysiological testing in guiding the selection of antiarrhythmic drug therapy in this population . |
| 23 | One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one 's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon . |
| 24 | We will set up a Commission of Human Rights to assist individuals to take legal action in cases of discrimination or other breaches of the rights guaranteed in the Convention . |
| 25 | Anti-discrimination and equal opportunity legislation is often said to promote reverse discrimination or preferential treatment in favour of the minority or group the law was designed to protect . |
| 26 | Later the masculine myth is restated as a phallic ‘ spiral … like a ziggurat or seven-terraced Tower of Babel ’ ( 139/533 ) . |
| 27 | Understandably people want to look forward to retirement , and for many people part of that dream is the rose-covered cottage or modern bungalow in the country or by the sea . |
| 28 | In classic phenylketonuria microcephaly , mental handicap , and impaired fetal growth are likely to occur in over 80% of subjects , accompanied by malformations in the heart or other organs in at least 20% . |
| 29 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 30 | Clearly there is a difference between a story or personal reminiscence on the one hand , where the obvious question is " What happened next ? " , and , on the other hand , an essay on " Democracy versus Dictatorship " . |