Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] the [noun pl] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 2 | This meant that even though no goods had actually been received by the carrier 's faithless agent or that the goods received were misdescribed , the mere fact that a bill of lading had been issued by someone empowered to do so created a right to claim the value of the described goods . |
| 3 | Since it took so long for Dobson finally to take over in Macclesfield , it may be either that he returned to Stockport as Master from some period or that the Goldsmiths forgot that they had appointed Escolmbe , or that Escolmbe himself never took up his duties . |
| 4 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 5 | While some of the accidents were unavoidable , a large number , especially in winter , seemed to indicate lack of experience , inadequate fitness , failure to prepare properly — or that the victims ignored warnings on conditions . |
| 6 | This would be so particularly if the employees had terms in their contracts that provided for such extra amounts , or if the employees included directors who were entitled to such extra amounts under their service contracts . |
| 7 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 8 | Absolute precision is impossible : there are gaps in the series of accounts from some ports , either because the records have been lost or because the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum , and there are also some irregularities in the accounting periods , although the customs year normally ran from Michaelmas to Michaelmas . |
| 9 | It was either because they were non-Greek speakers or because the Romans had trouble understanding the Celtic tongue . |
| 10 | Whether to care for their wounded or because the men had rebelled , tired from the long day 's march and from the fight in the defile , they were being a ! lowed to eat and to rest . |
| 11 | It was difficult to work out if the hotel had a private beach or whether the builders had simply dumped their excess sand and cement next to the water . |
| 12 | Did you put the bones in the stock before or after the dogs had had them ? |
| 13 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 14 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
| 15 | With the spring thaw , or when the rains fell heavily in the Ta Pa Shan , the well would overflow , making a small marsh of the ground to the south-west of it . |
| 16 | Or when the angels scanned |
| 17 | He remembered where the saints had lain , and where the altars had stood ; he remembered the old confusion of secular and ecclesiastical affairs , and the use of the south porch as the place where pleas were settled which could get no solution in hundred or shire or royal court . |
| 18 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 19 | My house and hedge and where the batsmen strode . |
| 20 | Although it would have been interesting to have known which were Dr. Blair 's books and where the others came from , the important point is to realise what a very wide range of reading was available to the small number of people in this village . |
| 21 | The radical attack on señorios came from Aragon and Valencia where the confusion between rent payment and feudal dues was most marked and where the lords had transferred to their Christian subjects the obligations that had once rested on the moriscos . |
| 22 | Pupils with little or no sight need the opportunity to explore the classroom , not only for reasons of access and safety but also to find out where the key activities take place and where the objects needed for their work and play are kept . |
| 23 | It was also a vital information centre , where spies mingled with oilmen , where officials of the local security forces met heir hookers , and where the waiters brought valuable intelligence every morning from their homes in the rabbit warrens in the ghettos and barrios where few diplomats or reporters dared go . |
| 24 | She stood , slowly turned , and where the spines had penetrated her she oozed bright sap . |
| 25 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 26 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 27 | Associated Press of Pakistan claimed on Aug. 26 that Pakistani troops had repulsed an Indian attack on a post in Mirzapur , and that the Indians had " lost 20 lives including their two officers " while the Pakistanis " suffered two casualties " . |
| 28 | The wills and inventories of the inhabitants of Pennine villages , hamlets and farmsteads show that those described as clothiers had livestock amongst their possessions and that the farmers had stores of wool , spinning wheels and looms . |
| 29 | The Supreme Court , overturning a ruling by the High Court on March 16 , 1989 , ruled that such offences constituted political offences under Section 50 of the Extradition Act 1965 , and that the principles laid down in the case of Finucane also applied in Carron 's case . |
| 30 | And that the ships had again been delayed : the long-awaited new ships commissioned from King Svein of Denmark , about which King Svein of Denmark had been so apologetic . |