Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the fingers tighten above the snatch of blade , he saw the legs ripple beneath the blanket as if in preparation for sudden attack . |
| 2 | She watched her mother walk out of the kitchen as if in a trance and a few seconds later Carla was nestled in her granny 's arms . |
| 3 | Section 56 prohibits persons carrying on an investment business from entering into agreements for , inter alia , the sale of or subscription for shares ‘ in the course of or in consequence of an unsolicited call ’ ( subsection ( 1 ) ) . |
| 4 | By s.25 : [ a ] person shall be guilty of an offence if , when not at his place of abode , he has with him any article for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary , theft or cheat . |
| 5 | None is stated in the sub-section , but it is assumed that the accused must intend to use the article in the course of or in connection with the burglary , theft or cheat , and he must know that he has the article with him . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) Where a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , or an agent or employee of a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , in the course of or in connection with a transaction involving the disposition or creation of an interest in land , purports to deliver an instrument as a deed on behalf of a party to the instrument , it shall be conclusively presumed in favour of a purchaser that he is authorised so to deliver the instrument . |
| 7 | The speeches by and in support of the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West raised important questions of principle that govern three important matters : first , the need for open justice ; secondly , the provision of proper opportunities for the defence in criminal proceedings to deploy the case on which the defence relies ; and thirdly , the issue on which we focused most , the effect of the existence of those rights on third parties who necessarily can play no part in the proceedings and who consequently have no immediate opportunity to defend themselves or their reputations . |
| 8 | She snapped the seat belt into position and stared out through the window as if in search of something else to organize . |
| 9 | He turned , surveying the scene as if in a daze . |
| 10 | The judge was therefore at fault in considering that there was no need for him to pay explicit regard to the public interest in freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) in seeking to resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity in the common law ; ( 7 ) in failing , as did Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case , to have proper regard to the public interest in freedom of expression and to the question of whether in a democratic society there really was a pressing social need to extend the ambit of the law of defamation to enable a governmental body to sue in respect of presumed ( and not actual ) injury to its governmental reputation ; ( 8 ) in failing to take into account the acceptance by the English courts of the fact that where a governmental plaintiff sought to invoke a private law right to interfere with freedom of discussion about the workings of government , the court 's approach would ( because of the competing public interests involved ) differ from that in a private dispute between citizen and citizen . |
| 11 | This brings to the fore questions of the planning and design of production systems , and poses the question of whether in a democratic society , the people who will be most affected by technological change will be able to influence its conception and implementation . |
| 12 | If it is now assumed that the coefficients on and in the unemployment equation are different , so that we are not assuming structural neutrality , we can rewrite the unemployment equation as : |
| 13 | She knelt before the picture as if in prayer , then slowly opened her legs , stroking the insides of her thighs with both hands . |
| 14 | Thus it is proposed that they will understand the directional component of the meaning of because in connection with the distinction between cause and effect ( viz. the causal direction ) , before they understand the directional component of its meaning in connection with temporal order . |
| 15 | " supply " is defined in s46 to include : ( a ) selling , hiring out or lending the goods ; ( b ) entering into a hire-purchase agreement to furnish the goods ; ( c ) the performance of any contract for work and materials to furnish the goods ; ( d ) providing the goods in exchange for any consideration ( including trading stamps ) other than money ; ( e ) providing the goods in or in connection with the performance of any statutory function ; or ( f ) giving the goods as a prize or otherwise making a gift of the goods . |
| 16 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |
| 17 | As we pointed out in Chapter 1 , the importance of theories in the pursuit of and in the constitution of " facts " is hard to underestimate . |
| 18 | The cab swerved into the Place de la Concorde , she felt them whirling as they joined the vortex round the obelisk as if in a fairground swing as it lifts and spins . |
| 19 | If you or any member of your family suffer death , bodily injury or illness arising from negligence of our suppliers ( other than air and sea carriers performing any domestic , internal or international carriage of whatsoever kind for whom we accept no liability ) , their sub=contractors , servants and/or agents , we will accept responsibility provided that they were acting within the scope of or in the course of their employment when the accident occurred . |
| 20 | We accept responsibility for the acts and/or omissions of our employees or agents and suppliers while acting within the scope of or in the course of their employment , agency or contract of supply and we also accept responsibility for any deficiencies in the services we are contractually obliged to provide or for any failure of such services to reach a reasonable standard save , in each case that : |
| 21 | We also accept responsibility for the negligent acts and/or omissions not only of our own employees or agents but also of our suppliers and sub-contractors and their servants or agents ( provided of course that any such negligent act or omission is within the scope of or in the course of their employment ) in respect of claims arising as a result of death , bodily injury or illness caused to the person who signed the booking form and/or any other person named on the booking form . |
| 22 | You can get all the details from or in the office . |
| 23 | 1.6.5 immediately to bring to the attention of any improper or wrongful use of 's trade marks , designs , models or other similar industrial , intellectual or commercial property rights which come to the notice of and in the performance of its duties under this Agreement , and to use every effort to safeguard the property rights and interests of and and at the request and cost of , take all steps required by to defend such rights ; |
| 24 | 5.2.2 VAT ( or any tax of a similar nature that may be substituted for it or levied in addition to it ) chargeable in respect of any payment made by the Tenant under any of the terms of or in connection with this Lease or in respect of any payment made by the Landlord where the Tenant agrees in this Lease to reimburse the Landlord for such payment The tenant should insure that there is excluded from the tenant 's liability any taxes properly payable by the landlord both in respect of rents received and the landlord 's dealings with the reversionary interest . |
| 25 | The lone ranger rode into the sunset and jumped on his horse ( 7 ) The capital of England is London and the capital of France is Paris The sense of and in ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) seems to be rather different : in ( 4 ) it seems to mean " and then " and thus ( 6 ) is strange in that it is hard to imagine the reverse ordering of the two events . |
| 26 | It is n't just that the repertory is far-removed from that of the harp 's romantic territory — and , to the best of my recollection , of a kind last explored ( more conservatively and on a modern instrument ) in an entire disc by Zabaleta ( Archiv ) over 20 years ago , nor that it is played on two pedal-less early harps , it 's the spirit with and in which it is executed . |
| 27 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 28 | Druid 's Bottom was a long way below them : a doll 's house with tall chimneys , tucked in a fold of the valley as if in the crook of an elbow . |
| 29 | Any and all patents , registered designs , unregistered designs , copyright , or other intellectual property rights whether or not similar to any of the foregoing in or resulting from any work carried out by the Supplier under or in pursuance of this Agreement shall belong exclusively , throughout the world , to the Supplier . |
| 30 | As the poets say — ’ he could not bring to mind a single line and so he stopped , and looked down on the lake as if in mourning , intuiting , correctly , that this would have the same effect as a couplet . |