Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many wars have been started or sustained by the exploitation of religious beliefs , but even if this method of prolonging wars could be removed by a rationalised attitude to ‘ god ’ and religion , it does not necessarily follow that wars would never be started , but nevertheless they might well be greatly shortened . |
| 32 | Development and growth in the District 's work was , of course , not found or sustained in every part of the District . |
| 33 | But Llewellyn denied his players had grabbed testicles or spat at the world champions . |
| 34 | In the normal form we are forced to accept only one of these representations ; we choose the left hand one by insisting that pairs of expressions unc output on the same channel or assigned to the same variable be ordered . |
| 35 | The reasons for demanding that expressions output on one channel , or assigned to the same variable , be uniformly ordered have already been explained . |
| 36 | ‘ Offensive weapon means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him , or by some other person , per section 1(4) Prevention Of Crime Act 1953 as amended by the Public Order Act 1986 Schedule 2 paragraph 2 . |
| 37 | Yet , if one looks at the situation from the point of view of the victim , it is an accident , in the sense that it was not expected or intended by the victim himself . |
| 38 | A weapon of offence is defined in s.10(1) ( b ) as " any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to or incapacitating a person or intended by the person having it with him for such use " . |
| 39 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 40 | It has a curved hemline and can be worn outside or tucked into a skirt or trousers . |
| 41 | Fitch reckons that not all bond insurers deserve the top rating ; those that do , it believes , suffer because investors do not trust the triple-As assigned to the insured debt by Moody 's and S&P . |
| 42 | To make sure he asked Mr Litmus if he had seen or heard of a scientist being found coming out of the corridors . |
| 43 | The common message , from many of the women or members of ethnic communities we spoke to , was , their need to be seen on the television screen or heard on the radio . |
| 44 | Little is to be seen or heard during the day of the thousands of ‘ night birds ’ which nest deep in the tussac stools . |
| 45 | The conduct must take place within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused the sensations in question ; does this mean that the conduct must actually be seen or heard by the person whom it is intended to offend ? |
| 46 | Mr Robert Macrae , for Burnett , told the court : ‘ He realises he was irresponsible and he has not seen or heard from the girl involved since . ’ |
| 47 | In an intervention during the Home Secretary 's speech , I asked whether he had consulted or heard from the Prison Governors Association about the Bill . |
| 48 | Nothing and nobody in this programme questioned the medic 's oath with which it began : ‘ I will keep silence as to anything I have seen or heard in the practice of my profession which it would be improper to divulge . ’ |
| 49 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
| 50 | They must not be bought or sold or even taken or given as a present . |
| 51 | 10.3 The provisions of Condition 10.1 shall not apply to any infringement caused by the Seller having followed a design or instruction furnished or given by the Purchaser nor to any use of the goods in a manner or for a purpose which shall have been specifically prohibited in writing by the Seller , nor to any infringement which is due to the use of such goods in association or combination with any other product . |
| 52 | 10.4 Any design or instruction furnished or given by the Purchaser shall not be such as will cause the Seller to infringe any intellectual property rights . |
| 53 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 54 | The relations of capitalists and workers were therefore the product of a specific state of affairs , the ownership which had arisen in history and was not inevitable , or given in the laws of logic . |
| 55 | Even the research listed by the ‘ independent ’ Police Foundation or undertaken at the University Centres for Criminological Research ( and largely dependent on government grants and funding by such bodies as the Economic and Social Research Council ) often comes up against the anti — intellectual bias which permeates all levels in police thinking ( Lewis 1976 ) . |
| 56 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 57 | Also , it will be usual to say that there will be no claim if the liability arose from acts of the acquirer or target ( after completion only ) which are outside the ordinary course of business or undertaken in the knowledge that they will create liability . |
| 58 | The following description of Consideration was given by the Exchequer Chamber in 1875 : ‘ A valuable consideration , in the sense of the law , may consist either in some right , interest , profit , or benefit accruing to the one party , or some forbearance , detriment , loss , or responsibility , given , suffered , or undertaken by the other ’ : Currie v. Misa ( 1875 ) L.R. 10 Ex. at 162 . |
| 59 | or drained on the reeds blowing |
| 60 | All the traffic , every single vehicle which passed him was equipped with lasers in its axles ; they could register a hit on his legs unless he was above them , or shielded by a wall , or between the wheels of a parked car , or holding his breath . |