Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | If an individual appears unable to pay his debts or has no reasonable prospect of paying he may also face a bankruptcy petition . |
| 3 | You are unlikely to find a series of fronted objects or complements similar to the series of fronted temporal adjuncts quoted above . |
| 4 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 5 | The business user decides how to describe the acquisition and puts it through the accounts or arranges finance through one of his existing sources of funding . |
| 6 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 7 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 8 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 9 | Adult is only pure white medium-sized seabird of region , having no darker streaks or smudges on head in winter : breast faintly suffused pink . |
| 10 | ‘ ( 1 ) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only — ( a ) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance ; or ( b ) that it consists in his threatening that a contract ( whether one to which he is a party or not ) will be broken or its performance interfered with , or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance . |
| 11 | In selecting the best method of prophylaxis much depends on whether the farm consists primarily of permanent pasture or has pastures which are rotated with crops so that new leys or hay and silage aftermaths are available each year . |
| 12 | Alterations to the environment required for safety and access to buildings and classroom by pupils with physical handicaps , especially if they are in wheelchairs , may be more easily foreseen , and their need for ramps or lifts instead of stairs , adaptations to toilet facilities may be readily recognised as essential . |
| 13 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 14 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 15 | If the vendors conclude that a purchase and sale transaction is not to be consummated with you , or if you decide to withdraw your interest , you will upon request immediately return to KPMG Peat Marwick all copies of the Information Memorandum and all Copy Information in your possession or in the possession of your Representatives , and you will destroy all copies of any computer software analysis , compilations , studies or other documents or records prepared by you or your Representatives for your internal use which are based in whole or in part on the Information without retaining any copies or notes thereof or extracts therefrom . |
| 16 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 17 | None of the tribes to the north and west of this divide minted coins or appears to have had any contact with Rome in the pre-conquest period . |
| 18 | For some it is too fast , particularly in stronger winds , hence the trend to ‘ stack ’ in pairs or triples to slow them . |
| 19 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 20 | The concept of bad faith has remained either largely in the region of hypothetical cases or has been treated as synonymous with improper purposes or relevancy . |
| 21 | When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference . |
| 22 | A condition , episode , person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ; its nature is presented in a stylised and stereotypical fashion by the media ; the moral barricades are manned by editors , bishops politicians and other right-thinking people ; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions ; ways of coping are evolved or ( more often ) resorted to ; the condition then disappears , submerges or deteriorates and becomes more visible . |
| 23 | A condition , episode , person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media ; the moral barricades are manned by editors , bishops and politicians and other right-thinking people ; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions ; ways of coping are evolved , or ( more often ) resorted to ; the condition then disappears , submerges or deteriorates … |
| 24 | Cows of the better types can weigh as much as 360kg and mature bulls or steers more than 460kg at three years old . |
| 25 | If any such liabilities are debts incurred for the purposes of Target 's trade in respect of which a deduction has been allowed in computing the profits of the trade within s94 TA 1988 , and the vendor releases or procures the release of Target from its obligation to repay so as to increase the price Newco pays for Target , Target could be treated for tax purposes as receiving a substantial amount of taxable income . |
| 26 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 27 | groans or shrieks as more trees lean |
| 28 | I wish I had a body , just an instrument to feel weary with or through , shoulders that slump , a head that tips back to face the sun , feet that drag , a voice that groans or sighs or asks hoarsely for forgiveness . |
| 29 | On the interpretation in terms of entrepreneurial or windfall gains , the variance may be reduced ( e.g. , by regulation of speculative activities or controls on land use ) or increased ( e.g. , by zoning legislation , by frequent changes in policy or tax rates , etc . |
| 30 | All three of the agencies mentioned in the last paragraph have recently been the subject of central limitations to their activities or curbs upon their freedom ! |