Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 2 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 3 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 4 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 5 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 6 | Although the movements in all three are classically based , they would look out of place in older classical ballets or danced to other music . |
| 7 | One piece of evidence is the fact that people questioned about a text or asked to recall it , frequently fill in details which they were not actually given , but which a schema has provided for them . |
| 8 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 9 | Er at least thirty percent of my business erm have either stopped their accounts or reached the limit of their patience . |
| 10 | Foals with meconium retention exhibit colic-type signs or continued straining . |
| 11 | But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ? |
| 12 | I understand the Gulf Trust 's anxiety , but I think they have not really focused on this case or heard the reasonableness of advanced payments . ’ |
| 13 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 14 | But nothing in the response of the Al Fayeds ' advisers , for all its bluster and menace , rebutted my basic case or added one jot of information to explain the origins of the brothers ' wealth . |
| 15 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 16 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 17 | These may be members of local community groups or unemployed centres and/or paid staff of particular projects or paid staff working in the community . |
| 18 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 19 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 20 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 21 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 22 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
| 23 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 24 | Large numbers of men were employed , too , in growing vegetables and grain for the army ; but it was not they who were to reap the harvest , for their crops and granaries were either captured by the Russians or burned . |
| 25 | Irreverently called the flying mattress or airbed , the Flexifoils are unique . |
| 26 | Did you get the sack or did you just pack it in ? |
| 27 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 28 | With this Virtual Target Capability application code can be developed without a target , as the code can be run on the host processor or switched to run on an emulation of the target node . |
| 29 | At his last exhibition at Sonne eighteen months ago , the artist used such inventions , laid out on stretchers , bound with iron chains or impaled on spikes , to show life-threatening wounds of which the injured themselves were unaware . |
| 30 | Decorative pendant lights which have chains or screwed brass rods can be supported in one of two ways . |