Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal information about us , once typed on record cards or stuffed into filing cabinets is now kept on computer , information which once even the bank manager or doctor could n't find is now accessible to thousands through a computer keyboard , and everyday this information is routinely sold , to employers investigating potential and current employees , to companies investigating competitors and customers , and to anyone willing to pay in a trade which grows , uncontrolled , daily . |
| 2 | Chambers ( 1983 forthcoming , and in shorter form 1980 a and b ) has exhorted government officials to be aware that ‘ in developing countries poor rural people and rural poverty in general are underperceived or misperceived by those who themselves are neither poor nor rural ’ . |
| 3 | The radical translator is faced with the task of writing such a manual on whatever evidence he can glean ; roughly , on the evidence of sentences uttered or assented to by the ‘ natives ’ and the circumstances of those utterances and assents . |
| 4 | But no one had any suggestions ; almost everything had been tried , or asked for , or abandoned . |
| 5 | Or asked for it . |
| 6 | Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for . |
| 7 | He had accosted her in a public place , and yet she had n't screamed , or run , or asked for help . |
| 8 | 10.3 The Tenant acknowledges that [ its ] obligations under this agreement and the Lease shall not be affected or lessened in any way by the fact that there may now or subsequently exist any Restrictions and the Tenant shall with effect from the Possession Date comply with and indemnify the Landlord in respect of any liability under any Restrictions ( whether made before or after the Possession Date ) save in so far as such liability arises from failure by the Landlord to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 2.2.2 It need hardly be said that the tenant 's solicitor should make all usual inquiries to ascertain whether any such restrictions exist at the date of the agreement . |
| 9 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 10 | as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions , to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with . |
| 11 | The due observance and fulfilment of the terms provisions conditions and endorsements of this Policy in so far as they relate to anything to be done or complied with by the Policyholder and the truth of the statements and answers in the said proposal shall be conditions precedent to any liability of the Corporation to make any payment under this Policy . |
| 12 | The due observance and fulfilment of the terms provisions conditions and endorsements of this Policy in so far as they relate to anything to be done or complied with by the Policyholder and the truth of the statements and answers in the said proposal shall be conditions precedent to any liability of the Corporation to make any payment under this Policy . |
| 13 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 14 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 15 | ‘ Now if anything be certain it is this , that where there are general words in a later Act capable of reasonable and sensible application without extending them to subjects specifically dealt with by earlier legislation , you are not to hold that earlier and special legislation indirectly repealed , altered , or derogated from merely by force of such general words , without any indication of a particular intention to do so . |
| 16 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 17 | And our concern is that if that figure is appro is is agreed or recommended by the panel or it 's gon na to be taken by the county that there is something in the order of a hundred and thirty hectares of employment land which is going to take investment from somewhere . |
| 18 | A clause along the following lines could be inserted in the trust deed if it is intended that the same be effective for income tax purposes : No part of the capital , capitalised income , or income shall in any circumstances whatsoever be paid or lent to or applied for the benefit of the settlor or any spouse of the settlor for the time being . |
| 19 | The return on money spent or lent in Eastern Europe can be expected to be better , politically and commercially , than those from similar outflows into the gurgling sink of Latin America and other parts of the South . |
| 20 | Er as far as out-sourcing is concerned , when we learned that there could be two thousand jobs lost or out-sourced from British Aerospace , it was my opinion in line with those of our representatives that we ought to convene a meeting immediately of all shop stewards and representatives who would be covered er through those discussions and arrange and organize a strategy to oppose it . |
| 21 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 22 | I I think the thing is if , if you 'd 've demonstrated that or , or got to the stage of saying well alright , you know , if you 're retiring tomorrow how much money do you need to , to live on |
| 23 | The volume of the utterance may be loud to express anger or whispered for secrecy . |
| 24 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |
| 25 | Throughout British history , people have fought for , or fought against , powerful images of urban or rural life . |
| 26 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 27 | Payments were withheld or recovered in full or in part in 39 cases . ’ |
| 28 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 29 | While the Doctor stalked about the room , or fiddled with the door , or argued with the guards , the three others had sat on the floor and exchanged their stories . |
| 30 | The only member of the squad who could ; the others hammered or pecked with two fingers , swore picturesquely , and reached for the erasing fluid . |