Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an individual appears unable to pay his debts or has no reasonable prospect of paying he may also face a bankruptcy petition . |
| 2 | You are unlikely to find a series of fronted objects or complements similar to the series of fronted temporal adjuncts quoted above . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Adult is only pure white medium-sized seabird of region , having no darker streaks or smudges on head in winter : breast faintly suffused pink . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For some it is too fast , particularly in stronger winds , hence the trend to ‘ stack ’ in pairs or triples to slow them . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | Cows of the better types can weigh as much as 360kg and mature bulls or steers more than 460kg at three years old . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | groans or shrieks as more trees lean |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | In the analysis outlined above , it should not matter whether a central government cuts taxes or gives lump-sum grants to local authorities . |
| 24 | You know what it 's like : sitting in front of your PC , wasting time while it calculates a complex spreadsheet , draws your graphs or searches the database . |
| 25 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 26 | If x contains all the free variables that the finite program P ever inputs or assigns to , then there is an c — IF/ALT program P' such that free unc and P=P' is provable from the laws presented in section 1 . |
| 27 | Theorem 3 If the list x contains every free variable that the finite program P ever inputs or assigns to , and if P never evaluates an uninitialised variable , then there is a true x-normal form program P' such that unc and P = P' is provable from our laws and the rule of substitution for expressions . |
| 28 | Now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop T H O P when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we do n't lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity . |
| 29 | ( If you do n't have either of these , find someone who has and ask them to record a few straightforward patterns or beats at around 80–100 beats per minute on a cassette — it will work just as well . ) |
| 30 | • needling boosts or reduces energy in various areas of the body in order to get the body in balance |