Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 2 | It says that , in that short space of time , 317 historic settlements had been affected , 241 heavily or lightly , while 76 had been destroyed or burned down ; 358 individual monuments registered or filed as cultural treasures , including 26 museums , seven archives and 13 library buildings , had been damaged . |
| 3 | Embalmers are additionally advised to wear a basic suit of some material which can be boiled or disinfected by chemical means , a cotton surgeons-type gown and a plastic protective apron as well as wellington-type non-slip and chemical proof boots of sufficient length that the plastic apron overlaps them . |
| 4 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 5 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 6 | The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal , say the tail , in which case the response reappears in all its original strength . |
| 7 | The ore/gangue mixture was cobbed or spalled by young women seated at anvils , holding the piece in one hand and beating it with a hammer . |
| 8 | 12.1 Any notice , document or request falling to be given or served under this Agreement may be given or served by sending it by registered post or certified mail , postage pre-paid , or by tested telex or facsimile transmission to : in the case of |
| 9 | It will prevent councils from selling open space for commercial gain if the land was given or bequeathed to local people for sport or recreation . |
| 10 | Secondly , unlike the definition in ( 8 ) , it does not make the distinction between semantics and pragmatics along the encoded/unencoded line ; this is important because , as we shall see , there is still controversy over whether such pragmatic implications as presuppositions or illocutionary force are or are not encoded or grammaticalized in linguistic forms . |
| 11 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 12 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |
| 13 | Other towns in the enclave were reported to have been shelled or stormed by Azerbaijani troops . |
| 14 | Such an order should be made save where there is good reason for not doing so , for example , where the proceedings have been instituted or continued without good cause . |
| 15 | Maud and Roland neither looked nor spoke to each other . |
| 16 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 17 | They have a curved section at the end of the lower blade which enables individual stitches to be lifted and snipped with absolute precision . |
| 18 | A relieving officer was attacked and robbed on successive days ; the Ampthill House of Industry was stoned and the High Constable knocked down . |
| 19 | Police are appealing for witnesses after Thomas McKeowen , 48 , of Mattison Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was brutally attacked and robbed by two youths as he opened his front . |
| 20 | After emptying and washing each well , 100 µl of sample or standard ( diluted 1 in 80 in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , and containing 0.1% Tween and 0.5% bovine serum albumin to prevent non-specific protein binding to the plate ) were added and incubated for one hour . |
| 21 | There was a long promontory thrusting out to sea , with a deep inlet to either side where the tide sucked and swirled among fallen rocks . |
| 22 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 23 | The rampart shook under our weight and the ice all over the bog cracked and broke on both sides . |
| 24 | Beatrice and Benedick can speak verse , but their love seems much more natural in prose , neither limited nor coarsened by that vehicle . |
| 25 | Also , lifts that are open to all and sundry seem to be readily vandalised or used as public toilets . |
| 26 | There is no evidence that pearls were sought or used as precious substances before the emergence of civilized states , and when pearls were adopted they were commonly used in jewellery together with precious stones . |
| 27 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 28 | Hospitals might be privatised or turned into voluntary hospitals , as the Conservatives had favoured before 1946 . |
| 29 | Never in all his experience , wrote Taylor , had he seen or heard of such covenants in a mining lease . |
| 30 | What ought to remain is a technique for learning , and a grasp of intellectual principles that may be applied and reapplied in different circumstances . |