Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 2 | Generally the period for serving the counternotice will not be of the essence ( Davstone ( Holdings ) Ltd v Al-Rifai ( 1976 ) 32 P & CR 18 ) even where the clause also provides that in the absence of a counternotice the tenant is deemed to have agreed the rent specified in the landlord 's notice ( Mecca Leisure Ltd v Renown Investments ( Holdings ) Ltd ( 1984 ) 271 EG 989 ) . |
| 3 | An officer of the rank of superintendent or above may delay access where the detainee is suspected of a serious arrestable offence and where the officer reasonably believes that one of the following will result from allowing such access : |
| 4 | Where the statute simply states that a fine of £50 is the maximum that can be imposed , arguments concerning rational basis are irrelevant . |
| 5 | and at the request and cost of the Landlord to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall reasonably deem expedient except where the Tenant reasonably considers that any such objections or representations are against its best interests or those of any undertenant |
| 6 | Witnesses at the time stated that it was roofless , which was bad news for any building in the foothills of the Pyrenees , where the wind always blows and snow regularly falls . |
| 7 | In a closed economy with no government sector where no money either enters or leaves the system it would be possible for total liquidity adjustment between banks to occur in such a way . |
| 8 | Thirdly , there may be a combined rota/panel scheme where a panel normally operates but there is a rota at certain times , such as at night , weekends or bank holidays . |
| 9 | The offence carries a power of arrest where a constable reasonably suspects that a person is committing an offence under the section , is triable summarily only , and punishable with six months or a fine to level 5 . |
| 10 | It was held by Lords Hailsham , Cross and Fraser , with Lords Simon and Edmund-Davies dissenting , that there can be no conviction for rape where a man honestly believes that a woman consents to sexual intercourse and that his belief did not have to be reasonable . |
| 11 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 12 | Council 's papers , though not its proceedings , seem to be proving more open than the Institute ever intended when it introduced its sunshine policy last summer . |
| 13 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 14 | Leaders and officials of parties other than the NPN nevertheless complain that it does not give them fair treatment . |
| 15 | While this may be " absurd " , there are other hints that the position was more complex than the Encomiast either knew or wanted to admit . |
| 16 | Guidelines on flexible and part-time work by the Law Society were urged , although the society recently observed that it ‘ can not legislate for social benefits . ’ |
| 17 | Although the CEGB immediately denied that there had been any unreported incident at the power station , the effect of the health authority report was electric . |
| 18 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 19 | I have an Amstrad PC2086 with a VGA monitor.The mouse cursor does not appear in VGA mode although the mouse still works if I can guess its position . |
| 20 | If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form |
| 21 | ‘ Is it meaner than a place so foul that you ca n't bear to touch your own skin except to brush off the things crawling over you ? ’ |
| 22 | But when I drove to London to collect her as we 'd arranged , I found that she 'd had a phone call less than an hour previously to say that Barney was ill . |
| 23 | The American government had pressed the Bahamians to clean out the drug lords , but instead the trade had flourished until the Americans finally insisted that their own coastguard be allowed to patrol Bahamian waters . |
| 24 | The cars would pass and re-pass each other in a game of motorway weaving , the sons manoeuvring their powerful Mercedes around each other until the women eventually objected or they themselves tired of the sport . |
| 25 | So , if the letter is lost in the post , property does not pass until the buyer actually discovers that the goods are in a deliverable state . |
| 26 | There is no precise meaning to ‘ double ’ with regard to petal number , and the word is taken to mean a number of petals so closely packed that until the bloom fully opens and then ‘ blows ’ , it is virtually impossible to see the anthers and other sexual parts of the flower — they are quite hidden . |
| 27 | Clara , when the idea was broached , declared instantly that it was not worth her while to ask her mother 's permission , whereupon the school embarrassingly said that if it were finance that were in question , then help might be forthcoming . |
| 28 | This can occur not only if the goods subsequently perish but also , for example , if after the contract is made , it becomes illegal to carry it out . |
| 29 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 30 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |