Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud , snow or rain etc. or has worn away . |
| 2 | ( d ) To acquire or undertake the whole or any part of the business , goodwill , and assets of any person , firm , or company carrying on or proposing to carry on the business or any part of the business which the Company is authorised to carry on and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person , firm or company , or to acquire an interest in , amalgamate with , or enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits , or for co-operation , or for mutual assistance with any such person , firm or company , or for subsidising or otherwise assisting any person , firm or company , and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid or property acquired , any shares , debentures , debenture stock or securities that may be agreed upon , and to hold and retain , or sell , mortgage and deal with any shares , debentures , debenture stock of securities so received . |
| 3 | ( d ) To acquire or undertake the whole or any part of the business , goodwill , and assets of any person , firm , or company carrying on or proposing to carry on the business or any part of the business which the Company is authorised to carry on and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person , firm or company , or to acquire an interest in , amalgamate with , or enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits , or for co-operation , or for mutual assistance with any such person , firm or company , or for subsidising or otherwise assisting any person , firm or company , and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid or property acquired , any shares , debentures , debenture stock or securities that may be agreed upon , and to hold and retain , or sell , mortgage and deal with any shares , debentures , debenture stock of securities so received . |
| 4 | When activity is taking place rapidly under pressure and with scant resources , there is a tendency to neglect to tell anyone what is going on or to fail to find out whether the ground may have already been covered by someone else . |
| 5 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 6 | Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment … |
| 7 | Such human needs will range from the basic ones for security , which are threatened when other members of an organization wish to close part of the operation down or attempt to perform the same operations with fewer personnel , to the need for self-realization , which may be threatened by extreme specialization and limited capabilities within the division of labour perceived by those in authority to be necessary for the maximization of their objectives ( which will invariably be presented as the goals of ‘ the organization ’ ) . |
| 8 | Many had been demolished , burnt down or left to run to ruin , leaving only the more modest farmhouses and other traditional vernacular buildings normally associated with the Welsh countryside . |
| 9 | My first rule of journalism goes back to something which was written down or reputed to have been said by H L Mencken , who was a , an American prize-winning journalist and commentator . |
| 10 | Unfortunately coaches are not infallible and do occasionally break down or need replacing and certain on board facilities may occasionally fail . |
| 11 | Erm in nineteen fourteen , erm 's , who had a water turbine er as their sort of main motive power for their er milling operations , erm put in or had had , er not only this line , siding , but they had one put in round the back here , erm because that was to provide coal , for steam boilers which were er put in to augment the water power . |
| 12 | So , being unused , they progressively deteriorated and caved in and the entrances filled in or became overgrown with vegetation . |
| 13 | Ms Brown recognises the potential dilemma which the shift to community services would create for nurses already working in or waiting to go into the acute sector . |
| 14 | There appeared to be little difference between broad subject areas in the propensity of research students to be in or waiting to enter arranged employment . |
| 15 | Although the defendants had power to cut off the water supply for non-payment of rates they had neither done so nor threatened to do so . |
| 16 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're so lovely , ’ he said huskily , and her throat had a great lump in it suddenly that threatened to choke her . |
| 18 | Either nothing happened that did not happen on CNN , or , more likely , much that happened stayed under wraps . |
| 19 | It is far easier to let the fry feed naturally than to have to mess around with infusorians . |
| 20 | It was often used simply to mean a situation better than had prevailed before the war and it had a powerful if vague appeal . |
| 21 | I knew better than to attempt to hug Mr Broadhurst , although that was what I felt like doing , for not only did everything in his manner discourage physical relations , he had also given me a strict injunction . |
| 22 | ‘ You should know me better than to have to ask that . ’ |
| 23 | However , it is an awful lot better than having to go out to DOS each time , so I still recommend it . |
| 24 | Its results are weapons already far better than needed to defeat second-rate enemies , which may be the only ones to worry about once the Soviet Union has imploded . |
| 25 | Graham was only a little impatient , and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up . |
| 26 | He should have known better than agree to support a magistrate whose hatred of gipsies was so well known . |
| 27 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 28 | Obviously that had occurred to him too . |
| 29 | Can I ask erm what 's happening to the Harlow Playhouse based Youth theatre cos obviously that has left a big gap in performances cos there 's nothing in this programme . |
| 30 | Well then I do n't think , I do n't know about you , but I do n't think personally that needs wrapping up . |