Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SGSA defines such contracts as those " under which one person transfers or agrees to transfer to another person the property in goods " except in pursuance of a contract of sale , a hire purchase contract , and " a contract under which property in goods is transferred in exchange for trading stamps on their redemption " ( see s 1 ) . |
| 2 | Under s1(1) of SGSA 1982 it would seem that an exchange contract comes within its purview since it generally applies to contracts where " one person transfers or agrees to transfer to another the property in goods " . |
| 3 | It 's high time you either changed your own personal world of beliefs and ethics or got to work on reforming your community or neighbourhood . |
| 4 | We will introduce rebates for small businesses to protect those who are setting up in business or struggling to stay in business . |
| 5 | The reforming governor 's efforts to place the hated exile system ‘ on a more orderly and business-like foundation ’ foundered on the twin reefs of under provision of infrastructural resources , and the over-supply of vastly more compulsory settlers and convict labourers than the restructured system was designed or intended to cope with . |
| 6 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 7 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 8 | We asked our principal carers to talk about how they felt as a result of looking after ( or helping to look after ) the dementia sufferer . |
| 9 | Their accuracy still depends upon the correctness of our assumptions about causal order and the operation of other variables ; if we had either specified the causal order incorrectly , or failed to control for other important variables , the coefficients would be meaningless . |
| 10 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 11 | Cells came together ( or failed to separate after cell division ) to form many-celled bodies . |
| 12 | If no list has been registered , or the persons named have died , or ceased to reside in Great Britain , or refuse to accept service on the company 's behalf or for any reason can not be served , a document may be served on the company by leaving it at , or sending it by post to , any place of business established by the company in Great Britain . |
| 13 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 14 | For many people there is something terrifying in the thought that in a universe in which man is so insignificant in comparison with the unreasoning forces of nature , most of his own organism belongs to or wants to defect to nature . |
| 15 | Television is a very evangelical medium and I do not think the Church of England can afford to or wants to compete with the evangelical churches . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , few of them are interested or want to stick to the dietary disciplines for long . |
| 17 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 18 | There is not point arranging to play squash if you dislike the game , or vowing to go for a jog each day , if you hate running . |
| 19 | The Communist youth paper , Junge Welt , printed a complaint by show-business personalities that colleagues had been arrested , harassed or forbidden to appear for defying orders not to read out an appeal for reforms during their performances . |
| 20 | If you have , or expect to obtain in 1991 , a good honours degree or equivalent in electrical , electronic or radio engineering , communications , computer science , mathematics or physics , then we would like to hear from you . |
| 21 | You must have , or expect to obtain in 1991 , a good honours degree or higher qualification in a scientific , engineering , mathematical or computing discipline . |
| 22 | Not everyone can or needs to excel at everything , and unless people are allowed to concentrate on what they are good at we may be wasting valuable resources . |
| 23 | As for informal movements , they may be more creatively productive but they also tend to exclude those who are less confident or advantaged to begin with . |
| 24 | Or cease to care about them . ’ |
| 25 | She was n't sure she could cope if he became sentimental or tried to pry into her past . |
| 26 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 27 | Marshal Piłsudski ordered the Polish destroyer Wicher to greet , salute and escort the British as if the Accord were still in effect , and Tadeusz Morgenstern , the commander of the destroyer , was instructed that if the Danzig authorities insulted the Polish flag or tried to interfere with the visit in any way , he was to bombard designated targets in the city centre . |
| 28 | However , Brahim Ghali , a member of the Polisario Executive Committee , had stated in an interview given to the Madrid newspaper El País of Oct. 22 , 1990 , that if the Moroccan government decided not to agree to the holding of the referendum , or tried to interfere in the running of it , then the armed struggle would be renewed on all fronts . |
| 29 | Among positive rights , we should include the rights : to have all one 's experience and knowledge assessed in the admissions process ; to determine the subjects studied ; to have a legitimate measure of control over the pace and the methods of study ; to be able to follow a particular academic interest , or develop a point of view of one 's own ; to be examined in ways which do justice to the student 's achievements ; and to be credited with those parts of a course which have been passed successfully ( should the student wish or need to move to another institution , or to take a break in the programme of study ) . |
| 30 | In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " . |