Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because its prime concern had to be the restoration of viability , then where that implied a loss of jobs , the Agency would only recommend rescue if the workforce understood and accepted the implication , would arrange for the selection of those who were to become members of the co-operative and , by exclusion , decide who would lose their jobs . |
| 2 | If both remain silent , or each accuses the other , it is impossible in law to obtain a conviction against either . |
| 3 | Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed . |
| 4 | The uniqueness of the arrangement that flies , or that opens the safe , is nothing to do with hindsight . |
| 5 | Any sexual activity which draws blood from the genital area or that pierces the skin . |
| 6 | It 's imprudent for the bank to take the traditional senior debt gearing beyond prudent levels or that endangers the whole . |
| 7 | But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese . |
| 8 | Prosecuting individual corporate executives , particularly where some have the dubious ‘ responsibility for going to jail ’ ( Braithwaite 1981b : 35 ) in exchange for premature elevation to a high salaried but non-responsible position , is simply missing the point . |
| 9 | ‘ It is ironic that the Council 's projects , most of them in one way or another emphasizing the value of local initiative , teacher involvement , school-level decision-making and various innovations in pedagogy such as inter-disciplinary teaching , should lead to heightened activity nationally to control the curriculum . ’ |
| 10 | Nationalism , like capitalism , is the very bedrock of European organisation : nationalism of one sort or another constitutes the building blocks for the construction of markets , the creation of transport networks , tariff barriers , for banking systems , for economies of scale in industry and business , for defining which internal and which external markets are to exploited and to what degree . |
| 11 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 12 | In the processes of Parliament there will be much consideration whether a Bill should or should not in one form or another become an enactment . |
| 13 | Hardly a month goes by without one newspaper or another announcing the development of a computer ‘ with which at last you can converse in ordinary English , not a programming language ’ . |
| 14 | You can back one party or another to win the election , or bet on men arriving from outer space , without having to make any contribution to the costs of the election campaign or the necessary expenses of the men from outer space . |
| 15 | It is in practice the ‘ mixed ’ rather than the ‘ pure ’ type that in one form or another provides the typical case and — furthermore-the available evidence for analysis ( Finnegan , 1981 , p. 5 ) . |
| 16 | With the notable exception of Britain most of them in one way or another involved the banks , either directly or through the fashionable device of the crédit mobilier , a sort of industrial finance company which regarded the orthodox banks as insufficiently suited to or interested in industrial financing and competed with them . |
| 17 | The combination of the path of that the moon travels and the rotation of the earth means that the moon at one time or another covers the whole goes round goes above all different circ all different places on the earth . |
| 18 | Seeing this had no effect , she continued , ‘ Ace cut our date last night because of you ! ’ |
| 19 | Again , we found no search where this made the difference between success and total failure , nor is there any evidence that users were better satisfied . |
| 20 | It 's frequently the case that where this happens the company never regains its market position and can ultimately go out of business . ’ |
| 21 | Where this happens the intervening cause is known as a novus actus interveniens and breaks the chain of causation between the defendant and plaintiff . |
| 22 | Where this involves a mix of ISDN and multimedia ( see p 52 ) , it will bring easy access to a combination of sound , text , video , data and graphics , and revolutionise desktop communications . |
| 23 | It was difficult to be sure where this left the objectives of the Uprising . |
| 24 | The White Paper , while not excluding local authority provision , stresses the need for actively supporting the private and voluntary sectors : ‘ The statutory sector will continue to play an important role in backing up , developing and monitoring private and voluntary care facilities , and providing services where this remains the best way of meeting those needs . ’ |
| 25 | Direct quotes from the literature have been employed where this seemed the best means of extracting the information . |
| 26 | Where this occurs the event is known as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 27 | So we should like to see an authoritative source of comparative APRs : both typical rates and the extremes of the range of rates , for different types of credit and ( where this makes a significant difference ) different types of purchase financed by the same type of credit . |
| 28 | A ‘ storyline ’ is just as it sounds — a shorthand way to refer to the content of what someone says , where this has the elements of being a story — a comprehensible account of something . |
| 29 | The first investigation of a large representative sample of step-children confirmed that the documented economic and social problems created by divorce were considerably alleviated by remarriage , especially where this provided a step-mother ( Ferri , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | And this means , or this has an impact , this dual role as head of state and head of government , has an impact on what any president can do . |