Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 2 | Whether you prefer to sell 100% for an immediate cash payment or to receive a smaller upfront payment and a deferred payment , determined by an earnout or retention or a minority stake with a pre-arranged exit . |
| 3 | easy as riding a bike or walking the sea . |
| 4 | Around the end of the silent era and in the early sound days , the glass was actually in front of the camera during shooting , possibly adding storeys to a low building or giving a view of non-existent distant hills , or whatever was required . |
| 5 | the main , or one of the main , reasons for the business ' structure was to avoid registration ( not , say , due to the partial exemption rules or to get limited liability protection or facilitate a part sale ) ; |
| 6 | ‘ ( 1 ) The Bank may , on an application duly made in accordance with section 8 above and after being provided with all such information , documents and reports as it may require under that section , grant or refuse the application . |
| 7 | The usual approach of the courts is to examine whether any confidential information exists , whether it is protected by an express or implied term and , subject to arguments as to the balance of convenience , grant or refuse the injunction sought . |
| 8 | The East Coast Puritans refused to alter their garb or touch the native food . |
| 9 | * Use the present tense for describing the content of a text or narrating the story . |
| 10 | so you can type text or add a spreadsheet to a picture , or stick a silly cartoon into a spreadsheet . |
| 11 | Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people . |
| 12 | The magazine yesterday launched an appeal , which it called ‘ Lemon Fund ’ to raise money for an eventual settlement or to finance an appeal . |
| 13 | The NMA leadership and many rank-and-file members became increasingly disenchanted with MFGB strategy during the 1920 national miners ' strike and the 1921 lockout , and less than a third of Nottinghamshire miners bothered to vote in a 1921 ballot on whether to accept the offered settlement or continue the dispute ( Griffin , 1962 , p.91 , p.102 ) . |
| 14 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 15 | To submit any DC , DC operations privilege is required and so you should either ask your LIFESPAN Manager for this privilege or pass the DC to a suitable user with this privilege , using LIFESPAN option 2.5.0 . |
| 16 | He 's already lost the sight of his left eye because cocaine starved the retina of blood , and he 's damn lucky not to be totally blind , or even dead , because the next time it could constrict the arteries of his heart or block the blood from reaching his brain . |
| 17 | Summary In this chapter , we have suggested that literary essays have a characteristic style or voice which is different from the way you talk or might narrate a story or write a letter . |
| 18 | At last Foreman came back , pulling up a chair beside them like some benevolent uncle ready to listen to a story or tell a merry tale . |
| 19 | It is tempting to say that they have no function besides advancing the story or embellishing the characters , no value outside their immediate context . |
| 20 | Some words which narrate a story or describe a situation can be set in the form of musical prose and passed over fairly quickly , like the old recitative quoted above . |
| 21 | When you tell a story or describe an experience the children should illustrate , you must be careful to give a suitable subject . |
| 22 | A copyright owner can , of course , grant permission or issue a licence or contract for a work to be copied or reproduced in some way , either in part of whole . |
| 23 | Both the county and the city councils are to ask the Government to either meet the full costs of the 7.5pc rise or lift the authorities ' charge-capping limits . |
| 24 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 25 | I understand the Gulf Trust 's anxiety , but I think they have not really focused on this case or heard the reasonableness of advanced payments . ’ |
| 26 | That you do n't take it upon yourself to plead my case or to point an accusing finger at Sandra . ’ |
| 27 | It is not permissible to bolster a witness 's evidence by introducing previous consistent statements unless they form part of the res gestae of the case or refute a suggestion in cross-examination that a witness has recently " changed his story " . |
| 28 | Similarly , early reproduction may impair survival or future fertility , by consuming resources , causing somatic damage or exposing the organism to environmental injury : there is a ‘ cost of reproduction ’ . |
| 29 | It goes without saying , of course , that neglecting a horse 's physical needs will damage or undermine a horse 's health , and consequently its well-being and how it feels in itself . |
| 30 | On the night of April 27/28 , 1942 , a force of 31 Halifaxes from 10 , 35 and 76 Squadrons and 12 Lancasters from 44 and 97 Squadrons flew up Faetten Fjord in a desperate attempt to inflict damage or sink the Tirpitz . |