Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when a full assessment of either a service user and/or the carer is deemed to be warranted , the procedures and the outcome of the assessment process must embody a number of key characteristics . |
| 2 | The explanatory variables which are utilised are expected to have an impact on union growth because they affect the opportunity and/or the propensity of workers to join a trade union . |
| 3 | The assistant may also be required to initial the cheque and/or the till roll . |
| 4 | So far as I am aware , this was the first occasion on which it was made clear that the period which elapses before a prisoner serving a life sentence is released is determined by consideration of two factors , namely : ( i ) the period necessary to satisfy retribution and deterrence , which has come to be called ‘ the tariff ; ’ and ( ii ) a possible further period if it is thought by the Parole Board and/or the Secretary of State that the prisoner would pose an unacceptable risk of danger to the public were he to be released at the end of his tariff period . |
| 5 | If an advert is to be placed in the Scotsman and/or the Evening News , as these are daily papers , it is important that the day/date is specified clearly to the Regional Information Office . |
| 6 | If an expert sues for his fees , the entitlement and/or the amount could be challenged in court only by reference to the contract made by the parties about the fees . |
| 7 | Those respondents calling for a drastic limitation of the professions ' liability and/or the abolition of the Compensation Fund altogether , often voiced the angry conviction that the transition from profession to trade — with the accompanying loss of status for the services of solicitors which that implied — had accelerated in recent years to the point at which the profession could no longer be called upon to pay for the dubious moral privilege of an ‘ anachronistic ’ system of compensation . |
| 8 | Common to nearly all such regulations is the requirement that the consulter or borrower must sign a statement recognising the rights of the university and/or the author , in matters of copyright of the content of the thesis . |
| 9 | Persuading trout to rise has nothing whatsoever to do with weather conditions , casting technique or the selection of flies . |
| 10 | A dividend is usually paid as a percentage of the consolidated profits of Newco , but a number of points require consideration in determining how " profit " should be interpreted : ( i ) should the dividend be based on pre- or post-tax profits ( ii ) should the calculation of profit take into account any transfer or proposed transfer to reserves or to general provisions ? ( iii ) should profit include pre- or post-extraordinary items ? ( iv ) how should goodwill be treated ? ( v ) should directors ' emoluments in excess of an amount agreed with the investors be added back ? ( vi ) should profit be defined before payment or the provision for payment of dividends ? |
| 11 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 12 | Section 120(3) makes it an offence for a promoter or participant to receive any payment or the benefit of any payments which some other participant is induced to make by reason that the prospect is held out to him of receiving payments or other benefits for introducing other persons into the scheme . |
| 13 | ‘ Rule I : Where there is an unconditional contract for the sale of specific goods , in a deliverable state , the property in the goods passes to the buyer when the contract is made , and it is immaterial whether the time of payment or the time of delivery or both be postponed . ’ |
| 14 | We now come to the closing words of Rule 1 , ‘ it is immaterial whether the time of payment or the time of delivery , or both , be postponed . ’ |
| 15 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 16 | Some methods of achieving this knowledge automatically are available but they are less reliable than methods based on field-work or the study of air photographs , maps and documentary records for the area concerned . |
| 17 | ‘ without being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle ’ This element means that the ‘ L ’ plate must be unobscured , straight , as near to vehicle as possible and not wrapped around the forks of the motor bike or the bumper bar of a car etc . |
| 18 | Guests staying in either the main building or the annexe , just 15 yards away , can expect a comfortable bedroom with telephone and , for a small extra fee , satellite TV can be installed . |
| 19 | Clearly , however , it remains significant to discover the extent of physical disturbance of the building or the land involved in the removal of the object . |
| 20 | Such preservation will be most likely where particular programs were run to determine the structural stability or the environmental efficiency of a building or the individual or institution commissioning the structure had been asked to accept a particular design after a ‘ virtual visit to or walk around of ’ the planned building . |
| 21 | Why not begin , I thought nervously , with a visit to the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty ? |
| 22 | Much of this work has to be done ‘ on the spot ’ , i.e. where the building or the beneficiary is . |
| 23 | He declared that if either Protection or the capital levy were submitted to the Commons , they would be defeated by a majority of more than 200 . |
| 24 | Rashes , itching and irritation can be due to heat , inadequate UVA protection or the ingredients in some suncare products . |
| 25 | The watch or the strap ? |
| 26 | The elderly could not sustain the more strenuous manual work in agriculture or the crafts . |
| 27 | Economics textbooks may still hold to the notion of ‘ work ’ as paid employment and deny the importance of unpaid women 's work ( in agriculture or the home ) in their theories and explanations and their insistence that most countries have moved to a ‘ monetary economy ’ . |
| 28 | Before anyone applies for a grant from the Social Fund they should check what money is in the estate of the person who has died , such as in bank or building society accounts ; whether there will be any money from insurance policies or charities , friends or relatives ( either of the person claiming the grant or the person who has died ) ; and any savings that the person claiming has over £500 . |
| 29 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 30 | Remember to put something at the bottom of the downpipe if it discharges over an open gully in order to catch whatever is blocking it , or else you might block the gully or the drains further along . |