Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill also cut the SDI budget by almost $2,000 million , delayed or reduced the development of a whole range of advanced weapons systems — including the Advanced Tactical Fighter , the Seawolf attack submarine programme and the navy 's A-12 attack aircraft — and reduced active troop strength by 129,500 . |
| 2 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 3 | For , in the absence of a contrary agreement with the original lessor , the original tenant remains liable throughout the entire term of the lease irrespective of the fact that he or she may have assigned or sold the tenancy to another . |
| 4 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 5 | You are still responsible for the SPR and should address the problem(s) listed or ask a user with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege to ‘ force ’ another user to accept it . |
| 6 | One advantage of secondary sources is that they are often easy to understand ; but a problem which can arise is that they may have altered or distorted the original idea . |
| 7 | You have tried to either update a product which has already been registered or to register a product which has already been registered . |
| 8 | It may be an abuse of process if either ( a ) the prosecution have manipulated or misused the process of the court so as to deprive the defendant of a protection provided by the law or to take unfair advantage of a technicality , or ( b ) on the balance of probability the defendant has been , or will be , prejudiced in the preparation or conduct of his defence by delay on the part of the prosecution which is unjustifiable : for example , not due to the complexity of the inquiry and preparation of the prosecution case , or to the action of the defendant or his co-accused , or to genuine difficulty in effecting service . |
| 9 | She herself had moved on swiftly , anxious not to be recognized or to seem a spy . |
| 10 | Both problems limited or negated the impact of development projects , giving greater scope for those who wished to resist change to argue against their continued implementation ( Philips and Fraser , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ? |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't given or received a Christmas present for more than a dozen years , ’ said Dalziel . |
| 13 | ( 9 ) A listed company may have given or made a prior undertaking or statement not to issue further shares in certain circumstances without the approval of shareholders in general meeting ( see para 17.6 below ) . |
| 14 | I have probably not heard or read the phrase ‘ beetle drive ’ in my adult life , yet on the noticeboard of the club , just under the list of aspirant members duly proposed and seconded and posted , is the announcement of a beetle drive in aid of the library fund . |
| 15 | Quarrelling might well increase in frequency if each child observes the other being reprimanded or getting the parent even temporarily — to take his or her side . |
| 16 | The next ten years of international arguments about whaling are best known as the period in which many more countries joined or rejoined the IWC , when the Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary and when the sperm whale was effectively protected after 200 years of exploitation . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Where a member fails to disclose or furnish any information , document or other matter which he is required to disclose or furnish to the Company under Article 6 the Directors may resolve that no vote shall be tendered or accepted in respect of any share held by or for him until the member shall have disclosed or furnished the information , document or other matter required . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Where a member fails to disclose or furnish any information , document or other matter which he is required to disclose or furnish to the Company under Article 6 the Directors may resolve that no vote shall be tendered or accepted in respect of any share held by or for him until the member shall have disclosed or furnished the information , document or other matter required . |
| 19 | He saw it as filled with lines of force , whose arrangements permitted or prohibited the passage of an electric current ; this was itself force rather than any material ‘ juice ’ . |
| 20 | Although it appears that the Italian student who was the victim in the case permitted or allowed the taxi driver to take £6 from his wallet , Viscount Dilhorne ( with whose speech the other members of the House agreed ) was in no doubt that there had been an appropriation . |
| 21 | Artefacts can often awaken a natural curiosity which offers links with people in the past who may have made , owned or used the object . |
| 22 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |
| 23 | Are your memories so short over there , or is it that you have deliberately forgotten or ignored the protests of that time . |
| 24 | The safest course , in view of the Revenue 's Statement , must be either to complete the transfer ( if by agreement ) before the marriage is dissolved or to have the transfer made the subject of a court order and so usually fall within the provisions of s10(1) . |
| 25 | Since the membership rapidly dwindled , there is a surreal possibility that the number of those planted by the police or the Communist party may have equalled or outnumbered the genuine British Nazis . |
| 26 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 27 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
| 28 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 29 | If he happens to take his eye of the ball , he is very likely to be bowled , and if he hits the ball it may go to any point on the ground where the possibilities of making runs , being caught or surviving an appeal to the umpire are all on the cards . |
| 30 | They also thought that pressures from other commitments meant that it would be impossible to provide the sort of supervision recommended or free the house officers to take advantage of the scheme . |