Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 2 | This legislation prohibits or restricts the exclusion of terms that would otherwise be implied in contracts of supply ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) For the purposes of the valuation referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above , it shall be assumed — ( a ) that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer ; ( b ) that neither the residential occupier nor any member of his family wishes to buy ; and ( c ) that it is unlawful to carry out any substantial development of any of the land in which the landlord 's interest subsists or to demolish the whole or part of any building on that land . |
| 4 | Travelling can thus indicate the headlong tempo of the narrative or , in its twists and turns , a principle of sequence by digression — not from a ‘ main action ’ , but simply digression from what immediately precedes or succeeds a particular section . |
| 5 | Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment . |
| 6 | While Professor R. T. McKenzie was right to argue that the common purpose of winning elections and of maintaining a government in power imposes or produces an almost identical power structure in the parties , it is wrong to infer from this that the atmosphere within the parties is the same . |
| 7 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 8 | What we can take from this contemporary debate is the realisation that although research can assess the effectiveness of signing in schools , the change to Total Communication is generally based on attitude or commitment , which minimises or ignores the teacher variable . |
| 9 | Where objections are lodged , the sheriff hears parties on the application and objections , orders such inquiry as he thinks fit , and thereafter grants or refuses the order . |
| 10 | He ruled that placing advertising inserts in Mail Newspapers 's publications without the company 's authority or consent ‘ constitutes or involves the making of a misrepresentation ’ . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Any amounts by way of allowance payable by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above shall be payable by the council of the district or islands area whose area constitutes or includes the area of the licensing board . |
| 12 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 13 | It is said , therefore , that it directly causes or permits the nuisance to continue , as happened in Halsey 's case . |
| 14 | The college is taking on extra staff to make sure that anyone who visits or telephones the college can have a confidential chat with adult education experts every day next week . |
| 15 | Well , certainly an ethical proposition which incorporates or presupposes a factual claim can be inconsistent with a factual statement . |
| 16 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 17 | If a prisoner has or knows the material which reaches the department , that is sufficient . |
| 18 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 19 | Vocabulary : thicker/thinner than — looks or feels the same/ different — longer/shorter than — wider/narrower than — heavier/lighter than — square — rectangle — triangle circle — round — straight — curved — larger/smaller than — more/ less than — more/fewer than — inside — outside — next to — under — above — all — some . |
| 20 | It is important to observe whether the stroked person accepts or rejects the stroke . |
| 21 | If in the exercise of his own capacity to do so he transfers or transmits the opportunity to B with the knowledge or assurance or expectation that the opportunity will consequently pass from B to C without any further act on A's part , he may be said to provide C with the opportunity indirectly . |
| 22 | Overall responsibility for policy matters that affect the committees therefore lies with the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 23 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
| 24 | The tales of wrist-breaking fights with leviathan carp are legendary , and the ghostly , mist-shrouded waters that provide a backdrop for these real or imaginary scenes only add to the mystique that anglers love . |
| 25 | Such a strategy recognises a clear role for school health education but emphasises that achieving an impact on the minority of young people who choose to smoke will require more substantial and comprehensive interventions . |
| 26 | The high incidence of prostatic obstruction in this study emphasises that finding a raised creatinine concentration in any male necessitates careful palpation of the abdomen and prostate . |
| 27 | You see it in the neon strips that colour the city , the flashing lights on every corner . |
| 28 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 29 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 30 | But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal . |