Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , you are permitted to make a faithful copy of a famous painting if you wish , as a means to master a particular technique or learn something of a process or style . |
| 2 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 3 | This may mean demolishing the building or returning it to its original use . |
| 4 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 5 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 6 | Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute . |
| 7 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 8 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 9 | Nor can a single moment be cited when Poland , even if only in comparison with Russia , has successfully represented progress or done anything of historical significance . |
| 10 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 11 | Alternatively , by resting pasture or grazing it with another host , such as sheep , which are not susceptible to O. ostertagi , until most of the existing L3 on the pasture have died out . |
| 12 | Tip it into a food processor or mash it with a fork in a bowl , then return to the freezer . |
| 13 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 14 | If you have a friendly GP or know somebody at your hospital ask them whether they would be prepared to carry a poster or your brochures advertising your personal injury work . |
| 15 | Use the pips to make a necklace or stick them onto card to make a design . |
| 16 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 17 | The extent to which local authority initiatives divert schools from particular curriculum policies or lead them towards new approaches within the curriculum is , however , impossible to estimate . |
| 18 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 19 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 20 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 21 | Please pass on your ideas — whether they 're articles , photographs , or cartoons — to your local correspondent or send them to me directly at Key Street , and do not hesitate to telephone on with any suggestions you may have . |
| 22 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 23 | He has already reversed many measures taken by previous governments , which used martial law over economic matters and to detain political opponents or ban them from work or travel . |
| 24 | Be very careful of old fluorescent light tubes , which can explode if dropped , and never puncture old aerosol cans or throw them on a fire . |
| 25 | Patients are advised to eat regular meals , avoid certain foods , take tablets or inject themselves with insulin , monitor their blood glucose levels , to be careful with alcohol and see their doctors regularly . |
| 26 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 27 | Consequently , many customers are banning smoking or restricting it to certain areas of the office or canteen , yet it is perfectly feasible to banish the smoke without banning smoking , by installing the latest electrostatic air filters . |
| 28 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 29 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 30 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |