Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the clock ticked monotonously on the wall Mr Simons slowly and methodically cut up and ate his food , he never said a word . |
| 2 | Here is the terminus of the railway from Dingwall and Inverness , the pier where the large MacBrayne 's boats call and short cruises depart and , most important for the local economy , the ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island of Skye : a very popular voyage of five minutes only but often achieved after a wait of hours in a queue . |
| 3 | To sum up : a contract is void if , at the time the contract is made and unknown to the parties , goods have perished or do not exist , thereby rendering it impossible for the contract to be performed ; this , however , is subject to the qualification that the contract will not be void if the parties expressly or impliedly agreed otherwise . |
| 4 | a sheet which has been printed on one side only and then folded with two right angle folds to form a four page uncut section . |
| 5 | But it 's a worthy attempt nevertheless and greatly assisted by the voluminous recording quality . |
| 6 | Though Celtic dominated for the next 15 minutes they failed to kill Dundee off and almost paid the penalty . |
| 7 | These sections do not cover : — loss or destruction of or damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expense whatsoever resulting or arising therefrom or any consequential loss directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to , by or arising from |
| 8 | The era of the great train-shed more or less ended with the Great War . |
| 9 | The programme carefully and informatively investigated life in the Scotswood Road , and used interviews with residents extensively to illustrate their points of view , along with a good use of background noises . |
| 10 | Instead , DEC 's Unix-based Software and Systems Marketing and Planning Group manager Matt Kochen and Laurie Buller from the product management group staff attempted to pin responsibility for what they termed the ‘ confusion ’ in the marketplace over DEC 's actual position on misguided press reports — an allegation stoutly and unanimously resisted by senior members of the US press corps and analysts who have been close to the story . |
| 11 | They are perfectly well aware that we have a unique portfolio for profitable growth : a portfolio of opportunities carefully and successfully identified by Palatine 's own management over the past two years . |
| 12 | Are the variables positively or negatively related ? |
| 13 | Pollution is in effect qualitatively and quantitatively controlled by the water authorities since standards are administratively negotiated . |
| 14 | The Conservatives , Winston Churchill predicted , with rather more prescience than Asquith , would not ‘ act as bottle holders to those who kicked us into the street three months ago and deliberately erected this Socialist monstrosity ’ . |
| 15 | HUNDREDS of James Bond fans had the wool well and truly pulled over their eyes yesterday . |
| 16 | Ken obstinately and successfully resisted what in effect was a royal command , saying that ‘ A woman of ill repute ought not to be endured in the house of a clergyman , least of all that of a royal chaplain . ’ |
| 17 | The firm also offers opportunities to travel because they have many offices abroad and internationally based clients . ’ |
| 18 | For all Laura 's inner calm there was a thread of tension running through her body clearly visible , for example , in the way she sat ; legs neatly but uncomfortably crossed , back ramrod straight on an upright chair . |
| 19 | Processions commonly or customarily held , and funeral processions are exempt from the notice requirement , presumably because the police will already be fully aware that they are to be held , and do not therefore fall within the ‘ triggering ’ rationale of the requirement . |
| 20 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 21 | Greed played a part in such expropriations : by governments for the profits from land sales or other income , by landlords , settlers or speculators for estates easily and cheaply acquired . |
| 22 | ‘ Profligate spending has not only driven employers and would-be employers away and thus lost jobs , but resources have been taken away from other areas by the rate support grant formula as the spiral of inner city decline causes the rate base in inner city areas to diminish , while their needs … grow ’ |
| 23 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 24 | In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 25 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 26 | While it is correct to say that appropriation for purposes of section 3(1) includes the latter sort of act , it does not necessarily follow that no other act can amount to an appropriation and in particular that no act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner can in any circumstances do so . |
| 27 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 28 | The actual decision in Morris was correct , but it was erroneous , in addition to being unnecessary for the decision , to indicate that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner could never amount to an appropriation . |
| 29 | ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 30 | ‘ In Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 the House of Lords held that ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation … involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of [ the owner 's ] rights . ’ |