Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 25 shelf units each 6m long × 3m deep ( these can be free-standing or placed against a wall ) |
| 2 | Several pieces of stiff paper or card , attached at the top , which allow viewing of only the top leaf ; it can be free-standing or attached to the top of an easel or blackboard . |
| 3 | As the TOM allows investors to avoid purchasing shares , the higher the actual and expected levels of interest rates the greater the incentive to use options and delay the acquisition of shares in order to benefit from the rates of return prevailing or expected in the money markets . |
| 4 | In the same year an Act was passed declaring that from henceforth the boundaries of all the royal forests should be taken to extend no further than those ‘ commonly reputed , used or taken in the twentieth year of the reign of James I [ 1622–23 ] . |
| 5 | The Listed Intellectual Property Rights are all the Intellectual Property Rights owned , used or required by the Vendor in connection with the Business . |
| 6 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 7 | Some people find this kind of face-to-face honesty difficult to cope with , especially if the individual feels in any way weak or threatened within the family group . |
| 8 | Commercial and industrial property is usually subject to longer agreements , while by the time domestic rates were abolished most domestic property was either owner-occupied or rented from a local authority or other public agency . |
| 9 | It can be bought undyed , bleached or dyed in a variety of colours . |
| 10 | What kid , home-grown or imported from a neighbouring household , could resist pulling a handle and watching all that water gushing out ? |
| 11 | Frequently the tower had to be left unfinished or left on the drawing-board , awaiting more funds . |
| 12 | The miners who had escaped , knew immediately that John had been left behind but did not know whether he had been entombed alive or buried under the rock . |
| 13 | To his credit , Tony scored a hat-trick for the reserves on the same night that the first eleven where jeered off the pitch . |
| 14 | In terms of subject areas ethnic minority teachers are under-represented in modern language and feel marginalised as in some cases these posts are section 11 funded or concentrated in the areas of special needs . |
| 15 | Among writers alone — and even excluding those discussed in the present volume — he concludes that all of the following were either schizophrenic or suffered from an affective psychosis : Strindberg , Baudelaire , Kant , Swift , Shelley , Johnson , Hölderlin , Donizetti , Conrad , Kafka , Coleridge , Schopenhauer , Barrie , Schiller , Crane , Chatterton , Rousseau , Tasso , Maupassant , Balzac , and Boswell . |
| 16 | 6. — ( 1 ) The Funding Council shall not dispose of any property acquired , improved or maintained wholly or partly , directly or indirectly , out of funds provided by the Secretary of State under the said section Payment of grants , etc. to Funding Council or from the proceeds of or any consideration for the disposal of any property so acquired , improved or maintained without the prior consent , given in writing , of the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | Flattered for a little while , they soon begin to feel embarrassed or threatened by the powerful nature of the feeling that surrounds them . |
| 18 | He asked those interested or intrigued by the idea to pray as to whether God might be calling them personally to this work . |
| 19 | They can be left free or sewn to the back of the sail . |
| 20 | The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy . |
| 21 | It may be cordless or attached by a cable to the VCR . |
| 22 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) A retiring partner may be discharged from any existing liabilities , by an agreement to that effect between himself and the members of the firm as newly constituted and the creditors , and this agreement may be either express or inferred as a fact from the course of dealing between the creditors and the firm as newly constituted . |
| 24 | This principle is given statutory effect in s19 of the Partnership Act : The mutual rights and duties of partners , whether ascertained by agreement or defined by this Act , may be varied by the consent of all the partners , and such consent may be either express or inferred from a course of dealing . |
| 25 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
| 26 | On arrival at the theatre I was met by Mr and Mrs Alexander Heymeyer , the latter was originally Scottish and born on the Isle of Skye . |
| 27 | ( The grant was repeated in 1876 and lodged in the National Bank , Bridgend ) . |
| 28 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 29 | Rocktron have noted this and vaulted to the rescue by producing the rather obscurely titled Bass mAxe . |
| 30 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |