Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | on the streets , he has to react or or react in a manner that erm really when he 's on there , he does n't he does n't react to that particular incident that 's happening in front of him . |
| 2 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 3 | Cystoids ( class Cystoidea ) are even odder animals : often rather irregular bags of calcite plates , or if composed of a few plates these may carry powerful ribbing . |
| 4 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 5 | The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names . |
| 6 | Because of maintaining an apparently different brand of theism , Hinduism is often viewed by those whose main contact is with the Near Eastern religions either as atheist or as believing in a different god or gods . |
| 7 | They will also clarify whether such difficulties are best seen as an exaggerated form of more normal occurrences , or as arising in a different way from the mistakes made by normal people . |
| 8 | THE ACARD report on computer-aided design and manufacture gives two definitions of CAD : Computer-aided draughting : ‘ The use of a computer-based system for translating concepts or sketches into drawings suitable for use in manufacture , or for storing drawings or parts of drawings in a data bank to be available on call for modification , incorporating into a revised drawing , or as input to a subsequent manufacturing process . ’ |
| 9 | Even if we find it difficult to imagine the strength of feeling behind this ambivalence , most of us can recall or visualize the ambivalence in a parent 's action when given a ‘ friendly cuff ’ , or when threatened with a poised hand and a laughing voice . |
| 10 | Each reflects something of the period and quality of the music , the period being of the time when written by the composer or when presented as a ballet and the quality being that inspired in the choreographer by the composer . |
| 11 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 12 | In an open letter to members of parliament in 1991 the Metropolitan Authorities Recruitment Agency ( METRA ) which has led the debate on agism said : ‘ Many people of all ages face unfair discrimination at work or when looking for a job , simply because of their date of birth . |
| 13 | Later you can do the same thing when walking along or when sitting in a car ( but only if you are the passenger please — do n't try it while driving ! ) |
| 14 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
| 15 | Suppose that while shopping in a crowded store I become temporarily separated from a friend and in reply to his anxious call shout back " I am here " . |
| 16 | Predation experiments showed that when presented with a school of fry of mixed sizes , predators ate smaller fry more often than larger fry . |
| 17 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 18 | He noticed that when viewed with a camera obscura the image of the sun was too large but this enlargement was not explained by existing theory . |
| 19 | You tend to find that you become accustomed to the timing on your local water and that when sailing in a different place it takes a while to learn the timing of a different wave pattern . |
| 20 | One other point worth mentioning is that when dealing with a lease of the whole of a building , the landlord and the tenant will have to consider whether the airspace above the building is to be included or excluded from the demise , as without specific reference it seems that a lease of a building will include the airspace above it , at least to such height as may be necessary for the use and enjoyment of the land and any structure upon it . |
| 21 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc and its partner Sony Corp has developed a more highly integrated device for use in CT2 cordless telephones : the Sunnyvale , California company says that the Am79C410 controller integrates virtually all the baseband circuitry of a digital cordless telephone on a single chip and that when combined with a radio frequency front-end , the CT2 PhoX controller offers manufacturers a complete CT2-standard cordless telephone system with minimal engineering effort , and claims that it will enable manufacturers to offer telephones with greater portability , lower power consumption , lower cost and superior sound quality ; sample quantities of the new controller are available now ; no price given . |
| 22 | In fact , the company claims that when running on a Unix workstation , MainWin 's graphics performance ( its Windows display , scrolls bars and menus ) is the equivalent of Windows running on an Intel Corp 80486 box . |
| 23 | Many London families went ‘ hopping ’ in the summer months ; Margaret Wynne Nevinson recalled that when working as a rent collector ( with Beatrice Webb ) for the Dwellings Improvement Company in the East End , she found many flats empty in August and September for this reason . |
| 24 | The abduction and murder of 2 year old , James Bulger , she says , underlines the importance , whenever possible , of not letting youngsters out of your sight and ensuring they know that when confronted by a stranger they 're allowed to scream and shout as loud as they like . |
| 25 | Suicide or self-injury , wilful self-exposure to peril ( except in an attempt to save human life ) , the influence of drugs ( except as prescribed by a registered medical practitioner other than for treatment of drug addiction ) or alcohol , or the person insured engaging in , during the period of holiday or journey , wintersports , mountaineering , racing ( other than on foot ) or other hazardous adventure . |
| 26 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 27 | It is left as an exercise to show that in terms of the overall notation of figure 10.8(d) , the closed-loop current gain is the closed-loop input impedance is and that fed from a source of infinite internal impedance , the closed-loop output impedance is neglecting loading of the output by the feedback network . |
| 28 | Only in the years after the Napoleonic Wars was there any threat to this pattern , and that came from a maverick member of the group . |
| 29 | The emergency stash stood at £200 in fivers , and that went into a back pocket . |
| 30 | And that led to a day of fury and counter-claims by the Pakistan team bosses who insisted : ‘ We are not cheats and we intend spending our last rupee proving so . ’ |