Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To quote the report , they live in caravans ‘ because they could not get other dwellings in the right places or on the right terms ; or because caravans meet their needs for cheapness , convenience or mobility ’ . |
| 2 | ( Contractors ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 3 All ER 557 ( CA ) the question arose whether profits lost in consequence of physical damage were alone recoverable , or whether profits lost which were not related to physical damage were also recoverable . |
| 3 | Or as tenants saw it , the lack of policing in the flats . |
| 4 | Oddly enough — those of you who may recall what it was like in the Ruhr ( or as crews called it " The Happy Valley " ) — on this occasion there was one searchlight waving about near the top of the Ruhr , and for one agonising moment it waved over the Whitley , and there was another one at the bottom by the Cologne end . |
| 5 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 6 | There are those who have all their picture books perfectly arranged by title : fine , except that others have theirs perfectly arranged by author . |
| 7 | It follows that if teachers believe they are incompetent or impotent in these matters , they will accept and expect that the proper strategy is to pass on the problems to suitably qualified colleagues . |
| 8 | In many countries the government stimulates such enterprises by providing some start-up capital , but the spokesman for our government came across very poorly , with totally negative comments to the effect that if inventors thought they could rely on the government for help , they were wrong . |
| 9 | And i from a technical point of view I would support my case by saying that if OPCAS use it , it 's good enough for us if it 's good enough for OPCAS . |
| 10 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 11 | Indeed the whole point of Smith 's contention in his 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations is that if individuals pursue their own self-interests then , as it were , an invisible hand will guide all their separate strivings and competition and lead them into the greater good for society as a whole . |
| 12 | In her letter she claims that because CTCs select their students and therefore ‘ turn away children who live in the same street as the school ’ parents have less choice . |
| 13 | So large , that when plans to flood their lowland were first announced , the Rut landers protested , ‘ But we do not wish our county to be just a towpath around a lake ! ’ |
| 14 | Education Secretary John Patten published yesterday 's three one hour maths papers in the hope that when parents see them they will wonder what all the fuss is all about . |
| 15 | Magistrates at Eastleigh , Hants , heard that when police stopped him he asked : ‘ Where am I ? ’ |
| 16 | Is not it obvious that when employees own their own business , that is the Conservative way forward ? |
| 17 | ( This trend has been so insistent that when men find themselves in part-time work economists have begun to call this the feminisation of labour . ) |
| 18 | Feminism has meant in practice that as women change they demand that men change too . |
| 19 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 20 | On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery . |
| 21 | An ANC statement on Jan. 27 expressed regret that the PAC was controlled by hostile forces , and that efforts to bring it into the main course of the armed struggle had failed . |
| 22 | It is essential that the parties to a takeover bid recognise their associates and that associates recognise their associated status so that the appropriate disclosure obligations can be complied with . |
| 23 | Provided the relationship goes forward and is unimpeded ( it will be recognised that this description is programmatic only , that the timescale up to this stage may be much extended , and that circumstances affecting it are multitudinous — for example , moral inhibition in the single state may be overcome by marriage ) at some stage there will be direct physical contact , at first of more or less sexual content , later more directly sexual . |
| 24 | There are three one on there , and that boys playing one , no he has n't got one I should n't think , unless the boys are . |
| 25 | Headteachers in our survey reported that condoned truancy was a problem and that parents condoning their children 's absence included those from disadvantaged areas and those from ‘ leafy suburbs ’ . |
| 26 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 27 | As for his own talk — that , once begun , had , as usual , spun itself out as thoughtlessly as the wind : he believed it and quite often it was true or partly true — and if others believed it — a bargain had been struck . |
| 28 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 29 | They do anything to avoid choosing , and if events force them to make a choice , they question it by raking over the ashes of the decision until it is dead and cold . |
| 30 | And maybe hope that we as , as people as women need to do is regain control of our lives so they , they belong to us , so it does n't matter if if boys say we 've got fat bottoms or not , yo you say my bottom 's alright an and you live with that . |