Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 2 | The water hawthorn , Aponogeton distachyus , will grow if sown straight away or if kept until the following year , but loses its viability if allowed to dry out completely . |
| 3 | Any spreadsheet files sent in DIF format to InteCalc will be converted to its own internal format or if destined for an external program they will be sent as text . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 3.7.2 in accordance with the Plans approved by the Landlord pursuant to clause 3.3 Add the following words to clause 3.7.2 : or as amended with the approval of the Landlord ( such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) |
| 6 | Practical experience is gained during the week end exercises or as shown in the photograph , when bridge building in Edinburgh . |
| 7 | The Secretary to the Tribunal shall be the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee , or as supplied by the HCIMA secretariat . |
| 8 | These apparent exceptions can be justified as involving the exercise of a legal right , in the case of chastisement or correction , or as needed in the public interest , in the other cases . |
| 9 | The council may , with the consent of the Home Secretary make an order in the terms applied for or as modified by the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | To most of the questions the Head of Department answered ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ , with an occasional phrase or short sentence either offered in amplification , or as demanded by the question . |
| 12 | These were not in general obtained except when noted from scanning newspapers or when highlighted by the online services . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 18 | For an organ larger than this , there is no limit except that imposed by the customer 's ability to pay . |
| 19 | Any attempt , for example , to engineer a rate of unemployment except that associated with the natural rate of output will be thwarted . |
| 20 | Although there have been philosophers — Leibniz is an obvious example — who have tried to reconcile this view with the idea of a pluralist ontology , it is clear that if conjoined with the principle of independence the doctrine of the internality of relations provides a powerful support for the monist thesis . |
| 21 | In such a case , it is clear that if left to the Member States , the Community-wide action would not take place . |
| 22 | In a pond goldfish will grow considerably larger than if kept in an indoor aquarium . |
| 23 | It undoubtedly appeals to the sadistic side of human nature and I must confess that while horrified at the idea of maiming or killing people , my first reaction is to laugh . |
| 24 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 25 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 26 | Light entering the sea penetrates at most to a depth of 1000 metres — and since the oceans have an average depth of 4000 m , this means that they are mostly dark , except when lit in the depths by bioluminescence ( see p.53 ) . |
| 27 | The Queen remains a remote figure , glacial and impenetrable except when caught by the press cameras watching one of her horses winning at the races . |
| 28 | Come to that , why does no photograph of this man come out , except when taken from the air ? |
| 29 | It still remains true , however , that when compared with the white population , black people have worse housing conditions . |
| 30 | Palmer ( 1988 : 199 ) proposes that when followed by the to infinitive , verbs of perception function as verbs of reporting , so that He saw the children to be eating their lunch means " He reported the children to be eating their lunch " . |