Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the fact that Dirks was found not guilty , the tests laid down in the case are of great significance : a tipper 's liability is contingent upon the purpose of his action ; while a tippee 's liability is limited to those situations where he knows or ought reasonably to know of the insider 's breach of duty . |
| 2 | Those who defend the kinship bond find more acceptable a situation where , say , a child may maintain an active relationship with his [ or her ] natural parents while living with foster-parents , or may even remain in contact with them after adoption . |
| 3 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 4 | Children may be referred by teachers or parents or may even ask for help themselves . |
| 5 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 6 | The Vendor is not in relation to the Business a party to any agreement , practice or arrangement which contravenes or is subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Resale Prices Act 1976 or the Competition Act 1980 or which contravenes the provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or which would or might either result in a reference to a ‘ consumer trade practice ’ within the meaning of Section 13 of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or to the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee under Part II of that Act or contravene any of the provisions of Articles 85 or 86 of the Treaty of Rome or any other anti-trust or consumer protection legislation . |
| 7 | the midday sun was Re , or might still appear in the form of Re-Harakhty . |
| 8 | Certainly , if the latter did not want to be represented or could easily apply for judicial review in person , there might be no good reason to accord standing to a self-appointed representative . |
| 9 | Several had been told , or simply assumed , that they would not survive adolescence , or would only live for maybe 20 or 30 years . |
| 10 | A total of 70 oceanic recreations , complete with state-of-the-art fish tanks , coral reefs and rainforests , have just opened or will soon open around the world . |
| 11 | Or will even dance with me . ’ |
| 12 | Nor because legal institutions intend to or will ever admit to violating human rights . |
| 13 | For Virgo , Fate takes a hand today when a delayed or missed connection may lead to a contact that may eventually prove to be very beneficial . |
| 14 | Via central training departments and other inter-authority groups specifically designed to assist training , such as Local Government Training Boards ; funding/staffing library departments , sometimes being directly responsible for the allocating of funds on training ; and by funding other organizations that may ultimately contribute to training in libraries . |
| 15 | From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself . |
| 16 | Finally , humans create habitats of a kind that may well occur in nature , but not commonly . |
| 17 | This is the creation of high quality artwork using material that may already exist in a number of forms and modifying it to suit the current need . |
| 18 | One preliminary point that may still need to be made is that the switches between the two media are not arbitrary , but motivated according to a series of conventions practised by other Elizabethan dramatists . |
| 19 | They also look at wider issues such as their own up-bringing which may have been in an addictive family and may have led to many grief or abuse or other issues that may still need to be processed with a sponsor or a professional counsellor if there is to be further progress in recovery . |
| 20 | The middle classes of this country will cling passionately to certain benefits that may necessarily arise from rejecting a socialist political system . |
| 21 | Ranged with his mother , his sisters , he was cowed ; he felt , not just some months ' Tommaso 's junior , but a child again , like his little brother Franco , also quiet and busy with his food , as if he had not yet made that transition from the mother 's arms to the father 's side that should duly occur at thirteen . |
| 22 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 23 | This is the very last thing that should ever suffer in a time of recession or emergency when people 's belts have to tighten . |
| 24 | He said : ’ It provides for an expansion of treaty-based Community competence into areas of wage bargaining and social security that should rightly remain with member states ’ . |
| 25 | I started in a very modest way with the healing ball , an object that must surely figure in all cancer visualization literature . |
| 26 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |
| 27 | Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them . |
| 28 | Communicating the conclusions of best practice reviews is an activity that might well benefit from a best practice review itself . |
| 29 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 30 | In effect the staff , in making this statement , are erecting a ‘ fence ’ around the unit which excludes those agencies that might otherwise expect to be involved . |