Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the defendant should not be liable where he inflicts injury before or during intercourse but without that aim in view . |
| 2 | This is a convenient practice as it avoids the need , for example , for speculation as to how the injured person 's condition will develop from the time of the initial injury or for speculation as to what his financial loss up to the date of trial at least will be . |
| 3 | Or for tea or for a drink ? |
| 4 | Their status has not been gained through public relations hype or through brashness but through their relentless pursuit of quality in all their activities . |
| 5 | A certificate of a judgment or order ( N 293 ) for use in England or Wales is supplied to a party on a request by letter stating the reason for which it is required , usually for enforcing the judgment in the High Court or as evidence or for bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 6 | Such approaches have always seen the complexity of design activity with its range of apparently contradictory impulses and antitheses ; is the emphasis to be on questions of form or of function or on solving technical or aesthetic desires and needs ? |
| 7 | Mrs Pember Reeves was ambivalent on the issue , commenting that it depended largely on whether the accommodation was above or below ground and on the absolute minimum that was allowed for food . |
| 8 | The trustee must within seven days of the last date for proving ( see section 6 above ) deal with every creditor 's proof by admitting it or rejecting it in whole or in part or by making such provision as he thinks fit in respect of it ( r 11.3(1) ) . |
| 9 | HN Units across a wide range of occupational areas are currently being developed , some by SCOTVEC on a national basis and others by providers either individually or in consortium or in partnership with employers . |
| 10 | As a result , strikes have been limited , either in number as in BR , or in duration as in RENFE ( see below ) . |
| 11 | When trying the horse under saddle , or in hand or on the lunge if unbroken , try the following tests : |
| 12 | So you must contrive a number of situations in which character is revealed , either directly in talk or in action or in what other people in your book , the vestigial " other suspects ' , have to say . |
| 13 | This triumph could be due to the outcome of a fight for a mate , or over territory or for food , or over some other issue . |
| 14 | In the full sense of the word , it is arguable that nobody was governed before the later nineteenth century ; it would certainly be foolish to maintain that either royal or princely government in the twelfth century operated according to fixed rules or without intermission or over all the inhabitants of a defined area . |
| 15 | It was a regrettable side-effect of such disputes that the " general public " suffered — villagers might see their homes and livelihoods destroyed , they might be hurt or occasionally even killed , but how else was their lord to be brought to reason or to arbitration except by ensuring that he could not collect his rents ? |
| 16 | But I would like to point out in this video , and on the brochure that goes with it , actually says the rest of the field are there to follow on horseback or on foot or by car , very few people indeed actually witness the death of a fox . |
| 17 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 18 | That was to stop the story appearing in any publication , or on radio or on television . |
| 19 | Every day people are engaged in many activities with the specific purpose of maintaining a safe environment , whether at home or at work or at play or travelling . |
| 20 | " Where by virtue or in consequence of any such transfer " |
| 21 | A spokesman for the opposition Socialist Party contended that transportation of plutonium was dangerous , whether by air or by sea and in itself . |
| 22 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it is a fact that during shiftwork and after time-zone transitions , body temperature and adrenalin rhythms have been used in addition to , or even in place of , measures of performance at ‘ real tasks ’ or at the simpler tests devised by psychologists . |
| 24 | His tongue slid against hers ; she shuddered , not with anger nor with displeasure but with some dark , deep emotion . |
| 25 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |
| 26 | The letters MBCS after your name cut little ice with personnel managers and head-hunters , except in academia and in software houses whose chairmen are pillars of the BCS . |
| 27 | Release Sidacai into Alexei 's charge , so that in life or in death he may serve you . ’ |
| 28 | I think it 's necessary to set the scene for that to say that in fact as between the County Council and Barton Willmore there 's very little difference in what we see are the requirements for the ring around the city , we both have a figure of of six thousand and something quite small . |
| 29 | I am certain that in time and with courage one of us will leave this place but we must always remember that our first enemy is ourselves . |
| 30 | Its six is n't a BMW six — not smooth and eager , but more stolid and insistent , bigger on torque than on power and with no special desire to rev more than it has to . |