Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Satarov there is a need to pass on the ‘ knowledge about or based on the data ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 2 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 3 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 4 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 5 | L 24 , p. 1 ) , whereby only fishing vessels flying the flag of or registered in a member state may fish against the quotas allocated to that member state , which in other words are reserved to ‘ national ’ vessels to the exclusion of vessels from other members states . |
| 6 | Seven ministers , including Pashko , Minister of Defence Perikli Teta and Minister of Finance Genci Ruli , were members of or proposed by the DP . |
| 7 | That will be achieved in one of two ways : ( 1 ) by providing for its automatic accruer in consideration of or linked to an appropriate payment ; or ( 2 ) by giving the continuing partners an option to acquire the share at an ascertainable price . |
| 8 | The choice of treatment may be skewed towards that which can be paid for , rather than that which may be in the best interests of or preferred by the patient . |
| 9 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 10 | A rehabilitated person is one who has been convicted of and sentenced for an offence or offences and who has not committed a further offence or offences during the appropriate rehabilitation period and that period has expired . |
| 11 | Syllabic is most common after alveolar plosives and fricatives ; in the case of and followed by the plosive is nasally released by lowering the soft palate , so that in the word ‘ eaten ’ , for example , the tongue does not move in the sequence but the soft palate is lowered at the end of so that compressed air escapes through the nose . |
| 12 | BEDALE 'S Paul Holdroyd , a well-known figure on the North Yorkshire scene and president of Snape AC , has done what most anglers only dream of and invested in a guest house in southern Ireland . |
| 13 | It was a paper devoid of politics and did n't represent any of the spirit they had thought of and encapsulated in the Charter . |
| 14 | The declaration stated that the testator in his lifetime ( in consideration that the plaintiff would marry Ellen Nicholl ) agreed with and promised the plaintiff , then unmarried , in the terms of and contained in the following letter : August 11 , 1838 , Gray 's Inn |
| 15 | Second replication to the fourth plea , that the agreement was in the terms of and contained in the letter set out above . |
| 16 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 17 | This chapter focuses on the ways in which age discrimination is both a product of and manifested in the social security system . |
| 18 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 19 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 20 | All these particle facts can be put together in the following way : A state ( the photon polarised along x " ) can be thought of as composed of a combination ( the technical term is a superposition ) of other states ( the photon polarised along y , which is transmitted , and the photon polarised along x , which is not transmitted ) . |
| 21 | This step is the preparatory part of the process and in its ideal form it produces an electron in one of those well-defined states of motion which we have learnt to think of as represented by a vector in a vector space . |
| 22 | Mr Chairman I believe I have the floor and I would also say that contrary to what we 've just been told there are people employed by what was called and three to four hundred people are employed , they 're not effected other than fifteen people , fifteen people were not effected by this statement and there are some hundred and eighty people who still work for and connected with the project . |
| 23 | It is a collective expression of extensive opposition to — even outrage at — the attempt by Henry VIII and Arran to stampede the Scots , the moment the opportunity appeared to present itself , into a complete denial of their long tradition of independence fought for and achieved in the teeth of English aggression . |
| 24 | Obviously where an agency contractual or ostensible has been created and the agent behaves improperly , whether by exercising undue influence upon or by making false representations to the surety , then the creditor will be held vicariously responsible for and affected by the acts of the agent committed in the execution of the agency . |
| 25 | That City is attacked in The Rock , but ‘ this London of ours ’ is also celebrated as a city to be worked for and redeemed by a Christianity sometimes remarkably primitive , a pared-down Christianity among the wild men , as a London church is seen as a ‘ House ’ built of |
| 26 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 27 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
| 28 | Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British . |
| 29 | For Camus the sky was a source of sustenance that he could draw on at will ; for me it is a thwarted promise , yearned for and glimpsed against the odds . |
| 30 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |