Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiating is an activity that seeks to reach agreement between two or more different starting positions . |
| 2 | Hirst ( 1969 , 1974 ) divides knowledge into seven or so distinct or irreducible forms : mathematics , the physical sciences , the human sciences and history , literature and the fine arts , morals , religion , and philosophy . |
| 3 | No we wo n't , because , essentially , if you give yourself one target like the exchange rate , then you lose control over one or possibly both of interest rates and money supply , both of which the government has always claimed , are absolutely fundamental to maintaining their control over the economy . |
| 4 | 5 ‘ Increasingly children are starting school at six or even five years of age , so that they finish primary school when they are too young to become responsible young workers and citizens . |
| 5 | The living grandparents , uncles and aunts , may also have interesting stories about their weddings and marriages of friends , brothers , sisters and other relatives which took place in unusual or typically different circumstances in earlier days . |
| 6 | Each eruption gives rise to one or sometimes more columns of hot fluid rising through the interior region . |
| 7 | These amendments postponed the original 1975–6 carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon vehicle emission standards until 1980–1 , and established a relaxed standard for oxides of nitrogen ( the revision readjusted the balance between air quality and fuel economy by raising the emission limit from 0.4 to 1.0 grams per mile ) to take effect in 1981 or even later ( table 8.2 ) . |
| 8 | Note-successions can be exactly the same ( as in the series ) , but it is their rhythmic configuration which determines whether they form melody of classical or completely non-classical character . |
| 9 | Given constraints on resources , research plans will have to take account of existing or relatively easily gathered data about services and consumers and the evaluative studies being conducted elsewhere . |
| 10 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 11 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |
| 12 | Rogers left school at ten or earlier and became an errand boy . |
| 13 | They also promise a ‘ return to learn ’ entitlement of up to a year 's full time education for people aged more than 50 and who left school at 15 or earlier . |