Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spiritual resources of patients can do a great deal to help in their recovery or bring about a peaceful death . |
| 2 | London , however , is pounded by commuter traffic and the only policy option which promises relief is determined action to exclude or price out the one-driver commuter car . |
| 3 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 4 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 5 | The council does , however , bring a disciplinary case against a doctor who , having decided to practice a particular form of medicine or to carry out a particular procedure , does so in a way that can be shown to have been irresponsible , or unnecessarily hazardous to one or more patients , because the doctor has failed to exercise a proper standard of professional care ; the council also brings a disciplinary case when a doctor makes outrageous and false claims regarding the efficacy of a particular form of treatment . |
| 6 | It is perfectly proper to raise aesthetic questions in courses in biological sciences or ( in courses on occupational therapy ) on the aesthetic quality of aids given to patients ; or to ask moral questions about work in nuclear physics or ( in legal studies ) about sentencing policy in the courts ; or to find out the historical development of any subject . |
| 7 | Whether you 're eating out or buying a take-away , heating frozen meals from the supermarket or knocking up a fresh pasta and salad in the apartment , quality and variety are excellent . |
| 8 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 9 | But the compensations for being unable to read or carry on a casual conversation are overwhelming . |
| 10 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 11 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 12 | It may be worth mentioning that some candidates achieve Grade " A " without mentioning any historian or writing down a single quotation . " |
| 13 | This idyllic setting is just the place to relax , swim or snorkel around the unspoilt coral reefs , and to explore the beautiful , unspoiled countryside surrounding the volcanic mountains . |
| 14 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 15 | Would a trust , for example to construct a public building or to set up a private monument , actually be enforced as such ? |
| 16 | Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit . |
| 17 | It could be a flatter of setting up a new plant , opening a new market , launching a new product or turning around a failing company that has been acquired . |
| 18 | You can do this on Midland machines simply by pressing the appropriate button , And in some of our branches there are machines where you can use your card to see details of the last few account transactions or print out a short-form statement . |
| 19 | Punch or draw out the resulting design . |
| 20 | The lamp could be hooked onto the front of a miner 's cap or hung on a wooden roof support while he was working . |
| 21 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
| 22 | We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ . |
| 23 | If the band spends a lot of money in the venue ( with a big stage extension , an early ‘ get-in ’ to the venue , playing very late , or running up an enormous catering bill ) , all of these costs are paid mainly by the artist . |
| 24 | This is another reason for you to maintain your own social life , or to build up a new network of friends , if necessary . |
| 25 | He does n't run away , or hang out crosses or wreaths of parsley , or ring up the local press , he merely mentions it to his friends in passing , and gets on with his work . |
| 26 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 27 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 28 | Is it worth insuring your computer or taking out a separate contract with a third-party maintenance company ? |
| 29 | The Commission provides guidance on certain of the services or costs they wish reviewed ; for example , in introducing a higher proportion of civilians into the police force or boarding out a higher proportion of children in care . |
| 30 | With every move the visitor transfers from one ear to another , steps over the roughed out eye-socket of a sleeping figure , or dodges round a protruding nose . |