Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also transaction costs involved in acquiring and/or disposing of the requisite foreign exchange . |
| 2 | Presently consuming or consumed in the previous 12 months . |
| 3 | The highest ranking muderrises-those at the Suleymaniye medreses -go to certain named kadiliks such as Damascus and Aleppo , for example , while the muderrises of the next two lower classes — the and the — may choose either to take up kadiliks such as those of Jerusalem , Baghdad and Filibe , or to go to the next higher rank of medrese . |
| 4 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
| 5 | It 's an intriguing , nicely-made film , but hardly calculated to excite the contemporary audience ( even though John Davis would approve of its family entertainment value ) or connect with the contemporary cultural ferment . |
| 6 | Try to relate the interim end-result of everything you do , decide or say to the overall profitable contribution expected of you at the year 's end . |
| 7 | But we 're not dictated to or dominated by the latest fashionable sample or the current BPM . |
| 8 | One wonders , for example , to what extent the original distinction between theory and practice was reinforced or modified by the later Christian one between the contemplative and the active , or when and why the word ‘ pure ’ came to be used of certain types of knowledge . |
| 9 | Stop for an Italian coffee at Mokafé or browse through the latest French novels in Tropismes . |
| 10 | Buy a 944 — or wait for the forthcoming 968 . |
| 11 | He had seen the writing on the wall : after the oil crisis of 1973 there was n't going to be enough money to keep all the universities enthusiastically created or expanded in the booming sixties in the style to which they had become accustomed . |
| 12 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
| 13 | Students must have successfully completed/or gained APL for 50% of the areas of study for the Certificate Programme and have undertaken ( or undertake within the subsequent two months ) the assessments for the remaining areas of study of the Certificate Programme in order to be eligible to sit the final Case Study ( unseen ) paper . |
| 14 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 15 | This leaves women in a catch 22 ‘ whether to exhibit those positive characteristics considered desirable for men and adults and have their ‘ femininity' ’ questioned … or to behave in the prescribed feminine manner [ and ] accept second class adult status ' ( Broverman et al . , |
| 16 | Details and information pack can be obtained by telephoning or writing to the Catholic Social Welfare Society . |
| 17 | Recently , a rectal motor complex that is not synchronous with or related to the migrating motor complex was reported . |
| 18 | You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you . |
| 19 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 20 | There is provision for overtime to cope with periods of peak demand , but with demand generally static or declining during the early 1980s the need for this has only arisen during periods of particularly hot weather ( beer sales are notoriously weather sensitive ) . |
| 21 | Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just |
| 22 | At the same time Gardiner takes a curiously prudish line on the emotional mainsprings of Epstein 's art by denying or glossing over the disturbing sexual elements in his pre-1914 work , including ‘ Rock Drill ’ and in later pieces such as ‘ Jacob and the Angel ’ . |
| 23 | There was nothing shabby or worn about the close-fitting blue coat or the buckskin breeches ; and the starched neckcloth — no longer as neat as it might have been — and the ruffles to his shirt-sleeves were of the finest linen . |
| 24 | It is hard to generalize safely about prosperity or decay in the late medieval English town , and different historians have interpreted the evidence in widely varying ways . |
| 25 | Children with mild learning difficulties may attend ESN(M) special schools or pass through the normal educational system . |
| 26 | In general , money supply growth will be higher ( or its decline lower ) , the more the government borrows from the banking sector rather than the non-bank private sector ( or repays to the non-bank private sector rather than the banking sector ) . |
| 27 | The arches , columns , and huge statuary of the exterior prepared the traveller or sightseer for the vast vaulted concourse and waiting-room within . |
| 28 | The consensus of modern liberal thinking has been that it does not ; it has preferred to stress the " inherently pluralistic and diverse " nature of modern societies , and the consequent need to reach a consensus or compromise among the various competing interests and groups within society . |
| 29 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 30 | A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord . |