Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Llewellyn denied his players had grabbed testicles or spat at the world champions . |
| 2 | In an intervention during the Home Secretary 's speech , I asked whether he had consulted or heard from the Prison Governors Association about the Bill . |
| 3 | Even the research listed by the ‘ independent ’ Police Foundation or undertaken at the University Centres for Criminological Research ( and largely dependent on government grants and funding by such bodies as the Economic and Social Research Council ) often comes up against the anti — intellectual bias which permeates all levels in police thinking ( Lewis 1976 ) . |
| 4 | It appeared likely that the alarming peasant disturbances of the previous spring would be repeated , and there were many reports of peasants refusing to fulfil their ‘ temporary obligations ’ or to agree to the redemption terms envisaged in the Statute of Emancipation . |
| 5 | That does not mean that the Labour Party are run or ruled by the trade unions . |
| 6 | Can you help me maybe , by discovering his whereabouts , and perhaps persuading him — through a third party if necessary — to return to his home , or to communicate with the prison officials here ? |
| 7 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |
| 8 | The west Siberian Tatars of the Khanate of Sibir were subjugated or dispersed among the steppe nomads , but the presence of the latter ( particularly the Kazakhs and Oirats ) obliged the Russians to maintain fortified ‘ lines ’ in the south for over two hundred years ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 9 | The most heroic plays were made as we leapt to stop the ball hitting the wooden door to the hall or banging into the metal shutters over the window , which would have brought the guards running in . |
| 10 | As the TOM allows investors to avoid purchasing shares , the higher the actual and expected levels of interest rates the greater the incentive to use options and delay the acquisition of shares in order to benefit from the rates of return prevailing or expected in the money markets . |
| 11 | Among the tepid metal and tile of the locker room , or slumped over the paper cups and coffee balloons of the commissary-Johnny 's there , with unspeakable skidmarks all over his smock . |
| 12 | The remainder of the bureau questioned , around 20% , either had no traditional typesetting or printing background at all or came from the computer services sector . |
| 13 | It may help , with the older child , to write or type out the house rules ( the ‘ standing orders ’ ) and post them up in the kitchen or elsewhere . |
| 14 | The way in which the school is perceived by the local community may depend not only on overt performance indicators such as language and numeracy skills but also on covert performance indicators such as how the pupils behave on the bus going home or smoking outside the school premises . |
| 15 | So far in Freud 's argument we are only concerned with a descriptive statement , albeit one with many theoretical overtones , but there is at this point no assertion about the genesis of this hostility , or about the degree to which it is innate , or produced by the way humans are reared , or by the interaction of the two . |
| 16 | or paid by the club owners , deliberately smash the break glass course everyone 's got ta get out , the fire brigade all come in |
| 17 | From the beginning the putsch had been poorly conceived : it had failed to mobilize the support of the pieds noirs or to win over the conscript troops , who were the vast majority . |
| 18 | So does the vulnerability of people at work , or moving through the transport networks , or living near large industrial plants . |
| 19 | The assumptions made about savings in the previous sections were either entirely ad hoc ( the proportional savings assumption ) or based on the class savings hypothesis . |
| 20 | Also , the law requires that a reviseur d'entreprises must be either self-employed or employed by a reviseur d'entreprises ( which includes auditing firms ) authorised to practise in Luxembourg . |
| 21 | Many professionals and managers choose to work in the public sector because they wish to give service or believe in the core values of their agency . |
| 22 | These sections make it compulsory to have the company 's name painted on or affixed to the business premises and mentioned on all business documents and negotiable instruments . |
| 23 | No anomalous migration is seen for the unbound fragments confirming the absence of intrinsic curvature or bends in the GMSA probes used . |
| 24 | Otherwise , consult a solicitor who is personally recommended to you , or ask about the panel lists described in the previous paragraph . |
| 25 | However , SFX are not limited to the work of those designated in the credits or cited in the Academy Awards as visual effects or sound effects specialists ; they can also be the task of the make-up artist , the stuntman/woman , even the costumier . |
| 26 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
| 27 | Even so , this does not preclude the possibility that whole verses were varied or fabricated later , or associated by the saga writers , who sometimes misunderstood this material , with the wrong poet and/or wrong leader . |
| 28 | The alcoves on either side are used for the hanging space , and the reduced space in front of the chimneybreast for shelving , either exposed or concealed behind the wardrobe doors . |
| 29 | Many public relations people have never spoken on radio or appeared before the TV cameras , because the client usually speaks for himself . |
| 30 | Unless the gutters are screwed directly to the fascia boards there will be brackets , either screwed to the fascia boards or screwed to the roof rafters — part of the roof covering may need lifting in order to remove them . |