Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 1950s , '60s and '70s these restrictions were reduced or became a less important hindrance to the City 's international operations , but they remained partially effective until they were completely abolished in 1979 . |
| 2 | Furthermore , as Moi suggests , she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own , or of the existence of female traditions and strengths which might have tended to challenge or subvert the supposedly monolithic nature of the male power which it is the main aim of her book to describe . |
| 3 | Occasionally a charge on a shield of arms , or the interpretation of a crest can be an important clue in the determination of seignorial affiliation , in linking two families with different names , or suggesting a hitherto unsuspected landholding , quite apart from the visual attraction an achievement might have as stained glass , stone carving or hatchment in the local church . |
| 4 | ‘ We will have to wait until next month before we can confirm or deny whether this is so or make a more informed assessment , ’ he said . |
| 5 | While Professor R. T. McKenzie was right to argue that the common purpose of winning elections and of maintaining a government in power imposes or produces an almost identical power structure in the parties , it is wrong to infer from this that the atmosphere within the parties is the same . |
| 6 | These included weekly visits to each fieldworker by a supervisor , who observed interviews , revisited compounds , and either conducted full re-interviews or checked a more limited set of information on a sample of recently completed interview forms . |
| 7 | Most students find cheques or cash the most convenient methods of payment , with bills settled ‘ on the spot ’ . |
| 8 | Common sense dictates that single items of food can not either cause or prevent a potentially life-threatening illness . |
| 9 | Nor need the doctor adopt palliative measures , if ‘ palliation ’ is taken to mean the use of measures aimed at modifying pathological processes or their consequences so as to delay or prevent the otherwise inevitable effects of such processes or their consequences . |
| 10 | Also , in controlled indexing language databases , there is often an assumption that a user will be prepared to chase strings of references or to consult a sometimes complex thesaurus . |
| 11 | Because of the way in which my visit to the judges and the prison was arranged , I am quite confident that no ‘ set-piece ’ situations or activities had been organized just for my benefit or to create a more favourable impression of the judicial system or the detention centre . |
| 12 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 13 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 14 | You should either select this option again to perform further updates to the module ( or to a different module ) or select a completely new option . |
| 15 | Now Souness must decide whether to persist with England Under-21 youngster David James or recall the more experienced Mike Hooper , who has proved his excellent temperament in the European cauldron . |
| 16 | Add colour with roller blinds , atmosphere with Austrian blinds , or create an entirely different mood with cottagy patterned curtains . |
| 17 | For example , a common method in the script recognition literature has been to use n-grams ( Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Ehrich and Koehler , 1975 ; Higgins and Whitrow , 1984 ; Whitrow and Higgins , 1987 ) , or letter transitional probabilities such as the Viterbi algorithm ( Hull , Srihari and Choudhari , 1983 ) , or Markov modelling ( Raviv , 1967 ; Neuhoff , 1975 ; Farag , 1979 ) to rule out illegal strings of letters , or to select the most likely letter combinations . |
| 18 | After the happy hour at the crêperie you can move onto the free disco and strut your funky stuff or watch the twice weekly cabaret show . |
| 19 | But none of these visionaries descended into the depths of the self to find God there or confront the apparently impassable gulf between God and the world as our mystics do . |
| 20 | You could enjoy a week in a Center Parc ( this is where they started ) , or pursue the more cultural charms of Breughel and Delft pottery . |
| 21 | But centuries of migration , conquest , occupation , intermarriage , trade and cultural exchange — not to mention the tendency of artists to copy or reinterpret the most successful facets of other artists ' work — have eroded much of this exclusivity . |
| 22 | These replaced or supplemented the now traditional export crops of the same kind — the declining sugar from the Caribbean and Brazil , cotton from the southern states of America , whose trade was at least temporarily wrecked by the Civil War of 1861–5 . |
| 23 | Either Lucy was feeling chastened or doing a damn good act that way . |
| 24 | Do n't be tempted to practise specific exercises in between doing other jobs or to demonstrate a particularly good exercise to a friend . |
| 25 | We should also be very suspicious of any codification project which attempts to pre-empt or disguise the irreducibly dispositive element in decision-making . |
| 26 | Other ideas which might appeal are conservation work or playing a more active role in politics by joining your local party association . |
| 27 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 28 | For , you may have reserved ground for burial , or you may wish to be cremated , or to have a very simple funeral . |
| 29 | As late as 1913 , the anti-feminist surgeon , Sir Almroth Wright , continued to applaud what was undoubtedly an extreme form of the traditional patriarchal marriage , whereby the husband promised to do his wife reverence , to protect and to serve her as long as she did not jettison personal refinement , act in an ungrateful manner or put an extravagantly high estimate on her intellectual powers . |
| 30 | ‘ Touring on my own was good crack , but I wanted security and it was time to make a serious decision about the future — whether to become a lawyer ( and I had already started applying for jobs ) or to take a more businesslike approach to the music . ’ |