Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 4 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 8 | Supposing , against the odds , the Tories scrape home , or cobble together a working majority , the day-after rally could be spectacular . |
| 9 | But the compensations for being unable to read or carry on a casual conversation are overwhelming . |
| 10 | It may be worth mentioning that some candidates achieve Grade " A " without mentioning any historian or writing down a single quotation . " |
| 11 | Would a trust , for example to construct a public building or to set up a private monument , actually be enforced as such ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The lamp could be hooked onto the front of a miner 's cap or hung on a wooden roof support while he was working . |
| 16 | This is another reason for you to maintain your own social life , or to build up a new network of friends , if necessary . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Is it worth insuring your computer or taking out a separate contract with a third-party maintenance company ? |
| 20 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the auction room discretion must be used in bidding and the developer must have a clearly defined policy if the price exceeds the value calculated : he should either withdraw or bid only a marginal percentage above the calculated value . |
| 23 | This was no great problem for Mr Berge ; being cocky and confident comes naturally to him whether he is presiding over his other little empire , the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house , or standing over a gaping hole in credibility . |
| 24 | Reports by the United Nations and Amnesty International detailed human rights abuses under the regime , one citing 14,000 cases of execution or torture over a six-year period . |
| 25 | ‘ Or does even a temporary steward open no chests ; fold no linen away ? ’ |
| 26 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 27 | The expansion you will face in 1993 could well be on the creative front , making this an ideal year to go into production or take on a major commitment . |
| 28 | But if your works pension is contracted out of SERPS , then you can either be a member of your works pension scheme OR take out a personal pension — but not both . |
| 29 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 30 | Or phone up a cheerful friend who always makes you laugh . |