Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 3 | Presently consuming or consumed in the previous 12 months . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rather , it refers to Jesus 's membership in a specific group or sect with a specific religious and/or political orientation — the ‘ Nazarene Party ’ , as certain modern experts call it . |
| 7 | Mid-region performance is strong and acceleration only begins to tail off above 120mph , but the Chrysler engine lacks ultimate finesse at high revs , becoming noisy and slightly strained , while the power delivery is too often spoiled by a hesitation or jerk after a sudden lift-off or application of power . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 11 | But we 're not dictated to or dominated by the latest fashionable sample or the current BPM . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stop for an Italian coffee at Mokafé or browse through the latest French novels in Tropismes . |
| 14 | Many of the documents in the Archives were dated either not at all ‘ or according to an incomprehensible Emorian system invented by Richard ; and it sometimes proved impossible to link the events they recorded with events in the world beyond Emor . |
| 15 | He has respect for the almost tribal traditional wisdom of those whom he later called the ‘ quiet-voiced elders ’ and their ‘ dead secrets , , but in the end these are to be renounced or incorporated in a higher Christian scheme and vision . |
| 16 | Buy a 944 — or wait for the forthcoming 968 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All parties had agreed that the remaining 30 per cent of forces would eventually be either dismantled or absorbed into a Cambodian national army . |
| 19 | You can pick the work up and do a bit of it whenever you have a few minutes to spare and the final result is really splendid , whether it is all bejewelled and decorated or made in a simple plain yarn . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This figure shows the drivechart for the program JANEPLUS , which aims to introduce pupils to the idea of mathematical functions by displaying named figures , each of which either adds or multiplies by a particular small whole number which number the pupils must discover by trial , hypothesis and check . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 24 | 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 . , |
| 25 | Details and information pack can be obtained by telephoning or writing to the Catholic Social Welfare Society . |
| 26 | Recently , a rectal motor complex that is not synchronous with or related to the migrating motor complex was reported . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Its detailed arrangements varied , in the many thousands of cases , but what is generally true about its form of social relations is that the artist was typically retained or commissioned as an individual professional worker . |