Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall , spiky effect of purple-leaved cannas or purple-red Lobelia cardinalis , for example , can be used in the centre for height , around which multicoloured plants like coleus can be used , framed or broken up by single-colour foliage plants , such as the cinerarias and pyrethrums , suggested in the table . |
| 2 | Protein skimmers are a must for any butterfly or angelfish tank , as these species are sensitive to any organics left in the water that can not be filtered out or broken down by bacterial activity . |
| 3 | To be blunt , you can be a sensible young woman and be escorted back to your family , or carried out of this wilderness in a sack . |
| 4 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 5 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 6 | calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ; |
| 7 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 8 | A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes . |
| 9 | Most of the women in the British version are either photographed naked or written about with regrettable machomisogyny . |
| 10 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 11 | Service and maintain filter media by cleaning regularly — gravel syphon or wash out in warm tank water |
| 12 | He grew dirtier than ever and often would not shave for three or four days together , till his jaw looked coated or grown over with yellow fungus or sprayed like a car with glistening tangerine . |
| 13 | Cards and boxes can either be bought from a stationer or made out of ordinary file paper and shoe boxes ! |
| 14 | Under this pressure , all ordinary human ambivalence and doubt is outlawed : adopters become guilty or angry when the relationship does not proceed according to the fantasy or reality of ordinary parenting ; children suppress their fantasies of an alternative life with birth parents — or hold on to that fantasy all the more tenaciously — and birth mothers , in particular , are pushed into a denial of their own experience and feelings . |
| 15 | Maybe she 'd win the pools or walk off with first prize in the national lottery ! |
| 16 | Still , what the song celebrates are ‘ hidden paths ’ , ‘ sudden tree[s] ’ , ‘ A new road on a secret gate ’ — things which seem to be or to lead out of this world . |
| 17 | You can use these troops to close any gaps that appear in your line or face off against any flank attacks . |
| 18 | In spite of what one reads and hears , we can take that as being a pretty definitive er word on , on the fact that we 're not being conned or ripped off in any way at all . |
| 19 | A student can get in touch with the Counselling Service by phoning or calling in to either office ; telephone 031 650 4170 , or at King 's Buildings on 031 650 5773 . |
| 20 | Now get on with your work or get out of this classroom . |
| 21 | And by last night , with the pound still falling below its permitted floor within the ERM , Mr Lamont was faced with two options — devalue or get out of Euro system . |
| 22 | Certainly many interiors that have been gutted or scooped out in this way would now be considered worthy of retention — notably many of Nash 's interiors around Regent 's Park . |
| 23 | Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way . |
| 24 | As for the tabloids , additions to the range of publications have either been arm's-length extensions of existing publishing groups ( Today , 1986 — ) or born out of existing publishing houses ( Mail on Sunday , 1983 — , Star , 1978 ) . |
| 25 | A letter which has been ‘ mounted ’ or stuck down to another sheet is not as desirable as one that is free . |
| 26 | This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment . |
| 27 | The early skills were brought by French exiles , lured by high rates of pay or driven out by religious persecution ; labour was provided by the considerable fund of casual workers who dragged a living from squatting in the woods and heaths . |
| 28 | On a table in the hall was a pile of letters , addressed to officers who might be dead , or in prison camps , or coming back at any moment … . |
| 29 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 30 | The fact that , for various reasons , Crosland opposed suggested ‘ transbinary ’ mergers — including Lancaster and the University of Warwick , Brighton and the University of Sussex — strengthened the feeling that the new public sector was being protected or singled out for special development . |