Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When sideways movement or typing in a wide document reaches the edge of the window the text scrolls horizontally in steps to reveal parts of the typing line which had been offscreen . |
| 2 | If there was a grievance the students would refuse to eat their evening meal , and parade and make noises , or sit in a solid wall of silence . |
| 3 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 4 | I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | Many subjects are represented in a standard form or treated in a standard way and , to cater for this , each edition of the Dewey system lists standard sub-divisions that are never used alone but may be added to any number from the general subject tables . |
| 6 | I need to emphasize two points here : firstly , most textbooks represent a misleading view of reality in which women are neglected or treated in a cursory manner and this is their ideological function . |
| 7 | It will also raise a few problems for sportsmen and sportswomen who are training or competing in a new time zone to which they have not yet adjusted . |
| 8 | On the front , you have a picture with a jigsaw-shaped piece missing which you have cut out and either put it on their back or hidden in a little flap on the costume , which can be seen if people lift the flap up . |
| 9 | Now do n't tell me you spent the night sitting on the station , because they would n't let you , or parked in a stolen car , because you 're not that stupid , not quite . |
| 10 | ( pp167-8 ) ( g ) Criminal use of ineffective exemption clauses Under the Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) , it is a criminal offence for anyone , in the course of a business , to display or publish or include in a written document , an exemption clause which is void by virtue of s6 of UCTA 1977 . |
| 11 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 12 | Nevertheless any such other business will be likely to interfere with the partner 's ability to devote his full time and attention to the firm : such matters should be discussed between all partners and special arrangements agreed as necessary in relation to individual partners to be either incorporated in the partnership agreement itself or contained in a separate memorandum to which all partners are signatories . |
| 13 | Cuttings that should come to everybody 's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter . |
| 14 | The Schema Builder will enable all parts of the database schema to be created or modified in a graphical environment . |
| 15 | That summer , scoop necks and arms bare to the shoulders were what every woman wore , with hair loose , or caught in a gleaming beehive . |
| 16 | Any interesting or amusing incidents , photographed or recounted in a short article will be welcome . |
| 17 | Instead of pitting the small firms against large firms , specialization by technique or process in a pervasive network of subcontracting forges a partnership which seems to have maintained the widely dispersed structure . |
| 18 | Instead of pitting the small firms against large firms , specialization by technique or process in a pervasive network of subcontracting forges a partnership which seems to have maintained the widely dispersed structure . |
| 19 | And the college has a special unit for people who want basic education anyone who is not numerate or wants help with reading or writing in a one-to-one lesson . |
| 20 | To praise highly in speech or writing in a formal manner . |
| 21 | Place items being promoted or featured in a prominent position in the window . |
| 22 | Possible complications and side-effects are ignored or minimised in a target-oriented programme because it is more important to add to the numbers of acceptors than to help women make an informed choice about contraception . |
| 23 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 24 | If we are in a happy partnership , whether married or living in a close relationship with a man or woman , retirement years are a time to look forward to and for doing things together . |
| 25 | Celtic students , if not native speakers of Gaelic , are similarly required to attend summer schools or reside in a Gaelic-speaking community in circumstances approved by the department . |
| 26 | For all her professed populism , she was seen as remote from ordinary people , hardly ever catching a train , watching a film , or relaxing in a British holiday resort , turning instinctively to privileged private treatment in educating her children or adopting health-care systems for herself . |
| 27 | For simplicity the amount to be costed is best highlighted in dark type or shown in a separate box on the form . |
| 28 | Perhaps other people do n't suffer from my nightmares or waken in a cold sweat in the middle of the night , confronting fragmented episodes from their distant past , floating by them as if the detritus of a forgotten shipwreck in an Arctic sea . |
| 29 | Even in the Coordinating Team , the development of such skills has tended to be accepted as self-evidently a good thing rather than debated or interpreted in a systematic way . |
| 30 | As an example , if we look at the nouns only , we have Thus , if you want to describe words which are absurd , with no meaning , unintelligible , new or used in a new sense , you have the choice of about 170 nouns — including " jargon " , the one you first thought of — available for your selection and use . |