Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice is to extensively renovate or to completely replace them with ‘ intelligent buildings ’ . |
| 2 | But if it is not bound by such a policy it can induce a large increase in the money supply and prevent the recession , or at least bring it to an end quickly . |
| 3 | Many attempts have been made to tame the Biro , or at least bring it to heel . |
| 4 | Jung suggests that ‘ something in us wishes to remain a child ; to be unconscious or at most conscious only of the ego ; to reject everything foreign , or at least subject it to our will ; to do nothing , or , in any case , to indulge our own craving for pleasure or power . ’ |
| 5 | If , by contextual manipulation , we can reduce the apparent oddness , or at least cause it to be perceived as communicatively appropriate , then we can take it that we are dealing with a semantic deviance ( although the involvement of grammatical elements can not be ruled out ) . |
| 6 | If the Secretary of State is able to give an honest answer at the Dispatch Box , will he tell us that if he genuinely surveys the objections and sees that the vast majority of the people of Ayrshire object to opting out , he will give democratic and fair-minded consideration to the consultative process and , at best , abandon the idea of opting out or at least postpone it for the foreseeable future ? |
| 7 | Inter-hospital transport may be able to take you part of the way home , or at least take you to a main thoroughfare away from dark corners . |
| 8 | Whitehead kept Oxford going … or at least kept them in touch |
| 9 | Early inventions in most industries — except in those requiring large amounts of fixed capital , like the iron industry — benefited the small man , or at least kept him in business . |
| 10 | The Neanderthals were , however , physically weaker , and so it was ‘ reasonable ’ to wipe them out , or at least to subjugate them to the extent that eventually they died out . |
| 11 | He was asked politely not to bring the rifle to lectures in future — or at least to leave it with the umbrellas in a corner of the room . |
| 12 | Back and leg operations may totally immobilise you , or at least prevent you from walking up any stairs for quite a while . |
| 13 | It is vital that all unsold tickets are returned to the organiser by the date specified ( or at least notify them by telephone that tickets are not yet sold ) . |
| 14 | It was a stormy meeting during which Callaghan was one of those who clashed angrily with Morrison , arguing that the abandonment of the free vote meant pressurising them to change their convictions , or at least to keep them in cold storage . |
| 15 | I was amazed by her self-control , and could not understand why Mr Rochester had not asked the police to arrest her , or at least dismissed her from his service . |
| 16 | Mervyn , representing Help the Aged , or at least representing myself in responding to Chris Heginbotham 's address , but er , here for Help the Aged today . |
| 17 | Incidentally , it is imperative that the tenant 's solicitor checks the engrossment or at least delegates it to some competent person in his office to do . |
| 18 | When you have to take money out of other people 's pockets ( which is what profit-making is all about ) you can do it either by inadvertently alienating people or by deliberately getting them on your side . |
| 19 | Subjects were asked to continue describing different junctions until no more stood out in their memory but not to attempt to recall all the junctions , nor to deliberately recall them in the order they had been driven through . |
| 20 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 21 | The aim of the project is to increase understanding of how companies can best develop a strategy for both acquiring new technologies and for effectively exploiting them as an instrument of competitive strategy . |
| 22 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 23 | Because investment business is peripheral to their main activity ( and it is a condition of authorisation that it should not normally exceed 20% of total fee income ) , many firms allow themselves to remain woefully ignorant of the regulations and of how to apply them within their own practice . |
| 24 | He and his friends would take us , they said , safely to the edge of the airport and from there point us in the right direction . |
| 25 | Regarding the winning Hands On feature in March Woodworker , despite the well-intended editorial footnote , I do feel it was a mistake to include Bill Wiseman 's fascinating but appallingly dangerous hold-down device , and to then endorse it in a recommendatory way by awarding it special recognition . |
| 26 | Most dogs come from warm , dry , quiet houses and to suddenly find themselves in a noisy , cold , wet concrete kennels is unkind . |
| 27 | And it 's very important to finish off with amen and to actually do it in a very convincing way . |
| 28 | TOMMY SMITH : ‘ So you 're saying his decision to have this operation and to actually sell it to the Sun came all within five seconds ? ’ |
| 29 | And , almost the opposite effect , lay your clue before your readers decently clearly , and at once follow it with a burst of action . |
| 30 | Simultaneously he proceeded to reinforce his own direct links with his electors by undertaking tours of the provinces and by publicly associating himself with progressive measures . |