Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 2 | Evidently it was one of Marcel Boulestin 's favourite sweetmeats ; a recipe for tomato jam or preserve appears in every one of his cookery books . |
| 3 | He suggests the construction of a continuum of categories , each with its set of conditional factors , in which the practitioner could decide upon the degree of directiveness or non-directiveness needed in a specific situation . |
| 4 | These sequences may give rise to a kind of play , in which they are exaggerated , inverted or otherwise re-ordered in such a manner that a regular pattern or rhythm emerges in the finished product . |
| 5 | There may well be an area where the interest at stake in an application for a licence is considerably more important than that involved in a forfeiture or failure to renew in a different context . |
| 6 | The vast majority of items for which there is a strong intuition either of meaningfulness or meaninglessness respond in the appropriate way to the test of recurrent semantic contrast . |
| 7 | The existence of a public sector that did not have significant intended distributional consequences would be one that involves universal marginal benefit taxation for each good or service provided in the public sector . |
| 8 | If your bench top or surface used in the gluing process requires protection , a sheet of melamine on a thin backing to prevent curling , or polythene can be placed under the work being glued . |
| 9 | Mehtab , for instance , had never seen her mother or father sunbathing in the back garden . |
| 10 | Ubbink 's Sim-Fix is a simple yet effective way of fixing slipped or replacement slates in an existing roof . |
| 11 | Typically in English a paragraph is unified by the fact that it brings together material around a single point or topic indicated in the first sentence . |
| 12 | This does not need to be done explicitly ( e.g. through devices such as " in the last paragraph , I have argued … " ) , but can be achieved by phrases like " this x " , or " the idea that x " ( where x is a term or phrase used in the previous paragraph ) . |
| 13 | They seem like terribly nice people , concerned with wildlife , erosion , litter and rights of way through potato fields , but a dangler or scrambler caught in a confined space with a tenacious rambler will end up either committing an act of violence or huddling in a foetal position in the corner , dribbling saliva from a defeated face as the rambler concludes his theory about red deer numbers . |
| 14 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 15 | Here the reward or payoff acts in a negative way and is a form of punishment . |
| 16 | Vand — a root word meaning ‘ saluting ’ or ‘ greeting ’ : an acknowledgement of rank or attainment applied in a spiritual context to an Initiate . |
| 17 | A housing allowance/accommodation subsidy or company housing in the overseas location is provided as appropriate . |
| 18 | My main gripe is the surfeit of turgid waffle by Art & Language included in the latter stages — a group with which Harrison and Wood have been intimately involved . |
| 19 | Total intraepithelial lymphocytes ( surface and crypt epithelium combined ) as assessed in 1 µm toluidine blue stained epon sections differed insignificantly from treated patients or disease controls in the untreated gluten sensitivity groups ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 20 | As the last extracts indicate , schools and teaching exist in a social framework . |
| 21 | All Byzantine decorative form is a mixture of east and west treated in a symbolic rather than realistic manner ( 187 ) . |
| 22 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 23 | Quiet and modest in manner , speaking with an occasional stutter , his initiative , absolute reliability and willingness to help in the humblest duties endeared him to his many friends , not only in the literary world . |
| 24 | If it be necessary or desirable to protect the holder of a patent against fraud or dishonesty it must equally be necessary and desirable to protect the plaintiffs against the fraud and dishonesty alleged in the present case . |
| 25 | Privet and yew combine in an effective two-tone design |
| 26 | This is one band into barrier breaking and category crushing in a big way . |
| 27 | This is one band into barrier breaking and category crushing in a big way . |
| 28 | Later in the programme we ask are positive discrimination and chauvinism thriving in the Labour Party ? |
| 29 | In this case the presence of oxygen and hydrogen mixed in the optimum proportions , could well have compounded the effect . |
| 30 | Although it is sometimes realized that the demands of public sector accountability and decision making in a political context can serve to limit the extent to which concepts of efficiency derived from the private sector can be applied uncritically in the public sector domain , there nevertheless remains a feeling that much more could be done to improve resource utilisation . |