Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A re-examination of Fig. 1 shows that cycles in practice display no obvious tendency either to diminish or increase in amplitude over time — indeed , particularly in the nineteenth century , the amplitude of the cycles was remarkably constant . |
| 2 | No school of architecture or civil engineering wants to study or teach about building with earth . |
| 3 | ( d ) To acquire or undertake the whole or any part of the business , goodwill , and assets of any person , firm , or company carrying on or proposing to carry on the business or any part of the business which the Company is authorised to carry on and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person , firm or company , or to acquire an interest in , amalgamate with , or enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits , or for co-operation , or for mutual assistance with any such person , firm or company , or for subsidising or otherwise assisting any person , firm or company , and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid or property acquired , any shares , debentures , debenture stock or securities that may be agreed upon , and to hold and retain , or sell , mortgage and deal with any shares , debentures , debenture stock of securities so received . |
| 4 | ( d ) To acquire or undertake the whole or any part of the business , goodwill , and assets of any person , firm , or company carrying on or proposing to carry on the business or any part of the business which the Company is authorised to carry on and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person , firm or company , or to acquire an interest in , amalgamate with , or enter into partnership or into any arrangement for sharing profits , or for co-operation , or for mutual assistance with any such person , firm or company , or for subsidising or otherwise assisting any person , firm or company , and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid or property acquired , any shares , debentures , debenture stock or securities that may be agreed upon , and to hold and retain , or sell , mortgage and deal with any shares , debentures , debenture stock of securities so received . |
| 5 | I 'll try and look to sort of student access erm , total theoretical will have , erm , some of your own transcripts by then . |
| 6 | They have creative flair in editorial and marketing , good management and communication skills , the ability to master and keep on top of detail , a keen awareness of commercial values : all of which are as applicable to non-print as to print publishing . |
| 7 | It is important to try and keep in practice in order to reinforce all the things which have been learned during the pre-solo training . |
| 8 | Fronted by a HyperCard-like interface — SuperCard , actually — the system lets users click and move from point to point on the painting and get lectures and comments from old bores , ex-mistresses , ‘ people who were there ’ , dopey ex-Nazi pilots , Picasso mavens and all sorts of experts . |
| 9 | Having boasted at length of his near-photographic memory and profound passion for poetry , he ends his book by saying ‘ I shall follow the advice of W.B. Yeats : ‘ Do not go gentle into that good night/Old age should burn and rage at close of day . ' |
| 10 | The fireworks seemed to pulse with the music , her skin seemed to melt and re-form from moment to moment . |
| 11 | Trippy began to sniff and hop from foot to foot . |
| 12 | Buyers to account and pay for VAT on gold |
| 13 | Would members please rise and stand in silence in memory of Mister Thank you . |
| 14 | Robbins now draws more and more attention to the text itself , by indulging in a dialogue with his projected reader to celebrate reaching his hundredth chapter or by rejecting the claims of traditional literary decorum : ‘ happily , your author is not under contract to any of the muses who supply the reputable writers , and thus he has access to a considerable variety of sentences to spread and stretch from margin to margin … ’ ( 124 ) . |
| 15 | Only if it 's nice , you know , it 's summer , I used to go and sit in garden with dog . |
| 16 | When they were asked to turn out and fight on behalf of king or queen and country , some regiments performed much better than others . |