Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under s665(2) , a settlement shall not be deemed to be revocable by reason only : ( a ) that it contains a provision under which any income or assets will or may become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor , or the wife or husband of the settlor , on the bankruptcy of the settlor 's child or in the event of an assignment of or charge on that income or those assets being executed by the settlor 's child ; or ( b ) that it provides for the determination of the settlement by the act or on the default of any person in such a manner that the determination will not , during the lifetime of the settlor 's child , benefit the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor ; or ( c ) in the case of a settlement to which section 33 of the Trustee Act 1925 applies , that it directs income to be held for the benefit of the settlor 's child on protective trusts , unless the trust period is a period less than the life of the child or the settlement specifies some event on the happening of which the child would , if the income were payable during the trust period to him absolutely during that period , be deprived of the right to receive all or part of the income . |
| 2 | The perceived reward for increased productivity is insecurity either through job loss or the necessity to learn new skills and be examined . |
| 3 | They would highlight certain characteristics of human beings , such as emotions or the capacity to make moral choices , as characteristics that they wish to value above all others . |
| 4 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 5 | Attitudes towards religion or the church provide another index . ’ |
| 6 | Now surely we owe these people something better than this surely there 's got the wickedness out or the intelligence to get this thing off the ground . |
| 7 | Those on a budget will choose self catering or take-away some of the time , or when eating out will stick to more economic and filling pizza and pasta dishes , or the rosticceria selling tasty spit roast chickens . |
| 8 | Sometimes the laird or the minister recognised this need and a literary society was formed . |
| 9 | And there is no guarantee that either the metabolic pathways or the ability to repair genetic damage is comparable in mouse and man . |
| 10 | The bases of power are coercion , or the ability to apply physical sanctions ; remuneration or the ability to control rewards ; normative power or the control of symbolic rewards ; and knowledge , or the control of information . |
| 11 | For although Force Orders inevitably direct that such material will be submitted for assessment , it is typical that in a task-orientated institution which gives low priority or credence to the academic tome , the systems to ensure submission of the essays , or the ability to make much use of any useful ideas they contain , often remains sketchy . |
| 12 | The turning point may come when the US supreme court decides that genetic injustice is so immense that it is within the law to show an employer or the insurance falsified genetic identity . |
| 13 | They do not , generally , have the time or the inclination to take financial statements apart . |
| 14 | In approximately half of the cases , the parent found out more directly : either the user told his or her parents , usually at a crisis point in the user 's career , for example , when undergoing ‘ turkey ’ during a time of drought ; or the parent found direct evidence of drug use , such as burnt scraps of tin foil , and confronted the user with this . |
| 15 | In places of special risk , such as hospital kitchens serving meals to the very old , the very young , or immuno-suppressive patients or the factory producing large quantities of cooked cold meats , disinfection may need to be more frequent . |
| 16 | Any talk of rights other than those enshrined in the ( positive ) law is dangerous because it can be used by fanatics or the self-serving to subvert that law . |
| 17 | For instance , if the dismissal was plainly fair or the executive lacks sufficient service to claim unfair dismissal , the first two elements may be irrelevant . |
| 18 | It can be used with or without quantities , and either the architect or the contractor produces detailed drawings . |
| 19 | No ruler , possibly other than in Italy , had the means or the wish to employ large forces when there was no war . |
| 20 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 21 | Thirdly , social movements are organised around specific demands such as the need to defend the legality of land-holdings ; the desire to get access to water and electricity ; or the need to protect human rights . |
| 22 | Either Bruce Davidson always sounded like a Speak Your Weight machine when he was delivering a prepared statement , or the answer-phone stripped all character from People 's voices . |
| 23 | Critical corruption leading to evident malfunction is a second category — the system hangs , the cursor freezes , the operating system fails to boot , or the program produces obvious gibberish . |
| 24 | She used a lot of illustration in her sermons , often taking stories from Rita Snowden 's books or the Bible to relate Christian truth to everyday experience . |
| 25 | Was that a collective decision by the Tory party or the Cabinet to raise false expectations or were the Ministers acting in a freelance capacity ? |
| 26 | He will be aware that only the most diligent of hon. Members and outside organisations used to go to the Table Office or the Library to get those replies . |
| 27 | Average quantities ( e.g. the mean value of Z or the root mean square value of the fluctuations in X ) will take the same values in different realizations of the same conditions ; i.e. different computations , perhaps using different numerical procedures , for different initial conditions but the same values of r , P , and b . |
| 28 | She opened her mouth to ask her mother why he 'd said that , and just as abruptly closed it again , realising that this was n't the time or the place to discuss private family matters . |
| 29 | Cohen had no means of protecting himself ; he was an elderly Jew — well , perhaps not elderly but clearly past his prime — and it was most unlikely that he 'd have the guts or the strength to attempt physical resistance . |
| 30 | ‘ I have neither the time nor the inclination to play stupid games , ’ he snapped . |