Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also helpful if it can be shown there have been arm 's length negotiations between management and the institutions and that the price benefit to management ( ie the fact that management acquire control of Newco but pay no more per share than the institutions and/or pay less than 50% of the price for more than 50% of the equity ) derives from those negotiations , rather than from management 's employment by Target . |
| 2 | Then turn off the stop tap on the supply to the feed-and-expansion tank , attach a hose to the lowest draincock on the system , and lead it to a gully or drain outside . |
| 3 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 4 | Now just so that they see whether to times or divide we 've got to tell them , it 's no good just putting a ten there is it I 've got to say it 's a times or divide okay ? |
| 5 | As you know the authorities or control very very closely , as to the additional members of staff that come on . |
| 6 | If on the other hand all prices , including wages , rise or fall together , the nominal wage will rise to ( fall to ) , leaving the real wage unchanged and equilibrium in the labour market ( and the level of output ) completely unaffected-a completely inelastic aggregate supply curve . |
| 7 | Their motives were seen as malicious damage or play rather than mental disorder or the settling of grudges . |
| 8 | Academics in English are loners reluctant to engage in team projects or pull together in research centres . |
| 9 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 10 | BAK or delete only files that were updated after a certain date . |
| 11 | Most of us will be average , and our children will remain at our socio-economic level or move marginally higher up the social order in line with an overall improvement in standards of living . |
| 12 | Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm . |
| 13 | If you wish to explore the village of Badby on foot or join either The Knightley Way or The Nene Way , parking is available at the picnic area on the A361 ( marked on the map ) . |
| 14 | She was , in terms of the law , the better witness , did not rail or curse as wildly as her opponent and rival — the widow , at one point , fell to the ground in convulsions , twitching and flailing . |
| 15 | Although they were well placed for chalk , all other commodities had to be carried by rail or barge up-river to the works . |
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| 17 | On many occasions I have been exasperated by people attempting these manoeuvres who ca n't even use a harness or sail consistently in strong winds . |
| 18 | The regional office will also be pleased to put you in touch with your nearest members ' group if you would like to attend the meetings or become more involved in helping the RSPB . |
| 19 | We ca n't hold meetings or travel freely . |
| 20 | They move along the underground systems to either emerge in due course or stay tight to rabbits they have encountered . |
| 21 | For example the sport of crown green bowling , which was very little known outside of the north of England , has been shown to a wider public ; the greens are often oddly bereft of spectators , and the northern accents of the players are plainly audible as they urge on their woods or confer solemnly as a pair over the last bowl of an important ‘ end ’ . |
| 22 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 23 | Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan . |
| 24 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
| 25 | A 1940 War Office file on possible invasion sites states that Bawdsey is a ‘ Category A risk , liable to a seaborne attack , probably a smash-and-grab raid by up to 100 men , launched from a submarine or ship offshore ’ . |
| 26 | Only when these are done , as Graham points out , should policy attempt to improve attendance by lower socio-economic group mothers through such financial sanctions as withholding or paying a reduced amount in maternity or child benefit to those mothers who do not attend such clinics or attend irregularly . |
| 27 | Neaten outer edge of bias strip or turn under raw edge . |
| 28 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 29 | just leave that unless you are totally stuck , and I do n't mean sort of five minutes , have a good sort of maybe ten minutes or say about ten minutes of playing with this . |
| 30 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |