Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allows you to extract text to file or printer for later reading or including in your own word processing documents . |
| 2 | There was nothing secret or mean in his character , and we soon became good friends . |
| 3 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 4 | Like other companies we would not be allowed to buy or lease in our own right and so we would have to take on non-producing quota holders to encourage farmers who regularly lease quota themselves to join our supply pool , ’ said Mr Ross , whose aim is to secure some 15 per cent of Scottish milk production . |
| 5 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 6 | It collects its food on a curtain of baleen or whalebone in its mouth and after a single meal may well have transferred to its stomach no less than 2 tons of tiny shrimps , each no more than 3 inches long . |
| 7 | Despite this report , the condition is still rarely diagnosed and is not mentioned in standard medical textbooks or taught in our local medical schools . |
| 8 | Store in a tin for up to one week before icing or using in our Present Perfect recipe . |
| 9 | This cake can be stored in a tin for up to one month before icing or using in our Present Perfect recipe . |
| 10 | We pray for those who are angry or bitter because they feel unwanted or marginalised in our society . |
| 11 | Before this week , Parmer had never been dropped or substituted in his club career . |
| 12 | Whenever I had a sheet of paper in front of me and a paintbrush or pencil in my hand , the result was inevitable . |
| 13 | Hundreds donned their full early-1960s gear , or paraded in their cars , in the hope of being cast as extras in the film . |
| 14 | Several farms were burned or devastated in its path , with some consequent deaths . |
| 15 | In spite of the pill he kept waking and hearing the old men around him coughing or mumbling in their sleep . |
| 16 | It was not that the athletes who won in 1924 were any less determined or committed in their approach . |
| 17 | He walked to his car and did not look back or glance in her direction as he drove quickly out of the drive . |
| 18 | How many people do you know who never show on their faces or reveal in their words what they truly feel ? |
| 19 | Gender is also a particularly important factor in determining whether or not individuals are supported or prevented in their attempts to live independently . |
| 20 | Each cell had its own stimulus requirements and when it became active this said something about the nature of the event or object in its own part of the visual field . |
| 21 | No messy bottles to drip down the side of the bath or break in your sportsbag . |
| 22 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 23 | The other matter which Chapman could not accept was any charge that his cars had been ‘ dangerous ’ , despite the fact that an inordinately large number of people had been killed or injured in his cars . |
| 24 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 25 | Follow the production of milk from the sheep , either grazing contentedly in the fields or relaxing in their sheds , through the milking parlour , to the finished products of yogurt and ice-cream in the Farm Shop . |
| 26 | Where such establishments are subject to careful ‘ quality control ’ , one would hope not to find physical abuse or neglect in their grosser forms . |
| 27 | The parent figures as a group showed gross excesses of psychiatric disturbance , physical illness and disability , and criminality , and the abusing parent had often been subjected to physical or mental abuse or neglect in their own childhood . |
| 28 | And obviously , you know , the idea of this report is to say you know , should the communists er trail behind and or stand in their way . |
| 29 | If you have a tank that always seems to be disease prone , or the fish die , often for no apparent reason , I would suggest that any decoration that is in or going in your tank be checked and double checked no matter how long it takes and how safe it is said to be . |
| 30 | Although there was no dramatic change in their circumstances — no fear of eviction or drop in their standard of living — Constance felt rudderless . |