Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 2 | easy as riding a bike or walking the sea . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) The Bank may , on an application duly made in accordance with section 8 above and after being provided with all such information , documents and reports as it may require under that section , grant or refuse the application . |
| 4 | The usual approach of the courts is to examine whether any confidential information exists , whether it is protected by an express or implied term and , subject to arguments as to the balance of convenience , grant or refuse the injunction sought . |
| 5 | The East Coast Puritans refused to alter their garb or touch the native food . |
| 6 | * Use the present tense for describing the content of a text or narrating the story . |
| 7 | Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people . |
| 8 | The NMA leadership and many rank-and-file members became increasingly disenchanted with MFGB strategy during the 1920 national miners ' strike and the 1921 lockout , and less than a third of Nottinghamshire miners bothered to vote in a 1921 ballot on whether to accept the offered settlement or continue the dispute ( Griffin , 1962 , p.91 , p.102 ) . |
| 9 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 10 | To submit any DC , DC operations privilege is required and so you should either ask your LIFESPAN Manager for this privilege or pass the DC to a suitable user with this privilege , using LIFESPAN option 2.5.0 . |
| 11 | He 's already lost the sight of his left eye because cocaine starved the retina of blood , and he 's damn lucky not to be totally blind , or even dead , because the next time it could constrict the arteries of his heart or block the blood from reaching his brain . |
| 12 | It is tempting to say that they have no function besides advancing the story or embellishing the characters , no value outside their immediate context . |
| 13 | Both the county and the city councils are to ask the Government to either meet the full costs of the 7.5pc rise or lift the authorities ' charge-capping limits . |
| 14 | I understand the Gulf Trust 's anxiety , but I think they have not really focused on this case or heard the reasonableness of advanced payments . ’ |
| 15 | Similarly , early reproduction may impair survival or future fertility , by consuming resources , causing somatic damage or exposing the organism to environmental injury : there is a ‘ cost of reproduction ’ . |
| 16 | On the night of April 27/28 , 1942 , a force of 31 Halifaxes from 10 , 35 and 76 Squadrons and 12 Lancasters from 44 and 97 Squadrons flew up Faetten Fjord in a desperate attempt to inflict damage or sink the Tirpitz . |
| 17 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 18 | No , they must have , I caught a dog fight or shoot the windscreen ! |
| 19 | For he has this grace , that he is happy to eat fish fingers or Chinese takeaway or to cook the supper himself . |
| 20 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 21 | The agreement usually provides that if necessary consents have not been obtained , the contract or asset will not be transferred to the acquirer but the acquirer will perform the contract or enter the property ( subject to the terms of the lease ) as the agent of the offeree . |
| 22 | If you want to protect your livelihood or protect the environment you 're living in , you 'd do everything possible to make sure it 's not damaged by this way or any other means . ’ |
| 23 | Hence it is difficult to derive accurate and spatially-representative predictions of the impact of future land-use change or to examine the long-term stability of lake ecosystems in the face of repeated episodes of accelerated nutrient input . |
| 24 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 25 | They lack confidence in their ability to effect change or improve the quality of their lives . |
| 26 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 27 | The other system requires a device to measure the load in the cable or to control the maximum pull that the vehicle will provide . |
| 28 | You must plan the circuit carefully , especially if you intend to move the lights around , and run suitable cable underground ( use armoured cable or run the cable in conduit , at least 450mm ( 18in ) deep , connected to the main house consumer unit . |
| 29 | At many Siva temples and Cobra shrines , women are often seen in prayer or receiving the blessings of the attending priest . |
| 30 | So he declined to strike out paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer or to make the alternative orders that were sought . |