Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On retirement or death in office ( botanists tend to be long-lived but not quite immortal ) , their book collections were frequently sold off to defray debts or to provide a settlement for their widows . |
| 2 | For details of the series look in the Radio Times or get a list of the programmes , either from Radio Brighton or by writing to me , Doctor Brian Smith at the Physics Building in the university . |
| 3 | By manipulating the glove , the user can interact with the virtual world , handling and manipulating objects or using a repertoire of gestures as commands . |
| 4 | But inevitably , it was not enough to kiss fingers or allow a caress at arm 's length : she wanted much , much more . |
| 5 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 6 | I do n't have to pass exams or get a job , we do n't need the money — oh no , I do all this purely for my own amusement . ’ |
| 7 | And for those who prefer more leisurely pursuits you can picnic , sunbathe , ride a cable car into the surrounding peaks or take a ride on one of the oldest cog railways in the world . |
| 8 | Like as not you d fall into the foundations or get a brick down on your head . |
| 9 | His work has often incorporated a story-board-like element , smaller ‘ pictures ’ marching in squared-off boxes around the borders of his canvases or forming a predella-like frieze along the bottom . |
| 10 | Non-members may use unbooked courts or play a game with a member on payment of the day membership ( guest ) fee ; unless you are an early bird or night owl where the guest fee is waived for players vacating courts before 09.00 or on court after 22.30 . |
| 11 | Non-members may use unbooked courts or play a game with a member on payment of the day membership ( guest ) fee ; unless you are an early bird or night owl where the guest fee is waived for players vacating courts before 09.00 or on court after 22.30 . |
| 12 | This year 's is the biggest-ever and we 're asking everyone who cares about wildlife to sponsor the cyclists or make a donation . ’ |
| 13 | Now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop T H O P when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we do n't lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity . |
| 14 | Picnic on the ramparts or enjoy a quiet ‘ cuppa ’ while the children try the junior assault course . |
| 15 | It is considered more conventional for girls to take arts subjects than sciences ; as convergers tend to be more conventional in outlook , girls are in something of a double bind — they have to decide whether to follow their inclinations or to make a ‘ conventional ’ choice . |
| 16 | It is obvious how much better equipped the relevant authorities will be to prevent illegal exports or to retrieve a work of art thought to have been illegally exported when armed with a full description and photographs which enable title to be firmly established . |
| 17 | Deep learning — like knowing how to dress yourself or clean your teeth or ride a bicycle , which you learned to do when young and which have entered your consciousness at a deeper level so that you rarely think consciously about them because you engage in these activities daily and apparently intuitively . |
| 18 | Thus , even routine behaviours which occur many times — such as tying shoelaces , brushing teeth or washing a cup — will never be performed in exactly the same way on two occasions . |
| 19 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |
| 20 | Could you walk two miles in thirty minutes or run a mile in ten or twelve minutes ? |
| 21 | It may be done to emphasize certain textural characteristics or to prepare a surface for staining ( see Section 4.52 ) . |
| 22 | If you 're feeling brave you can swim in chilly crystal-clear lakes or take a hike in the mountains . |
| 23 | The court may order transfer forthwith or invite written representations from the parties or fix a hearing date to consider the matter . |
| 24 | Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ? |
| 25 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 26 | When Mum can relax in a deck chair and the children can enjoy making sand pipes and castles or having a donkey ride . |
| 27 | For example , regular writing to missionaries or taking a stand against issues which are highlighted , such as human rights or ecological problems . |
| 28 | For example , regular writing to missionaries or taking a stand against issues which are highlighted , such as human rights or ecological problems . |
| 29 | Pay their respects or place a white rose ? ’ |
| 30 | All shook their heads or mumbled a negative . |