Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively modern professions of engineer and chauffeur or driver account for 7 and 6 respectively , while the skilled traditional trades so common among the bride 's fathers are here all down to single figures : 7 in wood , 7 in metal , 4 in building , 3 in plumbing and fitting . |
| 2 | Fourteen other former government officials arrested as a result of the coup and since detained without charge or trial continue to be held in al-Mizze Prison in Damascus . |
| 3 | Did anyone notice that the president of the Object Management Group wrote an open letter urging people out there to ask Microsoft Corp to have Object Linking & Embedding adhere to Object Group standards ? |
| 4 | Today , service , seniority , and experience do not appear to be considered at all , your religion or creed appear to be an important factor in regulating your progress in the Service … ’ |
| 5 | Documents prepared by the solicitor for his or her own benefit or protection belong to that solicitor ; so do documents sent by the client , which are intended to pass to him or her . |
| 6 | A pie chart can help the retailer or business-person see at a glance exactly where the money goes . |
| 7 | It should be borne in mind that despite the fact that psychiatric diseases such as depression or manic-depression tend to be vastly over-diagnosed , particularly in sufferers from alcoholism ( in whom these features may be indications of their primary disease of alcoholism ) , some patients do have both addictive disease and psychiatric disease and need appropriate treatment for both . |
| 8 | The smoothness and evenness of the big engine 's power delivery helps the car 's handling and cornering ability as well and there is never any sign of wheelspin or torque steer under acceleration , which is endemic with powerful , front-wheel-drive machinery . |
| 9 | Of course , nobody as yet knows how intentionality — the property that mental phenomena have of being about something other than themselves — or consciousness emerge from the operations of the brain . |
| 10 | The people of the tribe or village agree to them participating in their lives to some extent but there is no pretence that the lady from America has actually become a Polynesian native . |
| 11 | Of course , individual sonnets of compliment to a male friend or patron exist in Renaissance poetry , but , as J. W. Lever wrote , summing up previous researches , ‘ there is no parallel in the whole corpus of Renaissance poetry to Shakespeare 's sustained exploration of the theme of friendship through more than a hundred and twenty sonnets ’ . |
| 12 | The difference can not simply be dismissed as a question of personality , since certain patterns of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction seem to be associated with particular kinds of jobs . |
| 13 | The vast majority of items for which there is a strong intuition either of meaningfulness or meaninglessness respond in the appropriate way to the test of recurrent semantic contrast . |
| 14 | Or crackle open under a blue-black pressure . |
| 15 | There are arguments about whether we have some ‘ primordial ’ sense of the world which is in some way independent of the symbol systems we use , or to what extent our visual or aural perceptions of painting or music depend on or are penetrated by the knowledge we have through such systems . |
| 16 | The conditions of exemption or relief vary from agreement to agreement . |
| 17 | It is considered better to work , over a period of time , with the family as well as the child , providing whatever support , training or care appear to be appropriate at different stages of development . |
| 18 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 19 | It must be pointed out , however , that rejection of this aspect of the human capital theory does not necessarily imply rejection of its main claims , i.e. that education or health contribute to economic growth . |
| 20 | In most gardens the show must be made up of performers that can do a spring or summer act as good as their autumn one . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 22 | ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land … |
| 23 | This means that natural forests or land have to be cleared for wood plantations , which consume large amounts of water and nutrients and give back very little in the way of humus to the soil . |
| 24 | Not only does the level of racist abuse or harassment vary in different schools and localities , but teacher stereotypes and the labelling of black children vary according to pupil , age , social class , and the demographic distribution of ethnic minority groups . |
| 25 | Activities involving the close use of vision can be tiring for children with this condition , and stress or excitement seem in some cases to exacerbate it . |
| 26 | This is a favourite haunt of the Empire 's outcasts , where refugees from justice or persecution take to a life of banditry . |
| 27 | Go to a road race or track meet in Britain or Europe and it 's people like Alan you 'll see . |
| 28 | Battle for bookbuyers : Does innovation or desperation lie behind publishers ’ marketing ploys ? |
| 29 | Power over individuals or autonomy rely on the control of personal information . |
| 30 | The government has another not dissimilar pressure point in the fact that the IRAs and the loyalist urban paramilitary organisations with members in detention or prison contribute to the upkeep of their families . |