Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not form healthy friendships with either women or men , and ‘ identified with abstract collectivities to compensate for their failure and/or inability to relate to individual human beings . ’ |
| 2 | The researcher must not impose any prior assumptions on the subject matter , and should allow any theory or hypothesis to emerge from what is observed and recorded . |
| 3 | Few companies , when first established , have the resources or expertise to operate outside their home market . |
| 4 | Parties may obtain discovery by one or more of the following methods : depositions upon oral examination or written questions ; written interrogatories ; production of documents or things or permission to enter upon land or other property , for inspection and other purposes ; physical and mental examinations ; and requests for admission . |
| 5 | The main premise in FSP theory is that the communicative goals of an interaction cause the structure of a clause or sentence to function in different kinds of perspective . |
| 6 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
| 7 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 8 | Girls in school uniform , women in hospital nightgowns , mothers struggling with poverty , who have no time or money to spend on their appearance , can feel that they are being depersonalized . |
| 9 | The return of a Fianna Fáil government under Jack Lynch meant something of a decline in Anglo-Irish cordiality or willingness to collaborate in security matters , while the end of the constitutional assembly in early 1977 had removed any prospect of finding any viable Ulster administration to modify the picture of direct rule from Westminster . |
| 10 | Whether the issue is whether to buy a motor motor bike , what college or university to apply for , or what job to look for , a calm discussion of all the factors involved is far more fruitful than teenage demand met by flat parental refusal , with no real thinking on either side . |
| 11 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 12 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 13 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 14 | At worst , they merely signal a reluctance or inability to grapple with those problems . |
| 15 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 16 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 17 | In addition to placing the baby on its back or side to sleep under a cot blanket , parents are advised to avoid duvets and sheepskins . |
| 18 | A high cut-off score is necessary since achieving it is taken to indicate mastery of a particular domain , or readiness to proceed to the next level of learning . |
| 19 | GDP would recover from two years ' contraction or stagnation to grow by 4.75 per cent in 1992-93 . |
| 20 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 21 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing before a complaints committee would be removed . |
| 22 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing should be removed . |
| 23 | The main aim of Community Care is to help people who need assistance because of age , disability or infirmity to stay at home for as long as possible , by providing services to support them , their relatives and carers . |
| 24 | It will also need clipping or pruning to shape at least once a year , especially in the case of formal hedges . |
| 25 | Thus , every three years or so , a strident siren echoed across the Dantesque landscape of Winnington to signal the moment for everyone within eye- or ear-shot to retire to a safe distance and to watch the plant reduce itself to a concrete skeleton . |
| 26 | No longer do you have to go to a bank or stockbroker to deal in shares . |
| 27 | Families are almost bound to be aware of the slippage in faculties or capacity to cope of an older family member , long before there is an expressed need for some form of group care , whether day care or residential care . |
| 28 | No town was too small , no theatre or hall to humble for her to dance for the people . |
| 29 | An identical sum was bequeathed by Margaret , countess of Foix , vicomtesse of Béarn and Marsan , in March 1319 , to send a Béarnais noble of her family or household to serve in Outremer . |
| 30 | It is , I believe , this same ‘ sthenic spur , ’ or determination to survive as a self-defined individual , which causes the anorexic to reject suicide — another form of surrender — and to choose the more arduous life of self-starvation , not in order to die , but in order to live and go on living . |