Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many young children , the birth of a brother or sister provides their first experience of sharing . ’ |
| 2 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
| 3 | If your capital or income reduces you will be required to pay less . |
| 4 | Every poem or text has its main point of climax , and probably several less important ones . |
| 5 | Make sure your adviser has a full operating licence — known as a ‘ regulated ’ licence — and that his stationery , business card or literature states his authorisation . |
| 6 | But without variations in exchange rates or labour costs it will be impossible to sustain different levels of labour productivity in different parts of the Community . |
| 7 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 8 | the nose or bouquet tells you plenty . |
| 9 | If the simile or metaphor leaves you feeling exactly the same , if it does n't move you , then you could improve it . |
| 10 | Each tail movement or posture tells us ( and other cats ) something about the animal 's emotional condition and it is possible to draw up a ‘ de-coding key ’ , as follows : |
| 11 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 12 | Suppleness or flexibility gives you a greater range of movements which will help you avoid the problems of pulled muscles and tendons and sprained ligaments . |
| 13 | Much of her spare time is spent acting as secretary to her husband , who is Deputy President ( Technical ) of the B.A.G.A. The rare weekend not taken up with Medau or Gymnastics sees them both actively pursuing their other hobby — rambling ! |
| 14 | However , any letters we send or telephone calls we make in connection with your overdraft will in future be free which , we hope you will agree , is good news . |
| 15 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
| 16 | If the obligor or feoffor pay a lesser sum either before the day or at another place than is limited by the condition , and the obligee or feoffee receiveth it , this is a good satisfaction . ’ |
| 17 | These estimated 's can then be used to estimate from equation ( 3.15 ) , that is : where over a variable or coefficient denotes our estimate of the variable or coefficient . |
| 18 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 19 | Only River Plate & General has its projected price on redemption doubly covered . |
| 20 | The student grant , equivalent only to low-income-level subsistence ( even if the parent or spouse pays their full calculated contribution ) , does not attract the same right to Housing Benefit . |
| 21 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 22 | Kenyon must see it through or heaven knows what will become of the station . |
| 23 | In extreme cases perhaps it is , but relief should not be refused unless the applicant 's conduct or motive makes it inappropriate to award the relief sought in this case : courts should not refuse relief in order to penalize an applicant for bad conduct unrelated to the relief sought . |
| 24 | If you are anything near upright , the prospect of a face full of boom or sail causes you to lean back which completely spoils the turn . |
| 25 | Is it not possible , for example , that some theory is better , in the sense of being closer to the truth , a better problem solver , a better instrument of prediction or whatever , than a rival , even though no individual or group judges it to be so ? |
| 26 | IF your husband or boy-friend forgets your birthday do n't leave him … it may be biological . |
| 27 | The Created God must be such that it can be envisaged as a focal point on which thoughts can be concentrated when a problem or need requires it . |
| 28 | And it did bring it home to me that we have got a major security problem in this building and in our other municipal buildings and quite frankly the ease with which anybody can come into this building at virtually any time of the day or evening astounds me . |
| 29 | In a market-orientated society , where every good or service has its price , the low-pay ‘ price tag ’ attached to some workers sums up in their eyes the low value placed on them by society . |
| 30 | Often the process of enforcement or preservation makes it necessary for him to take or defend proceedings . |