Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 2 | There is a very basic hostel here , for serious , long-range walkers , and in summer you can hire horses or ponies to ride about on the surrounding , pine-covered hillsides . |
| 3 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 4 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 5 | We will introduce a new grant , paid through TECs , to help employers , voluntary groups or schools to set up after-school care and holiday arrangements . |
| 6 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 7 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 8 | As the waves or pulses pass down the fibre they mix with their delayed echoes . |
| 9 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 10 | What the alternative to today 's degenerate and evil society is presents no immediate problem : women are once again hidden from sight , or married ones have their hair shorn ; thieves are once again punished by having hands or legs cut off ; alcohol , or whatever else is ritually prohibited , is banned ; and Koran , or Bible , or whatever constitutes the authoritative compendium or eternal wisdom , provides complete practical and moral guidance on all subjects , as interpreted by those whose business it is to do so . |
| 11 | Thus was born the technique of intense study of typical ‘ quadrats ’ or squares marked off to define a sample of the vegetation for the surrounding area . |
| 12 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 13 | It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business . |
| 14 | Brain dysfunction - due to uncontrolled electrical discharges as in epilepsy or due to the effects of drugs or toxins damping down electrical activity — will lead to disturbance or loss of consciousness . |
| 15 | The new legislation included : ( i ) a law on private enterprise , which allowed individuals to start companies without restrictions on the numbers of employees ; ( ii ) a law on state enterprises , which allowed state-owned companies to offer shares to their workforces ; ( iii ) a law on shareholding , which allowed foreign individuals or companies to own up to 100 per cent of Czechoslovak-based companies ; ( iv ) a law on industrial relations , enshrining employee and trade-union rights ; and ( v ) provisions for the creation of industrial courts to settle commercial disputes . |
| 16 | Trees might be planted or earthworks thrown up to the north of a house to disperse harmful ch'i emanating from that quarter . |
| 17 | The ‘ purlieus ’ , or areas put out of the forest by the perambulations , were a special bone of contention . |
| 18 | NEARLY 400 cattle were auctioned in just one hour without the animals , vendors or buyers going off to market when the first sale of fat stock by satellite television went on screen . |
| 19 | Do not let seed or seedlings dry out |
| 20 | No shoulder straps , insignia , or decorations appear on either tunic or coat in any known photograph . |
| 21 | You should never leave credit cards , cheque books , wallets or handbags lying around — no matter where you are . |
| 22 | Barr and Barnes are among an increasing number who favour vouchers or bursaries topped up by loans . |
| 23 | Tallyman ( itinerant credit trader , credit draper or clothing club ) Doorstep credit for clothes or textiles costing up to about £30 , fixed instalments collected weekly , often in 20 weeks , interest fixed at start . |
| 24 | Here 's his best save or saves coming up . |
| 25 | Fees take months or years to come in , and quite a proportion are never recovered . |
| 26 | Will you get a clear run in your presentation or will you be interrupted by tea arriving , or latecomers drifting in ? |
| 27 | But almost every year one or more of these Siberian thrushes or warblers turn up to add a bit of icing to the bird-watching cake ! |
| 28 | If you are booking a late offer holiday any information or conditions set out in the hate offer documents are also part of your contract and if in doubt you should check with your Travel Agent . |
| 29 | In the event of any clause or conditions set out in this appointment being declared invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction then all other clauses or terms remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected thereby . |
| 30 | I 've picked A minor ( or C major ) for our four examples , as this is a common key for jamming and there are no sharps or flats to worry about when reading the licks . |