Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can either be calculated using total variance in breeding success or using only variance attributable to differences in the number of mates per individual ( see Wade & Arnold , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Or tearing down part of the prison ? |
| 3 | A reaction to these difficulties may be withdrawal , apathy , or acting out behaviour . |
| 4 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 5 | After Melanie shopped , she helped her aunt , either serving in their own shop or writing out price tags or performing the endless task of polishing the woodwork of counter and drawers , a Forth Bridge of polishing that was no sooner completed than the messy fingers of small customers meant it must be started again . |
| 6 | So-called ‘ gun ’ microphones are well-known tools for bugging distant conversations or picking up sound from a point source in a crowded room or studio . |
| 7 | Cinderella 's Slippers will cover your favourite pair of court shoes in the fabric of your choice for shoes that perfectly match your wedding dress or going away outfit . |
| 8 | Er , and in this instance I have consistently erm , asked that we , we do all we can , to allow us to spend our capital receipts , and the fact that we had the holiday last year was er , er , of of great benefit to this this council , erm , there are er times when we should er perhaps be putting money into reserves or paying off debt , but this council should be allowed to make those decisions rather |
| 9 | When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips , be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables . |
| 10 | However , the firm is precluded from receiving or holding either Investment Business Clients Money or Custodial Investments . |
| 11 | or grubbing up fern roots with her beak . |
| 12 | Because so many firms in the area were either closing down or cutting back production , there was a steady supply of textile machinery being sold very cheaply by local auctioneers . |
| 13 | ‘ The Government firmly rejects either a return to central planning or handing over policy responsibilities to a body independent of Government , ’ the white paper says . |
| 14 | Most can still afford a new potato peeler or washing up bowl if someone bothers to deliver them . |
| 15 | This hardly inspires confidence in the system , and emphasises the problem of actually proving that inside information was used , or showing when information stops being ‘ unpublished ’ and is widely known about . |
| 16 | There is more than relief in outrunning or fighting off danger : there is a real pleasure . |
| 17 | Her personal wedding gift to her son was a magnificent carpet which was spread in the small majlis , a room in the tahat or sitting down tradition with cushions lining the walls . |
| 18 | Dies are tools which can be used in presses to produce a particular shape usually by stamping or bending e.g. car body panels . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 20 | ( l ) To subscribe for , take , purchase , or otherwise acquire , hold , sell , deal with and dispose of , place and underwrite shares , stocks , debentures , debenture stocks , bonds , obligations or securities issued or guaranteed by any other company constituted or carrying on business in any part of the world , and debentures , debenture stocks , bonds , obligations or securities issued or guaranteed by any government or authority , municipal , local or otherwise , in any part of the world . |
| 21 | ( l ) To subscribe for , take , purchase , or otherwise acquire , hold , sell , deal with and dispose of , place and underwrite shares , stocks , debentures , debenture stocks , bonds , obligations or securities issued or guaranteed by any other company constituted or carrying on business in any part of the world , and debentures , debenture stocks , bonds , obligations or securities issued or guaranteed by any government or authority , municipal , local or otherwise , in any part of the world . |
| 22 | The educational role usually amounted to freeing the teacher from mundane classroom activities or carrying out instruction under the teacher 's guidance , whereas the para-professional role involved helping with physiotherapy and speech therapy exercises . |
| 23 | This will involve either freezing income tax allowances or putting up VAT . |
| 24 | So we , we , we 're still working to middle peasants being able to earn twenty five or thirty percent of their income from exploitation , either hired labour or renting out land and we wo n't touch it at all . |
| 25 | And that ma of course erm posed problems for people just getting married or setting up home or people who had lost their homes due to bombing . |
| 26 | Tomorrow night on Central News South we meet the Rover Group 's man in America , Graham Morris , and there 's new about what might lie in store for British people thinking of emigrating or setting up business in this . |
| 27 | Years when you are at home and getting home responsibilities protection will not be counted , but years when you are unemployed or working part-time will , and will bring down the average , so you will end up with a lower pension . |
| 28 | Every night both he and he and others packed into the tigh dubh , huddled around peat fires , supping the broth and listening to the wind skirting the stone walls and bellowing down stone wells . |
| 29 | These included promoting energy conservation and efficiency ; placing tighter controls on fossil fuel emissions ; and stepping up research into alternative energy sources . |
| 30 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |