Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many developing nations , with limited resources available with which to adjust or adapt to changes in climate , will have to rely on international assistance even more than they do at present . |
| 2 | Old unused farm houses/cottages were being renovated to rent or lease to tourists throughout the year . |
| 3 | Where a customer did not wish to purchase his own fleet of wagons , he was usually encouraged to hire or lease from firms such as Procor or Tiphook in preference to using railway-owned vehicles . |
| 4 | Moreover , they have no hesitation in stressing the point that builders do not operate or think in terms familiar to planners ; instead they look to ‘ market signals ’ . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 6 | In our view , although the Code extends beyond the treatment of those in detention , what is clear is that it was intended to protect suspects who are vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers or who may believe themselves to be so . |
| 7 | They do not explore the range of shapes pupils will accept or regard as examples of a shape . |
| 8 | These powers are enshrined as development control procedures which enable local authorities to reject , approve , or approve with conditions , applications for planning permission for new buildings , extensions to existing buildings and changes in land use . |
| 9 | For £12 a year you will receive five copies of each issue of Ulster Dawn , which you can then sell or give to friends or family . |
| 10 | Compulsory membership of a trade union , in force since 1936 with only a brief interlude , was to be abolished , and employers were to be released from their obligation to recognize or negotiate with unions or to be bound by pay awards negotiated at a national level . |
| 11 | A growing number of staffs within and across schools and the specialist services are now engaged in developing such joint approaches , meeting as teams in school-based discussions and workshops , with the explicit aims of pooling their expertise , sharing and increasing their understanding of the factors that may lead or contribute to children 's learning difficulties , and finding their own most appropriate solutions to them . |
| 12 | This kind of representational ability is thought to be a particularly important developmental achievement since the essence of early language is the child 's ability to use speech sounds to represent or refer to objects , actions and locations . |
| 13 | There is little doubt that some of the 700 million dollars would be at the expense of others and some practitioners of ‘ small ’ science , whose projects can sink or swim on fluctuations of tens of thousands of dollars , see calls for 700 million with less than total enthusiasm . |
| 14 | If you want to decorate or clean behind radiators , you usually need an elaborate brush device , immensely long arms , or a friendly plumber with loads of patience . |
| 15 | But many commentators saw only a decline in the desire to rear or look after children , a weakening of the cohesive effects of the family , and an associated diminution of the buoyancy of the stock in terms familiar at least since the Boer War . |
| 16 | A course for those needing to live or work with Americans , and for students of British English who need to develop an understanding of American English . |
| 17 | It is now possible to remove those fatty deposits that will not respond to either diet or exercise from areas such as under the chin , tummy , buttocks , thighs , calves , ankles and the male breast . |
| 18 | She 's the kind of person who 'd probably forget to eat or sleep for days while she was painting , then eat ravenously for the next week to make up , if she could . |
| 19 | In addition , ageing is associated with a general decrease in the ability of the body to respond or adjust to changes imposed upon it . |
| 20 | If you are younger , perhaps living alone after the death of an elderly parent , and you are in the same situation of having a large house or flat that is too much of a financial burden for you , then you must either sell or take in lodgers . |
| 21 | At the present time , the illiquidity of gamma stocks means that it is difficult to make a market in them , and also brokers find that they can not buy or sell without prices swinging widely in reaction . |
| 22 | By contrast , the stance of doing is concerned with acting upon those phenomena to bring about change , although the capacity to react or respond to phenomena may be a precondition of successful action in some cases , for example in the diagnosis of human problems and situations , as Ryan ( 1984 ) points out in relation to medicine . |
| 23 | They also criticized the evident lack of contingency plans to prevent or respond to accidents of this kind . |
| 24 | An example of an exclusivity clause is given below : For the period of [ 3 ] months from the date hereof neither you [ the vendor ] nor the subsidiaries ( and their management ) will approach or enter into discussions with any other prospective purchasers for the sale of your shareholding in the [ Company ] or a disposal of any of the business and/or assets of any part of the [ Group ] . |
| 25 | This is not to say that at some point such studies may not eventually facilitate or enter into explanations of a traditional theoretical kind , but this is not their point . |
| 26 | If either party wants to call more he must ask the other side to agree or apply for directions to do so . |
| 27 | must only eat or drink in areas of your office designated by your manager ; |
| 28 | Some seven Poor Law Acts culminated in the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 , Section 32 of which provided the auditor with ‘ full powers to examine , audit , allow , or disallow of accounts , and of items therein' . |
| 29 | Assertion of the principle served to do away with the monarch 's previously claimed powers to suspend or dispense with acts of Parliament and it served to deny judges the power to strike down measures . |
| 30 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |