Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my mum wants to go out , or goes to work , I stay at home and look after the girls , and vice versa . |
| 2 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |
| 3 | These factors include : whether the interval is within a particular hour or goes across hours ; and whether or not the minutes are multiples often . |
| 4 | Its grotesque outline keeps popping into view unexpectedly wherever one walks or drives around Lochinver , appearing as a giant thimble and always seeming to be peering inquisitively to see what is happening . |
| 5 | Without adducing any real evidence ( he refers sometimes to the dialogue given to women characters in novels or plays by men ) , Jespersen tells us women speak more softly and politely than men , have smaller and less varied vocabularies , use diminutives like teeny weeny , construct their sentences ‘ loosely , and leave them unfinished , all the while jumping from topic to topic . |
| 6 | Thus today I am equally at home with both metric systems , and can switch from ergs to joules , or dynes to newtons with ease . |
| 7 | Exhibitors are invited to send details of their special promotions or launches to David Russell at The Bookseller . |
| 8 | In urban areas , water is removed by means of continuous pipes or drains below ground level . |
| 9 | If the vomit is bloodstained or looks like coffee grounds . |
| 10 | All too rarely is the building considered as a whole : the shopfront is applied without a thought as to whether it clashes or blends in colour , proportion , materials or design with the building above . |
| 11 | For planning permission purposes , a garage is treated as a home extension if it is attached to the house , or stands within 5m ( 16ft 6in ) of it . |
| 12 | One consequence of this was that many stories were not really about events but merely reports or rewrites of speeches made by leading politicians at events . |
| 13 | Several of my old shipmates from earlier years were now established on the cutters and were building up reputations as excellent navigators , boat handlers or engineers , as well as hitting the headlines occasionally with notable seizures or rescues at sea . |
| 14 | It spans the room , looking purposeful — after all , arches were originally self-supporting structures , forming domes or vaults within buildings if several were used together , or making impressive bridges across rivers . |
| 15 | When cephalochordates or cephalochordates plus tunicates were used as the outgroup , the analysis suggested that lampreys and hagfishes are sister groups . |
| 16 | The walls of the buildings most commonly consisted of a single row of vertical timber planks or baulks with wattle panels inserted into grooves down their edges . |
| 17 | Adult is only pure white medium-sized seabird of region , having no darker streaks or smudges on head in winter : breast faintly suffused pink . |
| 18 | The next destination is Schaffhausen , famous for picturesque buildings , its excellent connections which make it so convenient a place from which to start an exploration of the Bodensee ( Lake Constance ) or trips into Germany , the warmth of its people , and of course , the Rhine Falls , among Switzerland 's most spectacular sights . |
| 19 | Whether within a single topic or within a range of topics , the construction of material aimed to illustrate links between concepts or links between topics is a fascinating but demanding exercise . |
| 20 | These examples illustrate the need for a flexible classificatory structure which can incorporate cross-references or links between items which have been separated . |
| 21 | These can be separated ( snipped-off ) and transplanted into flower-pots or seedtrays with mud or well-sifted loam . |
| 22 | SECTION TWO NAVIGATION & APPROACHES IN IFR CONDITIONS |
| 23 | NAVIGATION & APPROACHES IN IFR CONDITIONS |
| 24 | Mode of dress can communicate such diverse information as a person 's ethnic origin , religious affiliation , occupation or social group and Helman ( 1984 ) cites examples of even self-mutilation to the body to indicate ‘ group ’ membership such as the insertion of large ornaments in the lips or earlobes in Brazil , East Africa and Melanesia . |
| 25 | In the accounts of industrial action one reads about in newspapers or sees on television , the cause of a dispute will usually be attributed to the issue over which work relations broke down . |
| 26 | Advocates of control theory press for increased prices , fewer outlets for drink and restrictions or bans on advertising . |
| 27 | A task-based approach for those needing to write letters or telexes in English . |
| 28 | Company law also assigns to the members the ultimate right to make decisions in certain key areas , for example with regard to changes in the corporate constitution or increases in capital , again in order to ensure that the business is run in accordance with their , and not the directors ' , interests . |
| 29 | This same executive said that he was against incrementalism in the sense that major reductions in assets ( or increases in asset turnover ) had to be achieved . |
| 30 | A greater burden was placed on the rates which could only be met either by cuts in services or increases in rate demands . |