Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first are designed to present a formidable appearance in front of a crowd ; the second are sent into a crowd to disperse and/or incapacitate people with truncheons ; and the third are used to create a fear and scatter effect . |
| 2 | ( You should consider which way the demand and/or supply curves of money shift. ) ( a ) Banks find that they have a higher liquidity ratio than they need . |
| 3 | Firstly , as one would expect , 28 offer professional services and/or provide support to their members in this regard ( 13 of those are in the field of law ) . |
| 4 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 5 | If £1 billion of Treasury bills are sold to the discount houses , the discount houses will borrow money at call from the banks , or sell bills to the banks , to pay for these Treasury bills . |
| 6 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 7 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 8 | Sometimes these informal meetings led parents to form a task force to help meet a particular school need — covering library books , repairing and repainting of toys , making simple equipment or assisting teachers with classroom chores . |
| 9 | Uniform provision of services as opposed to discrimination or targeting services towards groups with high needs become the norm . |
| 10 | They all made it clear that handing patients over to the press was a regular occurrence ( a point that none of the committee commented on or asked questions about ) . |
| 11 | He said he could ‘ club ’ a golfer , hacker or scratch player by the second shot into the 3rd hole . |
| 12 | Whatever the reason , gay men have never united to take action or develop work with young people which challenges heterosexism — or sexism for that matter . |
| 13 | They have created new capabilities for the production of widening ranges of goods and services without paying the cost penalties or producing variety in yesterday 's inflexible plants . |
| 14 | Unlike Tesco , he had not experienced a heavy-handed or demanding manner from any of them , and was convinced by the value of the work they had done , without expressing a preference for any particular one . |
| 15 | by mineralising the compound only as a cometabolite , which means that the microorganisms require some other organic compounds for growth or to induce formation of the enzymes required for degradation of the target compound ; or |
| 16 | Turntable is recessed into oven floor and it can be switched off when grilling or microwaving food in square or rectangular dishes . |
| 17 | No other pathogenic mutation ( insertions or missense mutations at codons 102 , 117 , 178 , 198 , and 217 ) was present . |
| 18 | Responses , ranked in order of frequency ( with more than one response per subject possible ) , were : ( 1 ) avoid people who ‘ have it ’ or are ‘ infected ’ ( 36% ) ; ( 2 ) avoid ‘ risky ’ environments ( subway , crowds , jail ) ( 18% ) ; ( 3 ) avoid people who are coughing ( 13% ) ; ( 4 ) do not share cigarettes or crack pipes with anyone ( 13% ) ; and ( 5 ) do not share drinks or food with anyone ( 13% ) . |
| 19 | Or change Complexion at Celinda 's Gown : |
| 20 | With six large journalists aboard , all well filled with beer and sandwiches , there was scarcely room for Dyson to turn the wheel or change gear without jamming his elbow into Ted Hurwitz 's stomach . |
| 21 | This sort of structure could be adapted to the situation where the departing shareholders of Target are willing to accept deferred consideration ( the debentures ) , the managers become or remain shareholders in Target and a venture capital partnership wishes to invest directly in Target . |
| 22 | The presence of coconut estates also forced cultivators to look after their cattle more closely because plantation managers were inclined to shoot cattle or bring charges of trespass against the owners of animals found on their land . |
| 23 | But what Miss Blagden had sought her out for was not only to ask after her welfare or bring news from Lucca but to offer her two lady-boarders for three months . |
| 24 | 1 Disjoint sets which have no common elements , 2 overlapping or intersecting sets with common elements , 3 one set completely inside the other . |
| 25 | ‘ If you want to borrow or lend money on a rolling settlement basis we can bundle it in with the service . |
| 26 | The ability to give or lend money to relatives obviously is related to one 's own economic resources in some way — although we are unlikely to find that people who have more straightforwardly give more . |
| 27 | In response , ICI Paints aims to reduce or eliminate VOCs from its products wherever possible . |
| 28 | It aims to use scientific method to understand the fundamental processes of biology , agriculture , the environment and economics and to apply this understanding to the sustainable management of the world 's biological resources , including the provision of food , fibre , energy and natural products , for the benefit of man while at the same time developing methods to limit , control or eliminate conflicts of interest between the welfare of mankind and the well-being of animals , plants and the environment . |
| 29 | Even if CGT applied , the combination of s 80 , FA 1980 ( as amended by s 94(3) , FA 1991 ) means that the application of market value at March 1982 , indexation relief and the £40,000 exemption might well reduce or eliminate CGT on any part deemed to be let . |
| 30 | Social divisions in the workplace , symbolised by the provision of separate canteens for different grades of employee , are seen by some employers as counterproductive ; they have sought to reduce or eliminate differences of treatment of introducing practices which harmonise the status and conditions of their employees . |