Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was nothing to suggest that Germans were healthier , happier or lived longer than Britons , he added . |
| 2 | But damn it to hell , I 've never been able to see clearly or think straight where you 're concerned — certainly not since you came to Taipei , and maybe not even six years ago either . |
| 3 | However , many of these dogs have not complied with other sections of the law , such as neutering , and more than 600 are no longer alive — including over 100 puppies which were conceived before the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force , but which were not allowed to be sold or given away after the legislation was introduced . |
| 4 | Other products and processes pioneered by Vlitos and his team — including the process of turning sugar into alcohol , now widely used in Brazil to power cars , and in Mauritius and Honolulu to light the streets — were sold or given away while T&L persisted with sucralose . |
| 5 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 6 | Hardly any Iraqi combat aircraft have been destroyed , which means that they may still try to intervene in the land battle , or to hit harder than Scud missiles can at Israel and Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | Competency testing in high school , civil-service examinations , job-placement examinations , college-entrance examinations , and diagnostic testing in school have , as a result , been restrained , banned , or revised so as to reduce test accuracy . |
| 8 | Markets fail to allocate or coordinate efficiently when competition is not perfect because there are few enough sellers or buyers , or both , to affect price by the amount they trade . |
| 9 | Her frequent denunciations of high levels of taxation and public expenditure , of big government , and of the diminution of individual freedom and choice are passionate and deeply felt ; they are expressed in attacks on the baneful , almost ‘ immoral ’ , effects of inflation and of governments which debase the currency , or borrow rather than ‘ balance ’ their income and expenditure . |
| 10 | Many programs will crash or behave strangely if they suddenly run out of disk space or memory . |
| 11 | How might you think or behave differently if you gave up these better thans ? |
| 12 | things or to find out whether you were capable of having children or not . |
| 13 | In other words , does Y rise or fall consistently as X rises ? |
| 14 | A playwright will often do his best to supply this non-lexical information by telling the reader that the character shrugs , winks , or looks heavenwards as this or that phrase is uttered . |
| 15 | Dessert , when it is taken , might be fruit or yogurt rather than , say , treacle pudding or Black Forest Gateaux . |
| 16 | See also Derby and Co Ltd v Weldon ( No 8 ) [ 1990 ] 3 All ER 762. 2.3 Limited purpose of disclosure There is a large body of authority in support of the proposition that information which is disclosed for a limited purpose is received under an obligation of confidence and can not be used or disclosed otherwise than for that purpose . |
| 17 | Even if you 've got a series of slides I recommend that you turn it off between each one so that you know the audience do n't see the things being put into position or moved about because that can be a bit distracting so er it does mean that you 'd obviously need to know where the on off switch is and and this is a nice one because it 's it 's right there . |
| 18 | The Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 , which has almost entirely replaced the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 which introduced the Class F Land Charge , gives a spouse who is not entitled to occupy a dwelling house by virtue of a beneficial estate or interest or contract , the right ( if in occupation ) not to be evicted or excluded therefrom except by order of the court and the right ( if not in occupation ) with the leave of the court to enter into and occupy the dwelling house . |
| 19 | Composers of new hymn tunes should be discouraged from writing for a traditional text which is either wedded to a well-loved tune or has more than one good tune to which it may be sung . |
| 20 | But do n't feel pressurized to cut down or give up if you are feeding more often . |
| 21 | have enough money with you if you are calling from a public telephone so that you are not constantly interrupted by the pip-pip-pi-p sound or cut off because you run out of change ; |
| 22 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 23 | Loans from these institutions can not be rescheduled or written off if countries are to go on borrowing . |
| 24 | In addition , variation in SRS will not reflect variation in LRS ( see Gadgil , 1972 ) if individuals that breed successfully show reduced success in future or are likely to cease breeding or die earlier than less successful breeders . |
| 25 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 26 | ‘ Who pays for what ’ often results in essential facilities or care being postponed or withheld indefinitely whilst the ‘ professionals ’ argue the case amongst themselves . |
| 27 | Tribes grow and become powerful under brave and successful leaders , and then shrink or break apart when their chieftain is eventually defeated or slain . |
| 28 | Bass have now disposed or freed more than 1,400 of their pubs and another 400 are in the pipeline , according to Bass Inns and Taverns boss Charles Darby . |
| 29 | Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends . |
| 30 | Notice things that distract ; you can then avoid them or speak again when they stop . |