Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about . |
| 2 | Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors . |
| 3 | He had accosted her in a public place , and yet she had n't screamed , or run , or asked for help . |
| 4 | It is clear from these brief analyses that the nature and scope of the context that is constructed for each individual poem does not simply depend on the choice of deictic expressions in the text , but rather results from the combined effect of a wide range of variables , including the content of the text as a whole , and the attitudes and experiences that readers bring to the text or develop during reading . |
| 5 | If my mum wants to go out , or goes to work , I stay at home and look after the girls , and vice versa . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 limits the extent to which liability can be excluded or limited for breach of contract , or for negligence , or under the terms implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and other legislation containing similar provisions , such as the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 8 | Waivers may be permanent or limited in time or conditional on some agreed reorganisation of a firm 's practices . |
| 9 | A private company may , however , be limited by shares or limited by guarantee . |
| 10 | Familiar objects — pine shelves , flowerpots and upholstered chairs — regain their zest when covered or painted in turquoise , chartreuse or magenta . |
| 11 | Similarly , he must hold that theories are eliminated due to the clash of experience ( for example ) , but not using criteria that are understood in terms of , or justified with reference to , the aims of inquiry . |
| 12 | As in the case of a Customer Agreement , there is an exemption dispensing with the need for a signed copy from a private customer ordinarily resident outside the UK where the firm believes on reasonable grounds that he does not wish to receive it or to consent in writing . |
| 13 | The advance in the interest , and in the improvements , customs and conveniences of society , necessitated advance or change in Architecture to meet those circumstances … |
| 14 | Onset of proarrhythmia after a period of stable , long-term drug treatment is probably due to an intervening event such as ischaemia , hypokalaemia , the addition of another drug , or change in drug dose . |
| 15 | 4.7 The security arrangements for each building must be kept under regular review by the workplace manager in order to highlight any alteration or change in working practice which may be needed to provide a more secure working environment . |
| 16 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 17 | If you 're not beautiful in our image , then put a bucket over your head , or hide at home if you 're too fat ; we do n't want to see you . |
| 18 | In her works tiny animals clutch or hide among giant , overblown flowers ; tigers lounge in flower-filled riverboats ; vividly-coloured plants tower over birds , butterflies and jungle beasts ; hippopotamuses , elephants and unicorns perch in trees and outsized flowers , alongside birds and monkeys : a fantasy world of docile creatures living in harmony with idealised landscapes , as shown here in her Rock Garden paintings . |
| 19 | using last year 's bills as a guide if you still have a record of them ( try looking at old cheque book stubs ) , or trusting to memory , estimate how much you think you will have to pay in the coming year . |
| 20 | The memorandum of association of the Ashbury Railway Company stated the company 's objects to be : ‘ to make or sell or lend on hire railway carriages , wagons and all kinds of railway plant , fittings , machinery and rolling stock ; to carry on the business of mechanical engineers and general contractors , to purchase and sell as merchants timber , coal , metal and other materials , and to buy and sell such materials on commission or as agents ’ . |
| 21 | 3.2 Module descriptors which have been revised or developed for session 1989–90 are identified in the National Certificate Catalogue by a first digit 9 . |
| 22 | Most of the Lake District prints at this time were made by craftsmen from either paintings or drawings or developed from sketchbook studies produced by painters who never actually touched the print themselves . |
| 23 | People save , or refrain from consumption , today in order to consume more tomorrow . |
| 24 | Firms can collude to fix prices , to restrict sales outlets , to enforce tie-in sales or refrain from advertising , to mention just some of the restrictive practices by which firms and labour organizations reduce competition between existing sellers and erect barriers to entry from new competition . |
| 25 | This can take the form of assessing the situation or bringing into consideration other factors ( political climate , human values , competitors ' stance ) which can not easily be quantified . |
| 26 | Pictish symbol stones are not merely raw chunks of rock standing upright or propped across burial mounds . |
| 27 | The volume of the utterance may be loud to express anger or whispered for secrecy . |
| 28 | A contract has been defined as ‘ an agreement giving rise to obligations which are enforced or recognized by law ’ . |
| 29 | Scarcely a day passes without us reading in the newspapers or seeing on television assaults , batteries , violent acts of all kinds . |
| 30 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |