Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So what is required is a constriction of awareness which will remove some of the bad feeling and/or make the predicament look less severe or less intractable .
2 It should condemn behaviour which is exploitative , violent , and/or involves the violation of one person 's liberty by another . ’
3 An option may give the holder either the right to buy or sell a share at a predetermined price from or to the issuer of the option , which is another individual rather than the firm underlying the security .
4 They felt they should either bring in new blood or sell the company .
5 Are the Government prepared to exercise their right , as the holders of that share , to ensure that British Steel agrees to implement its promise that it would either stay at Ravenscraig or sell the plant to somebody else ?
6 She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London .
7 Come on might as well er sell the city or sell the town
8 Apart from the fact that this ignores the possibility that shareholders may have other objectives in investing ( such as opposing investment in countries practising apartheid , or opposing the manufacture of armaments or cigarettes , etc. ) the profit-maximization norm does not provide a hard guideline as to how directors should exercise their discretion .
9 Whether you are proposing or opposing an application , what is the best way to influence the decision that is eventually made ?
10 working for or assisting a competitor .
11 Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services .
12 As the government forces recaptured towns and villages , the army reportedly held ‘ kangaroo courts ’ and executed anyone suspected of joining or assisting the invasion force .
13 The Remmelink Commission , set up in January 1990 , published its conclusions on Sept. 10 , 1991 , calculating that in the Netherlands there were annually some 2,700 cases of euthanasia or assisting the death of patients , and some 1,000 cases of intervention to terminate the life of patients unable to express their wishes .
14 Section 83 stipulates that section 82 does not preclude the disclosure of information in any case in which disclosure is for the purpose of enabling or assisting the Bank to discharge its functions under the Act .
15 Section 84 provides that section 82 does not preclude the disclosure by the Bank of information to a numerous class of specified persons , including , most significantly , ‘ for the purpose of enabling or assisting an authority in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom to exercise — ( a ) functions corresponding to those of — ( i ) the Bank under this Act : ’ subsection ( 6 ) ( a ) .
16 The basic level ‘ is that level of abstraction that is appropriate for using , thinking about , or naming an object in most situations in which the object occurs ’ ( Rosch , 1978 , p.43 ) .
17 This will help her calculate what quantities of tin openers to order , or to plan a promotion campaign at the beginning of February .
18 The task might be to review the progress of a project or to plan a piece of action or to analyse a problem or to decide on the best solution to a problem .
19 Replace the bracket or repair the gutter .
20 Not necessarily no , piggyback is where you asked , you asked me several questions and su and then either added another question to it or asked a question and gave an answer and by doing that you are limiting my responses and I was n't sure which an which question I was answering .
21 THE PARALLEL TURN & MASTERING THE MOUNTAIN
22 Whether the particular objective is to provide school leavers with better general training for the labour market or to stimulate the development of more portable skills , it is hoped that government training initiatives , such as the Youth Training Scheme , will provide a catalyst for change .
23 Where the rate of technical advance , or the rate of depletion , is endogenous , then it may be possible permanently to raise or lower the rate of growth through tax or other measures .
24 On grounds of theory alone we can not tell which effect will be the stronger , i.e. whether higher taxes on income will raise or lower the time devoted to work rather than leisure ( where , of course , the worker has some choice ) .
25 No longer will you raise or lower the nose " a bit " , or put on a " bit of bank " .
26 ‘ Where a person designs , manufactures , imports or supplies an article for or to another on the basis of a written undertaking by that other to take specified steps sufficient to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that the article will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , the undertaking shall have the effect of relieving the first-mentioned person from the duty imposed by paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) to such extent as is reasonable having regard to the terms of the undertaking . ’
27 Among positive rights , we should include the rights : to have all one 's experience and knowledge assessed in the admissions process ; to determine the subjects studied ; to have a legitimate measure of control over the pace and the methods of study ; to be able to follow a particular academic interest , or develop a point of view of one 's own ; to be examined in ways which do justice to the student 's achievements ; and to be credited with those parts of a course which have been passed successfully ( should the student wish or need to move to another institution , or to take a break in the programme of study ) .
28 I think we we need to actually go back to erm or develop the stage one thing and and increase what we 've done .
29 Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets .
30 A spreadsheet makes operations like totalling a column of numbers or producing a bar chart a straightforward operation — SuperCalc 5.5 makes them incredibly quick and easy due to the icons in its new Tool Bar .
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