Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not quite as wide for damage to the plant whilst in transit between sites , whereas such damage is only now covered provided the reason for removal is ‘ cleaning , renovation or repair to other premises ’ . |
| 2 | In the private sector a large number of estate agents , landlords , accommodation agencies and building societies have been found to operate discriminatory registers , refusing to let or sell or lend to black individuals and families , while direct and indirect discrimination in many local authority housing departments has led to black tenants being allocated inferior council housing ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | This might be the best time to get that extra reading done ; to work on a project report ; to earn spare cash ; or to attend to non-urgent domestic responsibilities . |
| 4 | We have already discussed or referred to various forms of energy in this chapter and earlier chapters . |
| 5 | Firms may use advertising to defend their existing position or to signal to potential entrants that incursions will be challenged . |
| 6 | Secondly , the development of Docklands has been ‘ unplanned ’ in the sense that the Corporation has not followed or adhered to statutory plans of the Boroughs nor followed normal planning and consultation procedure . |
| 7 | All enclaves are of a sheltered-shore or intermediate form and the species is either absent from exposed headlands or confined to small areas of local shelter ( Kitching , 1977 ; Crothers , 1983b ) . |
| 8 | Initially , these Franco-German telecommunications satellites did not trouble US interests ; they were experimental or confined to educational or other non-commercial purposes . |
| 9 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 10 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 11 | In various articles of the forties Eliot refined his material , whether in relating poetry to religious ritual in ‘ The Social Function of Poetry ’ or returning to Primitive Culture and John Layard 's studies ‘ in the ‘ stone age ’ New Hebrides ' in ‘ Cultural Forces in the Human Order ’ which reworks many of the points in the earlier ‘ Notes ’ series . |
| 12 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full-cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 13 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 14 | Standards may be applied nationally , regionally or according to local conditions of land use , topography , meteorology , and so on . |
| 15 | A non-exclusive list of examples of such abuses is provided : ( a ) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions ; ( b ) limiting production , markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers ; ( c ) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage ; ( d ) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which , by their nature or according to commercial usage , have no connection with the subject of such contracts . |
| 16 | A tribe may acquire its leader by election , or by battle , or according to customary or other rules providing for devolution of the title by heredity or in other ways . |
| 17 | It does not , however , mean that all three parties exercise equal amounts of power , or benefit to equal degrees from the arrangement . |
| 18 | They were executed or sentenced to long periods of forced labour . |
| 19 | The British War Cabinet fully recognised the implications of this , and the likelihood that many would be executed as traitors or sentenced to long terms in prison camps . |
| 20 | Other defendants were either acquitted or sentenced to lesser terms of imprisonment . |
| 21 | Expenditure is then either written off or transferred to tangible fixed assets . |
| 22 | the , it 's been put to me to er interview various people or listen to other people if they can tell me about |
| 23 | Such celebrations of our art should not be limited only to honouring great architects and their buildings , or listening to occasional lectures and debates , but should be a continuous function of our institute . |
| 24 | Consequently , you would use OPENUP for reading serial and random files , adding to the end of serial files or writing to random files . |
| 25 | The other lesson that has come out of the work within the RAF and from the work done outside is that expert systems in particular , but AI in general will not come about as stand-alone , independent systems , but will be embedded or connected to existing or planned conventional computing . |
| 26 | Its freight and parcels businesses will be sold off ; operators will get a right of access to the rail network ; stations will be sold or leased to private firms . |
| 27 | Land could be sold or leased to public or private bodies for any purpose , even if the purpose was different from the one for which the land was purchased . |
| 28 | Suggestions for extension work should have been thought out by the publishers , also follow-up assignments and how the software might be fitted into further schemes of work or related to other subject areas . |
| 29 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 30 | You can overtake if it 's safe to do so and you can regain your nearside without danger or or inconvenience to other vehicles coming the other way . |