Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age . |
| 2 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 3 | The basic rule in s.179 is , however , subject to s.180(1) , as amended , CA 1989 , which permits disclosure of the relevant information in a number of circumstances eg. for the purpose of enabling or assisting an overseas regulatory authority to exercise its regulatory functions . |
| 4 | Erm but if you ca n't sleep you could put a little bit on a hankie on your pillow or rub a little bit on your chest , and it 'll help to erm make you sleep . |
| 5 | There will also be a daily session introducing franchising as a way to expand an existing business or develop a new venture . |
| 6 | You can help yourself change jobs , get promotion or develop a new career path . |
| 7 | People with a milder form of chemical sensitivity have also been found — they may become dizzy and nauseated if they breathe too many car exhaust fumes , have headaches when there is a strong smell of paint , or develop a sore throat and catarrh when they use particular cleaning fluids . |
| 8 | Many successful businesses have been founded on the single item of information that no one is carrying out a particular service or producing a particular product . |
| 9 | She will recognize that the client is repeating himself or demanding a particular reaction from her . |
| 10 | The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , workaholism does exist when the sufferer simply can not stop doing his or her work in order to suppress uncomfortable emotions or change a disordered mood and despite severe negative consequences to his or her family and to the rest of a balanced life . |
| 12 | ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’ |
| 13 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 14 | It is therefore unlikely that a woman could either infect a lavatory seat or bring an infectable part of her anatomy in contact with such a seat . |
| 15 | As a top physiotherapist , she is more than used to stretching and flexing the muscles of people who have tortured their frail frame , or endured a bad tackle on the football field . |
| 16 | He either buys an existing property or builds a new one . |
| 17 | In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county . |
| 18 | The government also orders , or turns a blind eye to , more violent methods of keeping opponents quiet . |
| 19 | Within the last ten days the leading Provisional figure , Martin McGuinness , took the opportunity through the medium of the BBC to advise the British Government that the IRA would not move ‘ unilaterally ’ to bring its campaign to an end or declare a temporary ceasefire . |
| 20 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 21 | In writing a program , one often has a lot of freedom in the use of bound variables : not only in where they are declared , but also in whether to declare a new variable or re-use an old one . |
| 22 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 23 | And she 'd take him off to the second-hand bookstall which specialized in the politics of the left , or to attend a useful meeting , and stand around with banners . |
| 24 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 25 | He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist . |
| 26 | In the United Kingdom there is no such positive statement of this right , although at common law an assembly or procession is not unlawful per se , unless , for example , it causes an obstruction or constitutes a public nuisance . |
| 27 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 28 | If you do muddle up the crowd-flow arrangements , Over-stretch the facilities or pick an unsuitable venue in the first place , you cause enormous distractions from the event and the message . |
| 29 | And it is just as horrifying an idea to contemplate being walled into such a Paradise Garden as being condemned to spend eternity playing games with balloons which never burst , receiving presents from Santa without wondering how they were paid for , being organised into teams with leaders chosen arbitrarily from among us , or eating a permanent celestial buffet of ice cream and salmon sandwiches . |
| 30 | ‘ It will also help to develop people 's creativity and ideas in using these skills in the community , whether it 's setting up a business , starting a co-operative or completing a personal project , ’ he said . |