Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 2 | ‘ is different from other interests because it exercises power or influence in two ways — directly through interest groups and structurally because of the crucial role boards and managers exercise over production , investment and employment decisions which shape the economic and political environment within which Governments make policy ’ . |
| 3 | Six hundred races were cancelled or rescheduled in 1987-88 and 800 last year , the worst on record . |
| 4 | matter precipitated from a fluid medium , or collected in one place by a natural process . |
| 5 | Again , these may be dotted around the surface of the body or collected in one or more eye-spots . |
| 6 | In that time some twenty thousand people would tramp round the marked routes or roost in one of the twenty grandstands . |
| 7 | Any small businessmen or women can attend the open day or participate in two discussions entitled What Is Marketing ? and Things To Think About . |
| 8 | Regular summer visitors return from far afield year after year , camping in the bay next door or staying in one or the two small hotels . |
| 9 | I felt that as a Minister of the Eucharist I am privileged to accompany Our Lord to my fellow pilgrims , particularly those who are sick or bereaved in one way or another . |
| 10 | This does not mean , of course , that the books should have been concentrated or displayed in one location , although some teachers desired this as a way of focusing attention on the library and its new books . |
| 11 | Abolitionists handled this delicate problem for the efficacy of their ‘ persuasion ’ or appeal in two ways . |
| 12 | Respondents were asked to describe how training was funded in their authority and how much was budgeted or spent in 1983/4 and 1984/5 . |
| 13 | Ben Gunn got a thousand pounds which he spent or lost in three weeks , then he came begging and was given a job as a gatekeeper . |
| 14 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 15 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 16 | In 1919 a herdbook was established for this breed of Central and Upper Belgium and its name was changed to Blanc-Bleu or Witblauw in 1971 . |
| 17 | I suggested some simple exercises , to be done without knitting on the machine , that showed what effect the tuck and slip controls had on the needles and how we could set the carriages to slip or tuck in one direction and knit in the other . |
| 18 | Visitors come by yacht , or stay in one of the three small hotels on the beach north of the village . |
| 19 | The latest proposal brought the value of US-Saudi arms deals signed or announced in 1990-91 to US$17,865 million . |
| 20 | If it is traced on paper , transfer the outline to the cake or icing in one of two ways . |
| 21 | Acquired as a corroded fuselage frame , upper/lower wing panels and a fin & rudder in 1988 , restoration has meant fabricating the undercarriage , acquiring a Lynx radial engine ( on loan from the Italian Air Force Museum ) and building from scratch the tailplane , elevator and engine cowlings . |
| 22 | There are eight corner pieces and these can be rearranged or permuted in 8 ! =8X7X6X5X4X3X2X1=40320 ways . |
| 23 | Samples taken from the edges of ulcer craters in 15 of these patients or scars in six patients contained more extensive gastric metaplasia ( mean extent 19% ) in comparison with specimens from the opposite , macroscopically normal looking wall ( mean extent 10% ) . |
| 24 | In which case Brussels will ban or otherwise limit advertising throughout the EC for spirits , certain over-the-counter drugs and contraceptives , simply because it is banned or controlled in one country or another . |
| 25 | The castle was built in the late 18th century then extensively restored and altered in 1872–1875 . |
| 26 | The present head office was built in 1806 but extended and altered in 1870 . |
| 27 | Late complications were of much greater concern and arose in eight patients ( 20% ) at a median of 3.3 months ( range 0.25–12 ) from the initial insertion . |
| 28 | This contribution reached a peak of around two-thirds of the combined income from rates and grants in 1976 . |
| 29 | Not only is it the largest in the world in volume ( $11 billion in loans and grants in 1991 ) , but its untied ratio ( 79.7% in 1991 ) is the highest in the world . |
| 30 | It is also true that British companies got more than 76% of the contracts stemming from official British loans and grants in 1989 . |