Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , as Moi suggests , she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own , or of the existence of female traditions and strengths which might have tended to challenge or subvert the supposedly monolithic nature of the male power which it is the main aim of her book to describe . |
| 2 | Can I now replace or modify the very rigid eleven leaf springs on the front ? |
| 3 | Most students find cheques or cash the most convenient methods of payment , with bills settled ‘ on the spot ’ . |
| 4 | Nor need the doctor adopt palliative measures , if ‘ palliation ’ is taken to mean the use of measures aimed at modifying pathological processes or their consequences so as to delay or prevent the otherwise inevitable effects of such processes or their consequences . |
| 5 | This success was to tempt , and still tempts , thinkers to deny or underestimate the very different and novel processes which govern historic change and reduce the changes in human societies to the rules of biological evolution — with important political consequences and , sometimes , intentions ( ‘ social-Darwinism ’ ) . |
| 6 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 7 | Now Souness must decide whether to persist with England Under-21 youngster David James or recall the more experienced Mike Hooper , who has proved his excellent temperament in the European cauldron . |
| 8 | For example , a common method in the script recognition literature has been to use n-grams ( Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Ehrich and Koehler , 1975 ; Higgins and Whitrow , 1984 ; Whitrow and Higgins , 1987 ) , or letter transitional probabilities such as the Viterbi algorithm ( Hull , Srihari and Choudhari , 1983 ) , or Markov modelling ( Raviv , 1967 ; Neuhoff , 1975 ; Farag , 1979 ) to rule out illegal strings of letters , or to select the most likely letter combinations . |
| 9 | After the happy hour at the crêperie you can move onto the free disco and strut your funky stuff or watch the twice weekly cabaret show . |
| 10 | The different ‘ voice ’ is troubling for contemporary western feminism , too , since feminism aims to take account of such voices , but is often accused of silencing or ignoring the less powerful of them . |
| 11 | This ‘ tradition ’ is much more recent , yet the ideas have been pervasive : that organised , structured opportunities for ‘ disadvantaged ’ children in their early years can combat or offset the allegedly depriving effects of a poor ( and therefore , by definition , unstimulating ! ) home . |
| 12 | In view of this dichotomy of opinion it is surprising that there is little , if any , objective evidence to support or refute the rather paternalistic British view that allowing patients to make a fully informed decision about their treatment would generate an unnecessary and harmful degree of anxiety . |
| 13 | But none of these visionaries descended into the depths of the self to find God there or confront the apparently impassable gulf between God and the world as our mystics do . |
| 14 | You could enjoy a week in a Center Parc ( this is where they started ) , or pursue the more cultural charms of Breughel and Delft pottery . |
| 15 | But centuries of migration , conquest , occupation , intermarriage , trade and cultural exchange — not to mention the tendency of artists to copy or reinterpret the most successful facets of other artists ' work — have eroded much of this exclusivity . |
| 16 | Personal independence can also be encouraged if the visually handicapped pupil can find , fetch and return materials from known locations rather than wasting time trying to investigate muddled cupboards , or asking or expecting the fully sighted to undertake the searching . |
| 17 | As one might expect , there are some interesting refinements of these categories , which can be ignored for present purposes ( though we might note , in passing , that a vehicle must be kept moving , or to use the more exact legal language , must normally be employed as a moving vehicle on any highway or railway — and the same applies to vessels ) . |
| 18 | These replaced or supplemented the now traditional export crops of the same kind — the declining sugar from the Caribbean and Brazil , cotton from the southern states of America , whose trade was at least temporarily wrecked by the Civil War of 1861–5 . |
| 19 | Given this , it follows that different pupils may satisfy a given criterion at different ages : to tie the criteria to particular ages only would risk either limiting the very able , or giving the least able no reward , or both . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding the above , the context for the determination of this appeal is and remains Structure Plan 1985 , as it modifies or supersedes the previously adopted West Sector Local Plan . |
| 21 | So be careful you do n't pull the stolen non-human animal fibres ( wool ) over someone 's eyes or use the differently logical ( wrong ) word this Christmas . |
| 22 | We should also be very suspicious of any codification project which attempts to pre-empt or disguise the irreducibly dispositive element in decision-making . |
| 23 | This rather simple notion , that there is one single Mexican culture , problematic principally because it tends to valorize the European over the indigenous and to ignore the diversity , and richness of the latter , but also , conversely , because it excludes or denigrates the more purely European aspects of the culture . |
| 24 | He is optimistic enough to see some point in directing , harnessing or tempering the largely commercial forces behind the 100-mile city , but not in ignoring them . |
| 25 | Let us keep our meditation simple by discounting various facts fact , for example , that most of Christ 's Jewish contemporaries did not believe in His divinity or join the newly founded Christian Church or sect . |
| 26 | Nothing had been done to prettify the site as at Sizewell , on the Suffolk coast , or to produce the pleasantly laid-out grounds of smooth lawn , flowering trees and shrubs which so agreeably impressed him on his periodic visits to Winfrith in Dorset . |
| 27 | He was n't asking her because he wanted to discuss the station or prolong the more general conversation they had just shared . |
| 28 | We can neither perpetuate excessive levels of support , nor penalise the most efficient producers . |
| 29 | For the purposes of our argument here , it is not necessary to understand all the ins and outs of these various schemes , nor to grasp the increasingly complex rules of the centre invented to limit them . |
| 30 | In his mind 's eyes Lexandro could no longer quite capture nor comprehend the essentially alien anatomy of his quondam sisters . |