Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third of all women have hair that needs frequent washing or that tends to lack life and body . |
| 2 | Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself . |
| 3 | Recruitment advertisements on behalf of one licensed dealer or another used to appear every few weeks in London or the national press . |
| 4 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 5 | ‘ He should give him a run of five or six matches to show what he can do . |
| 6 | Nosebridge had eight tenants who were also moved ; Conegarry also contained eight tenants ; Benveridle also contained seven tenants , and four farmers got notice to quit Kilbranan and three to quit Dranich ; in other words no less than 44 or 45 had to leave their holdings to give scope to Webster and sheep . " |
| 7 | Furthermore , the fact that constructions containing mutated oligonucleotides I or III failed to stimulate transcription to wild type values , argues in favour of a direct effect of the binding proteins on transcription , in a similar way as observed for the homologous constructions . |
| 8 | I suppose it refers to those bands who need two or three goes to start every song . |
| 9 | It is good for two or three housegroups to form the basis of the new church . |
| 10 | Immediately thousands of firms employing 14 workers or fewer began to sprout . |
| 11 | Whatever finally happens , NAB will sooner or later have to give detailed consideration to teacher education , for two reasons : it is responsible for advising on the funding of all public sector advanced further education , including teacher education ; and major elements in teacher education courses leading to the BEd , for example , are common or closely interlock with elements in courses leading to BA and BSc. |
| 12 | Either the Serbs will let the refugees go back to their original homes , which is hard to imagine , or the ‘ protecting ’ soldiers will sooner or later have to escort them out , to look for new homes somewhere else . |
| 13 | You should only leave 3 or 4 trusses to ripen on standard outdoor types . |
| 14 | Or all trying to trick him ? |
| 15 | Not all shipowners found it equally easy to collect non-union crews , while the requirements of the merchant service and differences between the trade undertaken by various shipowners led to variations in willingness or pressing need to resist union demands and to sink their differences against what they regarded as unwarranted union attacks upon their commercial interests . |
| 16 | Purchasers or those seeking to collect interest , or their agents , had simply to attend the offices of the Bank of England , the East India Company or the South Sea houses of the Exchequer on the appropriate day . |
| 17 | The problem here is that while purse nets will account for all the rabbits leaving the netted holes — or those attempting to return via those holes — some rabbits will undoubtedly return to the warren via the unnetted holes . |
| 18 | If these conditions are satisfied , the party suffering from mental disorders , on recovering his sanity , or those entitled to act on his behalf , may repudiate or confirm and enforce the contract . |
| 19 | On a typical holding , however , you will use some buildings as they stand , modify others and eventually erect one or more designed to meet your specific needs . |
| 20 | Individual villagers remained unwilling or unable to co-operate to raise necessary communal funds between them , for example to repair a broken pump . |
| 21 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 22 | A ( probably correct ) belief that anything foreign will be regarded as either irrelevant or incomprehensible tends to reinforce parochial cross-fertilisation . |
| 23 | They were n't , one or two seemed to hang around that thing where they used to throw out food to them . |
| 24 | Erm , they have n't had them in Suffolk , we 've had one or two try to join and one did reasonably well , but right at the end of , of the , of one of the tests , the strength tests , she failed , she could n't quite manage it erm |
| 25 | One or two try to mount the animal in front . |
| 26 | What price an hour or two pewbound to get across the Minch either way on God 's day . |
| 27 | I 've one or two calls to make as well . ’ |
| 28 | I 've one or two calls to make . ’ |
| 29 | One or two started to prepare for bed . |
| 30 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |