Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is always a reason for each batch of redundancies — it is done in the name of greater efficiency or due to changing economic conditions or is blamed on world recession . |
| 2 | So beware of this deception , and look for a forecast with freezing levels of 3,500 metres or lower before tackling mountains with serious snow descents . |
| 3 | Are you required to be persistent at repeating the same task many times ( phoning sales prospects , for instance ) or persistent in seeing a long , slow project through to the end ( overseeing a two-year training programme , for instance ) ? |
| 4 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 5 | When things go wrong , who feels blamed or guilty about having persuaded ? |
| 6 | Some languages , such as Amuesha of Peru , regularly indicate whether a person is dead or alive by adding a suffix to the name of any person referred to after his/her death . |
| 7 | Intervention can be either negative for certain classes of asset holder or supportive by providing subsidies of varying magnitude . |
| 8 | Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region . |
| 9 | Play Therapy should be of great use to anyone involved in the care of children who might need counselling , and it would also be interesting reading for anyone working with children or interested in counselling them . |
| 10 | Some people argue that everyone who claims to have seen or to have photographed this animal has been either drunk , deceived by a log or interested in promoting the Scottish tourist industry . |
| 11 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 12 | Some would say that there is nothing remarkable or wrong in working for some group and being paid to answer some question that the group regards as important . |
| 13 | Todd deems le Play 's schema incomplete , however , because it ignores a further crucial discriminating variable — whether marriage is endogamous or exogamous with regard to the family . |
| 14 | In 1985 the management of Somerset Probation Service was faced with the fact that nearly one in three of the offenders supervised in their area were either known to be or suspected of misusing alcohol ( Singer , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Improvements in the quality of the air we breathe have been achieved and are being achieved all the time particularly in respect of those pollutants either proven or suspected of causing physical environmental harm , especially to people . |
| 16 | Some of these techniques are for use specifically with patients having , or suspected of having , some kind of damage to the brain . |
| 17 | A clue to the answer is to be found in section 236(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , which allows the court to summon various people , such as the company office holders , people known or suspected of having the company 's property , or any person capable of giving information ‘ concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company ’ . |
| 18 | The objection may be raised , " If what we are talking about in educational technology is not the promotion of AV aids but the cultivation of a systematic problem-solving attitude , why is it that so many self-styled educational technologists did in fact emerge from the audio-visual movement or related areas , and why is it that so much educational technology literature is concerned with the applications of audio-visual formats of one kind or another to learning development ? " |
| 19 | The third possibility , and one more in tune with an elitist model of the process , is that bureaucrats will see their accountability as being primarily towards the organized interests in society that succeed by one means or another in obtaining regular access to the policy-making process . |
| 20 | If by " meaning " is understood the objective content of linguistic utterances , or what might also be called their " objective thought-content " ( I shall discuss later the " historical " , performative aspects of such utterances ) , then , on the face of it at least , there seems to be nothing odd or improper in making identifying cross-references to meanings . |
| 21 | It is not the general property or universal of weighing two pounds , whatever it is , that is flattening the napkin . |
| 22 | Usually after a period of considerable discomfort and attempted solutions some apparent answer is found which may be successful or unsuccessful in meeting the long-term interests of the client . |
| 23 | Simple accounting systems are no longer adequate or appropriate for monitoring and evaluating job performance : tasks are intertwined and interdependent , and the quality of work is often more important than the quantity of work . |
| 24 | But there was nothing furtive or dubious about watching a crowd of lads playing a game on the sands , any more than there was about carting food to the elderly . |
| 25 | Serum samples from 26 monozygotic twin pairs concordant or discordant with regard to inflammatory bowel disease , and rectal biopsies from 42 twins of the same subject group , were examined for IgG subclasses . |
| 26 | But unless they are unequally matched ; unless , for instance , one side is very simple or unfortunate in failing to gauge the strength of the other side , the price is likely to be never very far from 36s. ; and it is nearly sure to be pretty close to 36s. at the end of market . |
| 27 | Liver sausage may be firm for slicing or smooth for spreading and most of the continental varieties are of the latter type . |
| 28 | is it logically satisfying or is there anything contradictory or inconsistent in believing in the existence of God ? |
| 29 | No tendency to turn grey or black after cooking . |
| 30 | If it does not use this approach would you feel positive or negative about introducing such a system and for what reasons ? |