Example sentences of "[coord] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have further powers , under the Mineral Workings Acts , to require improvements to be made or an activity to be stopped . |
| 2 | 6 The question of detriment It has been suggested in some cases ( see eg Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd [ 1969 ] RPC 41 ) that an obligation of confidence will not be enforced unless the disclosure or use of the information results in a detriment to the plaintiff or an advantage to his competitors . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you sure ? ’ they ask without fail , regardless of whether you are offering help or an invitation to lunch , giving them a cup of tea or paying their bus fare . |
| 4 | Among the manifestations of these attitudes are the statements of some defendants in rape trials , which may show an indifference towards the wishes of women , or a belief that the wearing of attractive clothes or an invitation to coffee is a sure sign of willingness to engage in sex ; and the attitudes of some police-officers in the early 1980s , influenced by any one of a number of assumptions about the prevalence of false complaints of rape , about the ‘ typical ’ rape as an attack by a stranger , about the presence of injuries or bruises in ‘ genuine ’ rapes , and so forth . |
| 5 | A visit when someone is sick or an invitation to coffee is far more appreciated — and remembered — than a call to discuss committee problems . |
| 6 | In other words , different legal arenas are not entirely severed from each other , and political movements such as the peace movement will have to bear in mind the impact of its legal activities on legal arenas other than those with which it is immediately engaged : for example , does the encouragement of judicial activism by the peace movement , or an invitation to adjudication based on natural law , open floodgates which — although they produce desirable results in the short term — one would in the long term prefer to remain shut ? |
| 7 | It might be suggested that the victim ‘ asked for it ’ by accepting a lift or an invitation to the defendant 's home or that he ‘ led him on ’ or consented and afterwards regretted it . |
| 8 | Furthermore , science proceeds as if each successive theory is true , or an approximation to the truth . |
| 9 | Voting behaviour is something you 're born with , like a taste for aubergines or an aversion to Bristol City . |
| 10 | Anti-feminist articles in the press noted with alarm the growing trend towards celibacy in women , attributing ‘ spinsterhood ’ to degeneracy or an aversion to motherhood . |
| 11 | This classic Greek dish can be served as a meze ( starter ) or an accompaniment to a main course . |
| 12 | In this way the energy pattern of a cancer-causing agent can transfer itself via the field to impinge upon the cell if the cell exhibits a vulnerability or an attractiveness to the agent . |
| 13 | New Age music has been cast aside from the mainstream , vilified for being either hippy nonsense or an adjunct to achieving altered states of consciousness . |
| 14 | These conditions usually result in a flag being set , or an interrupt to a recovery routine being taken . |
| 15 | Each of these may represent an opportunity or an obstacle to a group , and how well the group comes to terms with these constraints will , in turn , depend on the level of motivation possessed by the members , and on the degree to which they are able to work together . |
| 16 | They all involve the use of terms , or an appeal to concepts , that are illegitimate within the physicalist terms of reference of the neurophysiological CTP . |
| 17 | An originating application , petition or an appeal to the county court is served in accordance with the rules for a fixed date summons unless an enactment or rule otherwise provides ( Ord 3 , rr 4(6) , 5 and 6(6) ) . |
| 18 | Be it a coincidence or an answer to prayer , Ray Powell , a senior backbencher and a strong supporter of the Keep Sunday Special campaign was drawn third in the ballot . |
| 19 | Or an end to racial oppression ? |
| 20 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 21 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 22 | One must , therefore , learn to read the negative response signs such as hesitancy or an unwillingness to be more specific . |
| 23 | ‘ Not only the members of the small governing class but every squire , tradesman and farmer who could afford to modernize or rebuild his house , even the parson , deputy of Christ , lived behind a façade which was conceived in the terms of a Classical Order , entered his home through a doorway deriving from the portico of a pagan shrine and sat at a hearth which resembled a miniature triumphal arch or an altar to the Lares . ’ |
| 24 | Killing has now become more of a sport , or an adherence to an ancient custom . |
| 25 | The catalogue is a tool or an aid to searching . |
| 26 | There 's not much they can do , there 's no there 's no new chests in the hospital to give out , nor an extension to life , so all I can do is try and cope . |
| 27 | Also fitted as standard : a handy fuel store in the hump and an attitude to water conservation which , if widely adopted , would halve the price of water shares overnight . |
| 28 | The very unfamiliarity , now , of the language and concepts of Christianity makes it possible to present these anew both as a moral ideal and an attitude to humanity and the capacities of humanity . |
| 29 | Even more so if there was dryness of the vagina and an aversion to sex . |
| 30 | Public opinion polls reveal a powerful popular distaste for divided political parties and an aversion to coalitions , both of which are assumed to detract from effective government . |