Example sentences of "[vb -s] [coord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depression of last week had lifted like a fever passing when the patient sleeps or asks for food . |
| 2 | This will not do , for it is no different from saying that when one experiences ‘ red ’ one thinks or conceives of the colour , whereas the point of the theory was to explain what such thinking , or conceiving , is . |
| 3 | Whether one agrees or disagrees with this contention is immaterial . |
| 4 | Organiser Pat Devey , of the Ferries Project , said : ‘ Anyone who lives or works in the area will be welcome . ’ |
| 5 | The ideal approach is to choose the software to fit the application and then buy the hardware it needs or subscribe to the appropriate bureau . |
| 6 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 7 | No Director has or had during the period any material interest in any contract of significance to the Company 's business . |
| 8 | ‘ We would like to know what connection he has or had with the target of the original surveillance . ’ |
| 9 | It stands or falls on this one event . |
| 10 | ‘ It stands or falls on the quality of its detail , ’ says Winston . |
| 11 | .. Next Steps almost stands or falls by us . |
| 12 | The managing director of a big British agency , when he heard his colleagues saying that an agency stands or falls by its creative department used to reply , " No — it stands or falls by its progress control department . " |
| 13 | And so we can go back to all the Beatitudes , seeing how each stands or falls in relationship to the previous ‘ Be-attitudes ’ that we have before God , in God , for God , and through God living in us . |
| 14 | I mean , everybody round here just stands or sits on those bar stools . |
| 15 | This figure shows the drivechart for the program JANEPLUS , which aims to introduce pupils to the idea of mathematical functions by displaying named figures , each of which either adds or multiplies by a particular small whole number which number the pupils must discover by trial , hypothesis and check . |
| 16 | But maybe he never wants or needs to … |
| 17 | Once they reach room temperature , bacteria become active again and food deterioration starts or resumes from where it left off . |
| 18 | It is sometimes very hard to define where music starts or ceases to be , complicated . |
| 19 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 20 | He has had to make do without his familiar retinue of civil servants and , as plenty of critics from his own side have pointed out , he neither looks nor sounds like a prime minister . |
| 21 | It is significant that , at the height of the student protests in America , Benjamin neither joins nor identifies with the draft dodgers , hippies or Yippies ( the movement started by.another more radical Hoffmann Abbie ) . |
| 22 | So he is not particularly after a physical relationship , but someone who loves and cares for him alone , Miranda , however , thinks his reason is that ‘ his pleasure is keeping me prisoner . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the first type relies on the information provided by the second which polishes , refines and leads to a redefinition of the problem . |
| 24 | It looks out where the river widens and splits at Vasilyevskiy Island . |
| 25 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |
| 26 | Derrida contends that if madness is constituted as madness , as other , by reason , then this means that reason is itself defined through it and therefore already contains and depends upon it . |
| 27 | The starting point is to accept that each individual develops and evolves throughout life , and that the final stages of life are as important as any other . |
| 28 | Locke thus belongs to the tradition of contract theory which usually carries with it an implication of ultimate political power and rights belonging to the people ; and the fact that he explicitly develops and allows for a right of resistance also gave his doctrine a subversive potential of which later radicals made effective use . |
| 29 | Regarding the customer as all-important is an attitude of mind that he develops and encourages through the organization . |
| 30 | Another ‘ subcultural ’ -type theory that stresses deprivation and develops and draws on the work of Merton and Cohen is that of Cloward and Ohlin . |