Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 2 | Whether you prefer to sell 100% for an immediate cash payment or to receive a smaller upfront payment and a deferred payment , determined by an earnout or retention or a minority stake with a pre-arranged exit . |
| 3 | The East Coast Puritans refused to alter their garb or touch the native food . |
| 4 | If an individual appears unable to pay his debts or has no reasonable prospect of paying he may also face a bankruptcy petition . |
| 5 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 6 | At last Foreman came back , pulling up a chair beside them like some benevolent uncle ready to listen to a story or tell a merry tale . |
| 7 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 8 | That you do n't take it upon yourself to plead my case or to point an accusing finger at Sandra . ’ |
| 9 | Whether you are replacing an existing faulty drain or laying a new one , perhaps to lead from an extension , the major part of the job will be excavating the trench . |
| 10 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 11 | Hence it is difficult to derive accurate and spatially-representative predictions of the impact of future land-use change or to examine the long-term stability of lake ecosystems in the face of repeated episodes of accelerated nutrient input . |
| 12 | Some clergy today still take the view that a suicide victim can not be buried in a churchyard or have a Christian funeral . |
| 13 | So he declined to strike out paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer or to make the alternative orders that were sought . |
| 14 | Instead of all the problems of finding or developing an appropriate sampling frame , and of drawing the sample randomly from the list , the quota sample is usually drawn by the interviewer . |
| 15 | It is similar to other schemes in allowing customers to reduce their monthly repayments in comparison to outright purchase or choosing a higher specification car than they could normally afford . |
| 16 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 17 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 18 | Students dreaded being assigned to these small towns where there were few opportunities to develop their talents or lead an interesting life . |
| 19 | But even he needs help , for it is not easy to grab an insect or pluck a dangling fruit if you have a couple of half-grown babies on your back . |
| 20 | This new dynamic competition comes from products and processes which threaten a firm 's knowledge base and challenge its dominant competence to enhance its current knowledge base or to establish a new one . |
| 21 | ( e ) Clauses limiting liability or damages A further type of clause commonly used is one which imposes a limit or restriction on the amount of damages payable in the event of breach . |
| 22 | His work has often incorporated a story-board-like element , smaller ‘ pictures ’ marching in squared-off boxes around the borders of his canvases or forming a predella-like frieze along the bottom . |
| 23 | Whether he was meeting Wacko Jacko in LA or reviewing the latest Lurkers 45 , Baker had perspective . |
| 24 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 25 | Re-assign the manager of the package temporarily to the specified user or change the specified user . |
| 26 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
| 27 | Many homoeopaths are of the opinion that most essential oils antidote or weaken the healing effect of homoeopathic remedies — though this is very much a subject of debate . |
| 28 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 29 | Rather , the time spent negotiating detailed heads of terms is usually better spent on starting due diligence or negotiating the main agreement . |
| 30 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |