Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain kinds of illness and illness-proneness are experienced : people are more likely to catch a cold or flu , for example , and be less able to shake it off ; they feel generally run down and may suffer from mysterious but more debilitating viruses , such as ME or glandular fever , that are difficult to diagnose and take a long time to clear up . |
| 2 | When a substance undergoes a physical or chemical change a corresponding change in enthalpy is observed . |
| 3 | Or you could consider a modular or domino hob . |
| 4 | The hard-sided is the original type in which the vinyl , water-filled mattress is supported by a rigid frame , while the soft-sided type has a sprung or foam surround . |
| 5 | Article 86 prohibits the abuse of dominant market positions within the Common Market in so far as it may affect trade between member states : the fact that a business has a dominant or monopoly position is not in itself prohibited . |
| 6 | Where the licensee holds a residential or restaurant licence it can lead to disqualification of the licensee . |
| 7 | This is sometimes possible , too , if you have attended a further or adult education college . |
| 8 | Fitting a dimmer or security light switch : |
| 9 | Then , in 1954 , as the car passed under what seemed a mediaeval or Renaissance courtyard gate there was Frederica , brooding grimly about a personal failure in a dreamed , unreal competition . |
| 10 | With other Highlands and Islands MPs , he has signed an early day motion in the Commons objecting to a recently granted Several Order , a little-used mechanism which can entitle an individual or company to exclusive farming rights on the sea bed . |
| 11 | The girl was already in England , but was brought back to Ireland by her parents , who faced a fine or imprisonment if they ignored the injunction . |
| 12 | In terms of legislative proposals , lobbying the assembly is more important in the United States , especially for groups wishing to exercise a negative or veto power to stop a proposal rather than have a new proposal passed . |
| 13 | Alternatively either colleagues or neighbour could perhaps ring a relative or friend who might move into your home and take care of things while you are in hospital . |
| 14 | For example , the percentage reporting that they had had a cold or flu in the previous month showed little change with age . |
| 15 | Lining a rectangular or swiss roll tin |
| 16 | Add a blind or shade to drop from the ceiling level as well and you will suddenly have long graceful windows , or what will pass for them very well . |
| 17 | a ) decision process speed : the speed at which the individual ( or group of individuals in the case of multi-individual buying situations ) moves through the decision process will depend on a number of factors , including : * whether the decision involves a simple or routine purchased in which case routine response or impulse behaviour will occur . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , Dell has n't seen fit to include a low or zero insertion force socket in the 433/L . |
| 19 | For a social worker negotiating admission to a residential home for a dementia sufferer , it is particularly important to work out a contract , using a relative or friend if necessary to sign the contract and become the advocate on behalf of the client . |
| 20 | A one-club competition ( no putter ) was so popular it was spread over two days ; most members using a 3 or 4-iron , and several breaking 100 gross . |
| 21 | trustees comprise persons for the purposes of income tax ; 2. they comprise a separate entity liable to tax on monies they receive or which they are entitled to receive ; 3. the main inroads into that separateness and liability are of a restricted nature as explained in the Reid 's Trustees case ; these inroads are : ( a ) in certain cases ( but not all ) where a trustee mandates income direct to a beneficiary the trustee will not be liable to tax ( Williams v Singer ) ; ( b ) in the case of a life interest trust a see-through or conduit approach is adopted for identification of source purposes so that the origin and parentage of the income is not changed by virtue of its journey through the trust ( Archer-Shee v Baker ) ; ( c ) if income arises to the trustees of a life interest trust ( subject to deductions for expenses ) it is taxable upon the life tenant whether or not he actually takes the money ( Spen 's case ) . |
| 22 | The purse-snatcher is an auburn haired 17-year-old , about 5ft 10ins tall , and was wearing a dark or navy blue jacket with a motif on the back , jeans and white training shoes . |
| 23 | Next on the ladder is an offence which carries a maximum of 14 years and is perpetrated where the defendant , in committing a sexual assault , carries , uses or threatens to use a real or imitation weapon or threatens to cause bodily harm to a person other than the complainant or is a party to the offence with any other person . |
| 24 | Interpreting in schools , colleges , courts , meetings and so on is provided by individual arrangement usually with a social worker for the deaf , though in most personal circumstances ( job interviews etc. ) deaf people say they prefer to use a relative or friend ( Kyle and Allsop , 1982b ) . |
| 25 | If it finds just one such context , then it forms a new OR symbol Y with productions |
| 26 | I have friends who are magistrates and I know they feel tempted to give a fine or bail , when they should be giving a prison sentence . |
| 27 | Costs deriving from the cost centre analysis are usually then allocated on a fair basis between the profit centres to give a departmental or activity net profit . |
| 28 | Genette systematically coins new terms for aspects of narrative which have already been named but which imply a psychological or realist element : flashback becomes amalepsis , point of view becomes focalization , the opposition between telling and showing is translated back into Plato 's terms diegesis and mimesis , and so on . |
| 29 | The chain terminated in an iron ball covered with spikes ; a variant form had the chain supporting a wooden or iron flail sprouting spikes . |
| 30 | More the sort of snap a relative or friend might carry . |