Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 2 | This form of aggression , if not leading to an outright kill , can easily stress the attacked coral or anemone and cause them to bleach and eventually die . |
| 3 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 4 | The documentary impulse was inherent in the contract filmmakers made with the MOI at the beginning of the war , but it could absorb the poetic romanticism or Powell-Pressburger , the sophisticated visual and verbal montages produced by Humphrey Jennings , another documentarist with surrealist roots , in such 1941 pictures as Words for Battle and Listen to Britain , as well as films in the realist tradition . |
| 5 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 6 | Repolling took place on Aug. 26 in 24 constituencies where no candidate had received the minimum vote or where ballot papers had been spoiled . |
| 7 | Even before that stage is reached , the Cabinet Office will have been monitoring the progress of the more significant proposals by departments in order to alert the Prime Minister or Lord President of the Council of any wider implications . |
| 8 | You begin your quest outside the castle armed with a weedy slingshot , wondering whether to swim the shark-infested moat or lower the drawbridge . |
| 9 | The council is n't building the nuclear submarine or the underground cavern itself . |
| 10 | Another effect of contextual modulation on the sense of a lexical unit involves the relative highlighting or backgrounding of semantic traits . |
| 11 | Life is leisurely here — with the only worry , whether to stroll the pretty promenade or laze longer by the sea . |
| 12 | The chapter on molecular modelling dismisses much of three dimensional molecular visualisation with the comment , ‘ Besides the trivial operation of rotating the whole structure or selected substructures around a given bond ’ , and goes on to discuss comparison of molecular structures . |
| 13 | Although a military coup seems unlikely in these democratic times , Mr Kim does not want to risk rattling the top brass or provoking earnest young turks unless , or until , a glaring new scandal emerges — and one may be brewing over fighter-aircraft procurements . |
| 14 | Although macroporous bioceramics show excellent biocompatibility , they are inherently brittle and lack the mechanical strength or toughness needed for high stress use — eg in hip replacements . |
| 15 | The OALD examples have been specially written to give the learner the greatest possible help in using the relevant word or phrase correctly and confidently . |
| 16 | The regular cost is attributed to individual years using the attained age or projected unit method . |
| 17 | He must get this right , not make a fool of himself by stumbling over the words , not using the correct terminology or not knowing which fish he wanted . |
| 18 | This does , however , reduce the thickness of the finished runner by the thickness of the saw cut ( or cuts ) , a possible disadvantage overcome by using the gap-filling potential or epoxy resin mixed with a filler . |
| 19 | Dickinson has examined the possibility of determining whether similar brooches have been produced using the same procedure or equipment on the basis of measurement ( 1982 ) . |
| 20 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 21 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 22 | Marquetery involves covering the surface of furniture with veneers of different coloured woods , using the natural colour or grain to create different effects or designs . |
| 23 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 24 | It can lead people to linking arms at Blackpool and , depending on whether it 's the Labour Party Conference or the annual darts team binge singing The Red Flag or the Okie Cokie but it can also lead to a group of skins bunging bricks through a Pakistani 's shop window . |
| 25 | Smith ( 1960 ) has shown how images of the Pacific islanders were manipulated in these two directions , and Mitter ( 1977 ) has traced the varied history or European interpretations of Hindu sacred statuary , from viewing them initially as images of the devil , to finally incorporating them as works of art . |
| 26 | All employees must receive explicit information about the vision , values , priorities , and rewards that will govern the new state or condition . |
| 27 | What the alternative to today 's degenerate and evil society is presents no immediate problem : women are once again hidden from sight , or married ones have their hair shorn ; thieves are once again punished by having hands or legs cut off ; alcohol , or whatever else is ritually prohibited , is banned ; and Koran , or Bible , or whatever constitutes the authoritative compendium or eternal wisdom , provides complete practical and moral guidance on all subjects , as interpreted by those whose business it is to do so . |
| 28 | Here an inner momentum brings us face to face with ourselves and we can choose between perpetuating the old pattern or learning from our experience . |
| 29 | To establish whether government investment was made where it was likely to see the greatest return or to areas of greatest deprivation , public spending patterns were analysed in the light of private investment and previous revitalisation and deprivation patterns . |
| 30 | Many refugees come to see the medical doctor or the nurse not because they are really physically ill but because of emotional tensions — headaches and unidentified pains , So we have decided to prepare a number of simple pamphlets on mental health and related problems . |