Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age . |
| 2 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 3 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 4 | Erm but if you ca n't sleep you could put a little bit on a hankie on your pillow or rub a little bit on your chest , and it 'll help to erm make you sleep . |
| 5 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 6 | Common-sense , or rhetorical , thinking involves the raising and dropping of anchors , not to mention the continual arguments about whether to raise or lower the metaphorical anchor at any given moment . |
| 7 | There will also be a daily session introducing franchising as a way to expand an existing business or develop a new venture . |
| 8 | You can help yourself change jobs , get promotion or develop a new career path . |
| 9 | People with a milder form of chemical sensitivity have also been found — they may become dizzy and nauseated if they breathe too many car exhaust fumes , have headaches when there is a strong smell of paint , or develop a sore throat and catarrh when they use particular cleaning fluids . |
| 10 | Many successful businesses have been founded on the single item of information that no one is carrying out a particular service or producing a particular product . |
| 11 | She will recognize that the client is repeating himself or demanding a particular reaction from her . |
| 12 | The monograph and exhibition catalogue , broadly discussing the same group of pictures selected from Magritte 's oeuvre , adopt rather different approaches to their subject , and will be favoured , respectively , by a readership enjoying the labyrinthine mind of a great scholar or preferring the clean presentation of information and explanation in a sequence of numbered catalogue entries . |
| 13 | The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , workaholism does exist when the sufferer simply can not stop doing his or her work in order to suppress uncomfortable emotions or change a disordered mood and despite severe negative consequences to his or her family and to the rest of a balanced life . |
| 15 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 16 | Re-assign the manager of the package temporarily to the specified user or change the specified user . |
| 17 | ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’ |
| 18 | It is therefore unlikely that a woman could either infect a lavatory seat or bring an infectable part of her anatomy in contact with such a seat . |
| 19 | No one is going to thank you if you end up making changes which either cause real hardship or bring the political roof in — or manage to do both . |
| 20 | As a top physiotherapist , she is more than used to stretching and flexing the muscles of people who have tortured their frail frame , or endured a bad tackle on the football field . |
| 21 | This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened . |
| 22 | In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county . |
| 23 | Whilst we recognise that the Government does not want local authorities to use development plan policies to limit change of use rights , we believe the final guidance should indicate the special circumstances in which such constraints may be justified , for example , in order to avoid environmental problems or to sustain the traditional employment base of a particular locality . |
| 24 | The government also orders , or turns a blind eye to , more violent methods of keeping opponents quiet . |
| 25 | Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body , which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self . |
| 26 | Within the last ten days the leading Provisional figure , Martin McGuinness , took the opportunity through the medium of the BBC to advise the British Government that the IRA would not move ‘ unilaterally ’ to bring its campaign to an end or declare a temporary ceasefire . |
| 27 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 28 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 29 | And she 'd take him off to the second-hand bookstall which specialized in the politics of the left , or to attend a useful meeting , and stand around with banners . |
| 30 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |