Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 3 | ( You are not allowed to give or lend anything at all : technically you 're not even allowed to read each other 's books ! ) |
| 4 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 5 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 6 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 7 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 8 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 9 | The door stayed jammed shut , and he did n't shout back or answer her in any way . |
| 10 | or clips it like that and you ca n't tell |
| 11 | DO NOT drink or eat anything at all . |
| 12 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 13 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
| 14 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 15 | So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers . |
| 16 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 17 | They 're not showing theirs or using it for any other purpose just for the dog 's benefit . |
| 18 | Whether for chamfering , grooving , templating or using it for intricate decorative work , this machine will help you do it cleanly and quickly . |
| 19 | Many cities run the trees through chippers , paying for the operation by selling the mulch or using it in public parks . |
| 20 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 21 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 22 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 23 | Taking orders without question removed the need to make decisions or involve himself with external matters . |
| 24 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 25 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 26 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 27 | All of that gives it a very encouraging sure-footedness once you try to throw it around a corner or two , or test it on poor road conditions . |
| 28 | Another stimulus to the market has come from issuers buying back bonds , to retire the debt entirely or swap it for new equity . |
| 29 | The embalmer helped them replace the planks , and then fussed about whether to sweep up and re-use the original natron , or replace it with fresh salt . |
| 30 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |