Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal Treasurer Paul Keating suggested that the state should either offer up the SBSA for sale , or sell off some of its other assets to cover the losses , rather than raise taxes in order to keep control of the bank . |
| 2 | Where unemployment is not defined as per the Act the only common requirements within the policy wordings are that the claimant is in receipt of unemployment benefit ( or registered as unemployed with the DOE/DHSS ) and is available for/actively seeking employment . |
| 3 | Her clothing moulds itself to her body so as to reveal or to promise as much of the delights within as it conceals ; it too includes silk , soft to the touch ( 3235 ) and the fresh warm taste of morning milk ( 3236 ) . |
| 4 | 3 Starting Either use the Starter sentence , or make up one of your own . |
| 5 | The value of A 2 will tell us whether or not the size of the polymer coil , which is dissolved in a particular solvent , will be perturbed or expanded over that of the unperturbed state , but the extent of this expansion is best estimated by calculating the expansion factor α . |
| 6 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 7 | Other residents are reassured or made more anxious by the degree of care surrounding the deaths in the home . |
| 8 | These problems can be hereditary and there is no doubt that they can be triggered or made considerably worse by stress . |
| 9 | Hypnotherapy is also useful , except with those susceptible to depression , since this can be brought on or made much worse by hypnosis . |
| 10 | They never see the sun , never have a chance to socialise or act out many of their most basic instincts and often ca n't even turn around in their pens . |
| 11 | There was therefore no authority powerful or concerned enough to encourage or root out any of the religious persuasions in Scotland . |
| 12 | The contrary view is that , in the light of the single market , it is important that all companies have equal opportunities to expand or restructure as much by way of acquisition as by organic growth . |
| 13 | The stiff rein indicates that the horse is not carrying or pushing as much with that inside hind leg and so it is easier for him to shy ( and so stop going forward ) , if he is not working as well in the first instance . |
| 14 | Or walk along dozens of stalls offering a huge choice ( the street near the central food and fruit market is particularly good ) . |
| 15 | If they allow themselves to continually think catastrophic thoughts , or focus too much on the symptoms themselves , or race up and down , or hyperventilate , the plateau time will last much longer . |
| 16 | Will they stand up to family wear and tear or look too sturdy for dinner parties ? |
| 17 | You can either stand on them , or look very stupid on the stage . |
| 18 | It swallows up light ; it does n't reflect it , or give out any of its own . |
| 19 | had to go to a breakdown , the poor bloke did n't know whether he was coming or going so one of these situations that stress stress arrives . |
| 20 | If you have a Pascal compiler you may wish to re-use , amend or string together various of the procedures within PITEST.PAS to produce your own routines e.g. you may wish to use the three options : create DC , update DC , and submit DC , to produce a routine enabling you to go through the whole create and submit procedure for DCs . |
| 21 | Do n't clench your fists tensely , or get so enthusiastic about what you are saying that you wave your arms about and knock over the wine . |
| 22 | Usually one teacher works with a class of children , teaching a particular subject in the case of secondary schools , or teaching virtually all of the curriculum in the case of primary schools . |
| 23 | However , the model is consistent with experiments in which we blocked proliferation in the progress zone or killed off some of the cells . |
| 24 | The Arbitrators shall have power by their award to annul and/or amend the decision of the Disciplinary Committee or to do so subject to the performance of any conditions which they may think fit to impose . |
| 25 | However , human motivation is complex : people are not entirely driven by the desire for money or to do as little in the job as they can get away with . |
| 26 | We operated from fixed points with the vessels motoring or drifting as near to the centre of the basin as possible between Foyers and Urquhart Bay , normally scanning the beam over a sector of 120 o in the direction of travel at a tilt of 30 o to 40 o , to give an effective search to a depth of 160 m . |
| 27 | Statements about the state of the world , or some part of it , can be justified or established as true in a direct way by an unprejudiced observer 's use of his senses . |
| 28 | It shall further be unlawful for any man to stare at or make googoo eyes at , or in any other manner look at or make remarks to or concerning , or cough or whistle at , or do any other act to attract the attention of any woman upon or travelling along any of the sidewalks , streets , Public ways of the city of Abilene with an intent or in a manner calculated to annoy such women . |
| 29 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 30 | You can stay up late for a few nights to finish that urgent report without getting irritable or asking too much of the people you live with . |