Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The baby would be handed into the care of one of her " other family " , or placed in a basket or drawer to sleep . |
| 32 | As a matter of good practice copies of the documents should either be attached to the disclosure letter or placed in a file of documents delivered with the letter . |
| 33 | But my main priority is making the animals look real with a lot of life in them , rather than the staid and stiff specimens cast in bronze , sitting on top of a television or placed in a town square . |
| 34 | 25 shelf units each 6m long × 3m deep ( these can be free-standing or placed against a wall ) |
| 35 | ‘ New ideas are being stifled by bureaucracy ’ , is the standard grouse over a beer or gazing into a test tube , along with more detailed criticisms of why the system does n't work . |
| 36 | If you recognise these problems as your own , my advice is see your doctor , contact a self-help group , or confide in a friend . |
| 37 | Cooking can be solved by eating out , raiding the chill cabinets or phoning for a pizza . |
| 38 | Crane , despite his activity , remained behind making occasional sorties off the road to look behind some tree or peer into a thicket . |
| 39 | Equally , with the use of appropriate figures , it would show that CDs become more liquid , the nearer they get to maturity , i.e. the nearer to maturity they get , the smaller is the loss or gain as a result of changes in prevailing yields . |
| 40 | The bottom and topsides were payed or stopped with a putty like composition . |
| 41 | Brian , a cabbie for 25 years , could now face having his licence suspended or withdrawn at a tribunal . |
| 42 | Vinyl is practical , so is vinyl-coated cork , and linoleum , which now comes in all colours and can be inlaid or arranged in a pattern in various shades with quite spectacular results . |
| 43 | Text could be created on the Macintosh or passed as a file from any other computer , graphics were catered for by MacPaint , Draw or business graphics programs like Microsoft Chart . |
| 44 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 45 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 46 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 47 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 48 | This complex behaviour requires mechanisms to register the presence of prey or danger and to decide on and make the appropriate response , attacking or contracting into a blob — sensory cells , secretory cells , muscle cells and above all a network of electrically connected cells running right across its surface which can coordinate the hydra 's responses . |
| 49 | It is not unlikely either that the formation of the desire will be closely linked with current experiences and will therefore probably be fulfilled by providing more of whatever is salient in the context — porridge , or rides in a plastic tub , etc . |
| 50 | 9.17 Frustration of reinstatement Landlords sometimes include a proviso that the landlord should have the right to terminate the lease in the event of reinstatement being frustrated or delayed as a result of circumstances beyond the landlord 's control . |
| 51 | Order 15 , r 1 provides that the court may at any time allow or direct any person to be added , struck out or substituted as a party to proceedings in accordance with the High Court practice ( see RSC , Ord 15 , r 6 ; Ord 20 , rr 5 , 8 ) . |
| 52 | This means that the rider can help his horse should he peck on landing or hesitate into a fence . |
| 53 | Students may use this form to indicate whether they wish to be awarded a certificate or DipHE as a terminal or intermediate award and may even indicate the order in which their two fields are to be listed on their transcript and CNAA parchment . |
| 54 | Idoxuridine , one such agent , can be applied to herpetic ulcers either in an ointment base or dissolved in a solvent which aids its absorption in the skin , and has enthusiastic followers , but again convincing evidence of its efficacy is lacking . |
| 55 | A high pitched shriek or cry in a tossing or stuporose child . |
| 56 | It 's a business enterprise and will stand or fall as a business . |
| 57 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 58 | Have you ever been walking or driving towards a destination and completely missed your turning because your mind was somewhere else ? |
| 59 | Apparently they neither walk nor swim , but spend their time either in the air or perched on a branch of a tree to roost . |
| 60 | Exclusively nocturnal birds , well adapted by their long wings and tail , large eyes and gape , and small bill and feet , to catch moths , beetles and other flying insect prey by night : seen by day only when flushed from the ground or perched on a branch ( normally horizontally along it ) , being well camouflaged by their mottled brown plumage . |