Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It is actually not necessary to add fat to bread or vegetables or to cook with fat in order to obtain enough for good health . |
2 | A small , but far reaching change in personal habits , career practices or attitudes and approaches to life could increase your efficiency and awareness . |
3 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
4 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
5 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
6 | Captions can be typed on shorter pieces of headed paper , but more often they are typed on plain paper or labels and stuck to the back of the photograph . |
7 | Always taking cold which settles in the nose , throat or ears and goes to the chest . |
8 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
9 | Created during the five months which the artist spent in Santa Fe at the end of last year and the beginning of this year , they are executed in oil inks applied by brush or rollers and smudged by Healey 's hand , their veils of rich colour capturing the mood of , rather than representing , the broad landscape of New Mexico and its dawn and dusk effects . |
10 | Now when the wind blows from the south east and I see willow warblers in the garden , or redwings and fieldfares in the Shetland hills , I can visualise the forests and marshes of Scandinavia where these birds have their summer home , and marvel yet again at the skills and abilities with which nature has endowed the birds which must migrate to survive . |
11 | or abilities and build on it cos at the moment everybody 's re-inventing the wheel and you 're making a lot of work in my opinion . |
12 | Very small things like pebbles , marbles , polished beach stones , old buttons and so on , can be put into large glass goblets or jars and displayed on window ledges ( against the light ) or on shelves . |
13 | The stories should relate to actual events involving bank staff or customers and apply to any part of the Royal Bank of Scotland whether it be within the UK or within European or Worldwide operations/divisions . |
14 | It means that young people , instead of staying in their home town or village , have to stay with their friends or relatives or move to bigger places like Newcastle or Gateshead and that means more people on the waiting list . ’ |
15 | However , if you are in a program , the commands queued to the CLI will not be actioned until the program pauses for input , or ends and exits to immediate mode . |
16 | Prepare fresh pineapple in cubes or chunks or slices and pour on some gin . |
17 | New approaches to community care , using low-paid or unpaid neighbours or other local carers , as substitutes or supplements to family or friends and supported by official social services , are currently being experimented with in the Kent Community Care Scheme , the Age Concern and Guy 's Hospital Home Support Project and a scheme being tried out in Bexley ( Challis and Davis , 1983 ; Maitland , 1987 ) . |
18 | Renting one of the luxurious lodges for family or friends and sharing in the luxury that Slaley affords , from the championship standard golf course , to the 5 Star Sheraton Hotel , leisure club and the facilities within each sumptuous lodge which cater for your every need . |
19 | According to its preamble , which incorporates in part the terms of article 220 , the Convention seeks in particular to facilitate the recognition and enforcement of judgments of courts or tribunals and to strengthen in the Community the legal protection of persons therein established . |
20 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
21 | On top of some were displayed heavy glass bottles of fizzy pop , or coloured postcards , or jig-saws or ragdolls with floppy arms . |
22 | The boat was propelled either by ‘ legging ’ ) the crew lying on their backs or sides and pushing on the tunnel walls with their feet — or by ‘ shafting ’ — pushing with the boat shaft ( pole ) against the tunnel roof . |
23 | Use in soups or stews or add to a storage jar of sugar . |
24 | Employers can now pay bonuses , overtime or incentives and save on National Insurance contributions , using the Nightingale Voucher Scheme from the Motivation Marketing Board . |
25 | Clean soiled household linen or chairs and dispose of incontinence pads as soon as they are removed . |
26 | Detoxification from alcohol or drugs and weaning from other addictive substances or behaviours . |
27 | Most of the Lake District prints at this time were made by craftsmen from either paintings or drawings or developed from sketchbook studies produced by painters who never actually touched the print themselves . |
28 | However , the chordates were not quite fish , since they were without jaws or fins and fed by sucking in water and whatever nutrients it contained . |
29 | Some were elaborately decorated , with painted designs on their hulls , garlanded canopies , ‘ figure-heads ’ in the form of leopards or lionesses and ensigns in the form of large flowers . |
30 | Once it had burned through the clinker was broken out , loaded into barrows or carts and taken to the grinding mills to be ground into a fine powder . |