Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Farmers , the country 's biggest water consumers , will be obliged to water crops at dusk or dawn only to reduce evaporation .
2 There will also be the opportunity for your customers to save bottle tops for or pu or purchase heavily discounted quality goods .
3 It ca n't name them , recognise them , match them with stored categories , or produce ready made symbols for them .
4 You may want to stop using , or go on to substitute drugs .
5 Whether the clays remain as discrete particles or cluster together to form flocs or aggregates with diameters much larger than the individual component particles is often a function of these waters .
6 In 1739 ( and , later , in 1763 ) Acts were passed empowering the justices ‘ to raise and levy such able-bodied men as have not any lawfyl calling or employment … or do not make use of any lawful means for their support and maintenance , to serve as soldiers ’ .
7 Stimulating arguments aside , there are two points of view about robots and , indeed , the related field of information technology ( this issue , p 634 onwards ) : either they do or do not destroy jobs .
8 It borders upon the tautological to focus upon the relationships between unhealthful reproductive patterns and the demographic characteristics of women who do or do not use contraceptives .
9 I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says .
10 Locke asks how the ‘ solid parts of body … [ keep ] united , or cohere together to make extension ’ .
11 No paper or Have n't got pens there .
12 Most of the other companies included in the table are also developing or have already developed liaisons of this type .
13 A 1992 survey revealed that 39% of large companies either fear or have already experienced litigation due to lost or missing records .
14 This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) .
15 The ‘ positive vetting ’ questionnaire also queries whether members of the Army Navy or Air Corps take or have ever taken drugs .
16 The British Chiropractic Association estimates that backpain alone costs UK business £3.5bn a year in lost production
17 It was at the local level — where educational policy was put into organisational shape — that change actually took place .
18 Do not use the plastic cups that slip inside jock straps .
19 Felsic dykes that cut strongly mylonitized portions of the granitic intrusions ( Tsm and Ttp ) are only weakly mylonitized .
20 This domination can be expressed by the way in which power , technology and ideology come together to produce forms of knowledge that function actively to silence people .
21 ask teams and committees that meet regularly to suggest ways of streamlining their procedures to save time and money
22 They also claim that fluoride potentially causes birth defects .
23 But their sports bags , suit-covers and hair scrunchies were so popular that demand quickly outstripped supply .
24 Next is the assumption that labour alone creates value , so that the exchange value of a commodity depends on the amount of labour it takes to produce it .
25 The single-level assumption leads children to reject multiple terms for the same category : they already have a label , and that label therefore has priority ( e.g. , Francois , 1977 ; Macnamara , 1982 ) .
26 It is naive to imagine that engineering schemes that interrupt long established travel patterns will be accepted with equanimity in exchange for accident benefits that are difficult to substantiate due to their scattered and infrequent nature .
27 NCR Corp filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microbilt Corp , a subsidiary of First Financial Management Corp , alleging that Microbilt willfully infringed NCR 's patent on a handwriting capture device used at retail checkouts for customer signature verification .
28 I felt slightly ashamed that my priority was breakfast , but excused it on the grounds that shock probably induced hunger .
29 This case shows that statutory provisions regarding payment of costs need not impinge upon the right of a party to litigation to recover his costs by means that do not involve payment .
30 Fleischmann has had some excellent ideas including methods to measure the surface diffraction of X-rays and he has made a detailed study of electrolysis in solutions that do not conduct electricity .
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