Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | easy as riding a bike or walking the sea . |
| 2 | ‘ ( 1 ) The Bank may , on an application duly made in accordance with section 8 above and after being provided with all such information , documents and reports as it may require under that section , grant or refuse the application . |
| 3 | The usual approach of the courts is to examine whether any confidential information exists , whether it is protected by an express or implied term and , subject to arguments as to the balance of convenience , grant or refuse the injunction sought . |
| 4 | * Use the present tense for describing the content of a text or narrating the story . |
| 5 | The NMA leadership and many rank-and-file members became increasingly disenchanted with MFGB strategy during the 1920 national miners ' strike and the 1921 lockout , and less than a third of Nottinghamshire miners bothered to vote in a 1921 ballot on whether to accept the offered settlement or continue the dispute ( Griffin , 1962 , p.91 , p.102 ) . |
| 6 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 7 | He 's already lost the sight of his left eye because cocaine starved the retina of blood , and he 's damn lucky not to be totally blind , or even dead , because the next time it could constrict the arteries of his heart or block the blood from reaching his brain . |
| 8 | I understand the Gulf Trust 's anxiety , but I think they have not really focused on this case or heard the reasonableness of advanced payments . ’ |
| 9 | Similarly , early reproduction may impair survival or future fertility , by consuming resources , causing somatic damage or exposing the organism to environmental injury : there is a ‘ cost of reproduction ’ . |
| 10 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 11 | No , they must have , I caught a dog fight or shoot the windscreen ! |
| 12 | For he has this grace , that he is happy to eat fish fingers or Chinese takeaway or to cook the supper himself . |
| 13 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 14 | The agreement usually provides that if necessary consents have not been obtained , the contract or asset will not be transferred to the acquirer but the acquirer will perform the contract or enter the property ( subject to the terms of the lease ) as the agent of the offeree . |
| 15 | If you want to protect your livelihood or protect the environment you 're living in , you 'd do everything possible to make sure it 's not damaged by this way or any other means . ’ |
| 16 | They lack confidence in their ability to effect change or improve the quality of their lives . |
| 17 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 18 | The other system requires a device to measure the load in the cable or to control the maximum pull that the vehicle will provide . |
| 19 | You must plan the circuit carefully , especially if you intend to move the lights around , and run suitable cable underground ( use armoured cable or run the cable in conduit , at least 450mm ( 18in ) deep , connected to the main house consumer unit . |
| 20 | When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference . |
| 21 | Article 1 sets out its purpose , viz. ‘ to ensure the continuation of farming thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ In order to ensure the continuation of farming , thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas the list of which is … ’ |
| 23 | The court may upon application or of its own motion adjourn or advance the date of hearing of any proceeding . |
| 24 | If they do come in and give a computer or prevent the school library closing by providing books , may the council not simply take the opportunity to make more cuts in the hope that the parents will pay up ? |
| 25 | That seat in there , does that fit facing the driver or facing the front of the passenger rear ? |
| 26 | for a pause at the end of a sentence or to show the end of an abbreviation . |
| 27 | Other problems , such as academic ability or entry requirements , became secondary if the adult can not afford to do the course or find the time to study in the first place . |
| 28 | The Club had to decide , said Brower , whether to continue as a society of companions on the trail or take the position that ‘ the entire environment is the proper province of conservationists ’ . |
| 29 | The other element related to control of the mind where through meditation or chanting the practitioner seeks to free his soul from the bondage of his mind and body and to prepare himself for spiritual enlightenment or true self-realisation — that he is in fact part of the ‘ Impersonal Absolute ’ ( Brahman ) . |
| 30 | The second part of this study will use a large sample of recent graduates to investigate the individual graduate 's choice to become a teacher or not and the incentive to remain in teaching or to leave the job within the first few years . |