Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you prefer to sell 100% for an immediate cash payment or to receive a smaller upfront payment and a deferred payment , determined by an earnout or retention or a minority stake with a pre-arranged exit . |
| 2 | At last Foreman came back , pulling up a chair beside them like some benevolent uncle ready to listen to a story or tell a merry tale . |
| 3 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 4 | Whether you are replacing an existing faulty drain or laying a new one , perhaps to lead from an extension , the major part of the job will be excavating the trench . |
| 5 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 6 | Some clergy today still take the view that a suicide victim can not be buried in a churchyard or have a Christian funeral . |
| 7 | It is similar to other schemes in allowing customers to reduce their monthly repayments in comparison to outright purchase or choosing a higher specification car than they could normally afford . |
| 8 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 9 | But even he needs help , for it is not easy to grab an insect or pluck a dangling fruit if you have a couple of half-grown babies on your back . |
| 10 | This new dynamic competition comes from products and processes which threaten a firm 's knowledge base and challenge its dominant competence to enhance its current knowledge base or to establish a new one . |
| 11 | ( e ) Clauses limiting liability or damages A further type of clause commonly used is one which imposes a limit or restriction on the amount of damages payable in the event of breach . |
| 12 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 13 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 14 | 4. support or emphasise a particular point you have made . |
| 15 | Many d-i-y jobs around the home require you to stand on something so you can reach higher , for instance when changing a light bulb or painting a low ceiling . |
| 16 | The reason for the above study was the possibility of including a reliability check in the program , to compare each reading with a predicted value and indeed even make a correction or output a diagnostic message that a given reading should be regarded with suspicion . |
| 17 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |
| 18 | Children will also be able to get a Save the Earth money box , in which they will be asked to put money each time someone in their family wastes energy , for example by leaving on a light or boiling a full kettle of water for one cup of tea . |
| 19 | The only catch is whether you decided to make a wise investment or take a speculative chance some months or even years ago . |
| 20 | In the United Kingdom there is no such positive statement of this right , although at common law an assembly or procession is not unlawful per se , unless , for example , it causes an obstruction or constitutes a public nuisance . |
| 21 | In addition , some patients having an operation aimed primarily at relieving pancreatic duct obstruction or resecting a diseased pancreas are also found to have an element of biliary tract obstruction requiring surgical drainage . |
| 22 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
| 23 | But , if you want the cash buy a car or to make a major home improvement we have special tailormade schemes . |
| 24 | It is usually the responsibility of the engineer to approve the alternative offered by the contractor or to suggest a possible solution . |
| 25 | If you have trouble lifting or balancing a conventional wheelbarrow , a garden cart may be the answer . |
| 26 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 27 | It could be having a good night 's sleep the night before , playing tennis or taking a sauna , losing weight or having a stiff drink just before you begin . |
| 28 | None of the patients in either group had severe colitis at entry or developed a severe flare during the study . |
| 29 | By reducing the scope of the enquiry we make more certain the worth of what we are doing ( always assuming , of course , that the study itself is well conducted ) , and by describing carefully what we do we make it possible for other researchers to duplicate our own study or conduct a similar one with slightly different variables . |
| 30 | ‘ Setting ’ , the grouping of children of like ability together to follow a particular study or to master a particular skill is little different from traditional streaming . |