Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 The large urban or dockside warehouse is a building type strongly related to the grander grain and textile mills , not only because it often stored the raw materials or products processed by these latter buildings , but also in its constructional composition .
32 At worst , they merely signal a reluctance or inability to grapple with those problems .
33 Documents prepared by the solicitor for his or her own benefit or protection belong to that solicitor ; so do documents sent by the client , which are intended to pass to him or her .
34 For example , will cause all subsequent characters to be printed to the screen in inverse video until the command or returns printing to normal .
35 Staff in high risk areas are limited to small sleeper earrings , an identity bracelet or necklace worn for medical purposes only , and a wedding ring .
36 The condition of spiritual imprisonment or freedom depends on many things , but especially on how we breathe and think .
37 There were eighty-eight photos or illustrations relating to this court case and the aftermath , virtually equalling the number found for all the other rape cases in the year .
38 Flatworms , tapeworms or threadworms make for lurid and colourful pictures in the horror section of Koi manuals , but their life cycle is invariably so complex that not all the vectors will be present in the pond .
39 A member state may call upon the chair of the committee of senior officials to make contact with the state or states involved within 24 hours if its concerns about another member 's " major disruption to peace " are not adequately answered ; the committee 's chair in turn calls an extraordinary committee meeting , involving the full CSCE membership , within 2-3 days if 13 members support such a meeting .
40 ( b ) The targets set must be attainable and should represent the average output of the average operative or gang working under average conditions without loss of quality of work .
41 It means that every decision or action taken between 9.38 a.m. and 9.39 a.m. on a Tuesday is high quality .
42 In the name of justice ( proportional response to petty offending ) , social workers were severely criticized , and encouraged to adopt non-intervention ( diversion ) , or action focused on offending behaviour , not family issues .
43 For instance , tarragon or sage followed by shorter-growing marjoram and chives , and then low-growing thyme or parsley .
44 Some groups of animals found in nature are simple ‘ associations ’ assembled either through overwhelming influences of nature , such as tide-washed plankton on a sandy shore , or through responses to temperature or light held in common by all participants .
45 The crucial role for the researcher thus becomes one of establishing the factors or characteristics associated with actual or potential cases of child abuse .
46 ‘ I want nothing left here that David Bellamy would n't approve of , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke ordered as the wind whisked her flounces up to display her silk Marks & Spencer camiknicks with elasticated waist and cotton-lined double gusset .
47 Dark hardwood floors , polished to a deep , waxy glass , and plain white walls provided a simple backdrop for throw-rugs , tapestries , ornate cabinets and large pottery urns or figurines standing on carved stands .
48 It frequently involves following signals or indicators unearthed during environmental scanning .
49 If you glance inside the average modern book you will clearly see the mull or tape strips under this paste-down ( as compared with the free endpaper ) .
50 At its most extreme limits of informality the interview could be carried out with the interviewer taking no notes or tape recording at all .
51 Nuclear extracts were also immunoprecipitated with CREB antibody ( Anti-CREB ) or proteins purified by sequence-specific DNA-affinity chromatography ( DNA-affinity ) and probed as above .
52 All the local army was ranged up on either side and in front , the chiefs a mass of colour , with their gold-embroidered robes and jewelled crowns and shields , the lesser chiefs in lion- or leopard-skins or sheep-skins dyed in brilliant colours .
53 In addition , many schools were failing ‘ to venture beyond undemanding popular authors or books associated with favourite television characters ’ when it came to encouraging children to read novels .
54 The prosecution will discharge its evidential burden in a case such as this by adducing evidence of contact or penetration accompanied by personal injury and the use of force .
55 Much is sometimes made of the rivalries or jealousies fostered by these networks ; a ‘ revolution ’ occurred in 1974 when the person appointed to head the CNET , Jean-Pierre Souviron , was not , like his predecessors , the product of ENST but of another engineering ‘ grande école ’ — l'Ecole des Mines .
56 In the circumstances , if I could detect from the statute any statutory purpose or intention pointing to one construction rather than the other , I would certainly adopt it .
57 Your policy entitles you to have the use of a hired saloon car up to 1600cc from our authorised suppliers depot , subject to availability , if your car is off the road due to damage or theft insured under this policy .
58 With primaries or caucuses held in 28 states , the nature of the campaign altered from the close-quarters politics of New Hampshire , to the continental sweep of regional campaigning .
59 S 1(1) provides that ‘ a person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case ’ .
60 The relevant words are ‘ he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ’ .
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