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

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1 NDO will be happy to help and/or make the necessary arrangements .
2 The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata .
3 The objective in doing so is to identify their ‘ true ’ nature or ideal character and distinguish or highlight the corrupt forms which have entered modern political consciousness as a result of rationalistic errors .
4 When you do not live with anyone else there is no one to nag you about smoking , drinking , eating too much , or eating the wrong things .
5 Or eating the wrong things ?
6 In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together .
7 Soviet friendship and cooperation treaties with Third World states were intended to displace or counteract the existing alignments and alliances between these states and the Western powers .
8 The possession of good health is increasingly equated with moral virtue : those who continue to " choose " to smoke , drink or eat the wrong foods are irresponsible and deserving of their fate .
9 If none of the candidates is suitable or fulfils the basic requirements of the job/personnel description think twice before appointing the best of a bad bunch .
10 However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of .
11 However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed .
12 … the major use of texts which ignore or belittle the traditional interests of girls .
13 Distinctive features of the sitter , his eyes and hands for example , are rendered with a greater degree of naturalism , and these , together with the stimuli provided by other details such as a button on M. Kahnweiler 's coat , a lock of hair , or the still life to the side of him , permit a reconstruction of the subject and his surroundings ; ( one of the New Caledonian sculptures owned by Picasso appears in a ghost-like form to the left of the sitter ) ; and these more realistic touches in turn forced the painter to restore or preserve the naturalistic proportions of the figure .
14 Whenever I could , I went out , armed with my expensive binoculars , to see what I could find in the fields or to observe the coastal birds — puffins , with the splendid red , yellow and blue bills which they shed when the mating season is over ; cormorants nesting in colonies on ledges in the cliffs ; screeching gannets and all the members of the gull family .
15 Initially , I had to decide how to use the space : whether to place a separate work in each room or to accept the perceptual boundaries of the Duveen Galleries as a given and conceive a work which would deal with the space in its entirety .
16 We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly .
17 He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors .
18 And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement .
19 What it meant to move towards school records could be to increase the subjective , teacher-controlled element in selection or to diminish the relative effects of differences between teachers or schools — it was never an unambiguous change .
20 For example , in the case of BP , LASMO or Shell the expected changes in the price of crude oil can play an important part in determining market prices for options .
21 It does not rule out habitual sniping or genuine interest , preclude competition for students , or prevent the longer-term struggles for academic territory or prestige which characterize the development of the ‘ map of knowledge ’ .
22 It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm ,
23 These areas provided havens for gambling schools , and the police did not dare to venture there except in strength — when attempts to break up street-gambling , or to douse the high spirits of Bonfire Night could lead to violent eruptions .
24 To scoff at or curse the little men was to court disaster , for they made formidable enemies .
25 So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy .
26 ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’
27 The inflexional system of Latin , however , made it freely possible to subvert these norms , for rhetorical effect , to topicalise or focus , or to create the metre-governed structures of poetry .
28 Tempting , too , to join one of the numerous excursions to see the once-in-a-lifetime sights of the Sahara or photograph the picturesque houses in the blue-and-white setting of Sidi Bou Said .
29 It would be most unwise for the Church to ignore or discount the far-reaching changes which have taken place in school music since World War II .
30 GCHQ has denied any involvement in intercepting , recording or disclosing the royal recordings … although it 's been suggested that an internal inquiry may already be underway at the Cheltenham centre .
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