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

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1 Firstly , a hemisphere difference in the rate at which information is encoded and/or read out from some sensory representation of the stimulus should be revealed by a differential effect of masking in left and right visual fields since the presumed effect of the mask is to prevent any further processing .
2 Burrows and Hunter 's research indicates that many landlords are trying to force pre-1988 tenants out of their properties so that they can either move in new tenants , sell with vacant possession or sell on to other landlords .
3 The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this .
4 But the beats are divided or shared out into three .
5 I would have thought the labour market conditions are also a vital ingredient if profitability is to be passed on or shared out in higher wages .
6 They also have not yet learned to use their eyes together ( called binocular vision ) , so they may be seeing double or seeing only through one eye .
7 Not all alternatives are looked at , rather those most familiar to decision-makers or deviating least from existing practice are examined first , in order to cut down the information and transition costs associated with more radical changes .
8 They should be accounted for separately only if the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other ; otherwise they should be accounted for as a single instrument .
9 Accounting for the individual instruments is required by paragraph 19 if ( and only if ) the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other .
10 Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation .
11 The minerals may simply be absent or present in negligible amounts , either naturally , through exhaustion by previous crops , or leached out by climatic conditions .
12 The tall , spiky effect of purple-leaved cannas or purple-red Lobelia cardinalis , for example , can be used in the centre for height , around which multicoloured plants like coleus can be used , framed or broken up by single-colour foliage plants , such as the cinerarias and pyrethrums , suggested in the table .
13 Protein skimmers are a must for any butterfly or angelfish tank , as these species are sensitive to any organics left in the water that can not be filtered out or broken down by bacterial activity .
14 The Council , or what was left of it now , nodded wisely although frankly none of them understood or cared much about mechanical things .
15 The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation .
16 If the witnesses are n't killed at the time , then they are often murdered at a later date , or frightened off with violent threats .
17 A third of the recent records relate to birds found dead or dying inland after severe gales .
18 In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period .
19 She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars .
20 If a record that is updated or accessed frequently in one time period is likely not to be referenced at all in the next , any analysis breaks down and the equal access assumption is the best guide for design decisions .
21 Fix the doctor or nurse up with white coats , stethoscope and little lights of the kind used for looking in ears .
22 In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ .
23 To be blunt , you can be a sensible young woman and be escorted back to your family , or carried out of this wilderness in a sack .
24 Death sentences had been judicially imposed or carried out in 1990 in 90 countries ; the death penalty was retained by every country in the Middle East , with Iran showing the region 's highest number of death sentences ( estimated at more than 700 ) , while in China the report recorded 750 executions , the highest number since 1983 .
25 calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ;
26 calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ;
27 calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ;
28 Mrs Bottomley , who is planning to close or merge up to 15 London hospitals , said she was ‘ most impressed ’ with her mother 's treatment .
29 The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm .
30 A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes .
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