Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we pray or repent or worship God this does not increase God 's love . |
| 2 | Apply a bed of new putty — standard for wood , or dual-purpose or metal casement for metal frames . |
| 3 | A drastic measure considering electromagnetic pollution has , as yet , taken only a handful of lives , but compliance with a new European Directive could make or break and electronics company . |
| 4 | As I mentioned earlier , techniques and equipment are developing rapidly ; teams are using thinner section aluminium to construct the raft sections , Kevlar is now used for bows , wooden Canadian paddles are either purchased or crafted and buoyancy aids are specially adapted to carry water bottles , etc , enabling drinks to be taken without interrupting the stroke . |
| 5 | As stated earlier these strategies are defined as ‘ activating forces within the system to alter the system ’ , and they involve either improving the problem-solving capabilities of the system , or releasing and fostering growth in the persons who make up the system to be changed . |
| 6 | They turned this way and that to hie or wheesh or tcht tcht or whoa ; and of course , I have no doubt the horses were so tired they would have found their way home any way . |
| 7 | All but six Cabinet ministers were moved or replaced as Mr Major took the opportunity provided by winning his own mandate to give his senior team a personal stamp . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 9 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 10 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 11 | For example , employees controlling imprest accounts ; collecting income or collecting and banking money . |
| 12 | Mr Field , 47 , a chartered accountant , has worked for Capital House , which now has more than £4 billion under management , since its inception , having previously worked for Save & Prosper and Britannia Unit Trust Managers . |
| 13 | The northern English towns might not know or care that Wall Street had crashed . |
| 14 | THE PROPOSED international merger between Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross is likely to be holed below the waterline this week when the French arm of Deloitte pulls out of the agreement . |
| 15 | In one of the worst years on record many nests have been robbed or destroyed and adult birds shot or poisoned . |
| 16 | ‘ I deal mainly with consumer credit law which can involve , for example solving a problem on an agreement , or ensuring that advertising material produced by Lombard and its subsidiaries complies with the appropriate regulations . ’ |
| 17 | It is a defence , however , if the defendant can satisfy the court that it was not known or suspected that drug trafficking was involved , or that he disclosed his knowledge or suspicion to the relevant authorities . |
| 18 | No more polishin' or drillin' or kit inspection — well , only once a month . |
| 19 | The figure moved forward and one white hand came up , clawing back both hood and wimple as Dame Agatha shook her lustrous blonde hair free . |
| 20 | A more modest first step would be to scrap A levels and insist that university entrance should require five or six AS levels — a conventional exam with a smaller syllabus than A levels — topped up with a specialist paper in one chosen subject . |
| 21 | However , Mr Readman said he would be happy to attend a meeting and recommended that Mr Kirwan should be given another award . |
| 22 | As a result Truman went before Congress on 12 March and asked that US money be provided for these two states . |
| 23 | I nodded to the security man and asked if Mr Storey was inside . |
| 24 | Sunday Life contacted the Northern Ireland Office and asked if Sir John he would comment on his personal financial losses . |
| 25 | He distrusts Szilard , and insists that Robert Oppenheimer ( David Strathaim ) leads the scientists , although he suspects his Leftist views . |
| 26 | At a press conference on March 20 Botha described South Africa 's " friendship " with Taiwan as " precious " , and affirmed that South Africa was " not interested " in developing formal relations with China . |
| 27 | While circling the field , he noted the grass facility was inundated with water and realized that landing Spitfires under the existing conditions would be a hazardous undertaking . |
| 28 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 29 | I do not think she derived any great benefits from being ennobled , but obviously it was something she liked and sought and Harold Wilson could see little or no reason for not obliging her . |
| 30 | Actress June Brown , 65 , had been rumoured to be unhappy with some storylines and upset when market stall holder Pete Beale played by Peter Dean was axed . |