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

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1 NDO will be happy to help and/or make the necessary arrangements .
2 If your project standards allow , you may change the 2nd parameter to TRUE to enable users to use the auto DC assessment facility and/or change the 3rd parameter to TRUE to grant public access to DCs .
3 The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription .
4 It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about .
5 Common-sense , or rhetorical , thinking involves the raising and dropping of anchors , not to mention the continual arguments about whether to raise or lower the metaphorical anchor at any given moment .
6 Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara .
7 The monograph and exhibition catalogue , broadly discussing the same group of pictures selected from Magritte 's oeuvre , adopt rather different approaches to their subject , and will be favoured , respectively , by a readership enjoying the labyrinthine mind of a great scholar or preferring the clean presentation of information and explanation in a sequence of numbered catalogue entries .
8 The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded .
9 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 .
10 Re-assign the manager of the package temporarily to the specified user or change the specified user .
11 No one is going to thank you if you end up making changes which either cause real hardship or bring the political roof in — or manage to do both .
12 This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened .
13 Whilst we recognise that the Government does not want local authorities to use development plan policies to limit change of use rights , we believe the final guidance should indicate the special circumstances in which such constraints may be justified , for example , in order to avoid environmental problems or to sustain the traditional employment base of a particular locality .
14 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 .
15 Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body , which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self .
16 It is often said , persuasively , that men entered into social relations in the course of using or transforming the non-human material world .
17 Any special educational provision for a child provided with a statement under the 1981 Education Act may exclude or modify the national curriculum .
18 A group like U2 should be chart material , playing new pop that does n't falsify or perpetuate or enhance the bright fantasy .
19 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 .
20 Or eating the wrong things ?
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Temperature can be remedied by using hotter solutions , changing hot solutions more frequently , using greater volumes or preheating the soiled surface .
26 A good way of starting to do this is to either join an already-existent writing class ( you can find one by looking on the noticeboard in your local library , telephoning the local Further , Adult or Higher Education Centre or contacting the nearest Workers ' Educational Association ) or , if there is n't one of these in your area , by forming your own writing group .
27 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 .
28 In the same way they learn the trees that are good for firewood or building , for supporting the yams or propping the bananas , those that resist white ants or make the best bee-hives , stools or grain mortars and pestles .
29 However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed .
30 People often worry about introducing a puppy into a home where there is already an aged Rottweiler , feeling that this will upset or unsettle the older dog .
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