Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded . |
| 6 | Re-assign the manager of the package temporarily to the specified user or change the specified user . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body , which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self . |
| 11 | It is often said , persuasively , that men entered into social relations in the course of using or transforming the non-human material world . |
| 12 | Any special educational provision for a child provided with a statement under the 1981 Education Act may exclude or modify the national curriculum . |
| 13 | A group like U2 should be chart material , playing new pop that does n't falsify or perpetuate or enhance the bright fantasy . |
| 14 | Temperature can be remedied by using hotter solutions , changing hot solutions more frequently , using greater volumes or preheating the soiled surface . |
| 15 | These status relations can interact with , reinforce , or undermine the speaker-hearer relationship . |
| 16 | So this is an area where no sort of remedy is obtainable from the attempt to invoke or elicit the natural response of a community to an attack upon its health . |
| 17 | Thus , the issue arose between redistributing work to the inexperienced solicitor or maintaining the experienced trial advocate , the ‘ Baron ’ , who was already in the dominant role . |
| 18 | Dearlove considers the whole pressure for increased scale simply as a cover for regaining or maintaining the influential position of business interests in local government ( Dearlove 1979 ) . |
| 19 | I would be pleased if Council could consider this matter and endorse or amend the proposed approach . |
| 20 | As Banderas struggles to come to terms with the choices being offered him — remaining a serious but relatively obscure actor in European films , or accepting the international stardom Hollywood dangles seductively before him with its accompanying riches and loss of privacy — the roles currently being offered seem eerily appropriate . |
| 21 | You either love or hate the custard-pie routine , adore or detest the Marx Brothers . |
| 22 | In the United States , by contrast , it was embodied in the First Amendment to the constitution : " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances . " |
| 23 | A wronged woman might stab her husband with scissors , cut up his clothes or ram the other woman 's car , but the consequences are not predictable . |
| 24 | Ability of the dressing to remove or absorb the excess exudate and other substances toxic to the cells |
| 25 | In the computer industry , as with any other , ideas have to be discussed with various persons and organizations with a view to raising finance and granting licences to use or make the resulting invention or copyright work . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the proportions of congenital abnormalities preventable by secondary and tertiary methods are estimates based on research studies of particular conditions ( for example , ad hoc epidemiological studies for measuring the effectiveness of neonatal orthopaedic screening ) , or regions ( for example , those having excellent ultrasound scanning and trained staff for diagnosing structural defects , or using the triple test for detection of Down 's syndrome ) or of expert groups ( for example , specific postnatal treatment and early paediatric surgery ) . |
| 27 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 28 | They enjoy or suffer the unequal distribution of rewards in society as members of different social groups . |
| 29 | If an order for provisional damages is made , the court will make an award of immediate damages excluding any for the risk that the plaintiff will develop the specified disease or suffer the specified deterioration . |
| 30 | On July 10-11 proposals were submitted by the USA for a comprehensive agreement including adequate disciplines to eliminate or minimize the adverse trade effects of trade-related investment measures , and by Switzerland for disciplines to be established according to the typical trade effects of such measures in specific trade or macroeconomic circumstances . |