Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who comes or goes in these rooms is my business , not yours ! ’ |
| 2 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 3 | Some trilobites lost their eyes , probably those that burrowed in mud or lived in lightless parts of the ocean . |
| 4 | A : Obviously , I have personal feelings against Rottweilers , but I 'm calling for a total ban or muzzling in public places which should be extended to Dobermans and German Shepherds . |
| 5 | Inevitably , few Georgian beerhouses or coaching inns survive in anything like their original form , having been comprehensively extended or altered in subsequent decades . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that the liabilities which the drafter might seek to exclude or restrict in standard terms of trading will be " business liabilities " and any exclusions in such standard terms are therefore potentially subject to the Act . |
| 7 | Many mothers have difficulty in interpreting the demands of their baby and tend to feed rather than play or comfort in other ways . |
| 8 | Secondly , unlike the definition in ( 8 ) , it does not make the distinction between semantics and pragmatics along the encoded/unencoded line ; this is important because , as we shall see , there is still controversy over whether such pragmatic implications as presuppositions or illocutionary force are or are not encoded or grammaticalized in linguistic forms . |
| 9 | ‘ is different from other interests because it exercises power or influence in two ways — directly through interest groups and structurally because of the crucial role boards and managers exercise over production , investment and employment decisions which shape the economic and political environment within which Governments make policy ’ . |
| 10 | Industrial yields have also dropped across the country , while retail yields have been static or fallen in all regions . |
| 11 | The country was divided into shires , themselves composed of units known as hundreds ( or wapentakes in some areas ) . |
| 12 | A description of personality traits is beyond the scope of this book , but they may be categorised in a simple manner under three headings , thus : * role traits : which are those parts of the personality which determine how an individual will react or behave in particular situations , and will react to the expectations of others in that situation . |
| 13 | Attendance at other courses may be required or permitted in particular cases . |
| 14 | The recent rapid expansion of Asian drift-net fleets into the South Pacific and Tasman Sea has raised fears of similar problems of entanglement of marine mammals in plastic netting lost or discarded in these areas . |
| 15 | These two styles of easy care trousers from calange are the epitome of simplicity and lightness , just what 's needed when climbing or walking in hot climates . |
| 16 | Protogeometric is tentatively imitated or paralleled in other parts of Greece , and the fully developed Geometric of the succeeding centuries becomes a universal Greek style ; but it is in Attica that the development can be most clearly seen , and all other Geometric pottery-styles remain provincial beside Attic . |
| 17 | Those not on exercise , shooting on the range or included in particular duties , were gathering outside the gymnasium . |
| 18 | From an intricate system of pipes , water flowed everywhere , in fountains and little artificial streams , irrigating a profusion of plants , set in the earth or clustered in countless pots , whose unaccustomed variety and colour dazzled the eye . |
| 19 | This does not mean that adultery is the one legal basis for divorce among Christians , because Jesus never encouraged his followers to think or act in legalistic terms . |
| 20 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 21 | One set of scenarios for the engineering industry suggests that in a country such as Norway , with small communities at the heads of the many fiords , an appropriate use of the technology would be for each community to have some equipment to produce particular parts of a product or to engage in particular parts of a production process . |
| 22 | Profits were available for landowners who were willing to develop the land by opening coal-mines , building factories , or developing in other ways . |
| 23 | By comparing objects in museums with those mentioned in inventories or seen in old drawings and photographs , we expect to get a fuller picture of domestic life in Scotland than we can find in any one source alone . |
| 24 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 25 | The clay mineral assemblage predominantly constitute illite and chlorite ; smectite is absent or occurs in minor quantities as interlayers . |
| 26 | Voting was prevented or disrupted in some areas by military operations when soldiers took advantage of the truce . |
| 27 | Clearly , it could be modified or expanded in many ways . |
| 28 | Home smokeries may be purchased or made in large tins or drums . |
| 29 | Usually a husband and wife are regarded as living together if they are not separated under a court order or a deed of separation or separated in such circumstances as are likely to prove permanent ( Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 , s282 ) . |
| 30 | In common with other scholars we have considered , Durkheim was essentially an armchair theorist who seldom stirred outside his study , or beyond his own milieu , except to give lectures or to participate in learned debates . |