Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 3 | definitions of words which may be new to students , or which have a specific meaning |
| 4 | How does the gospel relate to those areas with which the culture is least able to cope , or which have a dehumanising influence ? |
| 5 | We wish to make simple distinctions between sign languages ( BSL , ASL and so on ) ; sign systems , which will draw on sign language vocabulary but add features of the spoken language ( signed English ( UK ) , Signed Swedish , Seeing Exact English ) , or which have a manufactured vocabulary ( Paget-Gorman Sign System ) ; fingerspelling ; sign vocabularies , which reflect the meaning of sign languages and spoken languages without necessarily adopting inflections from either ( Makaton , Cued Speech ) ; and Total Communication which involves a mixture of one or more of these with spoken language . |
| 6 | Or you catch a cold and you just do not feel up to it ? |
| 7 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 8 | It 's either the correction button going or you need a new one . |
| 9 | If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby . |
| 10 | If that 's your reason , or you want a fresh plan , |
| 11 | Does he or she have a significant past medical history which will influence good wound healing ? |
| 12 | People with schizophrenia who are discharged from hospital to live with relatives who are over-critical , disapproving or who express a high level of anxiety and tension , are more likely to suffer early relapse than those returning to a neutral or tolerant atmosphere , and spending less time in daily contact with other members of the family , possibly by attending a day centre or going to work , seems to help some sufferers to cope with an emotionally charged home environment . |
| 13 | Fighting , he says , is ‘ the real , highest , honestest business of every son of man ’ and he advises ‘ those young persons whose stomachs are not strong , or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given to us all , an uncivilized , unchristian , or ungentlemanly affair , just skip this chapter at once , for it wo n't be to their taste ’ . |
| 14 | It might be argued that the courts have a role to play in ensuring that groups which have been unfairly denied access to the policy-making arena or who have a genuine complaint about how that process was conducted , should be allowed to challenge the outcome of that process in the courts . |
| 15 | Similarly , people who are related or who have a close personal relationship will not be employed where one acts as the other 's superior in a disciplinary role or in financial matters . |
| 16 | DIAL ( Disablement Information and Advice lines ) give a great deal of assistance to people who are disabled or who have a disabled relative , and Gingerbread , the charity concerned with one-parent families , does much educative and advisory work . |
| 17 | We would like information about how to involve users who are profoundly disabled , non-verbal or who have a sensory impairment in addition to a learning difficulty . |
| 18 | As you may know , there is a strong self-help element in DIAL UK , as the service that is provided is done so , wherever possible , by people who are themselves disabled or who have a direct experience of disability , and this has proved to be very successful . |
| 19 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 20 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 21 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 22 | Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache . |
| 23 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 24 | So then they have to fill out all the forms all over again and I get a stern warning against giving false information to police officers ! |
| 25 | And I remember a great orange moon floating on warm , richly scented evenings . |
| 26 | The shows on that 1987 reunion tour are among the best we 've done and I remember a cracking night in the Olympia which would have been the last time we visited Dublin . |
| 27 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 28 | The anger goes , no point in being mad , and I remember a tasty bit of gum I 've got stashed in the classroom , and I fancy it . |
| 29 | There have been lots of others , of course , and I remember a lovely beast called Daisy who would have been grand . |
| 30 | And I remember a whole boat-load of these young Irish lads and lasses coming aboard you know , weeping and wailing . |