Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there is only one country , the United States , whose agents , organizations and classes are hegemonic in all three spheres , other countries and agents , organizations and classes are hegemonic , or realistically claim to share hegemony , within each sphere . |
| 2 | Few people would be sold a new car without a handbook , or even attempt to grow cabbages without reading up about it first , but the same people will on impulse buy a new puppy without the foggiest idea of what is involved |
| 3 | No industry can stand still — and it would be foolhardy to put the agricultural clock back , or even try to stop progress . |
| 4 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 5 | As later events were to prove , there was no guarantee that those constellations would persist over time or even continue to support moves towards integration . |
| 6 | Hence , they develop quite rigid codes of behaviour , or group norms , which explicitly or implicitly act to create conformity among group members . |
| 7 | Enquiries come from people who are retiring , are moving to the country , or simply want to restore buildings as a hobby . |
| 8 | Er if a department 's busy or maybe need to shift personnel from here to there , |
| 9 | As the frontiers of empire contracted over the next half-century , the dispossessed loyalists were either to leave home and livelihood for the safety of the mother country or else endeavour to seek pardon and accommodation with their new masters . |
| 10 | Recent scientific research has shown that Equi-Strath , a herbal food preparation will help maintain the body 's immune defence system and thereby help maintain vitality and assist the performance of the working horse . |
| 11 | However , so far the attitude has tended to be sympathetic — it is not , after all , in the creditors ' interests to exclude a member and thereby reduce earning potential . |
| 12 | Probably the most effective means is to find a task which is sufficiently simple that the patient can carry it out and thereby begin to experience success . |
| 13 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
| 14 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 15 | For safer sunning protect your skin with a high-factor sunscreen and slowly decrease to lower factors . |
| 16 | This poses the threat of a global interest rate war as West Germany , say , matches each rise in American interest rates , in order to support the D-mark and so avoid importing inflation . |
| 17 | Some filter-feeders like the scallops do manage to travel : they clap their valves together convulsively and so make curving leaps , but by and large adult bivalves live rather static lives and the spreading of the species into distant parts of the sea bed is carried out by the young . |
| 18 | They do not share our sense of causality , and so tend to view events as discrete and unrelated . |
| 19 | In this situation , firms find their inventories being run down involuntarily and so act to increase output . |
| 20 | This results in a gentle down-wave drift of water , which can lead to the accumulation of water along the coast and so help to generate rip and longshore currents . |
| 21 | Mops and cloths should be provided so that children can mop up their own spills , and so help to prevent accidents . |
| 22 | Vitamin E is really a group of plant oils called tocopherols. they have the unique ability to prevent the deterioration that occurs in certain fats as a result of exposure to oxygen in the air , and so help to prevent deterioration of fats in the healthy body . |
| 23 | It is also unhygienic , and so separate bathing facilities should be provided . |
| 24 | ‘ Cool guys think it 's great and so do cool girls , too . |
| 25 | ‘ Cool guys think it 's great and so do cool girls , too . |
| 26 | Hence if there is unanticipated inflation , real wages fall , and so do output costs ; the supply curve of output therefore shifts outwards temporarily . |
| 27 | Legal concepts are inconclusive , and so fail to draw distinctions vital in real life . |
| 28 | Unfortunately we do not always have enough stories from the diocese to fill the space available and so have to use material from other sources . |
| 29 | It is for this reason that sociologists have often assumed that they must respect the professional psychologists ' judgement in these matters , and so have treated Freud from their viewpoint as unscientific and unusable . |
| 30 | The couple can not use physical contact to avoid conflict , and so have to make friends , talk to each other and negotiate in a non-physical way . |