Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [det] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Despite Fujimori 's assurances to the OAS , US Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger stated that the USA would adopt a wait-and-see attitude on whether or not to restore all or part of US$320,000,000 in suspended economic and security aid .
2 ( n ) To promote or form any other company for the purpose of acquiring the whole or any part of the business or property or undertaking or any of the liabilities of the Company , or of undertaking any business or operations which may appear likely to assist or benefit the Company or to enhance the value of any property or business of the Company , and to place or guarantee the placing of , underwrite , subscribe for , or otherwise acquire all or any part of the shares or securities of any such company as aforesaid .
3 ( n ) To promote or form any other company for the purpose of acquiring the whole or any part of the business or property or undertaking or any of the liabilities of the Company , or of undertaking any business or operations which may appear likely to assist or benefit the Company or to enhance the value of any property or business of the Company , and to place or guarantee the placing of , underwrite , subscribe for , or otherwise acquire all or any part of the shares or securities of any such company as aforesaid .
4 When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect .
5 The Castle is also largely uninhabited by intelligent beings , and so has more than its fair share of dangerous — and still armed — traps .
6 Alternatively , instead of saving , the individual could borrow and so spend more than his present income in the present period .
7 Sometimes one or other would misuse that privilege and perhaps shout more than was otherwise seemly , ‘ but the fact that we 'd grown up together meant we could have our rows and know that the next day one of us would apologise , and it would all be forgotten . ’
8 But in this one you 're right and that makes me right too without having to decide just why I 'm doing this and perhaps doing more than I 'll ever get around to telling you .
9 One way of achieving this is for MAS to hold all copies of the Information Memoranda and only to despatch these once the intermediary has returned a confidentiality undertaking to us .
10 And not to want more than we 've got .
11 Members were asked to assist in these rules and not to play more than the stated fees !
12 She was a foreigner and already had more than enough to do inside her own organisation .
13 Databases are being taught how the world works , and thus becoming more than mere filing cabinets
14 Er but if not , if you are just doing midwifery I , I think you er really need to stick at it and just do that because it 's , it 's the more practise and the more babies you bring into the world the better you get at it .
15 It also made me think that perhaps I had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore it 's going to go on to the confidence side of it .
16 Another possibility , for example , uses the same concept of a filter set , but instead of taking the definition as a whole , takes the separate senses and progressively eliminates those that show the least overlap with the filter set .
17 I know , too , that the stomach , on receiving less and less food , will shrink and gradually require less and less food at any one time .
18 They have a poor diet and look bad , and gradually care less and less about themselves and how others see them .
19 There is obviously a complicated relationship between what is printed in the newspapers and what people come to believe , and we would not wish to suggest that people passively and uncritically absorb all that they read there .
20 She is now working for another firm and still worries more than she should , but she can leave the office at night and enjoy a social life .
21 Endill was sad at this because the Bookman was very clever and probably knew more than all the teachers put together .
22 And probably getting less than a third of the pay of most MPs round here .
23 Now what I 'd like to do today is to erm take you round the house in a moment or two , see what you think of it and really to treat this as something whereby you see if you want to come and help us .
24 I want you to write the exercise and now try this and see if you can do it .
25 I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’
26 It is now agreed that global action is urgently required to first to control and then to reduce these and other emissions .
27 He did so at home and away in 1965–66 , and then hit another when they were visitors at Selhurst Park in February 1967 .
28 Even curry powder is merely a base , relying on ground coriander and ground cumin for its essential character and then turned this or that way , sometimes by roasting , more usually by the addition of other spices , fresh herbs , aromatic vegetables and so on .
29 We predicted the DNA sequences that encode two of the peptides ( Fig. 1 b , legend ) and then used these as primers to amplify a cDNA fragment derived from F9 EC RNA .
30 And the worst of it is that , unlike the small child , they have learnt so many of the tricks of the adult world : How to play on parental guilt , how to manipulate , how to hide their real feelings and how to convince those that love them most that they are ‘ OK , honestly , mum ’ when actually they are consumed with anxiety and doubt .
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