Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 2 | Throughout the main growing season vegetables , fruit and flowers are gathered or cut according to need , often before they are fully ripe . |
| 3 | Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged . |
| 4 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 5 | The books had also been classified and marked according to readability bands from 1–5 to help pupils to choose their books themselves . |
| 6 | Then he changed , as if what had happened between us till then was a joke , a charade , that had been rehearsed and gone according to plan , but could now be ended . |
| 7 | Vector changes relative to these regions were established and categorised according to type and position . |
| 8 | For the wealthy there were gold bracelets weighed by the market gold merchants and purchased according to weight and the going price of gold , not according to design . |