Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NFU plan aims to offer the farmer a choice between setting land aside and receiving the full , subsidised rate for produce , or producing at maximum capacity without support . |
| 2 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
| 3 | To reach it other than by boat or wading in low tide would have taken an hour 's drive , so it was not often visited by the women . |
| 4 | In various articles of the forties Eliot refined his material , whether in relating poetry to religious ritual in ‘ The Social Function of Poetry ’ or returning to Primitive Culture and John Layard 's studies ‘ in the ‘ stone age ’ New Hebrides ' in ‘ Cultural Forces in the Human Order ’ which reworks many of the points in the earlier ‘ Notes ’ series . |
| 5 | In this chapter Neil Toppin describes the assessment panels at his school in Scotland , which were established to attempt a flexible response to problems of disruption within the school and to offer pupils excluded from other schools or returning from special provision another chance in the mainstream . |
| 6 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full-cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 7 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 8 | A non-exclusive list of examples of such abuses is provided : ( a ) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions ; ( b ) limiting production , markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers ; ( c ) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage ; ( d ) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which , by their nature or according to commercial usage , have no connection with the subject of such contracts . |
| 9 | Local authorities must be notified of private fostering arrangements and of children accommodated by health or education authorities or living in residential care or nursing homes on a long-stay basis ( see Chapter 18 ) . |
| 10 | Beneath the flowering plants were slats of the veranda half eaten by ants or crumbling with tropical humidity . |
| 11 | For example , limitations on domestic heating during winter smogs could lead to the elderly suffering from hypothermia , and prohibitions on the use of private cars could increase exposure to outdoor pollution whilst walking to work or waiting for public transport . |
| 12 | Finally , there also seemed to be some evidence than an internal bias towards helplessness ( similar to Seligman 's concept ) was implicated at some stage , in making PMP more likely or leading to poor coping responses . |
| 13 | or punting for dear life in the stream , |
| 14 | Infringement of the hospital rules , or quitting without medical consent , carried penalties of up to two months imprisonment . |
| 15 | These results , however , are somewhat misleading because in most cases the wells do not appear to have been drilled for Zechstein objectives and were either off-structure or lacking in significant closure at Zechstein level . |
| 16 | The Hindus saw subtle forces and proceeding energies crystallizing or condensing into gross matter . |
| 17 | The mind does extraordinary things exaggerating or minimising with consummate ease . |
| 18 | The full size terminal can store up to 37 Prestel pages in memory for review or printing to hard copy . |
| 19 | There are also the dangers of cutting down on food to pay for drink or drifting into excessive drinking due to loneliness . |
| 20 | It is therefore understandable that very many taboos and prohibitions have developed around physical exposure , whether it is bodily nakedness or attending to personal grooming . |
| 21 | If a stepping motor is used to change the position of a mechanical load by several steps the system designer needs to know how much torque the motor can produce whilst accelerating , decelerating or running at constant speed . |
| 22 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 23 | Think about cycling more , or travelling on public transport |
| 24 | Equally , we would seldom be likely to use the word acrobatic of acrobats themselves or their doings except , precisely , on occasions when they are exercising their special skills — the rest of the time we may speak of them , if a description is needed at all , as large , or rich , or charming , as standing on his dignity , or asking for black coffee , or younger than Aunt Mary , and so on . |
| 25 | We are still eager to bestow riches beyond belief , each month , upon the author of a letter which we deem either brimming with astute observations or glowing with sharp wit . |
| 26 | On the one hand he is clearly , and correctly I think , rejecting a theory based on ‘ drive reduction ’ theories , where repression ( as in the psychoanalytical usage ) is the blocking or re-directing of sexual energy ( the hydraulic model ) . |
| 27 | Effective teaching & learning at key stage 3 : teacher & pupil perspective |
| 28 | Limitations obviously exist , e.g. the amount and cost of necessary winter feed ( or wintering on other land ) and consideration of carcase quality when livestock are slaughtered . |
| 29 | We need to consider the practical goal of teaching or learning about English pronunciation , and for this purpose a very abstract analysis would be unsuitable . |
| 30 | Abbey Life claimed it was not making a political statement or dealing in anti-Labour propaganda . |