Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another pan , cook the chopped onion and celery with the tomatoes and 150 ml ( 6 fl oz ) water , or if using tinned tomatoes omit the water . |
| 2 | or whether to bring disciplinary charges against the officer in question . |
| 3 | Several studies have shown the consequences of a gluten challenge in coeliac disease subjects , whether as a single amount or as repeated daily administration of gluten within the range of a normal diet . |
| 4 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 5 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
| 6 | When either looking for blocks of text from other documents to include in the new document database or when considering new additions to the semantic net itself , preference was given to additions that would make the semantic net manifest more analogical inheritance . |
| 7 | Sometimes we are not convincing because what we say is belied by our actions — for instance , a woman who wears a permanent fixed smile while trying to reprimand a subordinate , or when returning faulty goods to a shop . |
| 8 | It may well give me a reason to break the law when encountering the secret police , when coming up against censorship , or when confronting other forms of injustice or repression . |
| 9 | These are not recognised by the elder as a social error ( something possible at the level of practical consciousness ) nor as having hazardous consequences ( which perhaps requires verbal consciousness ) . |
| 10 | And although adding new terminology ( or reinterpreting old terminology ) to a subject already burdened with varying and often confusing descriptors must be viewed circumspectly , the use of the term information skills does usefully illuminate the nature of the new emphasis . |
| 11 | In many cases the answers to that question would be difficult to unravel , and if challenged most people probably would say that they were doing both . |
| 12 | The Queen 's Bench Division Direction says that the wording must be specific , and if prescribing unpleasant consequences unless a particular act is done , the order must make clear the precise period within which the act is to be done except that unless the court otherwise specifies , no time need be specified in the case of judgments or orders for the payment of money , for possession of land , or the delivery of goods ; in those cases , the order , unless some time is specified , may be enforced immediately . |
| 13 | Oryx make better use of the available plant food than domestic animals , and if given adequate protection in the wild could become a valuable source of food for local people . |
| 14 | The Driver in the case of a light engine then goes to the telephone to inform the Signalman each end of the tunnel and give them all particulars and if blocking both lines . |
| 15 | And while established first team players like Kevin Scott and Gavin Peacock are certain to be offered new deals , the new Newcastle boss is already preparing to be ruthless . |
| 16 | They would also assume the validity of the religious starting-point , and while acknowledging that faith should never be forced onto people — that freedom is essential for real religious awareness to develop — they are nevertheless sure that they are right and that no teacher will be misleading the young if they teach religion straight . |
| 17 | To imagine that the revived realism of the 1950s and after excluded other possibilities , then , is to misunderstand its nature , and the chauvinism of the school was always something of a pose . |
| 18 | Do consider how the new conservatory will best blend with the property and whether to use single glazing which is less expensive or double glazing which allows the conservatory to be used more comfortably the year around . |
| 19 | She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them . |
| 20 | In healthcare settings and when giving first aid there are various routine hygiene precautions which should always be followed . |
| 21 | This will greatly enhance your ability to concentrate , to meditate and to visualise — an important adjunct in self-healing and when giving healing massage . |
| 22 | It remains extraordinary , though , that with a brain of only 950,000 neurons — less than a thousandth of those in the human retina — bees can learn colours , textures and smells as well as motor skills , and when set appropriate tasks can show most of the features of conditioning , associative and non-associative learning and relatively long-lasting memory found by mammalian psychologists in organisms with many-fold larger brains . |
| 23 | It regarded it as undermining the peace process , as making assumptions about the possibility of breach by Egypt , and as allowing unilateral arbitration of breach by the United States . |
| 24 | Bush characterized the action as having no military advantage for the Iraqis and as providing further evidence of Saddam Hussein 's ability to " amaze " and " outrage " international opinion . |
| 25 | This underlines the fact that in nuclear matters , as in the laws of war generally , domestic law may be very important both as a source of the law and as providing some sanctions . |
| 26 | Inside , the atmosphere is upbeat and as tripped architectural space provides a backdrop to the rainbow silks of the staff . |
| 27 | The breakdown of the control apparatus is widely perceived as liberating managers to pursue economically sub-optimal goals , and as causing insufficient pressure to be imposed to promote managerial vigour and to ensure the competence of the management team . |
| 28 | Work experience , on the other hand , was seen by employers as part of the school 's discipline and as giving little information about the pupil as an individual . |
| 29 | But is there anything which can be imagined as existing in isolation and as possessing great value in such a case ? |
| 30 | Since then , however , the LDP had recovered ground under the steady leadership of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , while the opposition had been increasingly perceived as divided and as having little policy other than opposing the government . |