Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 2 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 3 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 4 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 5 | Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions . |
| 6 | There were few holidays , or trips to the famous surf of the Australian beaches , until friends of the family lent them a house by the sea in later years . |
| 7 | In part two : Tactical weapons : The Tory seat that sinks or swims with the floating voter . |
| 8 | In general , money supply growth will be higher ( or its decline lower ) , the more the government borrows from the banking sector rather than the non-bank private sector ( or repays to the non-bank private sector rather than the banking sector ) . |
| 9 | A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord . |
| 10 | deictic : a. gestural b. symbolic 2. non-deictic : c. non-anaphoric d. anaphoric These difficulties are compounded when the phenomenon of deictic projection , or shifts from the egocentric centre , are taken into account ; and they are further multiplied by the interaction of the semantics of non-deictic categorizations of ( especially ) space and time with deictic modifiers . |
| 11 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 12 | A total of 158 taxa have been identified as pollen , spores , or macrofossils from the Outer Hebrides . |
| 13 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 14 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 15 | And from all these things the soft light proceeded , like the glimmering of pearls in the depth of water , like the phosphorescent light that moves of itself on the night surface of southern seas , or shines round the heaving shoals , milky-white over their silver darts , in our own dark Channel . |
| 16 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 17 | Unless she comes to the front door , and follows you down the path ; or comes to the back door and follows you into the garden . |
| 18 | These gases diffuse down their concentration gradients , e.g. through stoma pores or lentices to the intercellular spaces of leaf mesophyll or stem cortex . |
| 19 | To what extent can restrictions or controls on the domestic ( that is , the UK ) market be maintained in the face of integration of financial markets ? |
| 20 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 21 | Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard ; And he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred : He whistles a tune to the window , and who should be waiting there But the landlord 's black-eyed daughter , |
| 22 | Yeltsin announced a softening of economic policy , with extra credits to industries , investments in agriculture and grants to the military conversion project . |
| 23 | There are now several benefits — family credit , free school meals , housing benefit and grants from the Social Fund , for example — that can help families in financial need , but the processes of application and appeal for these are complex enough to warrant the assistance of social workers in many instances . |
| 24 | and plays on the pink film of their eyelids ; |
| 25 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 26 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 27 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 28 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 29 | Their mission to deliver food and supplies to the beseiged city of Sarajevo . |
| 30 | Usually they cleared underbrush and weeds from the rubber groves from one o'clock until sunset , but the new quotas ordered by Duclos that morning meant they had to tap and collect from more than a hundred extra trees through the hot afternoon although their energies were largely spent . |