Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have we seen the best of Rosa Mota , or has the sprightly Portuguese got something up her sleeve for Barcelona , the last major championships she plans to run ? |
| 2 | Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’ |
| 3 | The carrier will be liable , however for misdelivery , if he issues similar private keys or breaches the private key security safeguards . |
| 4 | What initiates or sustains the immune response against α subunit in MG is unknown . |
| 5 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 6 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 7 | The pressure makes or breaks the appropriate microswitch contacts . |
| 8 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
| 9 | Such a definition takes a word with a certain valuational meaning , and rather vague descriptive meaning , and broadens , narrows or shifts the descriptive meaning so that the emotions expressed by the valuational meaning are directed at more or less substantially different targets . |
| 10 | The radial shields are visible , distinctly longer than wide the distal portion of the shield bulges and touches or overlaps the opposite shield , the distal ends are separated . |
| 11 | If the grounds for referral are denied , then the Hearing either refers the case to the Sheriff Court for proof , or discharges the disputed ground . |
| 12 | If that breach ‘ goes to the root of the contract ’ or deprives the other party of ‘ substantially the whole benefit of the contract , ’ then it entitles the latter to treat the contract as repudiated and himself as discharged from it . |
| 13 | But once again it overlooks or rejects the underlying philosophy and purpose of a Commission 's proposal . |
| 14 | Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ? |
| 15 | " Or does the mere suggestion make you want to heave ? " |
| 16 | Or does the causal level contain factors of another sort which do the real work ? |
| 17 | Which is it — massive increases in normal basic income tax , or does the Labour party intend to reject all the spending plans with which it has conned the electorate by saying that it will engage in them ? |
| 18 | Do these differences arise from the local packing of cations and anions , or does the random network of chains and planes of silicate , for instance , impose the main constraint ? |
| 19 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 20 | Similarly , we may find that a service is important symbolically or bolsters the social work profession . |
| 21 | Simply this that any government of any colour , at any level , central or local and any organization charged with the responsibility of meeting the needs of elderly people which proceeds on the tacit assumption or makes the blatant assertion that there is no longer any poverty in Scotland is requiring to be contradicted because it is not true . |
| 22 | Adoption — having gathered information and tested it out , the purchaser either continues to buy the product ( 'repeat purchase' ) in the case of less expensive goods , or makes the single purchase which the producer of the product intends . |
| 23 | The Logic neither strives for the predictably balanced loads of the Hotpoint Micro Profile 1400 De Luxe , nor offers the cheap frill of an accessible pump like the Philips Elite . |
| 24 | Nor has the Labour Party , which has traditionally kept its own counsel on ‘ law-and-order ’ matters , proved entirely immune to the surrounding clamour . |
| 25 | The Down Orange Welfare and Ulster Service Corps ( both rural and small town ) have not had a single member imprisoned for a terrorist offence nor has the rural section of the Orange Volunteers . |
| 26 | We had never heard of such a ferry , nor has the local history department at Liverpool Central Library . |
| 27 | That shows that he has not reached level 1 in mathematics , and nor has the hon. Gentleman . |
| 28 | Leapor describes , for example , the height of a ceiling : ‘ Here the pleas 'd Spider plants her peaceful Loom : / Here weaves secure , nor dreads the hated Broom ’ [ ML , 2 , 113 ] . |
| 29 | Nor seeks the carmine petal to infer ; |
| 30 | Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view . |