Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many young children , the birth of a brother or sister provides their first experience of sharing . ’ |
| 2 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 3 | Every poem or text has its main point of climax , and probably several less important ones . |
| 4 | Areas of particular concern were where elderly people were in danger of self neglect , abuse , or inability to manage their own affairs because of mental infirmity . |
| 5 | Cadbury 's reluctance or inability to resolve its European dilemma in chocolate is exacerbated by another factor — its commitment to growth in its soft drinks . |
| 6 | The Type II disease occurs in yearlings , usually in late winter or spring following their first grazing season and results from the maturation of larvae ingested during the previous autumn and subsequently arrested in their development at the early fourth larval stage . |
| 7 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 8 | Chapman & Hall became his sole publishers in 1840 , after buying out Macrone ( publisher of Sketches by Boz ) and Bentley ( publisher of Oliver Twist ) . |
| 9 | More formal was the Privy Seal office , where King or Council had their administrative orders drawn up in traditional and , if necessary , legal language , and authenticated by the older and more important Privy Seal . |
| 10 | Much of her spare time is spent acting as secretary to her husband , who is Deputy President ( Technical ) of the B.A.G.A. The rare weekend not taken up with Medau or Gymnastics sees them both actively pursuing their other hobby — rambling ! |
| 11 | Only River Plate & General has its projected price on redemption doubly covered . |
| 12 | The student grant , equivalent only to low-income-level subsistence ( even if the parent or spouse pays their full calculated contribution ) , does not attract the same right to Housing Benefit . |
| 13 | In extreme cases perhaps it is , but relief should not be refused unless the applicant 's conduct or motive makes it inappropriate to award the relief sought in this case : courts should not refuse relief in order to penalize an applicant for bad conduct unrelated to the relief sought . |
| 14 | At the extreme , if it turned out that one opinion was in a minority in every group or constituency mandating its one representative , then the gathering of representatives would be unanimous in its support for the other opinion , while the minority opinion would be entirely unrepresented , even though , in principle , it could be held by 49 per cent of those taking part in the mandating process . |
| 15 | Often the process of enforcement or preservation makes it necessary for him to take or defend proceedings . |
| 16 | She was pleasantly surprised to see that we use real food and the only cheating is to under-cook it , sometimes brushing it with oil or water to keep it moist . |
| 17 | The development of co-operation or conflict has its own momentum , and there are limits to the extent that rational effort can influence it . |
| 18 | Posted on August 24 , 1847 , from the Yorkshire village of Haworth , the letter was to publishers Smith & Elder introducing her novel Jane Eyre . |
| 19 | Each unit or module earns its own credit , which can be aggregated or ‘ cashed in ’ for a degree when one has accumulated enough . |
| 20 | No , contrary to what Bill Graham says , Simon Carmody & Co. released it fucking ages ago . |
| 21 | Those who move too hastily to denounce homosexuality across race and class as essentially or only exploitative , sentimental , or racist betray their own homophobic ignorance . |
| 22 | The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand . |
| 23 | Each Table or Area doing its own thing in its own way and as an Association moving powerfully in unison . |
| 24 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 25 | Each serpent or conduit conducts its respective energy to form the human electro-magnetic energy flow . |
| 26 | Fortunately , he wrote , while every person , more or less , in the Western world , has access to pen and paper and can write down a word or two , few will turn as naturally to painting or music to soothe their troubled breasts . |
| 27 | Alan Jones joined Cable & Wireless to relaunch its worldwide employee Recorder as a whole new product with a new title . |
| 28 | The principles as civil proceedings and the topic is now run by it goes on and that mainly deals with criminal material and then one can pick it up at paragraph thirty two er seventeen when er the authors addressed themselves to civil proceedings er and that er following passage deals with effects of the civil evidence act and the relevant procedures and then moving on my Lord to er to in fact , thirty two thirty nine on page eighty hundred and twenty nine the expert has furnished the judge or jury with the necessary scientific criteria for testing the accuracy of her conclusion so that to enable the judge or jury to perform their own independent judgement by the application of these criteria to the facts proved in evidence . |
| 29 | Efficiency provides one important criterion against which to assess how well markets or government perform their allocative function with respect to different types of goods and services . |
| 30 | A cat or monkey using its perceptual powers in leaping from wall to wall , or branch to branch , needs some representation of stability and support . |