Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb base] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he was either going to flee or perhaps blackmail the murderers , without telling us . |
| 2 | If you prefer a natural look , use a cake mascara mixed with water to colour lashes without clumping them , or only colour the ends of lashes for the lightest look of all . |
| 3 | CityLink 190 is the only way to travel to London to work , shop or just visit the sights . |
| 4 | For a complete change of scenery , a 15–20 minute bus ride ( buses run every half hour ) will take you to Innsbruck , where you can visit the picturesque old town and the famous Golden Roof , the Alpine zoo , the Folk Museum , or just explore the shops and enjoy coffee and cream cakes in the elegant Maria Theresia Strasse . |
| 5 | There were times , as Mhoira once wryly remarked , when she wished she could join the Masons or even use the gents ' lavatory . |
| 6 | For Dorothy Heathcote , whether the object is a shirt , a piece of leather , a chess-piece , a book or a surgeon 's knife , the teacher 's responsibility is to invite or even compel the children to work from a ‘ frame ’ ( used here in the sociological sense of ‘ perspective ’ ) that requires not engagement , but detachment . |
| 7 | ‘ He has forbidden me to fast or even keep the days of abstinence . |
| 8 | This week for 24 hours they 're refusing to cook , shop or even help the kids with their homework because , they say , they should get a regular Government wage for all the time and effort they put into the home . |
| 9 | Apart from the chance that the customer may default on his payments ( perhaps even go bankrupt ) , there is the risk that he may also sell , damage or even destroy the goods . |
| 10 | Your ability to write and argue is of little avail if you get your facts wrong , fail to find the relevant authorities , rely on a statute that has been superseded or a case that has been overruled , or simply misunderstand the authorities . |
| 11 | It is tempting to equate shares with rights under a contract , for as we have seen the memorandum and articles of association constitute a contract of some sort between the company and its members and it is these documents which directly or indirectly define the rights conferred by the shares . |
| 12 | Equally , the pupil 's value to the organisation can also be implied in this hidden way and either overtly or covertly alter the teachers ' actions . |
| 13 | Even when people took an interest in wildlife , and visited wild places , they tended to trample on or otherwise disturb the creatures they admired . |
| 14 | Revisiting a month or so later , count the number of empty barnacles ( perforated mussel shells ) or otherwise examine the depradations of the dog-whelks . |
| 15 | No fish or crustaceans which would predate on or otherwise damage the polyps . |
| 16 | It is not suggested that the teacher should keep up a non-stop commentary or continually repeat the children 's answers and comments for the benefit of the rest of the group . |
| 17 | In both cases the parents ' resignation to the inevitability of the assessment outcome arose from their having no opportunity to determine or seriously influence the objectives of the assessment nor to contribute to the conceptual framework within which their children 's needs were being assessed . |
| 18 | They are also responsible for endeavouring to eliminate or safely manage the risks inherent in our business . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) The purchaser may have no confidence in either the vendor 's ability or the vendor 's intention to fully and properly disclose the liabilities of the company . |
| 20 | There is no more exacting a yardstick of free-market principles than the pop charts , where the successful bask unashamedly in the spotlight and conspicuously consume the fruits of their success , while scant sympathy is expended on the failures . |
| 21 | render invisible the vast amount of avoidable harm , injury , and deprivation imposed on the ordinary population by the state , transnational and other corporations , and thereby remove the effects of these ‘ crimes ’ from the causal nexus for explaining ‘ conventional crimes ’ committed by ordinary people . |
| 22 | Each side would like mutual disarmament , but will be deterred from making any move in that direction by the belief that the other side would cheat , and thereby gain an arms advantage . |
| 23 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 24 | If dull , cryptic animals live on after their reproductive phase is over they , by contrast , only serve to increase the population density of their kind and thereby increase the chances of a predator finding them , despite their camouflage . |
| 25 | However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade . |
| 26 | Intensive training routines cause the release of growth hormone from the pituitary gland , but insulin can block the release of this hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training . |
| 27 | In Darwinian terms , once again , cats that did this were more likely to maintain their social relationships and thereby derive the benefits that such relationships provide than cats that did not . |
| 28 | Experience can confirm theories , and thereby confirm the sentences of which the theories are constructed , but it can not confirm those sentences singly and directly . |
| 29 | Its principal avowed aim was to give legislative form to the decision , contrary to the recommendation of the Law Commission , 46 and thereby allow the parties in these ‘ tragic cases ’ the dignity of a decree of nullity so that , if thought fit , provision for ancillary relief could be made by the court , and the unsavoury examination of their sexuality , rendered necessary if the only recourse were a declaration of status , could be avoided . |
| 30 | There is therefore a clear place for an EC policy to oversee State aids , and so to ensure that they do not unjustifiably favour one member 's industry at the expense of another 's , and thereby mitigate the intentions of EC competition policy . |