Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 2 | If the owner does not resist the taking of his property , or actually hands it over , because of , for example , threats of violence , in one sense it could be said that there is ‘ consent : ’ yet the offence of robbery , as defined in section 8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , involves , as one of its elements , theft . |
| 3 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 4 | It spots already compressed files ( ZIP and ARJ and the like , as well as LZH compressed TIF files and so forth ) and just passes them through to the hard disk unaltered . |
| 5 | Collimore in the middle do n't forget to take the ball and finally whips it in towards Collimore and Lewis heads it back in that direction and Ormanroyd with an awkward clearance . |
| 6 | The male catches an insect and carefully parcels it up in silk . |
| 7 | Henry gave him a book and now wants it back but the Abbe Gerard is dead , probably also murdered . |
| 8 | Each village believes itself to be totally different from any other and often marks itself off in a variety of symbolic ways from those which surround it . |
| 9 | He does not say a lot about relations , and often treats them along with modes . |
| 10 | Whatever the pragmatics of the decision , however , a closer look at the New Testament and the justification which the early Christians chose to give for abandoning circumcision reveals much about the ritual and ironically brings us back full circle to the notion of gendered blood and the whole culture-nature : male-female scenario . |
| 11 | When one of the firm 's 600 taxis passes within 600 metres , its receiver picks up the code , stores it in memory , and simultaneously relays it back to base . |
| 12 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 13 | Since the start of the month , the ACT Financial Systems Ltd arm of ACT Group Plc , and IPC Information Systems Ltd , both London-based , have been working together to improve communications in the dealing room : first fruit of this non-exclusive agreement is a link between ACT 's Citydesk database and IPC 's Tradenet MX digital dealerboard ; when a dealer dials a direct line telephone number using his Tradenet dealerboard , the RS 232 output port on the board simultaneously sends a signal to the Citydesk database ; a special program searches the database for information on the client being contacted , and immediately posts it up on the Citydesk screen ; so , the dealer does not have to waste time doing a manual search ; this service is available now , but will be sold mainly as an added extra to existing customers , or via the direct sales teams of both parties ; pricing depends on the size of installation , and the complexity of database search levels required ; future developments include bi-directional communications — the Citymax database could send a message to a dealer if something significant happened on the market . |
| 14 | And Jonathan lets the water out , and then fills it back up again . |
| 15 | The caira spider attracts insects in a similar way and then grabs them out of the air . |
| 16 | She slides the photos into the envelope and then shoves them back in the drawer . |
| 17 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 18 | Someone buys a house , gets a mortgage and then rents it out to poor gits like them . |
| 19 | Andrew pushes him off and then pins him down . |
| 20 | He kebabs his victim on the end of a spike and then turns it round and round over the flames . |
| 21 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 22 | Each capacitor first receives a sample , and then passes it on . |
| 23 | Whitlow driving the free kick into the wall and then lays it off to Lewis stabbed in and away by Collimore . |
| 24 | The participation rate has been high and the method of eliciting responses , which identifies individual reactions and then tests them out in two other contexts , has produced a reliable collective record of student experience . |
| 25 | Thomson Jochim and Gemmell accepts the gift and then gives it back to Oldfield . |
| 26 | Holt can and does believe that children should have them as adults do , and then leaves it up to the child to decide whether or not to exercise them . |
| 27 | It moulds the pollen into a ball and then carries it off to another yucca flower . |
| 28 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 29 | The position is different where the accused takes the victim 's season ticket , uses it up and then hands it back . |
| 30 | and then winds it up when you |