Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And our concern is that if that figure is appro is is agreed or recommended by the panel or it 's gon na to be taken by the county that there is something in the order of a hundred and thirty hectares of employment land which is going to take investment from somewhere . |
| 2 | I I think the thing is if , if you 'd 've demonstrated that or , or got to the stage of saying well alright , you know , if you 're retiring tomorrow how much money do you need to , to live on |
| 3 | Strength was still predominantly in the counties ; the English counties returned almost half of the parliamentary party , the squires who made Walter Long such a force , and of these 128 MPs over a hundred owned land or lived in the division that they represented , a strong territorial base . |
| 4 | The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids . |
| 5 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 6 | The company was charged with contravention of the terms of the prohibition notice under s 33 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , because no safe system of work had been proposed to or agreed by the HSE . |
| 7 | That does not mean that the Labour Party are run or ruled by the trade unions . |
| 8 | While the antigen(s) seems to be proteinaceous , the failure to identify a consistent band on western blotting suggests the antigen(s) may be very labile and therefore destroyed or denatured by the lysis or the western blot techniques . |
| 9 | But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent . |
| 10 | Certainly what we talk about and our ability to make ourselves understood is hampered or helped by the language we have at our disposal . |
| 11 | Goodwill Under Irish GAAP , goodwill may be either written off immediately on completion of the acquisition against shareholders ' equity or capitalized in the balance sheet and amortized through the income statement on a systematic basis over its useful economic life . |
| 12 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 13 | If future league tables report disaggregated profiles for resources and costs for each study then the costs may be validated or recalculated for the decision maker 's own setting . |
| 14 | The economics of the base could not explain everything that existed or occurred in the superstructure ; as Marx 's collaborator Engels had suggested , the economy was only the mainspring of history ‘ in the last analysis ’ ( Gramsci , 1971 : 162 ) . |
| 15 | With heavily armed gangs roaming the streets , the mixed Serb-Muslim population either hid behind locked doors or fled across the iron bridge over the River Drina , which forms the border . |
| 16 | * The message Enter Y to confirm or R to remove page break appears when the cursor is moved to each page break which had previously been forced or moved from the default setting . |
| 17 | The mandible should not be glued or plastered to the vault . |
| 18 | MATERNAL DEATH — death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy , irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy , from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management , but not from accidental or incidental causes . |
| 19 | Random sampling means that a batch is accepted or rejected on the basis of the number of rejects found after taking a random sample from the batch . |
| 20 | In psychoanalytic therapy , Freud would work towards an avowal from the patient that the interpretation he offered about unconscious feelings was the right one , even though , at first , such an interpretation might be resisted or rejected by the analysand . |
| 21 | The characteristic of both informational and investigative enquiries is that the results are advisory and may be accepted or rejected by the minister , though they will be used as part of the process of ministerial decision making . |
| 22 | Effective integration and team building by education business members can be helped or hindered by the significance that partnerships apply to this process . |
| 23 | This in turn might be assisted or hindered by the treatment of vocational education as well as FE colleges , sixth form colleges and tertiary colleges as entities which are to be separately funded and managed under the Further Higher Education Act 1992 . |
| 24 | One working day 's notice will normally be required before any request is serviced or added to the Computer Group task list . |
| 25 | For example in Estate Agents documents the phrases ‘ within easy walking distance ’ and ‘ sought after ’ are very common , and for use in such a context , these would be included in or added to the compound lexicon . |
| 26 | On the other hand , a holiday video which is basically a travelogue will probably need the help of sub-titles , or a commentary which can either be ad-libbed at each showing or added to the sound track later . |
| 27 | Proprietary ( and some home-based ) remedies can be used in two ways — in a short-term bath , or added to the pond . |
| 28 | Returning to Madeira , we find that the island is catering for the demands of a new breed of tourists who wish for a more active holiday than the traditional visitor who relaxed in the comfort of the luxury hotels or lazed around the swimming pool or at the lido . |
| 29 | The London banker either charged a commission or profited from the use of his clients ' cash deposits . |
| 30 | Use quiet music on a tape or played by the organ or music group . |