Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 3 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 1 ) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only — ( a ) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance ; or ( b ) that it consists in his threatening that a contract ( whether one to which he is a party or not ) will be broken or its performance interfered with , or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance . |
| 5 | In selecting the best method of prophylaxis much depends on whether the farm consists primarily of permanent pasture or has pastures which are rotated with crops so that new leys or hay and silage aftermaths are available each year . |
| 6 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 7 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 8 | When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference . |
| 9 | Foot of the bed , nearer sorry , nearer the foot of the , at the side but near to the foot or does it ? |
| 10 | As Lindblom has pointed out , however , it is by no means wholly destroyed , since ‘ [ m ] onopoly weakens responses to popular control , but it neither eliminates a response or leads to a perverse one … |
| 11 | Secondly , the observed and recorded facts would be analysed , compared , and classified , without hypothesis or postulates , other than those necessarily involved in the logic of thought . |
| 12 | A " good " response is one where the user enters an appropriate replacement ( corrects a misspelling or enters a synonym ) , accepts a correct suggestion ( EXP system ) , or aborts the search when the word is correct and essential to the meaning of the search . |
| 13 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 14 | These factors include : whether the interval is within a particular hour or goes across hours ; and whether or not the minutes are multiples often . |
| 15 | 1.58 It is not enough for the defendant to argue that he denies liability or denies a conviction in his defence ; he must also show that his grounds for doing so are sufficiently strong to put the plaintiff at risk of either complete or substantial failure at trial or that , on the face of it , the plaintiff 's claim is not worth very much even on full liability . |
| 16 | ( e ) Clauses limiting liability or damages A further type of clause commonly used is one which imposes a limit or restriction on the amount of damages payable in the event of breach . |
| 17 | Neither case is concerned at all with the position where a child has been stillborn as a result of a third party 's negligence or has , as a result of such negligence , survived birth for only a minimal period . |
| 18 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 19 | He sits up the stairs and either plays the computer or draws these men or plays with these wee men all over the place , so |
| 20 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 21 | Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ? |
| 22 | When the child goes off to university or leaves home |
| 23 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 24 | So if anybody does patchwork knitting or makes blankets or anything for charity and they 'd like to give me a ring any time , I could give you the pattern . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) A change in the " content " or " subject " of the learning experience is justified because it enriches the learning experience or makes these experiences more meaningful and thus more developmental ; i.e. we change content as instrumental in making the processes more effective . |
| 26 | Fit lights wherever a path changes direction or slopes up or down . |
| 27 | click or does it ? |
| 28 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 29 | It may be because they thought he has access to money or stores it there but that information is wrong . |
| 30 | As we have seen , a public company is no longer permitted to have a charge or lien on its shares except ( a ) when the shares are not fully paid and the charge or lien is for the amount payable on the shares , or ( b ) the ordinary business of the company includes the lending of money or consists of the provision of hire-purchase finance and the charge arises in the course of a transaction in the ordinary course of its business . |