Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 2 | When recycling or re-use is not practicable , C&P 's waste is sent for landfill or incineration by professional contractors who are authorised and policed by the regulatory bodies . |
| 3 | The money which is invested or lent is called the principal . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence under this section if he commits an offence under section 1 above ( ‘ the unauthorised access offence ’ ) with intent — ( a ) to commit an offence to which this section applies ; or ( b ) to facilitate the commission of such an offence ( whether by himself or by another person ) ; and the offence he intends to commit or facilitate is referred to below in this section as the further offence . |
| 5 | Someone for whom it really is of no concern whether others enjoy or suffer is schizophrenic ; he is no egoist , but one whose imaginary viewpoints are disconnected from the real people around him . |
| 6 | But the idea that in many of his works Shakespeare shows something exquisite or innocent threatened or crushed is not new : it is to be found in the writings of Hereward Price ( 1947 ) and in an ordinary introduction to Venus and Adonis . |
| 7 | They have pointed out that the existence of other remedies for wives in this situation is no reason for disentitling a wife to the protection of the criminal law and that the possibility of bringing charges for assault or wounding is an inadequate substitute for a rape prosecution which focuses upon the denial of another 's sexual autonomy and integrity . |
| 8 | Anyone moving or laughing is out , and the last person remaining is the winner and probably has the worst sense of humour ! |
| 9 | Everything I do or say is turned against me . |
| 10 | Like the relation between prominence and deviance , that between prominence and literary relevance or foregrounding is not a one-to-one match . |
| 11 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 12 | 7.6.3.5 the rebuilding or reinstating is prevented by war act of God , government action [ strike lock-out ] or |
| 13 | 7.6.4 The Landlord shall not be liable to rebuild or reinstate the Premises or the Retained Parts if and for so long as such rebuilding or reinstating is prevented by Supervening Events |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the right to life and to not being molested or attacked is fundamental . |
| 15 | Usually such data are so extensive that considerable compression or smoothing is a vital preliminary to analysis . |
| 16 | What is to be agreed or accepted is already known . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) The denial that there is some one and the same quality of pleasantness and another of painfulness which mark all those experiences which it is desirable to promote or prevent is a more forceful objection to Benthamite utilitarianism . |
| 18 | One of the best major centres I have worked or seen is the International Congress Centre in Berlin , which has two auditoria with a stage in the middle . |
| 19 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 20 | But the crucial point about pretence or acting is that these are activities for which there are criteria too . |
| 21 | If we believe that the deaf child begins life as communication-handicapped , then any development in the ability to speak or lip-read is an education success . |
| 22 | The situation is quite similar therefore to that with the verbs of perception , which explains why Kruisinga and Erades ( 1960 : 366 ) have pointed out that " the perception or causing is thought of as happening simultaneously with what is perceived or caused " . |
| 23 | The range of distances that animals can focus on or accommodate is measured in dioptres . |
| 24 | Proceedings in the Chamber are fully recorded so that everything that is said or done is available for the broadcasters to use in their programmes . |
| 25 | Checking or correcting is another procedure not usually engaged in unless directed to , but discussion of methods often produced a correction to the original wrong answer . |
| 26 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 27 | Although the spectral index at phase 0.7 , close to the maximum , is about -2.0 between 606MHz and 1,660MHz and typical of most pulsars , at 408MHz the flux density is actually less than that at 606MHz and is lower than the extrapolated spectrum by a factor of about 4 ( Table 1 ) , indicating that strong absorption or scattering is occurring even when the companion is on the far side of the pulsar . |
| 28 | In cases ( a ) and ( b ) where the thing promised or performed is precisely the thing which the promisor is already bound to do and no more , and there is no dispute that he is bound to do it , there is said to be no consideration or only illusory consideration for the new promise , and it is not enforceable . |
| 29 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 30 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |