Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France .
2 WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France .
3 If both remain silent , or each accuses the other , it is impossible in law to obtain a conviction against either .
4 Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed .
5 A word that names a quality , or that defines or limits a noun .
6 Stimuli of this sort may still evoke an OR that habituates during pre-exposure but there is no reason to suppose that the loss of the overt components of this response will prevent the subjects from seeing or hearing the stimulus .
7 The uniqueness of the arrangement that flies , or that opens the safe , is nothing to do with hindsight .
8 First he looks for the one that he likes or that matches his needs , then he sees if it fits .
9 Any sexual activity which draws blood from the genital area or that pierces the skin .
10 The chief dangers are that some flaw in the title will be overlooked , or that requisitions on title will not be delivered within the stipulated time ( now six working days after delivery of abstract ) , so that a seller 's conveyancer might plead this breach of the conditions of sale as an excuse for not clearing up a genuine difficulty .
11 What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions .
12 There was no sign of either Bonnington 's group or that led by McGonigal .
13 If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice .
14 There 's , there 's one , something about a dog or something , involves describing somebody like a dog or that 's had a bad temper , I forget , there 's all sorts of words .
15 What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions .
16 If you put Tina 's number plate on another car and visa versa that would throw , I I 'd probably look at it and think you know , oh somebody 's got a new car or that looks familiar but it 's not the right car so I would n't think about it .
17 Or that do not use Smart Drive to cache the compressed file .
18 The Rural Wales Awards , sponsored by National Westminster Bank , can be given by the county branches of CPRW for practically anything that promotes environmental good practice , or displays design that is in harmony with the landscape , or that has served to restore an important landscape feature ( natural or man-made ) , or that is innovative or promotes better environmental awareness and understanding .
19 okay , you ca n't actually deny that this or that has happened .
20 Some men complain that condoms reduce sensitivity , are too small or that putting one on interrupts love-making .
21 It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests .
22 If we can never be certain that we have stated every objective we might have , in the clearest form , and with the most practical means of testing whether it has been achieved , this does not mean that we abandon the attempt or that to try one 's best under the circumstances is not a helpful activity .
23 It 's imprudent for the bank to take the traditional senior debt gearing beyond prudent levels or that endangers the whole .
24 A third of all women have hair that needs frequent washing or that tends to lack life and body .
25 It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests .
26 The Hotel Dikker & This offers tickets and accommodation from £91 .
27 When govt. adopted free trade in the middle of the 19th Century , the people got cheaper grain to buy , & larger choices , & also relations with other countries were improved , so that the risk of wars were reduced , & this meant less taxes for the people , because the country was spending less .
28 The God he had seen , or half seen , while riding a tricycle down the long cobbled road which passed the house where he had been born .
29 But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese .
30 Their houses , no more than huts , were scattered along the sunken tracks or half hidden in woods , or else perched on the slopes of the low hills .
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