Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or should one take a middle road , trying to understand what goes wrong and then deciding whether it is easier to prevent or to cure ? |
| 2 | Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be . |
| 3 | It may simply be used as a taunt which is deemed provocative and so portrayed as one of several triggering actions for the killing . |
| 4 | Jackie says her role is to look after the horse and make sure he 's ready on time and looking right and also to judge whether he 's in a good mood or bad mood … she says 's he 's a good horse |
| 5 | The purchaser may be seeking to ensure that invoices are not raised pre-acquisition for deliveries to be made post-acquisition and also to ensure that full account is taken of any potential refunds etc which may be due to customers as a result of estimated prices being used . |
| 6 | Haig and Kendall look anxious and quickly explain that at night the watch is self-contained : they work uninterrupted by calls from headquarters . |
| 7 | Moreover , it was ‘ in view of that very narrow definition of the link which a member state may require when authorising a vessel to fish against its quotas ’ ( see p. 225 , para. 44 ) that the court considered that there was no need to answer the second part of question 1(d) in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. and hence held that certain economic , financial and fiscal evidence was irrelevant in order to establish the existence of a real economic link between the vessel and the member state in question , such as , for example |
| 8 | However for many academics , particularly in the areas of industrial sociology and industrial relations , the focus on labour flexibility was seen as an excuse by management to blame the workforce for the problems endemic in British manufacturing , Sweeping generalisations about the degree to which the British workforce had accepted changes and become more flexible were found questionable and often dismissed as being exaggerated or as having always been in existence . |
| 9 | Nathan thought hard and finally wrote that the Volvo was ‘ old and depressed ’ . |
| 10 | It was the part of him that told him he was managing fine and not to change as it would just lead to hassles and worries . |
| 11 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 12 | Their toys would fade or break , their pets would die , and they themselves would grow up and get old and surely follow if they did n't knuckle under and live their lives in dread and apprehension of the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 14 | Rather ignominiously , it was used as part payment of a bad debt to a coachbuilder , Robert Jeffrey of Grays Inn Road , with whom it remained neglected and almost forgotten until purchased by Madame Tussaud in 1842 for the princely sum of £52 . |
| 15 | It is easy to become complacent and just feel that most of the words are probably right even when they are n't . |
| 16 | She remained active and intellectually alert until well into her eighties , a much-loved figure who was often seen cycling about in north Oxford on her many errands , still pursuing her Edwardian aim of using friendly personal contact to draw together paid and voluntary welfare worker , town and gown , rich and poor . |