Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We took the caravan to Teesdale every weekend during the season and I would make sketches of landscapes or take photos and paint them when I got home . |
| 2 | In Home Corner areas , replacing lids , using cups with saucers or hanging them on hooks provided . |
| 3 | In Australia , the orange-winged sitella , a nuthatch-like bird , uses strips of wood or bark to winkle insect larvae out of crevices . |
| 4 | Next , check that the pins are clean and bright ; clean any that show signs of discolouration or charring with wire wool ( an old Brillo pad is ideal ) . |
| 5 | Above all , research of the kind described above is informative and helpful in some ways as a tool for looking with some objectivity at children 's writing ; but it does not isolate areas of difficulty or suggest teaching strategies to promote more effective writing . |
| 6 | will be pleased to receive donations of money or raffle prizes and has raffle tickets available for you to sell to your class members . |
| 7 | At the parliament which met in November 1279 Pecham was forced to withdraw not only the order to display and expound Magna Carta but also the excommunication against royal officers who ignored writs of caption or seized or wasted temporalities and against any of the suitors of illegitimate prohibitions . |
| 8 | This use of technology ( like Jethro Tull 's seed drill ) increased agricultural productivity : by replacing men by machines or giving men machines to work with more crops were produced and with less labour power . |
| 9 | He or she can also help negotiate agreements between spouses , conduct proceedings in court or advise on conciliation and other services . |
| 10 | Precautions will not conquer empires , they will not build great cities , they will not transmute dreams into gold or carry men across wide oceans , and precautions will not , emphatically not , win fair ladies , ’ and here he turned to Ellen and lasciviously dropped his gaze to her long bare legs . |
| 11 | At high intensities they will even remove broods from cells or sting each other to death . |
| 12 | The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so . |
| 13 | Typically , the timetable will be suspended for a week or more and pupils will take responsibility for their own Mini-Enterprise , which may be based on producing goods for sale or providing services . |
| 14 | As van Dijk ( 1984 ) has shown , they typically tell stories about immigrants or use abstract reasonings , such as that ‘ ; if there were less blacks , there would be more jobs or housing ’ . |
| 15 | Also , in controlled indexing language databases , there is often an assumption that a user will be prepared to chase strings of references or to consult a sometimes complex thesaurus . |
| 16 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 17 | Whether within a single topic or within a range of topics , the construction of material aimed to illustrate links between concepts or links between topics is a fascinating but demanding exercise . |
| 18 | Hooper convincingly captures the tough comradeship within Koevoet which made distinctions of colour or race meaningless ; it should be noted that this unit , pilloried in some ( second-hand ) accounts as a bunch of racist thugs , was all-volunteer and very largely black . |
| 19 | Mr was well aware because he 'd been told by the plaintiffs solicitors that the plaintiffs received terms for cover or to obtain interest on their costs , the plaintiffs solicitors wrote specifically to Mr enquiring was his offer in , in the sum of forty two thousand pounds , that 's er the possible agreed settlement figure for costs , er if it was inclusive or exclusive of interest erm there were some delay but er Mr wrote back in due course making clear that interest was n't included , I should also say that in Mr er proposed bill of costs he had disallowed interest for a fairly short period in respect of both the plaintiffs bill of costs and the defendants bill of costs and the plaintiffs solicitors do n't appear to have erm taken any point on that , but as I say it , the point as to interest was specifically raised by the plaintiffs solicitors letter and er I 'm quite satisfied on the correspondence that they when it came to the matter were seen , were desires of obtaining interest in respect of their costs . |
| 20 | But the truth was that the popes employed armies of mercenaries or paid troops and that one of the reasons for raising money was to pay armies . |
| 21 | But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop . |
| 22 | By 1755 serious friction had developed between England and France over their respective Far Eastern and North American colonies , and it was rapidly learned in London that the French had , though reluctantly , decided that only a major invasion of England itself could force the English to keep ships at home or bring them back from overseas . |
| 23 | Article 6 provides that a contracting state such as Libya must take suspects into custody or take other measures to ensure their presence ‘ as provided in the domestic law of that state ’ — as Libya has done . |
| 24 | Faced with such a threat local councillors are forced to choose between cutting standards of service or imposing even higher rates on occupiers of property . |
| 25 | Bureaus do not sell services to citizens or raise taxes directly . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The key insights were provided by Krugman ( 1984 ) : protection of a market enables domestic producers to realize economies of scale or learning by doing , and to recoup R&D costs , so that when protection is removed , and the firms begin to export they have cost advantages over foreign producers and can capture larger market shares . |
| 28 | Other locals , not directly involved with the gangs , but basking in the glory and the protection bought rounds of drinks or waited for a chance to join in the conversation . |
| 29 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 30 | Moreover , the use by the courts of these common law devices of obstruction , breach of the peace and nuisance is difficult to legislate against as the essential purpose ( which before the 1960s had been more or less achieved with police co-operation ) is to permit ‘ reasonable ’ picketing , including the right to accost for a short period within which arguments can be advanced , without putting persons in fear or to immoderate inconvenience . |