Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has already reversed many measures taken by previous governments , which used martial law over economic matters and to detain political opponents or ban them from work or travel . |
| 2 | If so are you going to use one of the commercial companies or do it through the government-backed Export Credits Guarantee Department ? |
| 3 | No city or government wants to build earthen structures or allow them to be built . |
| 4 | They can stop people , without prior basis of suspicion , ask them for personal details or question them about their knowledge of recent terrorist incidents . |
| 5 | Systematic referral to other institutions or agencies which could help adults get the appropriate qualifications or advise them on what to do next might also encourage such enquirers . |
| 6 | Drain well in a colander and divide them among individual bowls or put them in a large soup tureen . |
| 7 | As for the women , the government seems not to regard them as human beings at all , unless as in the days of the British Empire the fact that they are women can be used to deny them basic rights or torture them in special ways . |
| 8 | But it is a problem for feminists if dictionaries include sexist definitions and examples , if they refuse to include feminist terms or define them in contentious ways . |
| 9 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 10 | Ozone friendly : Products do not contain ozone-depleting CFCs or use them in manufacture . |
| 11 | Rob Grunsell encourages teachers to adapt his materials to their own needs or use them as a source of ideas for devising their own training . |
| 12 | WHEN Mrs Norma Major first came to our attention , she was reported to either make her own clothes or buy them off the peg from John Lewis . |
| 13 | Bring your own binoculars or hire them for 80p at the reserve . |
| 14 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 15 | The [ draft ] FRS therefore requires that the facilities must be committed and that there must be no reasons expected or likely which would either permit the lender to avoid his obligation to provide new borrowings or prevent him from providing them . |