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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 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 .
3 There was no sign of either Bonnington 's group or that led by McGonigal .
4 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 .
5 Their winter homes were log cabins , either free-standing or half sunk in the earth and covered with turf .
6 Collectively , that does not leave many of us out ; and there can , of course , be few of us who have not at some time or another suffered from what might be thought of as a sexual problem albeit , perhaps , a trifling one .
7 Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment .
8 All the people involved in those family relationships will be affected to some degree or another depending on how strong ( positively or negatively ) the emotional tie was .
9 In the kinds of society which anthropologists usually study , where kinship links of one kind or another ramify throughout the individual 's social world , this contrast is often explicit .
10 Most adults at one time or another suffer from bleeding gums .
11 All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ .
12 But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture .
13 He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his .
14 Of two people who were drawn together by convention and sexuality but , I suspect , lived their short lives together without having much knowledge of , or much to do with , each other .
15 The remaining bit positions in the destination are either all left unchanged or all set to zero ( the latter being equivalent to logical " And " ) .
16 For example , you could have all your Night Goblins armed with nets , or all armed with clubs , or you can have some armed with clubs and some with nets .
17 Intangible movable property includes a charge on the book debts of the company or those assigned to it but the Act contains no definition of what constitutes a book debt .
18 The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months .
19 The word is that the usurper , or those acting in his name , have sent out a call for all Scots lords and landed men to repair there , to Annan , to do homage to him .
20 It is also suitable for injured horses or those recovering from illness .
21 Because of the preparasitic larval requirements infection is confined to pigs with access to pasture or those kept in straw yards .
22 In this role the importance of the nobility in enlisting not only their feudal tenants but , in some cases , members of their households or those bound to them by indenture for service in war and peace , is considerable .
23 Eventually , one of them tactfully suggested to Philip V that the perpetual alliance should simply be sworn , and also a mutual oath not to harbour enemies or those banished from either kingdom .
24 Originally it covered all gifts , but since 1986 it is restricted to gifts on death or those made within seven years of death .
25 The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested .
26 Especially useful for the elderly , young , or those living on their own
27 The first is to provide now a mental health service specifically for hostel dwellers or those living on the streets .
28 This can be very restrictive , and may be unsuitable for those at work outwith Central Edinburgh , or those tied to the home during the day :
29 ‘ It is extraordinary how many producers have no measure of the physical and financial performances of their own flocks , or those achieved by others operating under similar conditions , ’ said Mr Morgan , who operated one of three computer terminals used to give farmers visiting the show some ideas to improve efficiency and profit .
30 The French among others worried about who would be paid first , Iraq 's pre-war creditors or those damaged by the war .
  Next page