Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [verb] [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 okay , you ca n't actually deny that this or that has happened .
6 A third of all women have hair that needs frequent washing or that tends to lack life and body .
7 Apprenticeship and skilled employment committees of one sort or another had existed in London since the 1860s and 1870s when the Jewish Board of Guardians decided to organize apprenticeship schemes for their own young workers .
8 Another more formal card , to her surprise , came from Ernest and Emily Brewer ; while all the time bouquets of one sort or another kept pouring in : from the receptionist in Harley Street , from Brian 's secretary , the nurses at his hospital and even an enormous sheaf of gladioli from ‘ All at Brentwoods ’ .
9 Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself .
10 Recruitment advertisements on behalf of one licensed dealer or another used to appear every few weeks in London or the national press .
11 Although the comprador class in one form or another has existed for centuries , the transnational capitalist class is a relatively new phenomenon .
12 The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted .
13 Immediately thousands of firms employing 14 workers or fewer began to sprout .
14 Or all trying to trick him ?
15 He had no need , no need at all to say that , beautiful though he might have mentioned he thought her , she just did not hold those sort of charms for him — which was what he more or less did say when he drawled , ‘ Would you think me dreadfully ungallant should I mop my brow and tell you — that 's a relief ? ’
16 Purchasers or those seeking to collect interest , or their agents , had simply to attend the offices of the Bank of England , the East India Company or the South Sea houses of the Exchequer on the appropriate day .
17 The problem here is that while purse nets will account for all the rabbits leaving the netted holes — or those attempting to return via those holes — some rabbits will undoubtedly return to the warren via the unnetted holes .
18 If these conditions are satisfied , the party suffering from mental disorders , on recovering his sanity , or those entitled to act on his behalf , may repudiate or confirm and enforce the contract .
19 The main concern of the vendor will be the commercial effect upon its business in approaching individuals for critical consents if completion does not take place because one or more have withheld their consent .
20 On a typical holding , however , you will use some buildings as they stand , modify others and eventually erect one or more designed to meet your specific needs .
21 Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive .
22 ( 2 ) Subsection ( 1 ) applies to the following civil proceedings in the High Court , namely — ( a ) proceedings for infringement of rights pertaining to any intellectual property or for passing off ; ( b ) proceedings brought to obtain disclosure of information relating to any infringement of such rights or to any passing off ; and ( c ) proceedings brought to prevent any apprehended infringement of such rights or any apprehended passing off .
23 The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort .
24 They may still have fantasies of such a reunion after one or both have remarried .
25 Although female cetaceans do have paired mammary glands , twins have been recorded only very rarely , and even then one or both have died .
26 This is especially so when your goods have been changed into or mixed with something else or when your customer or your goods or both have disappeared .
27 Intervention for Paul who , no doubt , has lots of problem behaviours must start with setting his problems in order of importance and that necessitates discarding the subjective labels .
28 Again , the profession has been brought to recognise that dishonesty is not just sole practitioner problem and that measures to combat default must relate to all sizes of practice .
29 And that does tend to colour people 's what people say , and what people think about it .
30 And that does do that .
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