Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be lined and/or interlined to match accompanying curtains . |
| 2 | They may either be discouraged from having to care about the quantity or quality of what they produce , as their income will be guaranteed regardless or , conversely , they may be less concerned about the quality of the inputs they use , or the agricultural practices they employ , because they will be driven to compete on price in the market against imports dumped or produced to lower environmental standards If the EC demands higher environmental and animal husbandry standards than elsewhere , it must not export' its problems . |
| 3 | ‘ We are looking at the possibilities of using other Guinness commercials which we can edit or modify using local models , ’ says , the Guinness brand manager at PTGI . |
| 4 | It may make sense to be tested if you are or intend to become pregnant , as about 13% of babies born to HIV positive mothers are themselves infected . |
| 5 | Many who belonged to the GLC traditions could see no reason to trust any institution of the local state , or to risk becoming dependent on it ; they argued that independent self-organization was the only way to effect changes in our lives . |
| 6 | Conveyancers are not trained or expected to prepare original plans : it is the duty of the client to supply these . |
| 7 | The most common group caused by these abnormalities are disorders of the central nervous system , which give rise to anencephalus , hydrocephalus , and spina bifida ; these affect one child in five hundred , and may be almost immediately fatal or treated to avoid severe mental handicap . |
| 8 | Our criticism of the Bill rests on some of the ways in which the Government have approached the project , or failed to provide adequate safeguards . |
| 9 | The modern tendency is that the minister is not required to shelter a civil servant who has acted improperly , particularly if he has disobeyed instructions or failed to follow established procedures . |
| 10 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
| 11 | When you need a quick change of role — or want to take extra time to look stunning — start with your hairstyle . |
| 12 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 13 | However , many passages have been updated , or changed to reflect modern thinking , in accordance with my greater experience of a wider range of model types . |
| 14 | or tried to cut loose from the coils of law . |
| 15 | They would seem to be of integral importance to any manager or coach handling black sportsmen , yet few theorize at any level other than the physiological or , more occasionally , the psychological . |
| 16 | It has to do with ‘ the people ’ ( but who are they ? ) , though often this has the sense of the vulgus , the common people , and to describe something as ‘ popular ’ may then have the ( depreciatory ) implication that it is inferior or designed to suit low tastes . |
| 17 | This system has produced violently fluctuating interest rates , and one suspects that it is either the result of incredible stupidity or designed to discredit monetary policy . |
| 18 | War has frequently brought new nations into existence , as did the American War of Independence and many other wars fought for national liberation or unification , both earlier and later , or has destroyed old political systems ; and defeat in war has sometimes created conditions favourable to a successful internal revolution , as in Russia in 1917 , or to the emergence of independent nations from an imperial system , as in the Habsburg Empire in 1918 . |
| 19 | An implication of the last point is that even when the initial exposure to the stimulus has been prolonged or has involved repeated presentations , it should be possible to detect some loss of the latent inhibition effect over time , provided the interval before the start of conditioning is long enough . |
| 20 | This means that the ‘ fact ’ that an individual has become an ‘ old person ’ , or suffers from regular illness or pain , or has become dependent upon others , whilst an important part of our understanding , is less important than how these facts make the individual feel . |
| 21 | And if anybody 's been away and has got or has got missing sheets I 've got spare sheets down here . |
| 22 | In the US edition he wonders if ‘ this man … has been bribed or has used improper influence in any way ’ . |
| 23 | Often , the only cause of damage to the glider is if the wings or fuselage break loose . |
| 24 | Smith allocated orders to bring in new manufacturers where the existing ones proved excessively unreliable in breaking delivery promises or refusing to build new capacity . |
| 25 | However , if we are unconcerned about the horse becoming anxious , and let it ‘ buck it out ’ , it may always be anxious in such situations , and it may develop a permanent habit of tongue over the bit , bucking , being girth-shy , or refusing to stand still while it is mounted , and so on . |
| 26 | Storage of search output on disks to allow editing or reformatting to meet individual requirements . |
| 27 | ‘ Elvis you have to keep singin' or die to stay big . |
| 28 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 29 | A ministry that enjoyed royal confidence could generally take the House of Lords for grated , and provided it did not prove incompetent or seek to impose excessive taxation , " its position was unassailable in the Commons . " |
| 30 | Wednesday have now gone seven League games without a win and must start taking chances or stop making basic mistakes at the back . |