Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 2 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 3 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 4 | But it was quite impossible for the TCPA or me to bless the Plan unreservedly . |
| 5 | ‘ It draws all the Gentlemen to it whenever they are within , especially after Dinner , so that my Br Fanny & I have the Library to ourselves in delightful quiet . ’ |
| 6 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 7 | ‘ Everything you want to do someone has just done or someone has the rights . |
| 8 | Or I mean the flood of phone calls that have no doubt saved the erm Green Party . |
| 9 | the last week in September and it was the last week it was open , so you 're better of going near the middle or I mean the beginning or |
| 10 | Or I said the money you do n't spend . |
| 11 | You help Diniz Vasquez or I dilute the shares and merge with the Strozzi . |
| 12 | I do my bedroom out every day — sweep it and dust the furniture and I do something else every day , like I dust the tops of the cupboards or I give the wardrobe a polish . |
| 13 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 14 | I have no problem with empowerment or I love the word empowerment , because I split it up empowerment increasing the power we all have , for God 's sake what 's jargonistic about that ? |
| 15 | ‘ I work with Mr Mitchell or I refuse the assignment , ’ she snapped , her suspicions again aroused at this insistence on women only . |
| 16 | Or I spend the weekend in bed , dozing , lounging |
| 17 | Some boy or somebody cut the phone , you saw that at the beginning . |
| 18 | I could always get Fenella or somebody to answer the phone and I was n't in the phone book , so I figured that if I chickened out , I could block her . |
| 19 | Hey we 're going out and be , we we 're going to have them build us one , I mean er my intention is I might get Stuart or somebody to put the bricks at the bottom . |
| 20 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 21 | Sally was the one , or somebody wanted the other programme I put the tape in and recorded |
| 22 | and you run the car , or somebody runs the car the other way |
| 23 | The other points to note on the Regulations are : ( i ) that advantage can not be taken of the section if a provision , ‘ however expressed , ’ of the company 's memorandum or articles requires copies of the full accounts to be sent to members or which prohibits the sending of summary financial statements ( ii ) that provisions , similar to those in relation to the full accounts , apply to approval by , and signature on behalf of , the directors of the summary , and ( iii ) that , up to the end of 1991 , most listed companies do not seem to have opted to adopt the innovation . |
| 24 | Approved by 193 votes to 39 with 33 abstentions , the new law permitted a termination during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy which was the result of rape or which endangered the life of the mother , if the foetus was malformed , or if the pregnancy would cause a " psychological crisis " or a " social problem " . |
| 25 | This is so even if the interpretation given to an experience , or which stimulated the experience , is one not authentic to it , conditioned perhaps by the society of which the individual is a part . |
| 26 | A solicitor employed by a non-lawyer may not carry out professional work for any person other than his employer ( ie working directly with the employer 's clients is not permitted ) but may act for a company or other organisation controlled by the employer or over which the employer has substantial control or for a company in the same group as the employer or which controls the employer . |
| 27 | The Vendor is not in relation to the Business a party to any agreement , practice or arrangement which contravenes or is subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Resale Prices Act 1976 or the Competition Act 1980 or which contravenes the provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or which would or might either result in a reference to a ‘ consumer trade practice ’ within the meaning of Section 13 of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or to the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee under Part II of that Act or contravene any of the provisions of Articles 85 or 86 of the Treaty of Rome or any other anti-trust or consumer protection legislation . |
| 28 | The proposals covered are development in a conservation area , works to a listed building or which affect the setting of a conservation area or a listed building , and developments in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 29 | I can not find out of the evidence any facts which support the view or which justify the inference . |
| 30 | Where a behavioural response has , in the past , been followed by environmental events which are pleasurable or which reduce the degree of discomfort experienced , then the same behaviour will be likely to occur in the future . |