Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event of our cancelling this order as to all or any of the goods and/or the work covered thereby we shall be entitled to purchase from a third party a like quantity of goods of similar description and quality , or a reasonable alternative thereto , bearing in mind our need to take delivery of the goods by the date specified overleaf , or to contract with a third party to perform work of a similar description and quality , and in that event you shall be liable to reimburse to us on demand all expenditure incurred by us in connection with our said cancellation , including any increase in the price over that stated overleaf . |
| 2 | ‘ Damage to property , land or buildings caused by vibration , excavation , removal or weakening of supports or by the weight of any machine and/or the load carried ’ . |
| 3 | Wilko wanted Ndlove & the board said ‘ You 'd can find the money by selling Batty ’ ! ! |
| 4 | Echo and The Bunnymen : The Arena , Middlesbrough THE last time Echo & The Bunnymen graced a stage in Middlesbrough they brought their own detective story with them entitled The Strange Case of the Disappearing Audience . |
| 5 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 6 | Of course there are lots of questions which would have to be sorted out — the difference is the Scottish Education system , & the courses offered , for a start — & you might well have doubts about cutting yourself off from your friends & so forth . |
| 7 | Today , Declan does the biz … pretty much as Rod & the guys did by the sounds of it … |
| 8 | There will be a number of on-going projects in the department and the resources for these must be maintained or the projects cancelled . |
| 9 | In Middle-earth , one may say , Providence or the Valar sent the dream that took Boromir to Rivendell ( I , 259 ) . |
| 10 | You must be the package manager or the user nominated to approve the package to obtain the approval listings . |
| 11 | Those of the arms are particularly interesting because the fists are either clenched or the fingers flattened thus the lines and shapes made only appear slightly rounded by the folds in the sleeves . |
| 12 | To prevent this happening , the nose of the glider should be held down ( or the tail held up ) to reduce the wing incidence , as this in turn reduces the lift significantly . |
| 13 | But can we give as a definition of pragmatics nothing but the complement of , or the residue left by , semantics in the field of meaning ? |
| 14 | Nevertheless other generals — Sanjurjo , the nominal head of the rebellion ; Mola , its ‘ Director ’ ; or the arch-conspirator Goded , who was named to lead the rising in Catalonia — appeared more likely overall leaders . |
| 15 | If there are points of ‘ topic-shift ’ in English written discourse which lead writers , or their editors , to begin new orthographic paragraphs , then we should be able to identify likely points where the writer or the editor marked the division of this ‘ text ’ into separate chunks . |
| 16 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 17 | ‘ He came , or the call did ? ’ |
| 18 | Some had travelled a considerable distance for example from Australia , Germany , Belgium and the USA and were not disappointed by either the welcome or the expertise offered them . |
| 19 | One person can scarcely have the time or the expertise needed to find out what has been published and link this to readers ' needs throughout his authority , especially when book provision is only one of his many responsibilities . |
| 20 | When the food was cooked , or the teapot filled , it could be kept hot by standing it further along the hob , and frequently the top of the little stove was filled with a variety of utensils each giving off a rich aroma , for Mrs Curdle was a great cook . |
| 21 | She had dropped stitches continually in her knitting ( she was knitting a yellow angora sweater for Victoria ) and started whenever the shop-bell jangled or the parakeet muttered a few words to itself . |
| 22 | The ability to move over the next seven years from the fairly primitive to the most advanced Macintosh–Quadra models without sacrificing the benefits of the learning curve or the experience gained previously . |
| 23 | A vacancy might already have been found if the visitor or the committee had made direct contact with an employer . |
| 24 | The court quashed the conviction finding that only the Minister or the Committee had the power to issue such orders under the statute . |
| 25 | They had almost outrun the hurricane — or the hurricane had dawdled , keen to exact its full revenge on the mountain flanks that had initially defeated it . |
| 26 | All mail for despatch should be franked if a franking machine is used , or the stamps used entered into the postage book , which should be kept on the imprest system ( Fig. 6.3 ) . |
| 27 | Although there is a huge element of tongue-in-cheek wackiness about the script , it lacks the sophistication or the intelligence needed to carry it off . |
| 28 | The problem only becomes worse where the end results — the rate of pay , or the hours worked , or the promotion achieved — are easily quantified and compared . |
| 29 | You see , he came from a family of ten lads and four lasses and food was the main object in their lives ; and if you were n't careful and hung on to your plate one or the other swiped it . ’ |
| 30 | His duty done — that Jarvis would never know one way or the other made no difference in Jasper 's estimation — he went back on to the landing which by now was in darkness . |