Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The addressor is the speaker or writer who produces the utterance . |
| 2 | Primary prevention refers to attempts to eliminate the noxious or infectious agent at its source , either through changes to its habitat or immunization which makes the body invulnerable to it . |
| 3 | The teacher can often save lengthy explanation by carefully constructing a diagram or chart which encapsulates the main points of a lesson . |
| 4 | Examples included direct imitation , expansion of the child 's utterance into a phrase or sentence which captures the child 's intended meaning , extensions which include a novel contribution , and recastings in which the child 's meaning is reflected back in a different syntactical form ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 5 | Housing authorities throughout Britain are required to develop housing plans or strategies which encompass the private sector , and many central government concerns such as the amount of Green Belt land to be made available to developers can be elucidated by the use of local market models . |
| 6 | Without knocking or hesitation he entered the left-hand door , drew up a chair and , with full and accurate expectation that he was awaited , opened his document case , threw the photographs on the desk and said , ‘ That 's the proof then . |
| 7 | Coyote and fox scat concentrations are used for this purpose , and it is quite common to find mustelid scats from weasels or martens deposited along walls or roads which mark the edge of individual ranges ( Lockie , 1966 ; MacDonald , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | While the evidence of an expert witness or the advice of a tribunal-appointed expert may have a decisive influence , it is the tribunal of judge(s) or arbitrator(s) which makes the decision as part of its judgment or award , and not the expert . |
| 9 | The new heroes are bright young CIA-types who clean up the baddies in the Establishment , or journalists who oppose the abuse of political power , or expose nuclear power Policy . |
| 10 | THE poet-philosopher is an interpreter or translator who turns the things of the moment into the eternal , the evanescent into the everlasting . |
| 11 | I would like to know if the notice was legal and if there are any other Munros or Corbetts which display the sign . , |
| 12 | Or parameters which provoke the discharger 's concern can be framed leniently , control being assured by the insertion of a much stricter parameter of more general application . |
| 13 | Nothing short of non est factum rendering the transfer void , or forgery which has the same legal effect but is not now alleged , will suffice to defeat the building society 's innocent reliance upon the transfer . |
| 14 | ‘ Ride on ’ can be proved by the police officer or witness who saw the offence . |
| 15 | Homographs , or words which have the same spelling but very diverse meanings , must be identified . |
| 16 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's Aubrey or Dunbar who buy the tickets and arrange things , so naturally they 're both around . ’ |
| 18 | A parent or teacher who accepts the concept , could use the word ‘ God ’ from the very beginning , and need have no fear that he will be faced with awkward questions , for he knows that there is a perfectly sensible answer available . |
| 19 | The highest requires that we think of the international system as a set of norms or purposes which shape the process of history . |
| 20 | According to Goffmann , what lends credibility to our concepts of personal self is the recognition of certain rules or conventions which limit the claims we can expect to be acknowledged with respect to freedom from untoward threat , interference and so forth . |
| 21 | Today , membership is open to all individuals or organisations who share the aims of the Society . |
| 22 | WHETHER it was Major , Kinnock or Ashdown who made the greatest impression on the viewers , we shall know on Friday morning . |
| 23 | In the wild , even ripe pods do not fall off the trees ; they are opened in situ by squirrels or monkeys which suck the sweet pulp off the seeds . |
| 24 | Interestingly , and controversially , the Act appears to ignore the skill and expertise of the person or persons who wrote the computer program used to generate these works . |
| 25 | Well , probably , I think Saturday or Sunday they play the charts . |
| 26 | While the parties may proffer the names of witnesses , and may have considerable scope for suggesting questions to be put to the witnesses , the civil law judge typically decides which witnesses to summon , conducts the questioning , and settles the deposition or minute which records the evidence . |
| 27 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 28 | To end the list prematurely and clarify the point , the law of theft includes , in the words of that anonymous poet particularly loved by teachers of ‘ A ’ level economic history , ‘ the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common , but leaves the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose ’ . |
| 29 | This is so even if the alternative job offered involves a change in your terms of contract or is with an associated employer , such as another company which is controlled , in terms of shareholders ' voting power , by the same person or people who control the company that you work for . |
| 30 | ( The word ‘ democracy ’ should perhaps be avoided because the kind of demos or people who did the ruling is often precisely what we need to know , and do not . ) |