Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Housing , health and social work each provide part of the finance and the management of the project may be by a committee representing all three authorities or may be taken on by one of the participating organisations or by a voluntary body which specialises in carrying for dementia sufferers .
2 It 's excellent for the size of car , conveniently shaped and the back seat splits or can be removed entirely .
3 Now how many of the sectors as again as defined ones which we 've agreed we will examine , er would fit or would be con would be consistent with regional , sub-regional policies or would possibly cause conflict with those if er they were the receiving the receiving area for a new settlement ?
4 decide whether or not they really need to be on that site for fourteen hours or can they do what they need to do in four ?
5 The question that confronted them-the question they had met today to answer was simple : should they attempt to harness his talents or should they destroy him ?
6 The absence of guys with the authority to tell people to either go-ahead with their plans or can them means nothing much is getting approved .
7 The adaptability of the enterprise may lie in providing appropriate outputs to match the changes of the market from relatively stable physical inputs or may lie in providing a fixed output with changing sources of inputs .
8 Do you not think it 's worthwhile booking the rest of the year 's meetings or shall we do it as we carry on
9 These beds can be used to produce salad crops and fresh herbs or can be used as nursery beds for self-raised perennials and shrubs until they 're sufficiently well-established to be planted out .
10 If you have any queries or would like to discuss this matter further please telephone me .
11 If we want to be neutral , should we continue normal supplies to the Reds or should they be discontinued ?
12 It was no longer just that she did not like birds or could not bear to touch them — she could have coped with that , as it would not have intruded greatly on her everyday life .
13 According to this view , de Gaulle was calculating that his resignation would produce a groundswell of popular annoyance with the parties or would give the politicians an opportunity to display their full incompetence — either of which outcomes would lead to de Gaulle 's rapid reinstatement , this time with a popular mandate to create the kind of constitution that he favoured .
14 Furthermore , this jack can deliver two different pickup signals or can be adapted to provide on/off switching when used with battery-powered circuits .
15 The hood is designed to fit in with standard kitchen units or can be fitted on its own over a freestanding cooker and is available in white or brown .
16 Whether you love cichlids or would rather keep wasps for a hobby , can I urge you to ready Mary 's article in case you ever wish to take advantage of our service .
17 But ‘ the humanistic subordination of music to text , the insistence that music shall have meaning through carrying words or shall simply heighten the effect of words , is as evident in religious music as in frottola , madrigal , and chanson .
18 In contrast with One 0ver The Eight in which he constantly said his ‘ gloo — oo-oo-m ’ words or would take a word like ‘ now ’ and repeat it excessively , he behaved with total seriousness in this ; a different character entirely .
19 Therefore , the majority of those who are to be made redundant will either have their own homes or will buy them shortly after .
20 The Foyer on the ground floor of the Chesham Building offers suitable space for small exhibitions and poster sessions or can be used for registration purposes .
21 Thirdly , it includes most aspects of the study of principles of language usage , for there seems to be a general principle of the following kind : for each systematic set of constraints on the use of language , there will be a corresponding set of inference-procedures that will be applied to language understanding ( see Levinson , 1979a ) .
22 Because of this , verbal explanations and instructions must be particularly clear , and sometimes include more precise detail or directions in words than would ordinarily be necessary for fully sighted pupils .
23 Perhaps , for instance , a case could be made for discouraging risks that might lead to a person 's loss of employment , if their chances of gaining another job were remote .
24 ‘ The expected national economic benefits are sufficient to justify the risks that would be incurred , ’ Layfield concluded .
25 The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail .
26 He predicted that it would be those publishers who were prepared to embrace change and take risks that would gain a competitive edge and succeed in the tough marketplace of the '90s .
27 However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold .
28 Yet there are strong financial and commercial arguments why , ignoring the hype , any management should take a cool , business-like approach to assessing and where possible minimising the risks that could damage their operations in terms of liability claims , disruption of output or direct financial loss .
29 Over and above setting a brief for the risk management team to identify , analyse and evaluate all risks that could impact on the balance sheet to a greater extent than , say , five per cent of gross profit , Ure recommends it could also be given the task of tackling risk areas where the organisation suffers continual losses .
30 Instead of seeking opportunities to come clean , being realistic and perceptive about when and to whom to make an ‘ advance ’ , and taking risks that can be recouped , self-doubt floods the whole question with anxiety , and replaces a balanced point of view with crude prejudices and images of disaster .
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