Example sentences of "[coord] an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A dog , though , is not a repeated pattern of parts of a dog ; it is not a collection of ears or an assemblage of tails .
2 It is the autonomous achievement or pursuit of a goal or an activity of value which makes relationships and personal projects valuable .
3 Give a well organised and sustained account of an event , a personal experience or an activity .
4 Do you have a hobby — gardening , painting , collecting — or an activity — church or women 's group , political group , etc. — to which you regularly go ?
5 Very commonplace today go in to Thomas Cook 's there 'll be a video running continually with one destination or another or an activity holiday etcetera .
6 When one tries , one invariably finds an activity that one 's definition includes but that one would not want to count as a game , or an activity that the definition excludes but that one would want to count as a game .
7 If you sense a tantrum brewing , distract her with a toy or an activity that will get rid of some of her pent-up energy .
8 They have further powers , under the Mineral Workings Acts , to require improvements to be made or an activity to be stopped .
9 The subtitle could be ‘ Solidarity ’ and could take the form of a game ( Star Power ) or an activity of some sort .
10 He turned about abruptly , as if the subject was suddenly painful or an irritation .
11 In this analysis Freud thinks he has shown how even organized groups like a church or an army are held together .
12 try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army .
13 and I 'd like to go as an army chef or an army mechanic
14 The chemist suggested he try the Co-op , or an hotel .
15 Under the 1959 Act , only the holder of a public house or an hotel certificate could apply for a special permission , whereas , under 5.33 , any licence-holder .
16 The Prime Minister goes to Maastricht without a mandate or an agenda .
17 There are two artificial ways to clean the air — with an air purifier or an ioniser .
18 Like other examining and awarding bodies , however , SCOTVEC is in the business of recognising achievement ; any holder of a SCOTVEC certificate , be it a National Certificate , an HNC or an HND , has an award of which he or she can be proud .
19 A Fokker or an Albatros or a Pfalz does not bleed .
20 They may decide that they react to particular foods , on the basis of a bogus diagnostic test or an elimination diet that is not properly carried out .
21 In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state .
22 Essentially the Finance Act 1986 has left the IHTA 1984 provisions intact but there are a number of changes , the most substantial one being that if an individual gives property to another individual , or an accumulation and maintenance trust , or a trust for the disabled and survives the gift by seven years and the gift is not subject to reservations ( the taxpayer can no longer have his cake and eat it ) no inheritance tax at all is payable .
23 The presence of an A or an O horizon , together with some mottling and weak structure in the subsoil , are characteristic features .
24 First of all , certification is a bedrock of achievement , like having a degree , and you need a degree or an H N C or an O N C.
25 For centuries the traveller who wanted to cross a sea or an ocean went to the nearest port and hung about until he found a ship going in his direction .
26 Institutions of the EEA would be an EEA Council ( one minister from each of the 19 countries and a representative of the EC Commission , chaired for six months alternately by an EC or an EFTA member ) , EEA courts to deal with disputes and to hear appeals on competition rulings , an EEA consultative committee , and an EEA joint parliamentary committee .
27 Every year , every clergyman in the diocese has an interview with a bishop or an archdeacon or a rural dean and , every five years , definitely with a bishop .
28 However a disadvantage of this technique in comparison with patch clamp is that you ca n't always guarantee the orientation of your channels , so that if you see some kind of rectifying characteristic in the bilayer er you have no way a prior of knowing whether that rectifying er characteristic is associated with an influx or an afflux from the cytoplasm .
29 One has to be a hypocrite or an innocent to believe that a husband will tolerate that kind of thing .
30 Was he an assassin or an innocent ?
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