Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 2 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 3 | As a result , its face appears to be covered in suede or velvet and it feels like soft moss to the touch . |
| 4 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 5 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 6 | Others lose their love through the separation of death or divorce and they grieve for the loss of the one who , to all intents and purposes , did share their everyday life and existence . |
| 7 | Languages therefore differ widely in the way they are equipped to handle various notions and express various aspects of experience , possibly because they differ in the degree of importance or relevance that they attach to such aspects of experience . |
| 8 | seize , render harmless or destroy any substance or article that he considers to be the cause of imminent danger of serious personal injury . |
| 9 | Are there any hidden obstructions , such as sandbanks , rocks or wrecks that might claim your skeg or body if you run into them ? |
| 10 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 11 | The flashes of ridicule or condescension that he directed at the " old men " in Vichy undermined confidence in his opponents . |
| 12 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 13 | Dr Macleod explains that these are ‘ chemical substances emitted by an animal or person and they act via the sense of smell . |
| 14 | Car or lorry or something going by by the sound of it . |
| 15 | Pigs which are kept in a fairly barren environment , except for the presence of other pigs , want to chew things , they want to root , but there is nothing to chew on or root so they chew on the tails of other pigs . |
| 16 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |
| 17 | According to Doyle : ‘ no one is forced to have a lawyer or manager when they meet with a publishing company , but deals would never be negotiated unless artists were legally represented . |
| 18 | Mr David Bernstein was not the subject of investigation or prosecution and we apologize to him for our error . |
| 19 | She will lose one week 's SMP for each week or part-week that she works during her MPP . |
| 20 | So what is it about women which leaves many struggling in an effort to command authority or respect when they talk to colleagues , partners or children ? |
| 21 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 22 | However some dirt , or soil as it tends to be called , is not dissolved by water . |
| 23 | Handle the peels only by their edges to avoid grease marks , and lay them on clean , lint-free paper or cloth while they wait for mounting , to avoid dust and scratch collection . |
| 24 | The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself . |
| 25 | If you are subject to an express or implied mobility clause , which covers the move to a new base , the mere closure of the office or factory where you work at present will not in itself give rise to redundancy . |
| 26 | Ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of Parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance . |
| 27 | Lord Oliver of Aylmerton commented that ‘ ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance ’ . |
| 28 | Winter Haining and without any Restriction as to Number , or Proof that they belong to those who have Right of Common . |
| 29 | It is difficult to see any reason why in civil proceedings the privilege against self-incrimination should be exercisable so as to enable a litigant to refuse relevant and even vital documents which are in his possession or power and which speak for themselves . |
| 30 | It was partly a gift for adaptability , partly a sense of fun or interest that he brought to any situation . |