Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the classical definition , identification is the major process leading to internalization , and internalization is ‘ a condition of incorporation of norms and/or roles into one 's own personality , with a corresponding obligation to act accordingly or suffer guilt ’ . |
| 2 | The difficulty arises because , as described in previous chapters , it is convenient to use f and g , or transformations of them , as coordinates in the interaction region . |
| 3 | There would then have been no galaxies , stars , or planets on which human life could have developed . |
| 4 | Never drink untreated water … never brush your teeth with it … do n't wash fruit or vegetables in it , avoid suspect ice-cubes . ’ |
| 5 | Make sure that there are no small cracks or openings through which the emerging adult insect can escape . |
| 6 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 7 | Do you know of any discos or clubs in your area listing events under a cigarette brand name ? |
| 8 | Work with pupils can often translate these metaphors or similes into something more meaningful , like that in Carl Burke 's book God is for Real ( 1967 : 34 ) where the 23rd Psalm is given a quite different translation by one boy : " The Lord is like my probation officer " : the probation officer was the only person in his life who had ever shown any real love and care for him . |
| 9 | In fact , it is quite hard to think of a dream-image which can not in some way be ingeniously linked to an aspect of the dreamer 's sex-life , lack of it , or attitudes towards it . |
| 10 | As against this , it may be said that it is psychologically impossible ( or perhaps impossible in some stronger logical sense ) to retain either beliefs or attitudes of which the inconsistency has become manifest to one . |
| 11 | But for our purposes we can say that corporatism involves cooperative arrangements between government and non-governmental groups or institutions under which the latter , either in return for some benefit or in order to avoid some disadvantage , agree to act in a way which will further government policy . |
| 12 | This in any case would seem to be ruled out by references to some kings holding certain civitates , or cities with their surrounding territories , jointly . |
| 13 | One also had links with government to the extent that the DTI provided launch aid for civil helicopter developments and the Ministry of Defence partfinanced development aid for helicopters , or improvements to them , for defence purposes . |
| 14 | If an old person is also disabled and requires special adaptations or improvements to her home , careful study of a booklet entitled Housing Grants and Allowances for Disabled People ( from The Central Council for the Disabled , 34 Eccleston Square , London SW1V 1PE ) can be very helpful , as it goes into great detail on the subject . |
| 15 | In this factsheet we suggest possible sources of help for services or improvements to you home ; suggest ways of finding companions or live-in help ; and list some benefits which may assist you in paying for help . |
| 16 | Gleaming French cars nosed along the cluttered roadway bearing corpulent Chinese and their bejewelled wives or concubines in their curtained interiors , and the staccato , unmelodious babble of the Cantonese dialect had entirely replaced the softer , sibilant tones of the Annamese language . |
| 17 | Papers include Freshwater Epidemiological Studies in the United Kingdom by David Kay , Lorna Fewtrell and Graham Newman ( the studies involving canoeists ) Managing Recreational Facilities : Some Problems & Prospects by John Davies of Holme Pierrepont and Definition of Recreational Water Quality Standards & Strategies for Their Achievement by Rupert Grantham of the NRA . |
| 18 | This is unlikely to guarantee you a post on completion , but most employers will be happy to discuss possible openings or vacancies with you , subject to satisfactory references and your suitability as assessed at personal interview . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , there will be specific areas or skills in which other nations lead the world . ’ |
| 20 | One recent survey in London showed that rectal intercourse , or attempts at it , had occurred in 35 per cent of sexually active women attending a clinic , during the preceding 6 months . |
| 21 | You will have spotted the chub , or signs of them , from some distance up or downstream , because you will not have been able to approach them upright on an open bank without them spotting you first . |
| 22 | The Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) released 40 Shia Moslem " hostages " or prisoners from its notorious Khiyam prison in southern Lebanon on Oct. 1 . |
| 23 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 24 | It does not include the number of consultants working in private practice or cases in which status was not recorded . |
| 25 | We can examine individual finds or groups of them in different ways , depending on how the find was made , the area in which it occurred or the problem on which it might throw light . |
| 26 | How individual capitalists or groups of them choose to accumulate will have to be explained in terms of personality , entrepreneurial history and material opportunities . |
| 27 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 28 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 29 | This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance . |
| 30 | Putting this another way , what is the mechanism whereby we " create … the patterns of … linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time [ we wish ] to be identified " ? |