Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small , but far reaching change in personal habits , career practices or attitudes and approaches to life could increase your efficiency and awareness . |
| 2 | Many were built on the edge of towns or cities and have subsequently been overtaken by urban development . |
| 3 | Dutta , 28 , told the jury he received £20,000 for setting up the front company of Rasiklal & Sons and providing letterheads and invoices . |
| 4 | Countries like Brazil , Mexico or Tanzania ca n't simply write checks in cruzados , pesos or shillings and expect their creditors to be happy . |
| 5 | To meet these possibilities , a technique known as stratification is employed : this involves dividing the population into groups or strata and sampling randomly within each . |
| 6 | She also exploited her control of the agenda of Cabinet and powers to appoint members of Cabinet committees or groups and draw up their terms of reference . |
| 7 | Stress tends to move , or strain , the fibres , crystals , granules or molecules and cause them to slide over one another into a deformation of the material . |
| 8 | Some very useful aids are rails for baths or toilets and hoisting machines for lifting people out of bed , from a chair or into and out of a bath . |
| 9 | The Funding Council shall make such reports or returns and give such information to the Secretary of State as he may require for the purposes of the exercise of his powers and the performance of his duties under this Part of this Act . |
| 10 | He might … do no more than examine goods or work or accounts and make a decision accordingly . |
| 11 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
| 12 | Inherent in this type of research is the potential to generate new categories or variables and to reconsider existing analytic categories in a fashion that also addresses their validity . |
| 13 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 14 | The trick is to paint the walls the colour of the background of the paper , using a matt emulsion paint , then cut the paper into equal rectangles or squares and stick them on the walls in regularly spaced ‘ panels ’ . |
| 15 | The Old Ones never appear in person , so we do n't have to worry about them anyway , but a cultist who only believes he has their powers or blessings and acts accordingly is just as dangerous as one who genuinely has their powers and blessings . ’ |
| 16 | Captions can be typed on shorter pieces of headed paper , but more often they are typed on plain paper or labels and stuck to the back of the photograph . |
| 17 | Common methods of ink sharing include embedding ink in existing documents , files or databases and sending it via electronic mail ; providing clipboard operations ; and supporting inter-application transfers . |
| 18 | Always taking cold which settles in the nose , throat or ears and goes to the chest . |
| 19 | But if you 've persevered with certain plans or associations and kept your cool under pressure , your patience is about to be rewarded . |
| 20 | Pot and container-grown plants are the most at risk ; if you grow begonias , cyclamen , coleus , primulas or fuchsias and have managed to escape this horrible little pest , you 're either extremely fortunate or a great deal craftier than I am . |
| 21 | The purpose of a unit trust is to accept funds from individuals or companies and to invest those funds in a wide variety of assets . |
| 22 | ( m ) To control , manage , finance , subsidise , or co-ordinate or otherwise assist any company or companies in which the Company has a direct or indirect financial interest , to provide secretarial , administrative , technical , commercial and other services and facilities of all kinds for any such company or companies and to make payments by way of subvention or otherwise any other arrangements which may seem desirable with respect to any business or operations of or generally with respect to any such company or companies . |
| 23 | ( m ) To control , manage , finance , subsidise , or co-ordinate or otherwise assist any company or companies in which the Company has a direct or indirect financial interest , to provide secretarial , administrative , technical , commercial and other services and facilities of all kinds for any such company or companies and to make payments by way of subvention or otherwise any other arrangements which may seem desirable with respect to any business or operations of or generally with respect to any such company or companies . |
| 24 | They may , for instance , be capable of rising magnificently to the occasion when a neighbour 's sick , deprived , or even delinquent child needs help , or they may be wonderful wives , husbands or parents and do much useful voluntary work in the community , and yet lack the particular type of emotional muscle required to support old people . |
| 25 | The police present an entire picture of reality which is interlaced with evaluative conclusions ( such as the description of the conduct to fit a particular legal definition ) , with evidence created by the police in its interaction with the suspect ( the confession ) , and is shaped by numerous decisions taken in the course of the investigation to pursue certain leads or hypotheses and drop others . |
| 26 | Created during the five months which the artist spent in Santa Fe at the end of last year and the beginning of this year , they are executed in oil inks applied by brush or rollers and smudged by Healey 's hand , their veils of rich colour capturing the mood of , rather than representing , the broad landscape of New Mexico and its dawn and dusk effects . |
| 27 | Place the exposed board into the tray of developer using plastic tweezers or tongs and agitate the board gently . |
| 28 | You can add new words or phrases and change translations to a form which suits your way of remembering things . |
| 29 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 30 | Once a female is grabbed in amplexus the male is likely to have to defend her from other males , and fights lasting hours or days and involving several males have been witnessed in numerous species . |