Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what is required is a constriction of awareness which will remove some of the bad feeling and/or make the predicament look less severe or less intractable . |
| 2 | They felt they should either bring in new blood or sell the company . |
| 3 | Are the Government prepared to exercise their right , as the holders of that share , to ensure that British Steel agrees to implement its promise that it would either stay at Ravenscraig or sell the plant to somebody else ? |
| 4 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 5 | Come on might as well er sell the city or sell the town |
| 6 | Replace the bracket or repair the gutter . |
| 7 | I think we we need to actually go back to erm or develop the stage one thing and and increase what we 've done . |
| 8 | Make sure there are no sharp objects underneath the paddling pool which could hurt delicate feet or tear the pool itself . |
| 9 | The Factory Commission might find them all better jobs , or change the way the mill was run . |
| 10 | If we decide to change the way we do business or change the way the application works on how it models our environment , then we have to revisit using this architecture every single client machine on the network and upgrade that particular business function . |
| 11 | Erm , obviously one needs to change peoples ideas or change the way we do things or whatever , erm two relevant position that 's sort of making them believe in what they 're trying to erm , propose , and getting commitment at the end . |
| 12 | And if not I think the next thing actually is to move the decoder or change the decoder |
| 13 | Like many golfers , and professional golfers are particularly prone to this , I liked to alter my clubs occasionally — to change the lie of a wedge by a degree or so , or thicken the grip of a putter , or change the swing weight of a driver . |
| 14 | Advice can take the form of information , experience , perspective or perception : all of which enlarge or change the decision view . |
| 15 | Key , or strategic , decisions set or change the direction of an organisation . |
| 16 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 17 | A country can leave the ERM or change the rate if it wishes . |
| 18 | He says he does not want to privatise loss-making state industries , or change the labour laws that make it virtually impossible for an employer to fire any employee . |
| 19 | The sender has the right to stop the goods in transit or change the place of delivery . |
| 20 | Each outside sale must have the agreement of the local NACAB area office to ensure that the purchaser will not harm any local CAB or bring the service into disrepute by poor use of the information . |
| 21 | You avoid , postpone , or hide the conflict that you fear . |
| 22 | What I really wanted was the nigger , or mibbe the navy . |
| 23 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 24 | Learning from experience which things help or hinder the blood 's motion , we come to develop appetites and aversions ; we come to hope for what produces pleasure , and to fear what produces pain . |
| 25 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 26 | ( The intolerable thick end of the wedge , it was wildly imagined , might prevent the owner of Thomas Gainsborough 's Blue Boy sending it abroad , or mean the owner of a line of fine trees being stopped from felling them . |
| 27 | Every day about noon [ the monarch ] sits upon his throne , with some of his sons at his right and left , while the eunuchs who stand about the royal person flap away the flies with peacock tails or agitate the air with large fans … |
| 28 | When the onboard tuner is activated in this way the guitar signal is instantly muted , avoiding the need for the player to bend down to the tuner switch on the unit , or re-patch the guitar lead . |
| 29 | So when the Danes scupper or salvage the treaty , few will have a clear idea of what , concretely , has been lost or won . |
| 30 | Also , Brother owners should be careful that the brush does not find its way into the needle retaining springs , so that when you pull or push the brush , it bends these springs . |