Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age .
2 NDO will be happy to help and/or make the necessary arrangements .
3 For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ;
4 If your project standards allow , you may change the 2nd parameter to TRUE to enable users to use the auto DC assessment facility and/or change the 3rd parameter to TRUE to grant public access to DCs .
5 The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription .
6 The basic rule in s.179 is , however , subject to s.180(1) , as amended , CA 1989 , which permits disclosure of the relevant information in a number of circumstances eg. for the purpose of enabling or assisting an overseas regulatory authority to exercise its regulatory functions .
7 Erm but if you ca n't sleep you could put a little bit on a hankie on your pillow or rub a little bit on your chest , and it 'll help to erm make you sleep .
8 It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about .
9 Common-sense , or rhetorical , thinking involves the raising and dropping of anchors , not to mention the continual arguments about whether to raise or lower the metaphorical anchor at any given moment .
10 There will also be a daily session introducing franchising as a way to expand an existing business or develop a new venture .
11 You can help yourself change jobs , get promotion or develop a new career path .
12 People with a milder form of chemical sensitivity have also been found — they may become dizzy and nauseated if they breathe too many car exhaust fumes , have headaches when there is a strong smell of paint , or develop a sore throat and catarrh when they use particular cleaning fluids .
13 Many successful businesses have been founded on the single item of information that no one is carrying out a particular service or producing a particular product .
14 She will recognize that the client is repeating himself or demanding a particular reaction from her .
15 Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara .
16 The monograph and exhibition catalogue , broadly discussing the same group of pictures selected from Magritte 's oeuvre , adopt rather different approaches to their subject , and will be favoured , respectively , by a readership enjoying the labyrinthine mind of a great scholar or preferring the clean presentation of information and explanation in a sequence of numbered catalogue entries .
17 The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white .
18 Nonetheless , workaholism does exist when the sufferer simply can not stop doing his or her work in order to suppress uncomfortable emotions or change a disordered mood and despite severe negative consequences to his or her family and to the rest of a balanced life .
19 The government found it impossible to refute such charges or change the overwhelming climate of opinion which believed the NHS to be seriously underfunded .
20 The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata .
21 Re-assign the manager of the package temporarily to the specified user or change the specified user .
22 The patient is placed on the toilet or commode every two or three hours , and the carer carefully explains why each time .
23 ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’
24 For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama .
25 It is therefore unlikely that a woman could either infect a lavatory seat or bring an infectable part of her anatomy in contact with such a seat .
26 No one is going to thank you if you end up making changes which either cause real hardship or bring the political roof in — or manage to do both .
27 As a top physiotherapist , she is more than used to stretching and flexing the muscles of people who have tortured their frail frame , or endured a bad tackle on the football field .
28 He either buys an existing property or builds a new one .
29 This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened .
30 In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county .
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