Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed many mediocre and/or failed bureaucrats tend to be ‘ promoted ’ to conservation by their more thrusting and successful colleagues . |
| 2 | SPECULATORS : People who buy or sell currencies to make money or avoid making a loss . |
| 3 | This is why a great deal of the best police research is based on the ethnographic methods of participant observation and in-depth interviewing , and why workers in several other unusual , off-beat , difficult , or demanding occupations have been studied ethnographically , such as lorry drivers ( Hollowell 1968 ) , coal-miners ( Dennis et al . |
| 4 | First , the review of objectives only allowed lay people to suggest the omission of objectives that they found inappropriate , and attempts to add to or change objectives met with resistance . |
| 5 | Not least , the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 which require not only that any organisation employing more than four people must record the results of a health and safety risk assessment and for all employers to implement measures needed to minimise or eliminate hazards identified in their own assessments , but that ( other than sole traders and partnerships ) a ‘ competent person ’ — defined as someone with ‘ sufficient training and experience and knowledge or other qualities ’ — is appointed to help implement compliance with all H&S legislation . |
| 6 | Atomic or Ess bindings offer the facility to shift the boot . |
| 7 | Is it a metaphor for throwing away your resources — your time , money , energy — or allowing others to take advantage of you ? |
| 8 | Have the rules changed over the years , for example have the age groups or allowing girls to take part or anything like that ? |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , many visitors to the area could also see no problem in picking wild flowers , or allowing dogs to run freely . |
| 10 | As against this , Pye seems to have worked hard , or got others to do so , in preparing the revenue and expenditure balances and averages of 1635 ( covering the years from 1631 ) and of 1636–9 ; and he appears to have set about the same process for the reconstructed administration of 1641 . |
| 11 | West of the walled area , the photographs reveal a complex of fenced or ditched compounds arranged end-on to the main road frontages and sometimes separated by short side-lanes . |
| 12 | She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood . |
| 13 | Social workers could help to assist communication patterns , or to enable partners to feel close , but without their individuality swamped by the changing needs of the other . |
| 14 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 15 | 2 ) Positioning the mouse cursor on the text line and using the backspace or delete keys to delete the numbers and then typing in the new value . |
| 16 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 17 | Heavily stocked or overfed tanks suffer the most and nitrate levels can quickly rise out of control if great care is not taken . |
| 18 | Hartley 's aircraft recovery & salvage services offer a comprehensive service to all aircraft owners and operators . |
| 19 | Barristers and solicitors together with certificated notaries ( who are normally also solicitors ) and licensed conveyancers enjoy a statutory monopoly which makes it an offence for any other persons to draw up or prepare documents connected with the transfer of title to property for payment . |
| 20 | By section 1(3) , a design shall not be registered if the appearance of the article is not material ; that is , if aesthetic considerations are not normally taken into account to a material extent by persons acquiring or using articles made to the design . |
| 21 | Most hair care worries can be sorted out by changing your basic routine or using products to suit your hair type . |
| 22 | This is basically an attempt to group or to classify customers according to similar needs or purchasing characteristics . |
| 23 | Divergent influences may modify or dispel values imbued as a result of parental influence . |
| 24 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 25 | On other occasions , high-pitched tones or crackling noises accompany his healing . |
| 26 | Central Council is very grateful to all those who donated prizes or sold tickets to help reach this excellent result . |
| 27 | As Europe 's largest manufacturers and retailers of gas log and coal fires , they can supply standard or customized fires to suit any grate or fireplace , as well as pine mantelpieces , marble , brass frames , firegrates and fireplace accessories . |
| 28 | It can be as utilitarian as the rigid polyurethane foam commonly used in the reinforcement of GRP bodyshells , or as elegant as the aluminium or Nomex honeycombs employed in pukka aerospace sandwich materials ( as seen recently through holes in the wings of Tornado jets involved in the Gulf conflict ) . |
| 29 | This compensation was paid from central government funds , but the decision to refuse planning permission or to impose conditions remained with local authorities . |
| 30 | Constructional kits , jigsaws , inset boards and stacking or nesting toys provide practice in fitting , ordering and estimating shapes and sizes . |