Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNF The media unit name specified does not exist and , therefore , can not be assigned or used for offline . |
| 2 | In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector . |
| 3 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 4 | The Hindus saw subtle forces and proceeding energies crystallizing or condensing into gross matter . |
| 5 | It says that , in that short space of time , 317 historic settlements had been affected , 241 heavily or lightly , while 76 had been destroyed or burned down ; 358 individual monuments registered or filed as cultural treasures , including 26 museums , seven archives and 13 library buildings , had been damaged . |
| 6 | I passed a telephone box — opened the door to see if it was vandalized or smelt of sick or dog-muck — it was OK . |
| 7 | The Persian Empire , then , was not uniformly hated or despised by Greek writers . |
| 8 | It could be the result of using or working on certain materials , e.g. lead ; of labour in a harmful environment , e.g. damp , ill ventilated , fume or dust filled ; of harmful working postures ; or of the repetitive use of particular muscles or organs . |
| 9 | A few very mature groups can meet together and are able to state openly how they feel without their feelings being manipulated or exploited by other members . |
| 10 | Neither was it manipulated or controlled for specific stylistic effects concerned with those aspects . |
| 11 | The main purpose of the research project is to illustrate and examine the extent to which national laws either converge or diverge on selected major issues covered by the law of the sea convention . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , many of the largest US purse-seiners had been re-flagged or sold to foreign investors . |
| 13 | If facilities were not provided or routes were withdrawn or changed at short notice consumers should have a statutory right to go to a statutory body to seek redress . |
| 14 | Embalmers are additionally advised to wear a basic suit of some material which can be boiled or disinfected by chemical means , a cotton surgeons-type gown and a plastic protective apron as well as wellington-type non-slip and chemical proof boots of sufficient length that the plastic apron overlaps them . |
| 15 | Other cable links to peripheral computer equipment are shielded or enclosed in magnetic toroids , The company also encases vital components in earthed metal housings . |
| 16 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 17 | Third , people from other walks of life may be invited to support or participate in In-service training sessions run by the education authority or by individual Compact schools . |
| 18 | Thus disability relates to things people can not do such as going to work , cooking or participating in sporting activities . |
| 19 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 20 | The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal , say the tail , in which case the response reappears in all its original strength . |
| 21 | The ore/gangue mixture was cobbed or spalled by young women seated at anvils , holding the piece in one hand and beating it with a hammer . |
| 22 | Some were given or sold to favoured high-ranking officials and court favourites , a practice developed by Constantius II . |
| 23 | It will prevent councils from selling open space for commercial gain if the land was given or bequeathed to local people for sport or recreation . |
| 24 | Unless this happens , the time and expertise of senior people is often wasted doing things that can perfectly well be done by others ; more senior or sophisticated tasks are not tackled ; and the talent of more junior people is never sufficiently developed or groomed for senior and more challenging roles . |
| 25 | Culyer et al ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ . |
| 26 | ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ [ … ] |
| 27 | Fortunately some can be successfully treated or controlled by particular therapies . |
| 28 | The most important economic , political and cultural-ideological goods that circulate around the globe tend to be owned and/or controlled by small groups in a relatively small number of countries . |
| 29 | Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed . |
| 30 | If these methods work , they may be used to modify fiduciary duties to avoid any conflicts with what is permitted or required by regulatory rules . |