Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paige was glad of her strong boots , but she would gladly have thrown her bag away , for it either kept falling off or got caught on stray branches . |
| 2 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 3 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 4 | Their accuracy still depends upon the correctness of our assumptions about causal order and the operation of other variables ; if we had either specified the causal order incorrectly , or failed to control for other important variables , the coefficients would be meaningless . |
| 5 | We have Companies who are making high levels of profit , who are still shedding jobs or refusing to invest in new jobs ’ . |
| 6 | I fully endorse the sentiments of President Tom Douglas in condemning Companies who are making high levels of profit and who are still shedding jobs or refusing to invest in new jobs . |
| 7 | This does n't mean that the seconds can wholly relax , or afford to indulge in sloppy technique . |
| 8 | It can be played competitively between syndicates or used to experiment with changing parameters as in sensitivity analysis . |
| 9 | Those designs could be , and were , constantly reused , either in their original form or adapted to accord with changing fashion and taste . |
| 10 | NSAIDs may also trigger or exacerbate bleeding from vascular lesions with the intestine as well as malignant lesions . |
| 11 | The aims of the programme : to establish the location of foreign ethnographic material in museums , universities , research institutes and private collections ; to encourage and coordinate the recording of information about their collections by in-house museum staff ; to record collections or organise recording by other specialists in cases where no professional staff are available to undertake the work ; to establish a computerised database for the recorded information and to publish the findings of the survey . |
| 12 | This is now a symbolic exchange , but it is a relic of the numerous treaties that once were made in the Pyrenean valleys to regulate the use of the high , communal pastures and put an end to the age-old practice of trespass or holding to ransom of intrusive livestock . |
| 13 | One house might use 120m3 a year , but this figure can be doubled or halved depending on personal circumstances — the number of people in the house and their habits of water usage . |
| 14 | Overinvestigation or repeated testing without substantial indication undermines the patient 's confidence in the doctor 's conclusions . |
| 15 | If the sexual thwarting becomes acute enough , some cats will even masturbate or attempt to mate with inanimate objects . |
| 16 | Studies of pronuclear division in fertilized eggs are useful for assessing the primary level of chromosome abnormalities , some of which may act as zygotic lethals or become disguised in subsequent cleavages . |
| 17 | Furthermore , by wearing them , they do not become better people or become equipped with supra-normal powers . |
| 18 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |
| 19 | But how many other crimes are based on bigotry that is unspoken , or go accompanied by racial taunts that come out merely in the heat of the moment ? |
| 20 | Enjoy a traditional pub lunch or go shopping in familiar named stores in the busy Main Street . |
| 21 | Afterwards bleeding bull steaks hung from hooks in butchers ' windows , or lay overlapping on white plates . |
| 22 | Whether a translation conforms to the source-text patterns of cohesion or tries to approximate to target-language patterns will depend in the final analysis on the purpose of the translation and the amount of freedom the translator feels entitled to in rechunking information and/or altering signals of relations between chunks . |
| 23 | Before general practitioners are expected or encouraged to take on new duties their willingness to become more involved should be established , and easy access to experienced therapists for training and consultation should be available . |
| 24 | They came to an agreement , and the man designated retained his authority by a leadership which did not offend his fellow lineage members : support could fall away , men could choose another elder to act for them , or fail to contribute to common funds when required . |
| 25 | Each day starts with a programme of group exercises carefully planned to help the children to change position , starting from lying or sitting followed by individual and group standing and walking practice . |
| 26 | When historians are working on major pieces of research , or wish to deal with other historians ' views on particular topics , they may contribute articles to historical journals as interim reports on their work in progress . |
| 27 | Suttons ' ‘ Redmate ’ can either be eaten as a salad onion or left to mature for mild , red bulbs ( below right ) |
| 28 | Between 1982 and 1986 , 137 of the top 1,000 quoted companies in the UK in terms of market value in 1982 were acquired or had merged with other companies … |
| 29 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 30 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |