Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 2 | Because of its superior formal authority , Congress can require the bureaucracy to state what combinations of price and quantity or budget and output it can offer before Congress releases its demand information . |
| 3 | Stress tends to move , or strain , the fibres , crystals , granules or molecules and cause them to slide over one another into a deformation of the material . |
| 4 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 5 | Television programmes or books that make you laugh will do you far more good . |
| 6 | The water cycle is often depicted as a simple system of circulation that takes water from the sea as vapour , deposits it on land as rain or snow and returns it quickly to the sea by way of rivers . |
| 7 | It also reduces the load on the tail-skid or wheel and makes it slip sideways more easily . |
| 8 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 9 | The trick is to paint the walls the colour of the background of the paper , using a matt emulsion paint , then cut the paper into equal rectangles or squares and stick them on the walls in regularly spaced ‘ panels ’ . |
| 10 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 11 | Common methods of ink sharing include embedding ink in existing documents , files or databases and sending it via electronic mail ; providing clipboard operations ; and supporting inter-application transfers . |
| 12 | Perhaps you used to go and pawn the husbands suits or a anything like that till the following Saturday or Friday and fetch them out you see , and that cos there was very for people in them days , I mean they did n't get a deal of help from anywhere . |
| 13 | This form of aggression , if not leading to an outright kill , can easily stress the attacked coral or anemone and cause them to bleach and eventually die . |
| 14 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 15 | It is up to you whether you choose to leave the wood in its natural state , or stain and varnish it — either way you will not affect the performance of the press , simply make it look more attractive . |
| 16 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 17 | The methods of testing varies from kit to kit , but most consist of taking a sample of water and adding a few drops of the special reagent or tablet and giving it a shake . |
| 18 | Ask for advice or help and discuss it with your colleagues . |
| 19 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 20 | You ca n't therefore change the software in any way , include it in another program or package or resell it without the author 's consent . |
| 21 | The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit . |
| 22 | To start the game give the first player the bottle or jar and ask him to hold it on his head . |
| 23 | Since age at first marriage or union not only indirectly affects maternal and child health but can be considered as one of the underlying causes or conditions that affect it , this topic will be examined first . |
| 24 | Never throw a fork or spade or put it down near your feet . |
| 25 | They employ us to carry out this work , to negotiate on their behalf with the combined forces of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise and to advise them on a multitude of matters from advertising costs to wage negotiations . |
| 26 | In cases of mild illness , such as coughs and colds , often all you can do is let children rest and give them over-the-counter medication to relieve pain or fever and help them to sleep . |
| 27 | Poppa says I can go to London or Paris and have them make my trousseau if I want . ’ |
| 28 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 29 | Or stencil or lacquer them . |
| 30 | The only true solution is somehow to alter the cat 's mental state and rid it of the monotony or stress that drives it to perform the ‘ pseudo-infantile ’ actions . |