Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is something only you can judge , but most of the waters I fish respond well to a half-bucket of groundbait and up to a pint of maggots and/or fifty or sixty worms . |
| 2 | Two workshops there considered the CCAUK 's case for ‘ pro rata to instalments ’ , and the point was well taken , especially where debtors had a mixture of short and long-term debt and/or weekly and monthly instalments . |
| 3 | The authorities tend to show that if a test is bodily invasive and/or unpleasant or dangerous then the court will not stay an action until the plaintiff submits him or herself to the test . |
| 4 | This requires a very nutritious medium and therefore the usual one consisting of sand or clay with peat or bulb-fibre or loam should be used . |
| 5 | However , it is generally difficult and , for the purposes of translation not particularly helpful , to attempt to draw a line between what is linguistic or textual and what is extra-linguistic or situational . |
| 6 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 7 | But a visit to Vanessa , ‘ humming & booming & flourishing over the hill ’ in a household of children , could make Virginia feel suddenly diminished , her life thin and pale by comparison , Monk 's House poky and mean . |
| 8 | those who are unable to cook for themselves because they are disabled or frail or have become very forgetful ; |
| 9 | For instance , it can be sharp and lemony , or soft and buttery ( such as Meursault ) or rich and fruity ( such as the Chardonnays of Australia ) . |
| 10 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 11 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 12 | It is , of course , difficult as yet to say whether or not these fears are unduly alarmist or exaggerated or even groundless . |
| 13 | Museums are part of an educational system , and part of the entertainment industry ; and the problem was particularly acute in scientific museums , where botanical and zoological research was going on . |
| 14 | For all his silence , he was passionate , not desolate ; if there was a sadness or loss there , it was bigger or deeper or stranger than the loss of one person . |
| 15 | Albino children can be near-sighted or long-sighted and need glasses to help with their distance vision , which often is no higher than 6/36 . |
| 16 | And whether the Oare now gotten is like to prove richer or leaner than now it is , or to continue the same state of goodness that now it is in … |
| 17 | The thrill of sex with someone taller or blonder than the wonderful man I 've got ? |
| 18 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
| 19 | There are financial handicaps to being female which keep most women either dependent on men or disadvantaged or both . |
| 20 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 21 | But at least people know what has already been discovered , what has already been said twenty or fifty or seventy years ago . |
| 22 | They will help you not to feel isolated or depressed while you are ill and away from home . |
| 23 | Long-distance travel is a fever dream where time and mood slip out of control leaving one unexpectedly early or late delighted or depressed until a mosaic of tiny things builds a flat earth beneath you again . |
| 24 | However she was not bitter , or depressed or withdrawn . |
| 25 | ‘ Whether the market is buoyant or depressed and whether you are doing well or struggling , I strongly commend the practical advice contained in Cash Management . |
| 26 | PEPIT will follow F&C 's investment philosophy : intelligent use of gearing and cautious but steady buying into quality during turbulent or depressed and gloomy markets . |
| 27 | Attendance at meetings of the Family Fellowships , such as Al Anon or Families Anonymous , brings one among people who have had similar experiences and feelings and been equally confused , hurt , angry or depressed and taken similar actions out of confusion or despair . |
| 28 | Other significant phenomena which have emerged from such studies are that simple reversals of the numbers are a common form of error , accurate reproduction is facilitated by deliberate grouping in twos or threes and the ends of a span seem to be less prone to error than the middle . |
| 29 | They spend half their lives underground in darkness or near-darkness and touch , smell and hearing convey as much or more to them than sight . |
| 30 | He found isolated teeth to be the most abundant element in transported fossil assemblages , with elements that were either long and thin ( e.g. phalanges ) or broad and flat ( e.g. pelves , scapulae ) less well represented . |