Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will have to wait and see whether women find them easy and/or pleasant to use . |
| 2 | It is logical then to proceed with Jean Packman 's research into the way decisions are made when children and young people , home life being temporarily or long term unable or unsuitable to sustain them , for whatever reason , are received into care — or , in spite of referrals and requests , not received . |
| 3 | For those aged 65 ( or due to reach 65 before 5 April 1993 ) to 74 : |
| 4 | For those aged 75 ( or due to reach 75 before 5 April 1993 ) and older : |
| 5 | The commonest problem with central heating pumps is jamming , either after a period when the pump has not been used , or due to sludge in the system clogging the impeller . |
| 6 | Other projects , already in the costing , start jostling for more space due to initial underestimates caused by unforeseen increases in development costs ; or due to deliberate ‘ thin end of the wedging ’ by a department to get an expensive and controversial programme into the Long-Term Costing in the first place . |
| 7 | We must consider whether it would be desirable or possible to do so to sea-launched ballistic missiles . |
| 8 | If it is not considered appropriate or possible to lodge an early Tender , then once the necessary information or Medical Report is available , the Tender should be lodged as soon as possible thereafter . |
| 9 | Despite the advantages , British governments have not considered it either desirable or possible to introduce LIT . |
| 10 | No longer was it necessary or possible to tell which limb was which , which body . |
| 11 | It enables teachers to make clear statements about what they want their students to do , but it is not always necessary or possible to satisfy all of the conditions given above . |
| 12 | Where the reading skill required is that of interpreting such things as labels and road signs , they should pursue the normal targets and programmes as far as possible for their own safety , though they may need help where practicable to interpret these things through other than ordinary visual means . |
| 13 | Or eleven to draw . |
| 14 | Patients are often embarrassed or hesitant to describe in detail why they have difficulty evacuating their bowels or what the sensation is like before an incontinent episode . |
| 15 | It can be wound clockwise or anti-clockwise to give a left or right hand . |
| 16 | Hence , even though line-printer mapping systems might at first sight appear to be of little value in comparison with plotter-based systems , there are instances when it is convenient or cost-effective to make use of them . |
| 17 | Obviously in the average garden it may be impossible or undesirable to place the pool in the lower part . |
| 18 | To me , the third striking aspect of my aunt 's remark is her ability or right to predict the future for me . |
| 19 | ( ii ) in the case of an office from which no right of audience or right to conduct litigation is exercised and from which no exercise of any such right is supervised , a registered foreign lawyer who is a principal of the firm and who has been qualified in his or her own jurisdiction for at least three years ; |
| 20 | In the case of a firm in private practice such solicitor may be a principal , employee or consultant of the firm , provided that the firm must have at least one principal who is a solicitor who has been admitted for at least three years , or alternatively , in the case of a firm none of whose principals exercise any right of audience or right to conduct litigation or supervise or assume responsibility for the exercise of any such right , a foreign lawyer who has been qualified in his or her own jurisdiction for at least three years ; |
| 21 | in the case of an office from which no right of audience or right to conduct litigation is exercised and from which no exercise of any such right is supervised , a registered foreign lawyer who is a principal of the firm ’ |
| 22 | ( 2 ) in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule , ‘ principals ’ shall be construed , except in relation to a firm none of whose principals exercise any right of audience or right to conduct litigation or supervise or assume responsibility for the exercise of any such right , as referring to principals who are solicitors ; and |
| 23 | The practical effect of the amendment is to make it clear that an RFL can not supervise or manage the office of a multi-national practice , except where no right of audience or right to conduct litigation is exercised from the office or supervised from it . |
| 24 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 25 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 26 | Detailing the " ruthless " abuse of human rights against opponents of the regime , the report said that many executions were officially described as having been for drug-trafficking offences , adding that prisoners had no recourse to legal counsel or right to appeal . |
| 27 | The glass door can be hinged left or right to suit your kitchen and there is a storage compartment below the oven . |
| 28 | You also need to become accustomed to thinking and using degrees , and deciding whether you need to turn left or right to change the heading . |
| 29 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 30 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a fortress at Singapore while we spent nothing more on housing or education . |