Example sentences of "[coord] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merlin is said to be sleeping in a cave or an invisible glass house . |
| 2 | The good news is that , even in the minority of cases where the only solution is to leave your job and try your luck elsewhere , it is unusual for a dispute to arise that is so serious that you finish up in front of a judge or an industrial tribunal . |
| 3 | Such contacts may occur on Work Experience , during Mini-Enterprise , or an industrial visit or within a GCSE project or module . |
| 4 | For example , a Third World producer might win the battle to process a mineral or an industrial crop on site , but if this leads to a crisis in foreign currency because the machinery and the technology necessary for the task have to be imported , then it may eventually result in greater dependence . |
| 5 | But you see the point , so in our species and of course in most societies this is true men are breadwinners whether in an agricultural society or an industrial society erm you know one often feels that if you 're the man in the family you earn all the money your wife spends it on most of the time erm it certainly happens to me er |
| 6 | Even before the 1977 Act , computer programs were not generally patentable per se , but there have been cases , both in the United Kingdom and in the United States , where computer programs have been granted patents indirectly , usually as being part of a piece of machinery or an industrial process . |
| 7 | More importantly from our point of view , she does not operate a press or a lathe , nor a welding machine or check-out till , nor a typewriter or computer , or an industrial sewing machine . |
| 8 | Meaning seems to be the crucial factor , since the presentation of a grammatically inappropriate word or an appropriate word in a new and unexpected typeface does not evoke an N400 wave . |
| 9 | Botham 's pals were in stitches , but Lander was warned : ‘ You 'll go in the sea or an appropriate river before we get to Margate . ’ |
| 10 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 11 | These consist of a specially-designed envelope bearing the latest British stamps , cancelled with a pictorial First-Day-of- Issue postmark : either the Bureau 's Edinburgh postmark , or an appropriate alternative ( eg. Bethlehem , Wales , for the Christmas issue ) . |
| 12 | We look forward to seeing you or an appropriate representative of your organisation on 15 March . |
| 13 | For example , a futures transaction where the contract price is payable on settlement and a written option where the underlying property or an appropriate cash difference must be paid on settlement , will be contingent liability transactions . |
| 14 | or An appropriate form of third-order low-pass filter is displayed in figure 12.2(b) . |
| 15 | For example , subjects were able to remember whether a character had been referred to by name or by pronominal reference ( as in , He wo n't leave Rachel 's room / Mac wo n't leave Rachel 's room ) and whether an utterance had contained a full clausal unit or an abbreviated elliptical clause ( as in You mean that Jamie does n't know that his mother is in the hospital yet ? / You mean that Jamie does n't know that yet ? ) . |
| 16 | After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street , I say to myself : " Well . |
| 17 | I usually fish four or five maggots on a 12 hook ; two or three grains of sweetcorn on a 10 or an 8 . |
| 18 | The rest have been ‘ screened out ’ — denied refugee status — and if they choose not to return to Viet Nam under a ‘ voluntary repatriation program ’ they may face indefinite detention in Hong Kong , or an increasing threat of forcible return to Viet Nam . |
| 19 | They may be joined by the gorgeous lime-green flowers of Smyrnium perfoliatum , a plant which is either a satisfactory spreader or an invasive pest , depending on your point of view . |
| 20 | That is 10 millirems for each person in the world or an extra 5000 to 50000 deaths . |
| 21 | It will be replaced either by Trafalgar Day in October or an extra day tacked on to the existing August Bank Holiday . |
| 22 | ILEA gets £1041 , or an extra 9.6 per cent per pupil . |
| 23 | When the children are in bed , I turn the heating off and use a blanket or an extra cardigan . |
| 24 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 25 | Mr Freitag said : ‘ Things like central heating , double glazing , a garage or an extra bedroom all change house values considerably . ’ |
| 26 | The number of demands that a parent or child will make can depend on their past experience of those demands having been met or be the result of a pattern of behaviour that has evolved due to other problems , that is child 's poor concentration span , or mother 's irritability due to depression or an unhappy marriage . |
| 27 | We allow ourselves to tune in to the personal life and love of God , not to an abstract principle or an impersonal deity . |
| 28 | When we arrived at the office , nobody could have guessed that he had a home , or an aged parent , or any interests at all outside his work . |
| 29 | When articulated as a teaching programme for English one of the most interesting features of this urge to develop a " common touch " , or an affective bond between teachers and taught , is the centrality to be accorded to popular tastes , however " crude and unformed " they might be considered to be . |
| 30 | Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle . |