Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 2 | If a vehicle is abandoned in a car park the University reserves the right to have the vehicle removed and/or disposed of as it sees fit . |
| 3 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 4 | Those of us who want the Scottish people to stay in the UK can see nothing logically wrong or abhorrent in the UK developing its constitutional relationship with its community partners . |
| 5 | In the three experiments the subjects were either normoglycaemic or hyperglycaemic with blood glucose concentrations stabilised at 8 or 15 mmol/l . |
| 6 | It remained empty or half-empty despite all the inducements . |
| 7 | What sort of financial structure — rich in debt or rich in equity — is better at helping a firm create wealth ? |
| 8 | Usually in the bottom right corner there is a ‘ ladder ’ of information including pack weight , storage instructions and some nutrition information eg. ‘ high in polyunsaturates ’ , ‘ naturally low in fat ’ , ‘ no added sugar ’ or rich in a particular vitamin . |
| 9 | They might be faced with tribal , linguistic or religious divisions , which provide bases for alternative centres of power ; their country might be poor or rich in natural resources ; its geo-political situation vis-a-vis other nations favourable or unfavourable ; the differences between classes , and the intensity of class conflict , more or less substantial . |
| 10 | All cities have green or red lines that separate Muslim from Christians , or rich from poor , lines beyond which you are no longer safe if you belong to one tribe or the other . |
| 11 | There is a great deal of high quality equipment on the market at the moment , but there is probably more which is either inferior or unsuitable for the purpose it is sold for . |
| 12 | Goods which are useless or unsuitable for any normal purpose will still correspond with their description ( here ‘ Norwegian Herring Meal ’ ) if it accurately identified them . |
| 13 | Even if the entire programme is too lengthy or unsuitable for classroom use , there may well be short sequences which could prove useful in teaching history . |
| 14 | They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy . |
| 15 | They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy . |
| 16 | 1 The drills used are ill-designed or unsuitable in some respects for the learners for whom they are intended . |
| 17 | Or low on petrol . |
| 18 | what would count as high , medium or low with respect to each criterion , and |
| 19 | However , there are differences between Type I and 2 diabetes : HDL levels are generally either normal or low in Type 2 diabetes ( Lopes-Virella et al , 1977 ; Kennedy et al , 1978 ; Reckless et al , 1978 ; Taylor et al , 1981 ; Rendel et al , 1982 ) : Studies on the subfractions have shown either an increase in the level of the HDL 3 subfraction ( Durrington , 1982 ) , or a reduction in HDL 2 . |
| 20 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 21 | However , as suggested at the beginning of this chapter , the target group for the intervention should be particularly vulnerable in some way , that is , be predisposed biologically to a major psychiatric disorder , or be low in self-esteem , poor in coping skills , or low in support . |
| 22 | Brain dysfunction - due to uncontrolled electrical discharges as in epilepsy or due to the effects of drugs or toxins damping down electrical activity — will lead to disturbance or loss of consciousness . |
| 23 | The cause of the mental impairment is not important — it could be due to a handicap from birth or due to a condition such as Alzheimer 's Disease . |
| 24 | Is it a function of our body clock or our life-style , or due to some interaction between the two ? |
| 25 | This might be by parental design or due to natural events . |
| 26 | Reimbursement of additional hotel and travelling expenses necessarily incurred up to a maximum of £300 to reach the booked destination in the event of the Insured Person arriving at the U.K. departure point too late to commence the booked holiday as a result of the failure of public transport services or due to an accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 27 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |
| 28 | Most heads could identify changes that had led to a more balanced or improved curriculum , either as a result of the purchase of additional facilities or due to a change in curriculum planning . |
| 29 | The ‘ flagella ’ are kept moist by mucus material from adjacent parts of the nose and if the mucous thickens , as when we have a cold or catarrh or due to changes in humidity or temperature , they are incapacitated and our sense of smell impaired . |
| 30 | A water authority will , therefore , be in breach of its statutory duty if it permits obnoxious odours , which amount to a nuisance at common law , to emanate either from its sewage disposal works , or due to any recycling of treated or untreated sewage sludge on to farm land , and it is open to a local authority or person aggrieved , in the absence of informal agreement perhaps via a Liaison Committee , to seek an injunction to restrain the water authority from causing the nuisance . |