Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson therefore knew in advance the principal social and economic demography of his readership — the professional and/or wealthy classes in and around London . |
| 2 | Of course , differential profitability may reflect differential exploitation of labour : in this case a left government could intervene to the advantage of enterprises which were less profitable because of less intensive and oppressive working and/or better wages by , for instance , minimum wage legislation or fostering union organisation in the more oppressive enterprises . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Some feminists would expand this argument to suggest that the political and/or ethical discussion should be made an explicit part of the methodology of philosophy . |
| 5 | There are a number of classes of object made in England which can be shown to have regional and/or local distributions . |
| 6 | Deflationary and inflationary gaps can be closed by discretionary monetary and/or fiscal policy . |
| 7 | With the inability of stable monetary and/or fiscal policy to alter the real course of the economy , it is the determinants of the ‘ natural rates ’ that are the source of concern , and this is where the supply-siders would say they come in : by highlighting the way existing government policy provisions affect utility-maximizing choices , they concern themselves with the location of the various functions involved . |
| 8 | Empirical statements concerning spatial and/or temporal order e.g. that x is to the left of y , or above y , or that it precedes yin a time series , etc. — do not involve attribution of certain purely intrinsic properties to x or toy , i.e. properties that might be described as part of their essential description ( qua self-subsistent ontological entities ) . |
| 9 | We can thus substitute equation ( 1 ) into equation ( 2 ) and obtain For a chemical system which involves only solid and/or liquid reactants and products , the expansion V of the system is often negligible or zero . |
| 10 | This assay has been proved to provide reliable whole blood and serum concentrations that correlate well with monoclonal or polyclonal radioimmunoassay measurements carried out in renal transplant recipients . |
| 11 | Lists of stolen or lost traveller 's cheques are circulated to hotels and the cashier should consult these lists discreetly when dealing with traveller 's cheques . |
| 12 | Under section I of the P. & C.E. Act the police can stop and search : ( a ) any person or vehicle ; ( b ) anything which is in or on a vehicle ; for stolen or prohibited articles ; and may detain a person or vehicle in order to conduct such a search . |
| 13 | The Act does not give a constable power to search a person or a vehicle or anything in or on a vehicle unless he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that he will find stolen or prohibited articles . |
| 14 | Even though the majority of cars stolen in these so-called ‘ joy-riding ’ incidents are recovered , the cost of repairs , replacing stolen or damaged equipment and the resulting increased insurance premiums are certainly no joy for the victim . |
| 15 | Human associations , then , can be viewed as being structured in terms of either prudential or moral practices . |
| 16 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 17 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 18 | Where space is really tight , or if you do n't need a 12-place setting machine , think about a slimline or compact model . |
| 19 | The usual or primary use of this word is to put clothes on yourself ( or somebody else ) , but it has other uses too , such as to dress poultry , to dress timber , to dress a window . |
| 20 | The more you learn about it , the more you understand how to use it , the less likely you are to subject your raw materials to absurd or unharmonious treatments . |
| 21 | Thus were explained anatomically the enormous jaws , high cheek bones , prominent superciliary arches , solitary lines on the palms , extreme size of the orbits , handle-shaped or sessile ears found in criminals , savages and apes , insensibility of pain , extremely acute sight , tattooing , excessive idleness , love of orgies and the irresistible craving for evil for its own sake … |
| 22 | The troops were authorized on Jan. 17 to fire on Azerbaijani or Armenian militants to defend themselves or to protect weapons stores . |
| 23 | What is more , by using a more polite or polysyllabic manner of discourse , you will be telling the client so ; as well as implying that you are a loftier being which does not make for rapport . |
| 24 | Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) . |
| 25 | The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate . |
| 26 | One can only assume that , if the Bill had been introduced 70 or 80 years ago , the House would have been rather more crowded than today . |
| 27 | He was a great businessman who ran a company which produced unique goods for 70 or 80 years . |
| 28 | The theatre was estimated to measure about 10 feet in height , 15 in breadth , and 20 in length ( can these measurements be correct — classes sometimes numbered 70 or more students ? ) . |
| 29 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 30 | But the idea of people making frivolous , contrived or other cases in effect to swamp the social security system with decisions was — |