Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In more recent times the potential of bilingual education not only for a social elite as was traditionally the case but also for the disadvantaged and/or those already possessing a degree of bilingualism from pre-school experience has been much discussed and researched . |
| 2 | where can you get one , fifty or sixty surely not ? |
| 3 | If we just get fifty or sixty back for the |
| 4 | ( Beating Leeds 5–2 & 4–1 around 1983–4 ) . |
| 5 | The landlord should either obtain from the insurers a waiver of subrogation rights as regards the tenant , any undertenant and their mortgagees , or if that is not possible or practicable then the landlord should endeavour to note their interests on the policy . |
| 6 | In the seventeenth century Russia and the Ottoman empire had seemed to many European observers not altogether dissimilar ; and of the two the latter appeared until the 1680s or 1690s clearly the more powerful . |
| 7 | In due course ( usually about the end of January ) such Bills will come up for a second reading , i.e. they will appear again on the order paper for consideration during private business , the first item on the Houses ' agenda after prayers , usually 2.35 to 2.40 or 2.45 p.m . |
| 8 | If , for example , ( R + L ) = 120 or 70 then ( R — L ) can never equal + 100 or — 100 . |
| 9 | The hearing began on 29 June at which time , so far as we knew , W. 's condition was stable or deteriorating only slowly , although there had been some further loss of weight . |
| 10 | He attacked the eastern Angles between 649/50 and 652 and expelled King Anna whose unexpected return temporarily checked the Mercian advance , though only until 654 or 655 when Penda invaded East Anglian territory again and this time slew him ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |
| 11 | Now we 've just said there needs to be some level somewhere if you 're right down this end of the curve here you 're either asleep or dead so there 's some peak performance at some level of anxiety or arousal and as the anxiety increases the performance drops off . |
| 12 | NWA , though , are n't hard-edged or moronic enough to convey the horror of survivalism . |
| 13 | Cellulose can not be considered as either weak or brittle yet it is chemically a sugar , being made by stringing glucose molecules together . |
| 14 | The Bournemouth International Centre is not really extensive or flexible enough for a modern Conservative Party Conference . |
| 15 | 1 ) Transfer Free/Rest day to another working day and be paid x 1.5 or 2 respectively |
| 16 | For risk ratings of eight or lower there does not appear to be any relationship , recall being consistently rare , this of course constitutes the bulk of the data , 983 of the 1,120 situations scored . |
| 17 | ‘ A good age to start music lessons is about eight or nine when children are reading well , ’ she says . |
| 18 | We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau . |
| 19 | See at I 'll wake up about eight or nine o'clock , but round here you wake up at six . |
| 20 | Yes I think , I do n't know whether it 's half past eight or nine o'clock , but it 's certainly , it 's in the dark in the Winter |
| 21 | In these months twilight never comes before half past eight or nine o'clock . |
| 22 | Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut . |
| 23 | Just so much easier to get just to know that if ever like you know , eight or nine o'clock one night for whatever reason I wanted to come home I could be there like myself , in an hour . |
| 24 | It is now possible to have eight or nine merely average international players functioning as a support unit for the one or two stars who will be expected to win the games with a decisive intervention . |
| 25 | But there was various I think about sa sa sa sa sa , eight or nineteen upwards to about thirty odd . |
| 26 | It is just as well , in view of the profusion of black ink blotting out the salient points in Goya 's Maja Desnuda ( ‘ Homeless masterpieces ’ , May 1st ) , that there are no plans to publicly exhibit this or other similarly rude paintings in Indonesia . |
| 27 | Besides , the easier or higher any one 's fortune is , this duty rises in proportion . |
| 28 | Melismas tend to be expressive or symbolic rather than purely ornamental . |
| 29 | However , if one maiden is foolish or churlish enough to become upset by the sight of Fossegrim , he could well overturn the boat from spite . |
| 30 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |