Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] or [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , however , the hostilities did begin , for most Frenchmen they ended , ignominiously , with imprisonment by the Japanese while for those in the north who together with their Vietnamese riflemen fought the Japanese with exemplary heroism , dying in beleaguered garrisons or making a fighting retreat to the Chinese border , their fate precipitated the most unpleasant or at least the most unfortunate disagreement between the Allies . |
| 2 | Ballymacarrett and Clonard people were at the time of the research overwhelmingly unemployed or in unskilled and low-status occupations . |
| 3 | It 's very important to become quicker , smoother in your movement , to bend down low or to be able to jump up high in order for you to get this point of contact . |
| 4 | It is like that at Aquileia but not so extensive or of such quality ( 202 and 203 ) . |
| 5 | Business and planning manager , minus so much or in brackets or whatever . |
| 6 | In principle , therefore , there was now a global US policy even if , in Vietnam , it depended upon a French surrogate , and when Acheson and Schuman met face to face , after apparently unrecorded or at least so far undisclosed conversation , Acheson wanted to establish a close and immediate connection between the problem of Southeast Asia and the defence of the West . |
| 7 | The popular appeal of proportions and percentages is probably precisely because people understand that they can not go below 0 or above 1 ; the boundaries set a frame of reference in which people can interpret a particular result . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that these clients were ‘ at risk of residential care ’ , most received only one or at the most two services , and then only for certain days in the week ( p. 299 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The Pru did not have a budgetary system before I joined , the accountants produced some numbers every year but they were not comprehensive or in any sense management information . |
| 10 | Once you have assured yourself that you are doing your best in this respect , you can go on to look at other possible causes , if you still feel generally unfit or without a zest for life . |
| 11 | It does n't even depend on whether she 's well or happy or not tired or on what she wears . |
| 12 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |
| 13 | I want the world to know how things stand , and that we 're being truthful and open and not ashamed or in any way put down . |
| 14 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 15 | It 's a sobering thought and those who are not already drunk or on a train have a chance to do something about it — on the doorstep of their own city . |
| 16 | And it 's certainly not available in sufficient detail for for all of the sectors to make a fair comparison and I think Mr has made this point in in when you 've questioned him a number of times today that the information is just not available or to hand to make to make that comparison . |
| 17 | The Crown applied to the Outer House of the Court of Session to quash the ruling , contending that the evidence it had tried to present had to be deemed relevant , even if not determinative or of very great weight . |
| 18 | Younger people are more likely to identify health as being physically active or as the absence of symptoms ( i.e. never being ill ) than older people . |
| 19 | And it 's right opposite or near the well , not opposite the Billets it was the auction rooms before |
| 20 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee regarded this bending of the law as unsatisfactory , and tentatively proposed a new offence of mercy killing where a person , out of compassion , unlawfully kills another who is , or is believed by him to be , permanently helpless or in great pain . |
| 21 | Paul spends most of the rest of his letter dealing with the problem in Corinth ; he does n't come down on the side of being totally separate or of being totally indistinguishable in lifestyle — but you 'll have to read that for yourself . |
| 22 | Where an application under the Act for a grant or renewal of a licence or extension of permitted hours , etc. , is submitted too late for consideration by a board at a particular meeting , and the applicant has been rejected by the clerk , who has refused to place it before the board for their consideration , that decision may be subject to appeal under either 5.39 ( see M. Milne Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 ) if the particular application was subject to an appeal under 5.39 or to a judicial review if the type of application does not allow of an appeal under 5.39 ( see Main v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 305 ; Tait v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 340 ) . |
| 23 | Last year Ford UK took a major step in banning staff members under 21 or with fewer than three years ' driving experience from using the fast models . |
| 24 | The stated goals of actors or groups can not be accepted at face value since such statements may be the simple camouflage of more sinister or at least less acceptable policy goals . |
| 25 | By making the flow of information between people or machines more effective or by automating a production process ( for instance by making possible a computerised technique in a factory ) IT can increase the efficiency or simply the flexibility of many organisations . |
| 26 | However , later on in the conversation she said they very rarely encountered juvenile offenders from grammar school , most would be educationally subnormal or at least well below average . |
| 27 | Exclusion criteria were as follows : ( 1 ) age under 18 or above 85 years ; ( 2 ) pregnancy ; ( 3 ) albuminuria greater than 500 mg per 24 hours ; ( 4 ) acute myocardial infarction in the three months before the study ; ( 5 ) a history of asthma or allergy to drugs . |
| 28 | with children under five or on Income Support or |
| 29 | Over 60 Under 16 or in receipt of SuppBen 3.25 |
| 30 | The rats have to turn in a certain direction in a T-maze in order not to be electrically shocked or in order to be fed . |