Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two workshops there considered the CCAUK 's case for ‘ pro rata to instalments ’ , and the point was well taken , especially where debtors had a mixture of short and long-term debt and/or weekly and monthly instalments . |
| 2 | The authorities tend to show that if a test is bodily invasive and/or unpleasant or dangerous then the court will not stay an action until the plaintiff submits him or herself to the test . |
| 3 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 4 | For instance , it can be sharp and lemony , or soft and buttery ( such as Meursault ) or rich and fruity ( such as the Chardonnays of Australia ) . |
| 5 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 6 | Museums are part of an educational system , and part of the entertainment industry ; and the problem was particularly acute in scientific museums , where botanical and zoological research was going on . |
| 7 | PEPIT will follow F&C 's investment philosophy : intelligent use of gearing and cautious but steady buying into quality during turbulent or depressed and gloomy markets . |
| 8 | Ideas and institutions were just as much a part of the ‘ given ’ facts of European society between 1880 and 1914 as were geography , or political and economic structure , but they are much harder to measure . |
| 9 | Biased interpretations have now and again been put forward as propaganda to promote a country or political or religious ideologies . |
| 10 | there is as much stability in aesthetic judgements as in ethical or political or philosophical or scientific ; [ and ] the reputations of poets and artists are not less but more assured than those of biologists or statesmen or metaphysicians . |
| 11 | Shortly after taking over one of the most sensitive posts in the recently formed conservative government of Edouard Balladur , France 's new Minister of Culture , fifty-one year old RPR Gaullist Jacques Toubon said he intended keeping ‘ cultural affairs ’ — a term he prefers to that of ‘ culture ’ — separate from any philosophy of State or political or doctrinal message . |
| 12 | the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ; |
| 13 | This is a loose , disjointed organisation , riven by strife , which can flourish only where weak or corrupt politicians have lost the will to enforce the law . |
| 14 | In Chapter 8 we noted that an externality occurs where private and social costs diverge . |
| 15 | The time of germination , flowering , fruiting , or leaf-fall and general senescence , may be determined by day length — for day length , after all , is a much more reliable indicator of the time of year than temperature is , for example . |
| 16 | Yeah whether he were dark hair or light hair or tall or short . |
| 17 | OVER 100 ALKALOIDS HAVE BEEN ISOLATED IN THE ROSY PERIWINKLE , INCLUDING VINBLASTINE & VINCRISTINE — SUBSTANCES WHICH HAVE REVOLUTIONISED THE TREATMENT OF HODGKIN 'S DISEASE & ACUTE & LYMPHATIC LEUKAEMIA |
| 18 | total loss by physical severence or complete and irrecoverable loss of use of either one or both hands and/or both feet |
| 19 | Talk to many a railwayman about the Blea Moor Tunnel and you will find either a spontaneous reaction of a flow of stories or complete and total silence . |
| 20 | I had risen above him and was now in the state of dung-hai , or complete and utter superiority to Quigley . |
| 21 | It is surprising , therefore , that the concept should be alive and well in Germany , especially where economic and monetary matters are concerned . |
| 22 | It is appropriate to reiterate that where economic and social conditions are favourable and medical care available and sufficiently advanced , child health is less likely to be impaired by improper spacing . |
| 23 | The period immediately following upon the end of the war had been characterised by the belief that expenditure on education was not just necessary or worthy' but essential : through education , society could and would be transformed . |
| 24 | In particular he sees no point in trying to discover the intentions of legislators long dead , intentions that must anyway be obscure or controversial and unavailable to the general public . |
| 25 | This is n't catastrophic or awful or terrible . |
| 26 | The survey population comprised all those aged 65 years and over who were resident in any type of ward , hospital , home , or hostel provided by the NHS , local authority social services department , or private and voluntary agencies within Leicestershire at midnight on 27 November 1990 . |
| 27 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 28 | Depending on which one of the three is dominant , we have a predominantly Socratic or artistic or tragic culture — or , in historical terms , Alexandrian or Hellenic or Buddhistic . |
| 29 | Three key dimensions are recognized as specific to runaways : age ; absence of permission to leave or covert or forcible ejection ; length of time since leaving . |
| 30 | She looked hard at Flavia who as so often could not tell whether Andrée was serious or contemptuous or amused . |