Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , of course , difficult as yet to say whether or not these fears are unduly alarmist or exaggerated or even groundless . |
| 2 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 3 | Whenever she accompanied him , whether to a glossy film premiére or a major speech , they reported on the clothes she was wearing , the hairstyle , the hat , the jewellery , whether she looked well , or strained or too thin . |
| 4 | As for the question of what the relevant principles are , debates about the rationing of scarce resources are , in essence , debates about justice , about what is fair or right or just . |
| 5 | The most important feature of the proposed system was that of dividing applications into two classes : those that were minor and uncontroversial ( Class A ) and those that were major or controversial or both ( Class B ) . |
| 6 | While the personality is forming , until the age of seven or eight or so , the child is closely identified with its mother , or whoever is the mother figure in the child 's life . |
| 7 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know what they say maybe behind your back or that but honestly I do n't think , no |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Conciliation officers are often reluctant to express an opinion about the likelihood of success before the tribunal , but will make clear an opinion whether the case appears to them one which is strong or weak and so ought to settle . |
| 11 | The first seven miles of this journey are extremely arduous : there is no path and progress is a struggle through tussocky grass , tough heather and naked peat hags , keeping to the clifftops where possible but often unavoidably descending into and scrambling out of the coves and gullies that break the ramparts , as well as fording the streams entering the sea from the moorlands of the interior . |
| 12 | Children who do come in to care are placed with other families where possible and again is fortunate in having an experienced network of foster parents and link carers and we ca n't thank them enough . |
| 13 | Daniel Field , who has several salons in London , avoids the use of chemicals where possible and even his perms and colourants are based mainly on herbs and natural extracts . |
| 14 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |
| 15 | These are paid on a regular basis , with little or no regard for performance and on time-scales ( monthly or weekly or daily ) which may or may not be relevant to the individual . |
| 16 | There must have been an involvement in something sufficiently profitable or menacing or both to lead somebody to murder . |
| 17 | The car was wrong , Rufus 's clothes were wrong or funny or somehow unsuitable , he smoked too much , he was too fond of wine and his whole lifestyle left much to be desired . |
| 18 | In the context of civil proceedings , international judicial assistance is primarily concerned with the service of documents , ‘ process ’ of one sort or another but also extrajudicial documents of significance , and the taking of evidence ; post-trial assistance , in the form of the enforcement of judgments and orders , is traditionally treated as a ( major ) topic in its own right . |
| 19 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 20 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 21 | My suggestion is that impartiality of one type or another and perhaps other qualities of decision-makers might be the basis for regarding the law as a locus of moral authority . |
| 22 | Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe . |
| 23 | Usually white , usually Italian or German and always served at least eight degrees above room temperature , its only merit is as an antidote to … |
| 24 | Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject . |
| 25 | For example , subjects are often required to decide whether two stimuli are the same or different and then to respond on one key for " same " matches and on a second key for " different " matches ; or else to respond to instances of one kind of match and withhold responding to instances of the other kind ( a go/no.go discrimination ) . |
| 26 | Before the album 's release will come a single , ‘ Your Loss My Gain ’ , that 's neither particularly immediate or commercial and so makes a surprising choice to re-establish him in the public domain . |
| 27 | In the first place , because of his own sharp intelligence and his , particularly perhaps his self-awareness , as a writer , he 's one of the best exponents of his own work , and one has moments of panic therefore , erm in which further comment seems either foolhardy or superfluous or quite likely both . |
| 28 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 29 | Here there were dormitories for four or six and just as in hospital wards of the time , the walls were painted a sombre grey . |
| 30 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |