Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Usually white , usually Italian or German and always served at least eight degrees above room temperature , its only merit is as an antidote to … |
10 | Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Here there were dormitories for four or six and just as in hospital wards of the time , the walls were painted a sombre grey . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The play is written for a Hertfordshire accent or similar and then you know I enclose and I say return if you do n't like it . |
17 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |
18 | At only £49.95 it 's available in grey , black or white and well worth a second look . |
19 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
20 | However , they would become noisy if ignored or neglected and downright troublesome if the family itself became lazy or rude . |
21 | i ring & i ring & have another line or three and then i think that all i want is peace that passeth understanding and the phone is a barbaric instrument of torture and do i really want more images for people to stick pins in me. i wish i could ask the muse , she would know . |
22 | In any month in the 1840 's and '50's there were rarely more than live contracts settled up and the figure was usually two or three and sometimes none at all . |
23 | Most human religions , from tribal to world religions , have treated woman 's body , in its gender-specific sexual functions , as impure or polluted and thus to be distanced from sacred spaces and rites dominated by males . |
24 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
25 | Yet even the economic tensions that existed in the villages around Danzig failed to produce results that showed any real or clear-cut and intrinsically national difference in their impact on one group as opposed to another , and failed to polarise Germans and Poles in any clear-cut political or national sense . |
26 | Unless it 's Euro or international and then it 's in metres . |
27 | ‘ There is all the difference in the world between withholding medical treatment that 's either painful or futile and deliberately withholding food . |
28 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
29 | The aims of education or complex and sometimes contradictory . |
30 | Those who search for something and never find it become dispirited or cynical and eventually it becomes very hard to motivate them to climb the next hill . |