Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This requires a very nutritious medium and therefore the usual one consisting of sand or clay with peat or bulb-fibre or loam should be used . |
| 2 | They spend half their lives underground in darkness or near-darkness and touch , smell and hearing convey as much or more to them than sight . |
| 3 | He found isolated teeth to be the most abundant element in transported fossil assemblages , with elements that were either long and thin ( e.g. phalanges ) or broad and flat ( e.g. pelves , scapulae ) less well represented . |
| 4 | One gets the impression that accountants are always foolish or dishonest and accountancy itself a waste of time . |
| 5 | Stop Consonant Here the breath is completely stopped at some point in the mouth by the lips or tongue-lip or tongue-back , and then released with a slight explosion . |
| 6 | Where a counterclaim ( or set-off and counterclaim ) are transferred to the High Court but judgment has been given on the claim save for the question of set-off , execution is stayed thereon until the proceedings transferred to the High Court have been concluded , unless the High Court otherwise orders ( s 42(2) ) . |
| 7 | Any time spent with day hospital patients , on domiciliary visits , or work related to patients living at home , or acute or assessment patients , would need to be excluded . |
| 8 | We need the latter for the ultimate goal of human existence is the vision of God , the mystic 's vision , where there is not pain or suffering or mutability , but only unchanging , radiant and joyful perfection . |
| 9 | Unlike the mainland authorities — where regional and district taxes have to be added before the actual bill is known — Orkney house-holders will pay the one council tax plus water . |
| 10 | Great questions such as the way in which buildings may be rehabilitated , or private and council landlords forced to meet basic standards of health and safety within their properties , have been largely pushed into the field of what has been designated " Housing Law " , the latter being less concerned with providing a framework for operation than a means for intervening on behalf of the more vulnerable members in society . |
| 11 | It is doubtful if , in reality , one could separate intellectual and linguistic development , or emotional and personality development , or moral and spiritual development . |
| 12 | From his own mouth they understood that , regardless of ethnic or regional or age identity , they would have to surrender nothing in order to gain a great deal : that alliance need not produce merger or submergence , that even racist habits of mind became beside the point — you could vote for ‘ the nigger ’ not because you wanted a Black man in your family but because you thought he might save your family farm . |
| 13 | However , many academic courses have or had an implicit point of reference in school-teaching , and many are organized in institutes or professional or subject associations . |
| 14 | The second pair of cleavages was associated with the industrial revolution : one was linked to the division between town and country ( or agricultural and manufacturing interests ) ; the other concerned the growing division between employers and workers ( the class divide ) . |
| 15 | The school may find components of science in existing health ( say ) or English or music programmes . |
| 16 | I assumed that since the author was not black , the appearance of Africanist characters or narrative or idiom in a work could never be about anything other than the ‘ normal ’ , unracialised , illusory white world that provided the fictional backdrop . |
| 17 | Rather , a context of action is defined where autonomy continues to be valued and guarded , but where the paramount cultural values stress generosity and affiliation , and where kindred and community , protected by these values , remain the sole sources of nurturance and security . |
| 18 | Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance . |
| 19 | Peel off the tough outer skin of the silk squash , or top and tail the courgettes . |
| 20 | The Wolvercote Tongue was insured for half a million dollars , and one of the safest ways of transferring it over to England had got to be on the person of the traveller : few people would entrust such an item to letter-post or parcel-post or courier-service ; and even if they did , the insurance-risk premium would be prohibitive . |
| 21 | Media Studies ( Newspaper & Magazine ) European Studies I Electives Foreign Language I ( French or German or Italian ) ( 2 to be chosen ) Literary Codes Contemporary Studies I AWBL ( Accreditation of Work-based Learning ) I |
| 22 | Five ( 15 per cent ) of the participants rated questions on behaviour , identity or social and family relationships poorly . |
| 23 | Very little is being done in initial teacher training for either ESOL , or Foreign and Community Languages . |
| 24 | The language tutor , be he or she in EFL , ESOL , or Foreign and Community languages , is increasingly expected to be a highly competent professional able to tackle an increasingly demanding and diverse teaching environment . |
| 25 | Something within him seemed to collapse but he did n't outwardly fall to pieces or rant or rave or even again try to pull out the arrow or finish me in any other way . |
| 26 | ‘ One is a world of natural phenomena , or light and rain and people passing down the roads , or things happening , or excitement and peace and of music ending . |
| 27 | industrial or commercial or business use . |
| 28 | In the universities , these are mainly the combined or joint honours courses mentioned in the opening chapter , which often come in cognate pairs such as physics and chemistry , economics and sociology , or French and German . |
| 29 | Life is complex where fresh and salt water meet |
| 30 | Some 10 000 years later , a rising Atlantic began to press the mouth of the Susquehanna back toward its source , forming an estuary — a partially enclosed bay where fresh and salt water mix — which took its present form about 3000 years ago . |