Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 2 | His life so far had been crowded with people , familiar but not friends , guardians like Fiery or the nurserymaids , boys at school or companions chosen for him . |
| 3 | There is nothing in it for the participants except the opportunity to work for low or no wages . |
| 4 | These results also show that the overexpression of bcl-2 does not significantly alter the levels of mitochondrial respiratory chain activity in either the parental or the cells . |
| 5 | He used an interview with Brian Walden on ITV to outline his terms for a coalition with either Labour or the Conservatives . |
| 6 | On those figures , neither the Liberal Democrats or any other single party would be able to sustain Labour or the Conservatives in office . |
| 7 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 8 | Addressing party workers in Richmond , south-west London , a key Liberal Democrat target seat , he urged floating voters not to be frightened about voting Liberal Democrat by scare stories from Labour or the Tories . |
| 9 | His party was ready and able to fight a second campaign and ‘ immeasurably better placed ’ than either Labour or the Tories . |
| 10 | PADDY Ashdown has warned that the Liberal Democrats will not join a coalition with either Labour or the Tories in the event of a hung Parliament , unless one agrees to introduce proportional representation . |
| 11 | They found themselves squeezed by either Labour or the Democrats depending on local patterns of party competition , and they lost control of a wide range of district councils . |
| 12 | Someone must keep them calm or the scissors soon start to fly . |
| 13 | His market was the world , and he was n't particularly concerned to toady either to the British or the Americans . |
| 14 | Sanitation was primitive and the poorhouses in regular use . |
| 15 | They had the advantage of providing adequate studio space and being equipped with showers , but other facilities were primitive and the surroundings were not ideal . |
| 16 | She thought the domestic arrangements were too primitive and the facilities for education , particularly language training , at best inadequate . |
| 17 | The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning . |
| 18 | It is more orthodox in arrangement and pedestrian in style but the subject is well covered , the explanations clear and the illustrations well drawn and captioned . |
| 19 | The air is clear and the mountains are pyramids of crystal glass . |
| 20 | The organisation of the contents is clear and the maps do their job , except for the one on page 96 . |
| 21 | We phone as soon as we 're clear and the guys who 're with her just walk out . |
| 22 | One disadvantage of the change might be that the more precise moral distinctions currently incorporated within the law would become submerged within the sentencing discretion , where the signposts are less clear and the arguments less structured . |
| 23 | A highly individualistic vision , coloured by time and experience , focuses on everyday objects suggesting associations tinged with both the sadness of ageing and the insights of maturity . |
| 24 | The chromatography column was calibrated using synthetic APGRP in 50 mM TRIS buffered saline and the fractions assayed for APGPR . |
| 25 | A similar situation obtained in the second example which unsurprisingly proved much more difficult because it is unfamiliar and the numbers are more complex . |
| 26 | These splints should be taken off twice daily and the arms exercised and rubbed . |
| 27 | On 4 January 1576 , for instance , Francis Talbot told his father , the Earl of Shrewsbury , that ‘ the Council be all at the court ; they sit daily and the ambassadors [ of France ] come to them ’ . |
| 28 | The purchase of a software package to achieve this was not cost justifiable and the facilities offered were too sophisticated for our needs . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal , ’ wrote Shaw . |
| 30 | Although the test is claimed to be culture-fair and the instructions were presented in BSL , performance was lower , giving weight to the view of Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) that deaf people are subject to a test effect which generally depresses scores . |