Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and had narked and sparked at my comment I only had one decentish pair of black shoes for meetings and/or interviews and I have remedied that now back here using X 's advanced ( if a little critical ) birthday money . |
| 2 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 3 | But there is usually an effective distinction from the institutions of simple commodity production even where the cultural work is quite clearly a commodity it is almost always , and often justly , also described in very different terms — and from the institutions or power and administration , in which purposes and objectives are inherent . |
| 4 | Many country banks lent in their own notes , but others did so only in coin or in Bank of England notes or bills and drafts . |
| 5 | ( v ) paid off debts or fines or loans incurred by the addict in your life . |
| 6 | There is n't anyone left in this club who reads anything more demanding than the Racing Times or tits and bums magazines . |
| 7 | This kind of mutual formulation of the right amount of information for communication to take place is very common in conversation , particularly where times or places or objects need to be specified . |
| 8 | splits & doubles & speaks |
| 9 | One issue clarified by the bill is that ‘ NHS contracts ’ , the contracts between purchasing health authorities or GPs and service-providing hospitals , will not be legally binding and will confer no contractual rights or liabilities . |
| 10 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 11 | So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer . |
| 12 | Assigns acquire their meaning through association with other signs or words and so are more complicated than signs , which derive their meaning from the direct experience of the individual ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 13 | If it is really necessary to think of mental states as having qualitative content ( and see Dennett , 1988 , for some powerful arguments that it is not ) , then it follows from functionalism that such qualia do not have causal interactions with other mental states or behaviour and are mere epiphenomena . |
| 14 | To say either that someone acts authoritatively or that someone is responsible for his actions may depend upon the possibility of ascribing mental states or capacities but neither is merely a shorthand way of ascribing them . |
| 15 | Buying , selling , subscribing for or underwriting investments or offering or agreeing to do so , either as principal or as an agent |
| 16 | Her meals had a variety of dry finger foods like bread and butter , fish fingers or chips and some mushy foods like apple purée . |
| 17 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 18 | About the height of a small child and dressed in ragged brown clothes , they are very wiry and strong , despite having no fingers or toes and , in the case of Scottish brownies , no nose . |
| 19 | For example , in discussing the way in which normal children develop language , Slobin ( 1973 ) has suggested that new functions are first learned using existing language forms or structures and , conversely , new forms or structures are first used to express well-established functions . |
| 20 | These include forms or production and commerce and the demands of profit , the interests of and constraints on manufacture , design , marketing and advertising , whose role it is to create the images of industrial goods in relation to specified target populations , and the interests of and constraints on the consumer population , who use and in their turn manipulate the meaning of these forms through differential selection , placement , use and association . |
| 21 | If somebody 's had a lifetime of doing tapestries or needlework or sewing , then encourage them to do needlework as an individual . |
| 22 | Generally speaking , so far as English Law is concerned , it will be necessary to show that there was some ‘ proximity ’ between the damage suffered by the claimant and the engineer 's acts or omissions and that it was reasonably foreseeable that the engineer 's acts or omissions would cause loss to the claimant . |
| 23 | In the interest of readers who are not professional demographers , statisticians or physicians or who are not concerned with minutiae of the research , an effort was made in writing the report to avoid too detailed explanations , statistical tabulations , and the extensive use of the lingo of related fields or sciences . |
| 24 | The advisory service should also consider the curricular needs of the pupil , and the inclusion of special or additional areas such as keyboard skills or mobility and orientation that will enable the pupil to have full access to the curriculum and to take part in all aspects of school life . |
| 25 | What was under test was not my skills or abilities but my moral judgement . |
| 26 | The employment they take may have no connection With their previous skills or employment but serves as a temporary measure to raise self-esteem by doing something positive . |
| 27 | These may be organized by local groups such as stroke clubs , so that patients and their carers get together for outings or entertainments and shows . |
| 28 | To Sigouri was perhaps thirty miles and , although the rain kept away , it was dark and treacherous underfoot and they hardly spoke , men-at-arms or servants or principals , as they guided fresh horses across the grey soil of the Messaoria , splashing over burgeoning rivers ; imperceptible to silent villages , churches and monasteries except by a thud of hooves and the swimming spawn of their brands . |
| 29 | Here the teacher needs the ability to call on different levels of presentation — graded illustrations or examples or maybe graded presentations from pictures through to other more abstract notations . |
| 30 | The Board is entitled to require you not to attend at any place of work and they may otherwise suspend you from the performance of your duties under this appointment where that course is a necessary precaution in the public interest or otherwise in the interests of the Board pending the outcome of criminal , disciplinary or other investigations or proceedings and where no alternative course is reasonably appropriate . |