Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Serve dessert wines with a slice of Christmas cake , pudding , or my two desserts . |
2 | Does it help me to make sense of the atmosphere in my school , or my own feelings ? |
3 | Without any consideration for my talents — such as they were — or my own wishes — never expressed — he had decided my path . |
4 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
5 | There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide , when I get up in the morning , whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones . |
6 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
7 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
8 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
9 | Any other information , oral written , or in pictorial form including but not limited to material of a technical , operational , administrative economic , planning business or financial nature which may be provided to you and your Representatives ( as defined below ) during the course of your evaluation of the Company , whether provided by KPMG Peat Marwick , the management and employees of the Company , or the shareholders of the Company ( ‘ the Vendors ’ ) or their professional advisers . |
10 | The term ‘ Information ’ does not include any information which ( i ) is generally available to and known by the public ( other than as a result of its disclosure by you or your Representatives ) , ( ii ) was available to you on a non-confidential basis from a source other than KPMG Peat Marwick , the management and employees of the Company , or the Vendors or their professional advisers , or ( iii ) has been independently acquired or developed by you without breaching any of your obligations under this Agreement . |
11 | It is usually assumed that teachers and heads are held to account but whether they are accountable to resource providers ( ratepayers , taxpayers , policy makers , administrators ) , customers ( pupils , parents , employers ) , or their professional colleagues , is ill-defined . |
12 | The best tip in using fats like butter , margarine or their lower-calorie alternatives such as Outline or St Ivel Gold is to weigh out half an ounce or an ounce each morning and make that your ready-calorie-counted ration for the day — saves a lot of fiddling around with small quantities . |
13 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
14 | It was likely that the seed merchant or their Dutch suppliers had been negligent . |
15 | Shortly before the introduction of the national curriculum , the percentages of time actually spent by the average secondary fourth and fifth year child in England on what were to become the national curriculum subjects ( see below ) of the 1988 Act , or their nearest equivalents , were as shown in Figure 10.1 . |
16 | Normally MAS would act for the shareholders or their appointed representatives . |
17 | The scoring is suitably opulent , with pairs of clarinets or their dark-hued relatives , basset-horns , augmenting the woodwind section ; but despite some magnificent individual arias the opera was not a success . |
18 | Four syllables , or their resolved equivalents , determine the underlying metre of OE verse , in his view . |
19 | In other words , a large proportion of the elderly receiving supplementary benefit are elderly women living alone and apart from those belonging to the very top socio-economic group , such women may be in receipt of supplementary benefit irrespective of the socio economic background of themselves or their deceased husbands . |
20 | Options are not transferable and may only be exercised by the persons to whom they were granted or their personal representatives . |
21 | It is said that neither of the plaintiffs actually signed this acceptance , their apparent signatures being forgeries made by a person or persons unknown on behalf of the conspirators or their connected companies . |
22 | According to the Muller doctrine , sensory endings are particularly sensitive to certain types of energy — light energy in the case of retinal endings , sound energy in the case of cochlear endings , and so on - and that when they , or their central connections , are stimulated a specific modality of sensation is experienced . |
23 | If such changes were made , the board of directors would not consist of all previous partners , but only of those who have been elected to the executive committee or their current equivalents . |
24 | Another surprise is the apparent reluctance of men ( or their general practitioners ) to continue iron treatment . |
25 | Senior civil servants have tremendous power , particularly where government is weak , changes are frequent , or their political leaders lack technical or administrative expertise ( or have misplaced confidence ! ) . |
26 | A LOWER tax bill will not mean that the Mukasa family will change personal financial arrangements , or their political preferences . |
27 | In March 1544 , before the Rough Wooing began , Lennox had been warned against being one of those who ‘ favoured the case of England or their new opinions ’ — a warning which he did not heed . |
28 | Finally , the scanner should not mess about with the image through fixed dither patterns or their various equivalents , we need to let the software do this . |
29 | Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes . |
30 | People were encouraged to say as much as they wanted to in answer to these questions , and I later categorised their responses according to the kinds of consequences they envisaged : effects on children , effects on the community generally , and effects on them personally ( or their immediate families ) . |