Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day .
2 5.11.2 the preparation and service of a notice under the Law of Property Act 1925 section 146 or incurred by or in contemplation of proceedings under sections 146 or 147 of that Act notwithstanding that forfeiture is avoided otherwise than by relief granted by the court
3 It remained empty or half-empty despite all the inducements .
4 They might be faced with tribal , linguistic or religious divisions , which provide bases for alternative centres of power ; their country might be poor or rich in natural resources ; its geo-political situation vis-a-vis other nations favourable or unfavourable ; the differences between classes , and the intensity of class conflict , more or less substantial .
5 All cities have green or red lines that separate Muslim from Christians , or rich from poor , lines beyond which you are no longer safe if you belong to one tribe or the other .
6 They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy .
7 They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy .
8 Goods which are useless or unsuitable for any normal purpose will still correspond with their description ( here ‘ Norwegian Herring Meal ’ ) if it accurately identified them .
9 1 The drills used are ill-designed or unsuitable in some respects for the learners for whom they are intended .
10 Some declare it is caused by diet ; others are convinced it is a motility disorder or due to altered perception , a psychological disorder , a psychophysiological phenomenon , or even abnormal illness behaviour .
11 If a condition is simply due to muscle tension , either as a result of an injury ( whiplash injury to the neck is a common one ) or due to postural defects , then this type of therapy is the treatment of choice .
12 Externalisation or blaming — admitting that there are problems but saying that the causes are due to pressures at work or unemployment or due to social , financial or other stresses or due to doctors or " pushers " or due to the inadequacy of the police , customs officials or the Government .
13 During an offline run a particular unit may become unavailable , either because it is required for some other purpose , or due to physical breakdown .
14 This might be by parental design or due to natural events .
15 Is it a function of our body clock or our life-style , or due to some interaction between the two ?
16 The effects are plausibly perceptually based , memory based , or due to some combination of each .
17 A water authority will , therefore , be in breach of its statutory duty if it permits obnoxious odours , which amount to a nuisance at common law , to emanate either from its sewage disposal works , or due to any recycling of treated or untreated sewage sludge on to farm land , and it is open to a local authority or person aggrieved , in the absence of informal agreement perhaps via a Liaison Committee , to seek an injunction to restrain the water authority from causing the nuisance .
18 The rate of referral to hospital was 4.2 per 100 consultations or 13.3 per 100 registered patients , which is similar to the results reported by Wilkin and Smith in Manchester and by Bradlow et al in Oxfordshire .
19 The teaching year extends from August/September to June the following year , with classes running from either 9.15 to 12.30 or 13.20 to 16.35 or 18.30 to 21.30 .
20 The woman , however , having attained one orgasm , can go on to another and even several during one coupling ; and may feel satisfied after one or unsatisfied without more .
21 Quickly she outlined the plan , explaining that the party was to be for local children who were handicapped or disadvantaged in some way .
22 But because there is no sizing , colours tend to bleed or dry with blurry outlines .
23 Firstly , it is said that this is not a case in which interim relief is appropriate or possible at all .
24 Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ .
25 The liability of the Corporation under this Section ( subject to Condition 5 of this Policy ) for all compensation payable in respect of or arising out of one occurrence or in respect of or arising out of all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause shall not exceed £1,000,000 .
26 The Corporation may at any time pay to the Policyholder under Section A of this Policy in connection with any claim or series of claims in respect of which the limit for any one accident in respect of one occurrence or all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause is applicable the amount of such limit ( after deduction of any sum or sums already paid as compensation ) or any lesser amount for which such claim or claims can be settled and upon such payment being made the Corporation shall relinquish the conduct of and be under no further liability in connection with such claim or claims except for the payment of costs and expenses of litigation recoverable from or incurred by the Policyholder in respect of matters prior to the date of payment .
27 The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance .
28 Patients were subsequently classed on clinical criteria as having ARF ( 20 ) or acute on chronic renal failure ( AonCRF , 22 ) .
29 Next month we 'll see why the pentatonics can be taken from II , III or VI of any major scale/key and examine the sounds they create when superimposed over various chords .
30 But conventionalism can not be justified on the sole ground that surprise is inefficient or undesirable in these ways , because conventionalism does not protect against surprise as well as a simpler and more straightforward theory of adjudication would .
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