Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |
| 2 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 3 | If the ballvalve is faulty it is likely that either the washer has worn or that the seating needs replacing ( page 46 ) . |
| 4 | So therefore they argued , my children will only get half the mutation , or half the effects of it , fifty percent increase in reproductive success . |
| 5 | Alright , in order to satiate the demand for wheat in the world , we 'd need a farm , you know , the size of Wales , or something , or bigger than that , the size of Europe , or half the size of Europe , alright , so the , because of the , the nature of agricultural production , economies of scale just are n't , are n't there . |
| 6 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 7 | These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political or academic axe to grind and who are , or think that they are , the blessed recipients of some God-given intuition which enables them to divine the actual mind of Parliament , no matter how obscure or equivocal the language in which it has chosen to express itself . |
| 8 | For one reason or another the loyalty of the squadron of some other loyalty said " no I wo n't join the Pathfinders , I want to stay where I am " . |
| 9 | In cases where a covenant must be imposed to observe existing restrictions , on behalf of a buyer always insert in the covenant such words as " so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and are subsisting and capable of being enforced " , because for one reason or another the odds are ten to one that nobody can legally enforce them ; but the case might be otherwise if you impose the restrictions afresh . |
| 10 | With a number of recent recordings of these works by various players , most of whom claim in one way or another the composer 's approval of their performance , it is certainly worth hearing how Messiaen himself approached his organ music . |
| 11 | They provided education , free education , free health services erm one of the modern communication system and ports erm and they ensure job for every Kuwaiti , so you will not find an unemployed Kuwaiti , as soon as he is able to do one job or another the Government provided the training for a large number of Kuwaiti to provide technical works . |
| 12 | This is designed for situations where for one reason or another the work can not be fully described in advance and therefore a price can not be agreed . |
| 13 | People buy goods and then find , for one reason or another the goods are faulty , or they 're unsatisfactory in some way and the customer then tries to get some kind of compensation . |
| 14 | ‘ We all hope , ’ ran its report , ‘ that by one means or another the development of these weapons can be avoided . |
| 15 | And for one reason or another the subcontractor bowled up on site on the Saturday afternoon and decided to do it then . |
| 16 | In summary , to compare t treatments , we require a number of blocks each consisting of t experimental units ; for one reason or another the units within each block are expected to behave reasonably similarly in the absence of any treatment , e.g. t mice from the same litter , t plots in the same area of a field . |
| 17 | ‘ One way or another the thing had to die . |
| 18 | On the roll of a 1 or 2 the staff has run out of energy and will not work for the remainder of the battle . |
| 19 | Messages displayed as a result of user errors are self-explanatory or direct the user to a contact who will be able to advise a suitable course of action . |
| 20 | He considers ( 1975 : xx ) ‘ predatory street crime to be a far more serious matter than consumer fraud , anti-trust violations etc … because predatory crime … makes difficult or impossible the maintenance of meaningful human communities ’ . |
| 21 | Then , in order to jump to store address C if the contents of accumulator A are not less than the contents of store address B , we write Compare Accumulator A to store address B Jump to C if condition code is 00 or 10 The set of condition code patterns , any one of which is to cause a successful jump , is specified in the IBM 370 range by a four-bit subsidiary information field . |
| 22 | No matter how great one 's design ability , or how beautiful or costly the materials with which you frame your design , if the pressed flowers are not perfect then you will be wasting both time and money . |
| 23 | Even if the reason is economic , technical or organisational the employer must still act reasonably in selecting and dismissing each employee . |
| 24 | It is the gauge of wire used for the springs and the amount and type of this upholstery that governs how firm or soft the bed is . |
| 25 | Each of us speaks with his own voice , and though the tone may be rich or poor the voice is unique . |
| 26 | We have to be able to make measurements of welfare ; when we have done that , and discovered how good or poor the welfare is , ethical decisions have to be taken , and individuals will have their own ideas about what is acceptable . |
| 27 | With no-one wishing to appear insensitive or dull-witted the audience gives an enthusiastic response , thereby upsetting Nero . |
| 28 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 29 | Or all the ones that need sold , you know , got nice photographs of all the sold boards , and what I want her to do now is go and literally go and traipse the streets |
| 30 | Seventy percent of the expenditure is on staff who you do not employ and can not dismiss , a large part of the income , or all the income is through the fees that are set na nationally by the government . |