Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was likely that the seed merchant or their Dutch suppliers had been negligent . |
| 11 | Normally MAS would act for the shareholders or their appointed representatives . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Four syllables , or their resolved equivalents , determine the underlying metre of OE verse , in his view . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Options are not transferable and may only be exercised by the persons to whom they were granted or their personal representatives . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Another surprise is the apparent reluctance of men ( or their general practitioners ) to continue iron treatment . |
| 20 | 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 ! ) . |
| 21 | A LOWER tax bill will not mean that the Mukasa family will change personal financial arrangements , or their political preferences . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Adjoining the exhibition in Shop No. 20 are the workshops of Swindon Railway Workshops Ltd. , a company set up to carry out complete overhauls to locomotives , carriages and wagons ( or their major components ) for preservation societies , private owners and museums such as the N.R.M. many of the employees are ex the old Swindon works . |
| 27 | The Consumer Information Department of the ABI , or their regional offices , which are listed in local telephone directories , can provide assistance to any individual or organisation . |
| 28 | On the other hand they can not be expected to do their job efficiently unless they have a substantial background of experience in commanding large public transport aircraft or their military equivalents . |
| 29 | The Compensation Bill , passed by 189 votes to 108 , with 11 abstentions , offered partial compensation to Hungarian citizens , or their direct descendants , whose property had been nationalized after June 8 , 1949 . |
| 30 | NO DOUBT every university , college and school throughout the land thinks , when a government wields its axe , that it is a special case , All of them , of course , are special in one way or another , either through their history , their location , or their local connections . |