Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also we mentioned an environmentally sound road system and it 's not only that we 're , as are you over there against the fourteen or twenty eight lane or whatever busy lane it is on the M twenty five , because by putting all just increasing the road capacity is gon na lead to great loss from Kings Kingston on Thames and Ashtead and Shepherds Bush to Solihull . |
| 2 | With only one item per card , there is plenty of room to make notes of recipes , cooking times or whatever other information you feel would be helpful . |
| 3 | If you knew your twelve times or your two times up to twelve that would be quicker but if you do n't |
| 4 | Explicitly or implicitly the suggestion is that women are children or lunatics or whichever other company they keep . |
| 5 | Of course we all like to get on with people at work , but our relationships are based on our skills , our expertise or our functional roles , not on friendship . |
| 6 | She did n't need to read the manufacturer 's name to recognise the sleek lines of a Bang and Olufsen television and VCR or its matching hi-fi and CD player stacked on a long , low teak drawer-unit . |
| 7 | Normally MAS would act for the shareholders or their appointed representatives . |
| 8 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 9 | Such sequences of vegetation change and human impact are typical of many areas and it would not be unreasonable to suggest that no area of the British Isles has been entirely free of human activities or their indirect consequences — the landscape we see today is as much an artifact of human creation as any historical site . |
| 10 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 11 | But Aeroflot , its successor or its 20 constituent parts-each of which may form the nucleus of a national carrier in the republics-are likely to need 500 new or newish Western aircraft to continue services . |
| 12 | Superintendent what was your response or your initial reaction to that information ? |
| 13 | Today , using our standard Components and techniques , we can work to your plans or our own designs , to produce the most attractive and economical structures . |
| 14 | The autocratic style of a president who regarded state-controlled radio and television as a transmission service for the government , who felt free to interpret his constitution as he saw fit and regularly to circumvent parliament or his own ministers teetered perpetually on the verge of excess . |
| 15 | Even though she had left Stornoway when she was just 14 , she never lost her love for her birthplace or her sweet West Highland accent . |
| 16 | One thing , one thing about it , it 's crossed my mind a long time ago is er the idea of erm in the half hour or whatever twenty minutes before a concert , doing er concert programme notes |
| 17 | Cos it wo it does n't keep the light out of your kitchen or your other rooms does it , because of |
| 18 | Furthermore , when dates are suggested for changes in these forms , they are usually given , without comment , as the dates at which the changes took place in this standard variety or its unilinear precursor , and not the dates at which they might have taken place in some other variety . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many instructors are not careful , or thoughtful enough about either their initial teaching or their subsequent monitoring of their students as they do their own cockpit checks . |
| 21 | Still prominent in art , folklore and literature , the live snake or its ubiquitous image influences millions of people in that country . |
| 22 | In the first of these a group of libraries cooperate because of a factor or factors which they hold in common — usually their subject field or their geographical location . |
| 23 | So if the teacher wanted to find out about the courses they could either contact the University or their own organisations , erm the D E S or the , the Local Education Authority . |
| 24 | Blade Star is famous for her enormous breasts which she displayed while stripping , her affair with the Governor of Tennessee or her enormous feet ? |
| 25 | Your sick parent must be mentally fit to make this decision of her own free will , and it does not rob her of the right to make her own decisions as to the spending of her money or her free access to it . |
| 26 | ‘ The next step is finding a home for longer-term savings for holidays , home improvements or your first home , ’ says Amanda . |
| 27 | Or with regard to the wedding plays , silk satin cotton rags or even if the offspring would be boy lass twins triplets or what these babies were to be rocked in . |
| 28 | If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . |
| 29 | Typical examples of the kinds of ritual practices that are commonly observed include : ( i ) dietary and sexual abstinence before hunting , ( ii ) visionary experiences induced by drugs or fasting , ( iii ) ritual purification of hunter and weapons before hunting , ( iv ) offering of formal apology/excuse to the slain animal — blame-shifting , ( v ) offering of tokens of appeasement — food , tobacco , etc. — to the slain animal , ( vi ) ceremonial treatment of carcass — verbal flattery and solemnity , ( vii ) rules determining who may eat animals ' flesh ( which may include abstention by hunter and/or his entire kin group ) , ( viii ) avoidance of waste , ( ix ) avoidance of boasting , ( x ) ritual disposal of uneatable or unusable remains , and ( xi ) post-hunting purification of the hunter and/or his weapons ( see e.g. Frazer , 1922 ; Hallowell , 1926 ; Benedict , 1929 ; Speck , 1977 ; Campbell , 1984 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | You may have noticed that I have not suggested any intensive practice specifically on vowels or their different combinations into diphthongs . |