Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a reasonably slim and sure-footed man or woman with enough nerve and a head for heights could certainly have got out this way . |
| 2 | The need is to change them ; to find for the means of production and provision another structure such as will of its nature avoid the dilemma with which the present dispensation ultimately confronts the country : either unacceptably high and chronic unemployment or unacceptable and uncontrollable inflation , each so operating as eventually to destabilise society to the point where the purposes of liberal democracy can no longer be entertained , let alone fulfilled . |
| 3 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 4 | People who mix old and new oil or just keep topping it up are sacrificing the good oil for the bad . |
| 5 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 6 | Some courses examine classical solutions to these problems from the history of social and political thought or draw on recent debates between contemporary political theorists . |
| 7 | They must produce evidence that the theoretical and practical knowledge or training to be acquired in the foreign laboratory will be beneficial to their scientific development and must also return to their country of origin upon termination of the fellowship . |
| 8 | For the careful and conscientious journalist or broadcaster , the legal meaning of " malice " provides vital protection for honest comment , the more so , because the burden of proving that malice was the dominant motive rests on the plaintiff . |
| 9 | She had the feeling she must either give in to that showy and heady beatification or run for her life . |
| 10 | It would be unwise for the hon. and learned Gentleman or for anyone else to draw conclusions about what might have been the cause of this accident . |
| 11 | Earlier in this article I have argued that the initial debates and policies which emerged in the wake of the growing black presence were characterized by various forms of cultural and ethnic essentialism or reductionism and that this still persists , for example , in the way ethnic monitoring and other official know ledges are produced . |
| 12 | A layer of peat and gravel , or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium . |
| 13 | The services involved , whether for children at home or in care , have to be resourced by public funding , from central and local government or from voluntary sources . |
| 14 | For students taking two modern European languages in their second year , there is also the opportunity to study Russian nineteenth- and twentieth-century history or the history of the Russian language . |
| 15 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 16 | There have been other developments which point to an overlap between civil and military use or nuclear power . |
| 17 | Siann concludes that evidence from hormonal studies and ethology is extremely ambiguous and that no conclusions can be drawn with regard to male and female behaviour or emotions , and that psychoanalytic approaches can not produce any firm answers on questions of sex and gender ( Siann 1985 : 33–9 , 82–4 , 123–8 ) . |
| 18 | A daring and devious regicide or merely a clumsy archer ? |
| 19 | First , where he knowingly assists in a dishonest and fraudulent design or breach of trust undertaken by the insider , notwithstanding the fact that he did not acquire possession of the trust property ( ’ knowing assistance ’ ) . |
| 20 | The conduct of the polls was peaceful , but the first round failed to resolve the political and constitutional crisis or to revive confidence in the economy . |
| 21 | The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | THE European Community has 12 months in which to achieve a breakthrough to full economic and monetary union or the whole project may have to be put on ice until the end of the next decade . |
| 23 | Honours in Economic and Social History allows students to combine the study of economic and social change or to focus more closely onto social change , combining if they wish courses in social history with some of the courses offered by the Sociology and the History departments . |
| 24 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 25 | This is illustrated by data from the ILEA in Figure 11.12 , which compares the examination results of fifth-year pupils of Indian , Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin or descent . |
| 26 | Examples of this are courses in accident and emergency , neuromedical and neurosurgical nursing or ophthalmic nursing . |
| 27 | It is a measure of success , not in the commercial sense of the word but an exploration into just why The Smiths connect with so many and whether that connection invokes a solid and lasting influence or is simply a mere fad . |
| 28 | But staff still need a fridge and would welcome any offers of help with that and other furniture or equipment . |
| 29 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 30 | The aim , of course , is to delegate decision making to a trusted and close friend or relative who the patient feels best knows him and will speak for him when he can not speak for himself . |