Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All staff , not just the ‘ managers ’ , need skills if they are to participate successfully in delegated or collegial management and decision-making , since every person in such contexts has a managerial role of some kind . |
| 2 | I 'm too worried about earthquakes or nuclear warfare or extraterrestrial invasion or Judgement Day coming between me and my reward . |
| 3 | Then , second , there is need for extension to that area of manifest cultural production which , by the nature of its forms , is not , or not primarily or only , the expression of formal and conscious beliefs : not philosophy or religion or economic theory or political theory or law , but drama , fiction , poetry , painting . |
| 4 | Furthermore , social network is conceptually at a more generalized level than are definable groupings , such as church or political organizations or street gangs ( and the model may in principle embrace these within it ) . |
| 5 | An anthology of Restoration & Georgian Music & Verse |
| 6 | In the third term a meeting is held between students and the Dean or Assistant Dean and Co-ordinator alone , following an agenda set in consultation with the Students ' Union . |
| 7 | Pre-existing or generated annotation and indexing ; |
| 8 | I rolled out of bed and , feeling I was doomed to the state of hei-hei , or eternal sloth and uselessness , I wondered whether I could find a pair of unstiff socks . |
| 9 | Jacket potato with I ounce roast beef , or roast pork or ham ( with all fat removed ) or 2 ounces chicken ( no skin ) served with Branston pickle and salad . |
| 10 | There 's always a hearty soup , such as garlic and cannelli bean or roast pepper and tomato , and plenty of fashionable rabbit food for those who do n't want to fall asleep straight after eating . |
| 11 | Some recent research suggests that a step increase in [ CO 2 ] above the current 350μmolmol -1 produces little or no short-term ( 3 years ) increase in plant or ecosystem carbon storage where low temperatures or nutrient ( particularly nitrogen ) availability currently restrict plant growth . |
| 12 | Compliance systems appear to be concerned with victims in some aggregate rather than in a discrete or specific sense while penalty systems must deal with victims in the concrete since they constitute an element in their system of proof . |
| 13 | The absence of exact replication with most brooch types strongly suggests that each , or each pair or trio , was manufactured as required , thereby introducing a high degree of innovation . |
| 14 | When goods are carried in different vehicles or are of a different kind or are divided into different lots , the sender of the carrier is entitled to require a separate consignment note for each vehicle or each kind or lot of goods . |
| 15 | None of the 19 randomised controlled trials used otalgia or recurrent acute otitis media as an outcome measure and so there is little scientific evidence that surgery benefits children with these conditions , especially when the high proportion who experience severe or persistent discharge after insertion of grommets is considered . |
| 16 | Stories of corruption of the young or persistent soliciting as characteristic of the homosexual person are generally without foundation . |
| 17 | Another form of competition policy is to remove obstacles to competition from foreign firms , by reducing or eliminating import tariffs and quotas , or technical standards and government purchasing contracts which favour domestic firms . |
| 18 | Unlike Persia or Anatolia , where each region or village is associated with a specific method of weaving and repertoire of designs , rug-making in China was never based around exclusive localized styles ; and although antique rugs may be classified as " Paotao " or " Ning-Hsia " , for example , this is usually a definition of their quality and style , rather than a statement of where they were made . |
| 19 | The schools that existed were run by either the Church or private individuals and education was for the rich or those able enough to get scholarships , and women 's education was not an issue . |
| 20 | All bedrooms have en suite or private facilities and colour TV , their attractive wooden shutters are always appreciated as they block out the dawn chorus — traffic noise is not a problem ! |
| 21 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 22 | People can use the Counselling Service to discuss any kind of personal , academic or emotional problem or issue which is concerning them . |
| 23 | These reforms will only achieve their objective if accompanied by the implementation of the 1944 Education Act provision for compulsory part- or full-time education or training up to the age of 18 . |
| 24 | In many places the Left Book Club made the Labour Party look like a stagnant backwater , while demanding a less disciplined or full-time commitment than membership of the Communist Party . |
| 25 | We are familiar with this in words like gnome , or Wednesday ; but we are n't always conscious that Saint Paul 's in normal speech sounds like Sn Paulz or that bread and butter sounds like bread n butta . |
| 26 | While it may be true to say that the one predominates in Christianity and the other in such Eastern religions as Buddhism and Hinduism , it would be a mistake to assume that Christianity is devoid of the principle of identity or that Buddhism and Hinduism are devoid of the principle of participation . |
| 27 | The pressure of this or that requirement or directive , together with the environment in which one happens to be , for example working under an agnostic headteacher , or a staunch Christian one , or with an enthusiastic multi-faith team , etc. , governs what happens . |
| 28 | Well , our usages do strongly suggest that this or that thought or feeling completed a set of thoughts and feelings , and the decision or choice resulted . |
| 29 | Some stand quite close to him but are unhappy about this or that emphasis or point of detail , or about tendencies which they see running through his work ; others differ from him so radically on the nature and basis of theology itself that they in effect reject his approach wholesale . |
| 30 | I think , for instance , that it is vain and quite pointless to try to enumerate all the elements that come together in our preference for this or that artist or poet . |