Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one-third of cases there was either suspicion or definite knowledge that a sibling had also been abused ( cf. |
| 2 | There could be nothing more suspicious than a Secretary of State or one of his administrative officials deciding for political or administrative reasons that a particular accident should not be investigated when a vital matter of air safety was at issue . |
| 3 | 1.28 A badly disabled plaintiff might need specially constructed or modified accommodation and a whole range of appliances to make his life more tolerable ( see George v Pinnock [ 1973 ] 1 WLR 118 , Cunningham v Harrison [ 1973 ] QB 942 and Abdul-Hosn v The Trustees of The Italian Hospital ( 1987 ) unreported ) . |
| 4 | Teaching methods may , for example , use visual or auditory stimulation or a combination of both . |
| 5 | ‘ Bryan uses seven or eight Strats and a couple of Gretsches — a green one and we 've just got the orange one . ’ |
| 6 | They can be adapted while young to either fresh or marine water but a slow transition is necessary to avoid shock or even death . |
| 7 | And at the same time , it owes its very existence to an alliance of social forces that sees government as the instrument of social domination — whether by a ruling class , a small party or tribal elite or a coalition of either with the bureaucracy of the state . |
| 8 | Examples can be found in the research literature on elderly people , where it is reported that those without children tend to form equivalent ties with whichever kin are available , typically a niece or nephew , although there is some doubt about whether such a person can properly be expected to provide such extensive or reliable support as a ‘ real ’ child ( Townsend , 1965 ; Allan , 1983 ; Wenger , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | What encourages children to read and thus to learn to read is not some ‘ intrinsic reward ’ like praise or high marks or a special treat , but being able to read . |
| 10 | Basically it is a good foundation to the day to include a glass of skimmed or semi-skimmed milk and a piece of fruit ( or fresh fruit juice ) with this meal . |
| 11 | Few fields are perfect and all you need is a good sized field with a level or uphill gradient and a good surface . |
| 12 | Previously damage liability caused by or arising out of maintenance , process or modification or direct application or a tool was excluded . |
| 13 | One can also choose between a top-down or hypothesis-driven strategy and a bottom-up or data-driven strategy depending on whether the rule expansion is driven by the addition of active edges or inactive edges . |
| 14 | Or some toast or a thread … " but he shook his grey head |
| 15 | You probably have a darker or olive skin and a natural in-built tanning ability . |
| 16 | Then cheese and chocolate mousse or crème caramel and a couple of bottles of good wine . ’ |
| 17 | According to John Herbert , who became second Secretary of State in 1600 , it had three principal functions : the business of the Queen , in which it ‘ doth handle principally questions and consultations of state ’ ; disputes between party and party , which might involve either criminal or civil suits or a mixture of the two ; and disputes ‘ wherein the Queen is a party ’ . |
| 18 | It was the monsoon settlement of some other village — five or six huts and a small area of once-ploughed land , enclosed by a tumbledown stone wall . |
| 19 | A team consists of five or six couples and a priest/spiritual counsellor . |
| 20 | Thus the general requirement of justice , ‘ harm no one ’ , is utterly indeterminate and can accommodate the content of any positive law whatever insofar as ‘ harm ’ is not a precondition of a legal rule or moral principle but a consequence of the definitions of legitimate interests and the common good established by such rules and principles . |
| 21 | ( c ) A check against target costs or standard costs and a long-stop for the budgetary control of individual projects . |
| 22 | Most clients sought their information via directories or personal contacts and a dominant influence in selection was experience of past work . |
| 23 | The usual symptoms are a faint pink rash with a slight fever , perhaps swollen glands or aching joints and a general feeling of being off-colour . |
| 24 | The usual symptoms are a faint pink rash with a slight fever , perhaps swollen glands or aching joints and a general feeling of being off-colour . |
| 25 | A police state , or corporate state or a state run by IT experts . |
| 26 | Still , there is a substantial difference between the sort of agricultural economy in which sales to the wider world are marginal or optional , and the sort whose fortunes depend on them ; between — to put it another way — those haunted by the spectre of a bad harvest and consequent famine , and those haunted by its opposite , overproduction or sudden competition and a collapse of prices . |
| 27 | Professional work has a Janus character , a public face of resolving problems of social or natural order and a private face of personalised service . |
| 28 | It was into this carefree atmosphere , where hard work and a loving family impose their own disciplines , that the W children came . |
| 29 | Apart from two or three cafes and a restaurant or two , there is little habitation . |
| 30 | The alternative was to wait a further two or three years until a civil case could reach a hearing in the overcrowded Northern Ireland courts and then to endeavour to fight it with the state using against him the formidable privileges and stratagems available to it . |