Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , of course , difficult as yet to say whether or not these fears are unduly alarmist or exaggerated or even groundless . |
| 2 | Whenever she accompanied him , whether to a glossy film premiére or a major speech , they reported on the clothes she was wearing , the hairstyle , the hat , the jewellery , whether she looked well , or strained or too thin . |
| 3 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 4 | The car was wrong , Rufus 's clothes were wrong or funny or somehow unsuitable , he smoked too much , he was too fond of wine and his whole lifestyle left much to be desired . |
| 5 | In the context of civil proceedings , international judicial assistance is primarily concerned with the service of documents , ‘ process ’ of one sort or another but also extrajudicial documents of significance , and the taking of evidence ; post-trial assistance , in the form of the enforcement of judgments and orders , is traditionally treated as a ( major ) topic in its own right . |
| 6 | My suggestion is that impartiality of one type or another and perhaps other qualities of decision-makers might be the basis for regarding the law as a locus of moral authority . |
| 7 | In the first place , because of his own sharp intelligence and his , particularly perhaps his self-awareness , as a writer , he 's one of the best exponents of his own work , and one has moments of panic therefore , erm in which further comment seems either foolhardy or superfluous or quite likely both . |
| 8 | No no , individuals , oh there might have been five or six or maybe eight caravans . |
| 9 | The Tories have identified 73 constituencies , 11 of them marginals , where where 100 or more overseas residents have registered to cast proxy votes on April 9 . |
| 10 | Probably obsessive , which can be interesting or dangerous or indescribably boring ; sometimes all three . |
| 11 | However , they would become noisy if ignored or neglected and downright troublesome if the family itself became lazy or rude . |
| 12 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 13 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions , regard may be had to the previous conduct and activities in business or financial matters of the person in question and , in particular , to any evidence that he has — ( a ) committed an offence involving fraud or other dishonesty or violence ; ( b ) contravened any provision made by or under any enactment appearing to the Bank to be designed for protecting members of the public against financial loss due to dishonesty , incompetence or malpractice … ( c ) engaged in any business practices appearing to the Bank to be deceitful or oppressive or otherwise improper ( whether unlawful or not ) or which otherwise reflect discredit on his method of conducting business ; ( d ) engaged in or been associated with any other business practices or otherwise conducted himself in such a way as to cast doubt on his competence and soundness of judgement . |
| 15 | In Britain , mother tongue learners of English are discouraged from using repetition on the grounds that it is ‘ bad style ’ , and encouraged to use a device known as ‘ elegant repetition ’ , where synonymous or more general words or phrases are used . |
| 16 | It says that judges should follow whichever method of deciding cases will produce what they believe to be the best community for the future , and though some pragmatic lawyers would think this means a richer or happier or more powerful community , others would choose a community with fewer incidents of injustice , with a better cultural tradition and what is called a higher quality of life . |
| 17 | Yet even the economic tensions that existed in the villages around Danzig failed to produce results that showed any real or clear-cut and intrinsically national difference in their impact on one group as opposed to another , and failed to polarise Germans and Poles in any clear-cut political or national sense . |
| 18 | She did not look alarmed or bewildered or even scared . |
| 19 | ‘ There is all the difference in the world between withholding medical treatment that 's either painful or futile and deliberately withholding food . |
| 20 | But what I , we are not prepared to do , is allow the schools that we represent to suffer , just to maintain small schools in this county , which are no longer economical or viable or educationally beneficial to the children that attend them . |
| 21 | The aims of education or complex and sometimes contradictory . |
| 22 | As a result the system can be used in large rooms , or long but relatively narrow rooms , but conversely is ill-suited for use across the narrow dimension of most rooms , which can work well with many other transducers . |
| 23 | Until fairly recently these questions were regarded as unfathomable or unimportant or just silly . |
| 24 | However when we arrived at the spot we were confronted by a group or ten or so 16–18 year olds scattered across the moor who were screaming and shouting as they jumped in and out of peat troughs . |
| 25 | The goodwill and support has been overwhelming , and we thank everyone who has written or faxed and especially those who have donated money or who are involved in fundraising activities . |
| 26 | With a company which can make use of new technology , jobs are certainly put at risk by resisting , or less than enthusiastically supporting , new technology . |
| 27 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 28 | Throughout the history of Western philosophy women have been thought inferior or less than fully human , though some philosophers , like Kant and Rousseau , have found them charming and necessary to men 's well-being , as long as they keep in their place . |
| 29 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |
| 30 | The tuberous rootstock is fibrous , up to 1 inch ( 2½cms ) in diameter , oval or cylindrical and very firm . |