Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Probably obsessive , which can be interesting or dangerous or indescribably boring ; sometimes all three . |
| 10 | However , they would become noisy if ignored or neglected and downright troublesome if the family itself became lazy or rude . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She did not look alarmed or bewildered or even scared . |
| 18 | ‘ There is all the difference in the world between withholding medical treatment that 's either painful or futile and deliberately withholding food . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The aims of education or complex and sometimes contradictory . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Until fairly recently these questions were regarded as unfathomable or unimportant or just silly . |
| 23 | The tuberous rootstock is fibrous , up to 1 inch ( 2½cms ) in diameter , oval or cylindrical and very firm . |
| 24 | Strict conventionalism must claim a " gap " in the law , which calls for the exercise of extralegal judicial discretion to make new law , whenever a statute is vague or ambiguous or otherwise troublesome and there is no further convention settling how it must be read . |
| 25 | There are other diagnostic tests for hyponymy which are either discriminatory but insufficiently general , or general but insufficiently discriminatory . |
| 26 | Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon . |
| 27 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |
| 28 | She was seventeen or eighteen and certainly pretty . |
| 29 | The Griffiths Review concentrated upon adults who required care and support from others because they were elderly , mentally ill or handicapped or physically disabled ( the so-called ‘ priority care groups ’ ) . |
| 30 | The general pattern was similar to the Alps in an average year : a few days of afternoon cloud and snowstorms , followed by a day or two or more settled conditions . |