Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is not possible or necessary to consider this question fully here , but a consideration of the texts of Scaevola shows that in fact he too took account of the scientia of buyers when considering the availability of missio .
2 Although it may not always be possible or necessary to quantify these factors , information can and should be collected about all of them .
3 It is not always clear how far it is possible or desirable to integrate such students into the regular adult programme .
4 From the seventh day after radiation , the process of crypt budding or branching provides new crypts , each with its own stem cells .
5 The Animals ( Scientific Procedures ) Act requires only that a ‘ protected animal ’ must be killed if , at the conclusion of a series of ‘ regulated procedures ’ it ‘ is suffering or likely to suffer adverse effects ’ ( section 15 ) , although it may be killed nonetheless . )
6 The cinema can show us eyes being gouged out , heads blown off , and aliens bursting from John Hurt 's entrails : when it comes to counterfeiting the mechanics of sexual congress , however , it admits defeat ; nor , in general , are performers willing or able to remedy this deficiency .
7 None the less , they are not always willing or able to deploy this skill .
8 He saw no evidence that the German Socialists were either willing or able to restrain Prussian ambitions , nor did he place any faith in bourgeois internationalism .
9 There were blue plastic seats and a warning in four languages not to lean out of the window ; English , I noticed , requires more words than French , German or Italian to convey this advice .
10 This economic expansion required a large number of unskilled as well as skilled recruits to a ‘ labour force ’ from abroad because the locals were not interested or willing to work long and unsocial hours with low wages coupled with poor and insecure working conditions .
11 Even in pre-telegraph days , when instructions could be sent no faster than a horse could trot or a ship sail , it is far from clear that this meant greater independence for diplomats .
12 We communicate with utterances ; it seems reasonable to suppose , therefore , that our intuitions concerning utterances will be sharper , clearer and more reliable than those concerning individual words .
13 ‘ Please help the Society to become self-sufficient and able to train more teachers so that we can offer classes in more locations and take over from those teachers who are waiting to hang up their leotards and tights ’ .
14 The campaign argues that the use of high exchange rates to squeeze inflation — by hitting corporate profits and therefore companies abilities to award inflationary pay increases — is ‘ not a subtle process ’ but is simply the ‘ brutal and old fashioned one of deflation . ’
15 The campaign argues that the use of high exchange rates to squeeze inflation — by hitting corporate profits and therefore companies abilities to award inflationary pay increases — is ‘ not a subtle process ’ but is simply the ‘ brutal and old fashioned one of deflation . ’
16 It is interesting and important to note that , even when Piaget 's views on a child 's conceptual development are still accepted , the danger of omitting theology from the young child 's RE is becoming more widely appreciated .
17 ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE NATURAL HISTORY ATTRACTIONS TO SEE INTERESTING AND FUN TO VISIT TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES , JUNGLE TYPE GARDEN , NATURAL HISTORY EXHIBITION , LARGE LIVE INSECT GALLERY , SNAKE & LIZARD DISPLAYS , LARGE WATER LIFE EXHIBITION & PET ANIMAL ZOO
18 Er he will be quite will willing and happy to do that on behalf of the three organizations erm here in County Hall one day in the first week in October well any day barring Thursday of that week .
19 This encouraged the transfer at a time when the son was still willing and able to make some changes to the farm .
20 The fact that so many were willing and able to combine these demands with keeping the house reflected highly on their adaptability .
21 How insulting Delia Cope is , obviously she feels too high and mighty to read Spare Rib because it 's become less entertaining , uninteresting , uninformative and boring because it covers Black women 's issues .
22 For the next half an hour or so I felt very panicky and unready to have this baby .
23 Its executive car contender , the CX , is too old and idiosyncratic to warrant much attention on the British market , and is further disadvantaged by chronic depreciation .
24 Increased frequency of electroencephalographic and visual evoked potential abnormalities
25 Below a height roughly equal to the diameter of the rotor , the model will be very lively and difficult to keep stationary due to interference between the ground and the downwash from the rotors .
26 Solti 's conducting is simply too unstable and volatile to give much satisfaction , showing his inexperience at the time in Wagner ( how sad Knappertsbusch was n't given the assignment ) .
27 Educating pupils with special educational needs can be an expensive activity and being caring , compassionate and tolerant has little to do with being cost effective .
28 For those who went to see the Christmas lights in London 's Regent Street this year , it must have been a sombre experience ; out of 102 shops , 19 are empty and 38 had desperate pre-Christmas sales .
29 We are chalk and cheese ; our personalities are radically different and likely to abrade each other .
30 The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet .
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