Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 2 | This indemnity shall not be prejudiced or waived by any exercise of our rights under Condition 3.3 . |
| 3 | Bradenham hams should be presented uncrumbed or coated in white breadcrumbs . |
| 4 | There is no indication or evidence that under such circumstances contact can be confusing or lead to divided loyalties . |
| 5 | The grey wolf is extinct or endangered in most other US states , but Alaska has a population of about 6,000 . |
| 6 | If SSP was due or paid before 6th April 1991 but you have not recovered it , you can still recover 100% of the SSP paid . |
| 7 | But if SSP was due or paid before 6th April you can still recover the NIC compensation . |
| 8 | Since , in many tribal societies , women were either pregnant or nursing during most of their fertile period of life , this monthly menstrual withdrawal did not affect women 's lives from month to month as much as it might seem to us today . |
| 9 | A window is a screen display stored in the computer which can be created , recalled , modified , scaled , repositioned and combined or overlapped with other windows by user messages . |
| 10 | At the launch at Darlington Arts Centre , Miss Armstrong said women should not be ‘ side-lined , marginalised or treated as second class citizens . ’ |
| 11 | This cleans the slate making it less likely that you will feel guilty or succumb to any future pressure or emotional blackmail . |
| 12 | Herbally-based remedies of old , using parts of plants fresh or dried in simple infusions , poultices or decoctions , have been found to have great health benefits but , though their method of application is simple , their prescribing is not , since they have to be tailored not only to a given malady , but to the person concerned . |
| 13 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 14 | Aggregate supply is either assumed to be time-trended or represented in some other naive fashion . |
| 15 | A further 17 officers have lost their lives as a result of being shot , crushed or injured in some other way . |
| 16 | Even while authoritative actions reflect the subjects ' reasons , indeed in order that they should do so , they may well lead to different outcomes on particular occasions , and that without being in any way wrong or mistaken on those occasions . |
| 17 | Vero cells were mock-infected or infected with 20 pfu/cell ASFV BA71V for 18 hr . |
| 18 | For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound . |
| 19 | In looking at them one will frequently find that the main element of dissatisfaction is sexual or allied to sexual matters . |
| 20 | For decades women have agonized over their breasts — either too big or too small ; their overall body shape — no waist , bum too big , legs too short ; and the various component parts of face and hair , all of which have to be altered , enhanced or de-emphasized at regular intervals . |
| 21 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |
| 22 | This applies particularly to stones designed for young people but because they are still growing and changing themselves , the moral and psychological lessons must not be rigid or overstrained for these young readers . |
| 23 | Such maintenance work is , however , not considered sufficiently interesting or challenging by many of those who are qualified to do development work . |
| 24 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 25 | Even if the use of social class as a speaker variable were feasible in this rather fundamental practical sense , it would be unlikely to yield much insight into the interplay between social and linguistic differentiation ( for the rather obvious reason that a social class index can not distinguish in an illuminating way between members of a group who are mostly unemployed or concentrated in low-status occupations ) . |
| 26 | If I do him brown or put in white all round |
| 27 | These people are very primitive and live in small groups , moving from place to place . |
| 28 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 29 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 30 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |