Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Johnson therefore knew in advance the principal social and economic demography of his readership — the professional and/or wealthy classes in and around London . |
2 | Of course , differential profitability may reflect differential exploitation of labour : in this case a left government could intervene to the advantage of enterprises which were less profitable because of less intensive and oppressive working and/or better wages by , for instance , minimum wage legislation or fostering union organisation in the more oppressive enterprises . |
3 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
4 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
5 | The usual or primary use of this word is to put clothes on yourself ( or somebody else ) , but it has other uses too , such as to dress poultry , to dress timber , to dress a window . |
6 | What is more , by using a more polite or polysyllabic manner of discourse , you will be telling the client so ; as well as implying that you are a loftier being which does not make for rapport . |
7 | But the idea of people making frivolous , contrived or other cases in effect to swamp the social security system with decisions was — |
8 | The absence of any authentic Spanish or Portuguese text of any of the Hague Conventions militates against their acceptance in Latin America ( and is responsible in part for the limited number of South American states which are members of the Hague Conference ) , and the Latin American attachment to the Letters Rogatory procedure proved too strong to allow a more broadly-based solution in that region . |
9 | Their strategies therefore still targeted the irrationality of racist beliefs , whereas , as Omi and Win ant 's definition suggests , the fictional or metaphorical status of the category ‘ race ’ in no way undermines its symbolic and social effectuality . |
10 | In Amalgamemnon , Xorandor , and Verbivore the fictional or mythic nature of the simulations and abstractions we take to be fact is demonstrated by simulations of these simulations which reveal them to be discursive constructs . |
11 | Most tents come with a combination of straight pegs for hard ground and angled or V-shaped pegs for softer soil . |
12 | Where joints in metal gutters leak , try filling the joint with flexible , silicone-rubber or bituminous mastic after clearing away debris and wire-brushing the surface . |
13 | At night : prolonged or repeated attention during the night in connection with bodily functions ; or continual supervision throughout the night in order to avoid substantial danger to the disabled person or others . |
14 | Alternatively the precise positioning of the IE-3 site with respect to the mRNA start site may not be correct for downregulation of this promoter by the 140k protein , as a close correlation has been observed between Vmw175 mediated autorepression and the stereo-specific or distance-dependent placement of the IE-3 binding site and the TATA box ( discussion of reference 40 ) . |
15 | Depositors are commonly financial institutions and multinational firms looking for a more profitable or convenient outlet for dollar deposits that they have acquired in the USA . |
16 | The chapters in this book deliberately provide a balance between experts with direct political or administrative experience of the areas they describe ( such as Nick Raynsford and David Mallen ) and academic observers . |
17 | The Medjay captain had no doubt been forced into the minor act of betrayal which consisted in breaking Huy 's confidence to Kenamun , and there may have been political or strategic reasons for it ; but the act had raised a wall between them . |
18 | If a critic has a very decided political or religious point of view , this can override other considerations in judgements about art ; the viewpoint may also give a bias to the description or interpretation made . |
19 | What they are uncertain about , with good reason , is the political or other implications of ‘ Germanness ’ . |
20 | It is not fanciful ( we have the evidence of the fifteenth-century French lord , Jean de Bueil , to show it ) to see them discussing war , its dangers , its ‘ occasions ’ rather as men today recall political or sporting occasions over a drink . |
21 | But , in a call to a Belfast newsroom , the loyalist terror group denied there was any political or sectarian motive for the attack . |
22 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
23 | The second is to facilitate a common market or a political or economic grouping by harmonizing national laws governing domestic transactions , so that State boundaries within the geographical area covered by the members of the market lose much of their significance within the fields covered by the harmonizing measures . |
24 | The main disadvantage is that political or economic instability within the country may cause problems outside the control of the parent company . |
25 | We may regard it as sharing with positivism the view that the significant features of a legal system ( that is , its aims and components ) can be adequately understood without reference to the political or economic realities in which the legal systems operates . |
26 | He knew that the Pretender 's words were not backed by solid political or social support from inside or outside Spain . |
27 | One interpretation given to this phrase in the 1980s was that a work of art should openly contest a given fact of political or social life in a more or less explicit way . |
28 | His drama negotiates historical moments in which Shakespeare was not in control of the artistic , political or social conditions of the culture in which his writing was produced . |
29 | I know the congress considers and determines all questions of policy affecting the general industry , political or social welfare of membership and attracts around two thousand five hundred delegates , visitors and guests . |
30 | Yet it is far from clear exactly what citizenship involves , either legally or from a political or social point of view . |