Example sentences of "[adj] or [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , it reiterates the belief that ‘ [ t ] he organisation and content of media should not be subject to centralised political or state bureaucratic control ’ . |
| 2 | Never be apprehensive or let that apprehension show . |
| 3 | But while the Federal Army attacked Sibenik Cathedral and the city of Dubrovnik , artefacts from collections in occupied or destroyed Croatian cities have been simply removed . |
| 4 | In 1800 there were no access roads , no mountain rescue , no way of keeping dry or changing wet clothes until returning home which might take three days . |
| 5 | Several players were either quite outstanding or showed genuine promise that they are the stars of the future . |
| 6 | Worse still , one third of premature babies due or suffer some form of handicap throughout life . |
| 7 | Any noncutaneous extrapulmonary or disseminated mycobacterial infection other than tuberculosis or leprosy . |
| 8 | Extrapulmonary or disseminated mycobacterial infection ( acid-fast bacilli of undetermined species ) . |
| 9 | The human system is geared to this acquisition , and even when what is learned appears to be maladaptive or produces negative traits , it derives from a natural process . |
| 10 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 11 | Some children can have the attitudes and personalities of an adult in a small body , while others are angry , irritable , wise , calm or show personal traits that go beyond these two viewpoints . |
| 12 | The ceilings are coffered or have sloping beams and are supported by decorative pillars ( 81 and 83 ) . |
| 13 | It is a grim indictment ( and I do apologise to him if I am wrong ) but he seems not to read Latin or to use any source except in translation . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that the management will be able to provide such information without breaching their implied or express contractual duties to the company ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 15 | You may have an automatic right to get these things free or to get maximum help with the costs . |
| 16 | a description , either self-contained or referencing other paperwork which provides further information |
| 17 | a description , either self-contained or referencing other paperwork providing further information |
| 18 | Much of the housing is unfit for human habitation , and the proportion of dwellings which are overcrowded or lack basic amenities is much higher in these areas than elsewhere . |
| 19 | In Smeaton v. Ilford Corporation Upjohn J. found it unnecessary to express a concluded view on the question whether a local authority exercising statutory duties is altogether outside the rule as suggested by Denning L.J. , or prima facie within the rule subject only to express or implied statutory modification as tentatively suggested by Evershed M.R. in the Pride of Derby case . |
| 20 | " Negligence " is defined to include breach of ( 1 ) any express or implied contractual obligation to exercise reasonable care or skill in the performance of a contract ( 2 ) any common law duty to take reasonable care ( such as the ordinary duty of care in the tort of negligence ) and ( 3 ) the common duty of care imposed on occupiers of premises under the Occupiers ' Liability Acts 1957 ( s1(1) ) . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if there is no express or implied contractual right ( see below ) to relocate employees , employers can not simply go ahead and relocate their work-force unless they obtain each employee 's consent to the change in his or her place of work . |
| 22 | One in seven men and more than one in four women have difficulty sleeping — regardless of whether they are unemployed or working irregular shifts . |
| 23 | Exceptions occur when a position is so specialised or obscure that search is the only way ; but by the laws of demand and supply , such jobs as these usually attract high salaries in any case . |
| 24 | Subsequent investigations included continuous recordings in hospital with the aim of capturing further events with signals additional to those on the event recorder ( for example , three channels of electroencephalograms , nasal airflow , respiratory inductance plethysmography , transcutaneous or end tidal carbon dioxide ) . |
| 25 | Little was recovered for the crown by these proceedings , but recognition was gained that all secular jurisdiction was exercised on behalf of the crown by explicit or inferred royal licence . |
| 26 | That would revive its forbidden or forgotten German history . |
| 27 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 28 | Most bids were hostile , or were responses to actual or threatened hostile bids . |
| 29 | Lord Brandon , who dissents from the majority viewpoint , considers that only economic loss which is consequential upon the existence of actual or threatened physical injury is recoverable , as within the scope of Donoghue v. Stevenson . |
| 30 | The so-called " multinational force " , mobilized following the lead of the USA , had been widened by the end of August to include not only troops from certain Arab countries [ see above ] , but also some actual or promised military participation from the UK , France , several other West European countries , Canada , Australia , Pakistan and Bangladesh [ see below ] . |