Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , logically , any generally available additional provision for deaf or partially blind or disturbed children , and others such as dyslexic children , was not special educational provision . |
| 2 | Held : A person who negligently starts a fire is liable for injuries suffered by a fireman while attempting to put out the fire , regardless of whether the particular injuries suffered by the fireman were reasonably foreseeable or whether the injuries were suffered as the result of exceptional or merely ordinary risks undertaken by the fireman . |
| 3 | It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest . |
| 4 | Note-successions can be exactly the same ( as in the series ) , but it is their rhythmic configuration which determines whether they form melody of classical or completely non-classical character . |
| 5 | Is it a function of ageing or simply that the mode of communication may become more restrained and that the emotional experiences are as rich as ever ? |
| 6 | Where the purchase of processed or partially processed inputs is outside the direct control of firms there is greater uncertainty about their quality and delivery schedules . |
| 7 | Even the provision of free or almost free housing leaves the farm worker no better off when comparisons are made with workers elsewhere , for the latter often receive benefits — cheap meals , pension funds , medical facilities , etc. — unavailable to farm workers . |
| 8 | Some of the processes lead to progressive dilution , others to physical or biological reconcentration , followed by transfer through various or sometimes interdependent pathways to people ( ICRP-29 , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | In addition , the increased proportion of small or newly established companies may have boosted the number of liquidations , since both tend to rely heavily on bank finance . |
| 10 | In addition , the Namibian media have not always been prepared to accord members of the public and government officials the right of reply and the rectification of inaccurate or deliberately distorted stories . |
| 11 | In addition , the Namibian media have not always been prepared to accord members of the public and government officials the right of reply and the rectification of inaccurate or deliberately distorted stories . |
| 12 | Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science . |
| 13 | Babenco , Argentine-born and long resident in Brazil , has shown an enduring preoccupation with the fate of powerless or politically marginalised people in films such as Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman . |
| 14 | In the modern urban community , as noted , there is a vast range of tedious or socially demeaning jobs that require unskilled , willing and adequately inexpensive labour . |
| 15 | This may sound like a purely mechanical process in which the most powerful essence wins , without there being any room for ethical or indeed any other decision . |
| 16 | While we are on the subject of the amount paid in business rates , can the Minister tell us whether shops whose rates have been assessed on the basis of six-day or even five-and-a-half-day trading will have their rateable values reassessed on the basis of seven-day trading ? |
| 17 | A straight line can be defined as a curve of infinite or very large radius . |
| 18 | Certainly Mr Mansbridge from his vantage point of above or below can enjoy our acclaim at his pictorial success . |
| 19 | Few delegates have such an overview of national or even international activity in the subject . |
| 20 | The major social base of European racist movements such as the French National Front appears to be in the native working class , the major activists or such movements appear to be working-class young men — skinheads and the like — and a long era of full or virtually guaranteed employment ended , in western Europe during the 1970s , in central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s . |
| 21 | The living grandparents , uncles and aunts , may also have interesting stories about their weddings and marriages of friends , brothers , sisters and other relatives which took place in unusual or typically different circumstances in earlier days . |
| 22 | Individual attributions of guilt point to left or right often according to the ideological standpoint of the scholar — and , it must be stressed , the vision of history which this implies . |
| 23 | It was also used as the finish for small or irregularly shaped subsidiary roofs over bays and porches , etc . |
| 24 | It does not , however , prevent him from saying that now , in this tract — this is from the doctrine and discipline of divorce — ‘ The duty and right of an instructed Christian calls me , through the chance of good or even report , to be the sole advocate of a discountenanced truth . |
| 25 | We are naturally led to ask why this should be ; if we were happy with this line , the next step might be to examine the pattern of occupational or environmentally related diseases within each region to try to understand the pattern in the residuals . |
| 26 | Simple measures such as keeping doors and windows closed , providing adequate containers for odorous material , covering the contents , refrigeration where necessary and the careful disposal of odorous or potentially odorous waste , are just a few preventative measures which ought to be taken in all trades , but particularly so in the animal byproduct industry , where putrescible matter is concerned . |
| 27 | Similarly , there is an array of products for producing the body beautiful , a tall elegant figure disdainful of practical or even biological constraint . |
| 28 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |
| 29 | to control the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , and generally to prevent the unlawful acquisition , possession and use of such substances . |
| 30 | ‘ controlling the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , … ’ ; |