Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , it seems fair to conclude that the right hemisphere does possess some word processing capacity , probably more so for the written than for the spoken word , for concrete or early-learned rather than abstract or later-learned words and for receptive rather than executive aspects of language . |
| 2 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 3 | The purchaser may elect to claim damages for misrepresentation ( whether innocent , negligent or fraudulent ) and complete rather than rescind the sale . |
| 4 | Coleridge himself can not have failed to make the calculation that of four marriageable Fricker sisters , one was married to Robert Lovell , and another all but engaged to Southey . |
| 5 | Pre-prepared units of work should be labelled and stored so as to make them accessible to pupils and teachers alike . |
| 6 | Those who go quiet and coy even when offended need to work on this . |
| 7 | The male/female distinction is not an important structural principle in Semai society : the sexual division of labour is clear , but not rigid ; there are no counterparts to the Mehinaku bachelor described by Gregor ( 1985 ) who goes hungry and cold rather than undertake the women 's tasks of preparing manioc and hauling firewood ; to a Semai , such behaviour would simply be absurd . |
| 8 | Drake very distinctive , being the only waterfowl to appear white in front and black behind when seen at a distance . |
| 9 | As the century 's changed from 19th to 20th the use of sign language was deteriorating in the training of deaf teachers and non-deaf parents were advised to emphasise speech and lip-reading rather than learn signing — another term for sign language . |
| 10 | Since both f and g decrease from ½ towards -½ in the interaction region , it is appropriate to divide this region into the subregions A and B in which the product fg is positive and negative respectively as indicated in Figure 10.4 . |
| 11 | Like his celebrated 1976 Macbeth , which teamed McKellen and Judi Dench , Nunn 's Othello was deliberately small-scale and intimate so as to shift the emphasis away from overripe declamation and directorial grandstanding and back to the fevered pulse of the play . |
| 12 | His sympathetic feelings are shallow and transient rather than absent altogether , and if he had no insight at all into how things look to others he would never learn how to manipulate them . |
| 13 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |
| 14 | I suppose that I really put two and two together when reading a ( non aquatic ) book on the rain forest , which mentioned that the Rio Negro in Brazil was dark , due to a weak tea effect as the water percolated first through the vegetation and then through the sandy subsoil ( as opposed to clay subsoils elsewhere in the Amazon basin ) . |
| 15 | When in 1769 at a ball in St James 's palace the French ambassador in London , the comte du Châtelet-Lomont , risked provoking a diplomatic incident by pushing forward to assert precedence over his Russian colleague , Count Chernyshev , he was felt by most contemporaries to have been rude and indiscreet rather than to have shown a proper concern for the honour of Louis XV . |
| 16 | I could probably still have got across , but as I have said , the stones of the causeway were thick with seaweed , and treacherous even when exposed . |
| 17 | Er but radical certainly as compared to how things operated before , when you went into the fitting shop , you know , you could , you could only walk a few feet |