Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve .
2 ‘ We could play the US again tonight , it could go along the same pattern and we would end up winning 4–2 or 5–2 because of the chances we created . ’
3 The amount of the penalty , recoverable by the Registrar , varies according to whether the company is private or public and to the length of time that the default continues ; the minimum being £100 for a private company and £500 for a public company when the default is for not more than three months and the maximum £1000 for a private and £5,000 for a public company when the default exceeds 12 months .
4 The military involvement of the northern Angles against the Picts may have been a factor in the success of Wulfhere 's coup in Mercia in 658 or 659 and in the disintegration thereafter of Oswiu 's southern imperium .
5 I have no evidence one way or another as to the extent of risk of an episode occurring within five weeks but realism and commonsense tell me that there is a reasonable possibility that it will not and that even if he does unfortunately suffer such a trauma , he will if his life has to be preserved by artificial means , recover sufficiently for a decision at the main hearing as to further mechanical ventilation for the future .
6 The people looked different , too more akin to the Cambodians or Siamese than to the Malays of the coast .
7 Strangely , they do not look out of place or incongruous and in the context of Czech commodities , the sophistication of their design is immediately apparent .
8 If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus .
9 If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus .
10 If your army includes eleven to fifteen Trolls these may be organised into either a single unit , two as near as possible equally-sized units , or three as near a possible equally-sized units .
11 But it is an excellent sauce in its own right , hot with a boiled chicken , beef , lamb and fish , or cold as in the present case .
12 Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 .
13 DO FAMILIES SUPPORT EACH OTHER MORE OR LESS THAN IN THE PAST ?
14 Once again , although an impression of youth united by universal licence is not given , practices and attitudes may be considered more generally advanced or permissive than among the bulk of the population — especially its older members — in Gorer 's study .
15 There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account .
16 The interior is simple and has now hardly any painting or mosaic except on the floor .
17 Oh I should say four or five but across the different companies .
18 As well as the possibility of engineering plants to increase productivity , advances have already been made in the engineering of plants that are pest- , herbicide- or disease-resistant and in the development of nitrogen-fixing non-leguminous species ( Jones and Lindsey 1988 ) .
19 This may be vertical as in a typical tree , or horizontal as in a trailing or rambling plant .
20 Some schools , like the one at Bristol , did not get evacuated until 1941 or 1942 because of the increasing likelihood of air-raids in their areas .
21 This point still requires confirmation as a general phenomenon , but there is little doubt that polymer molecules are not totally frozen or immobile when in the glassy state and that small sub units in the chain can remain mechanically and dielectrically active below T g .
22 They could be conventionally square or round or in the shape of long slits so that the adjoining room shows through and gives extra perspective .
23 I ca n't imagine anything worse than doing a function for three or four because by the , by the laws of average how the hell are you gon na get it out to them all as it should be ?
24 This may succeed for a week or two but in the end is bound to be as banal as the preacher 's brain , returning with monotony to well worn paths and well worked passages .
25 ‘ In our business plan we are addressing the situation , trying to see if we need another bed or two because of the changing needs of the service .
26 Despite the overwhelming evidence that the established religions of the world have profoundly failed the human race , there still remains the fact that millions of people , for various reasons , show unswerving allegiance to some faith or other and to the religious leader or leaders associated therewith .
27 material — the exact meaning of this will depend upon the context , but it suggests something that is not trivial or insubstantial and in a context where quantification is appropriate the starting point is , as a rule , taken to be around 5% of the price ;
28 There are slight variances in these generalities depending on whether the relationships are binary or n-ary and on the cardinality of the relationship ( Quang & Chartier-Kastier , 1991 , pp 103–107 and Elmasri & Navathe , 1989 , pp 329–334 give details ) .
29 The mapping of relationships also depends on whether the relationships are binary or n-ary and on the cardinality of the relationship .
30 It may also express other varieties of emphasis — for instance , contrast — but this is in no way required of it any more nor less than of a prenominal adjective .
  Next page