Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly put , all these changes in employment and residence mean that fewer and fewer people in the developing countries are able or willing to procure their own food directly from the land and so they are becoming more and more dependent on bought and processed food and drink . |
| 2 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 3 | Foreign & Colonial launched its first scheme last month in response to public demand , while Alastair Herbert , of Invesco , says business in the last two years amounted to more than £40 million . |
| 4 | Only when the Crown showed itself unable or unwilling to uphold their serf-owning authority would the nobility be motivated to question the Tsar 's ‘ absolute ’ power . |
| 5 | But she was , of course , unable or unwilling to tell me much more than that my son was dead , and that there were certain wounds . |
| 6 | They categorised all applicants , genuine or otherwise , who were unable or unwilling to specify their long term intentions , as necessarily falling outside the ambit of the rules and thus doomed to inevitable failure when applying for entry clearance . |
| 7 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 8 | The High Elves abandoned their towers and cities , leaving behind a small number of their people who were unwilling or unable to leave their adopted homeland . |
| 9 | Reconstituted , however , within new ideological discourses , skilled labour proved unwilling or unable to acknowledge its radical lineage and act accordingly . |
| 10 | that he treated Ian Royan without taking a proper history or examination , or first contacting his general practitioner ; and |
| 11 | In particular , they supported their case by invoking the plight of the ‘ surplus ’ women , who , through no fault of their own , found themselves either reliant on the good offices of a male relative or obliged to earn their own living . |
| 12 | She put her arms out from her sides and back , arching her spine and pondering vaguely as she did so why it had been thought necessary or relevant to give them such old bodies , perhaps to keep the idea of the passing of time , simple mortality , to the forefront of their minds . |
| 13 | Should she tell him yes , he had made her pregnant , and see if he would give her a guinea or two to put it right ? |
| 14 | Not even the Grand Slams of 1984 or 1990 offered anything comparable . |
| 15 | Similarly Julian was nor afraid to put her own words and reflections onto the lips of Christ when she wrote her book . |
| 16 | This country is in a mess , and that says it all , ’ said one of three petty officers from the anti-submarine vessel Red Crimea . |
| 17 | Our playing partners Paraguay beat us and that says it all really . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ United have emerged as favourites now and that suits me fine , as long as we are up there challenging them at the end of the season . |
| 19 | Dark eyes twinkle below the brim of the ubiquitous Honduran baseball cap , his compact campesino frame twisting this way and that to survey his little kingdom . |
| 20 | And that requires its own dedication and risk taking . |
| 21 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 22 | questionnaire , and that gives us another reading . |
| 23 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 24 | Think of them in groups of threes and that gives you four dotted ? |
| 25 | You could do that much , do the three times three times five and that gives you forty five but we 're looking for ninety . |
| 26 | ‘ And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’ |
| 27 | She began to find breathing almost impossible , and tossed her head this way and that to escape his remorseless onslaught . |
| 28 | England call upon John for the 32nd time tomorrow and that means his 29th international on the bench unless I get injured . |
| 29 | The Yorkshire cricket fraternity have always loved to ‘ let you have it ’ and that includes their own team as well . |
| 30 | Wednesday boss Trevor Francis said : ‘ British teams in general , and that includes our international teams , are always vulnerable to the quick counter-attack . |