Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 2 | They are against it , except if they , their secret lover or their 14-year-old daughter is pregnant . |
| 3 | If ; when your parents begin to draw a National Insurance retirement pension , they go on working , or their former employer is paying them a pension , their code will need to be changed so as to take into account the National Insurance pension . |
| 4 | We talk casually of someone drowning in work or drinking themselves to death long before a terminal illness shows itself or their suicidal drive is detected . |
| 5 | Some parents recognize that their family or their particular teenagers are different in some way or another . |
| 6 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |
| 7 | R.5 provides periods of grace within which matters must be rectified where a shareholder ( or a beneficial owner of shares ) is struck off or where his or her practising certificate is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy ) or expires without being renewed ; or in the case of an RFL his or her name is struck off the register or his registration is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy ) or cancelled or on striking off or suspension in his or her own jurisdiction ) . |
| 8 | Many transracial adopters find it difficult to refer to the child as black , and moreover they feel , as we have seen , that telling the child about his or her ethnic origin is potentially dangerous ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 130 ) . |
| 9 | A child can be encouraged to express feelings in words , and his or her constructive contributions are recognised and appreciated . |
| 10 | His or her only links are the A&R staff and perhaps the marketing people . |
| 11 | As far as his or her departmental duties are concerned a minister 's work will fall into roughly four categories . |
| 12 | Each teacher must be aware of what his or her particular school is about — its rationale , its purpose . |
| 13 | The headteacher who organises a school on ‘ traditional ’ lines , the children sitting in rows of desks , following a school day which is divided into periods in each of which teachers deliver packets of information , can argue that his or her educational programme is appropriate . |
| 14 | Despite the vast size of their houses and the numerous servants surrounding each aristocratic family , on the death of a Victorian head of household ‘ his or her resident family was expected to leave to make way for the incoming heir and his or her family . |
| 15 | There is , he states , no justification for killing an innocent unborn child under any circumstances , whether the mother has been the victim of rape or her own life is threatened by her pregnancy . |
| 16 | The member finds that his or her own problems are not unique . |
| 17 | The sound of his or her own voice is in a similar way an important part of a person 's self-image . |
| 18 | Second , you are looking for a candidate who will find that his or her own requirements are met by the conditions of the job and the organization ( whether it be a large company or a one-to-one working relationship ) . |
| 19 | Practising kung fu puts a person in touch with himself or herself ; his or her own failings are brought out into the open . |
| 20 | But the musical analogy also suggests that the picture of the teacher giving an interpretation of his or her own research is likely to reduce the chances of an independent viewpoint being brought to bear . |
| 21 | In practice , the state or its regulatory authority is unlikely to know as much as those in the firm about the demand curve , the production function or , even , the competitive level of factor prices . |
| 22 | If the BAT file that runs GEM or its main application is correctly PATHed then just typing GEM or the application PUBLISH for GST 's Timeworks Publisher should be an interesting experience ! |
| 23 | Obviously when the agency claims allegiance to an established precedent where its formal interests in pollution control or its organizational interests are served , it lends further support to the principle of equity . |
| 24 | I do n't know where I am or who these people are , but they have n't harmed me . |
| 25 | One might however comment that it is possibly the case that those theologians whose views are now quoted as the word of God , or whose theological reasoning is taken over without question , may not have believed theology to exist independently of human knowledge or social conditions . |
| 26 | All occupiers of property in the five parishes who were rated at £10 per annum , or whose personal estates were worth more than £500 , were nominated as the Guardians of the Poor of Bedford . |
| 27 | 1.1.1 The Landlord [ AB or AB [ Ltd or plc ] ] ( Landlord ) [ of ( address etc ) or whose registered office is at ( address ) ] [ Company Reg No ] |
| 28 | 1.1.2 The Tenant [ CD or CD [ Ltd or plc ] ] ( Tenant ) [ of ( address etc ) or whose registered office is at ( address ) ] [ Company Reg No ] |
| 29 | Also , apparently Ndlovu ( ? ? ? ) was a Leeds fan as a kid & his favourite player was Eddie Gray … so there ! |
| 30 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |