Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other police forces send their exhibits to their regional laboratory , North-East or the Metropolitan and so on . |
| 2 | This residue has no doubt lost the shape of dividends , share warrants or the like but so would the entire income of the fund if it had been lodged in the same way with the Respondent 's bankers . |
| 3 | We must count one or the other but not both . |
| 4 | These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 5 | We can have one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 6 | This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written . |
| 7 | Learning together by entering , entering into the experience of one or the other and also engaging the community around the church , not superficially but er realistically . |
| 8 | But in in in fact I think you 'll find that most people buy one or the other or even |
| 9 | There 's sure to be one which is perfect for you , whether in wool or mohair , or the humbler and less expensive synthetics . |
| 10 | Three major Islamic options are to be considered — the maintenance of Muslim tradition , or the pursuit of modernisation , or the messianic or indeed the modern fundamentalist path of revolution . |
| 11 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 12 | And nor is it simply a question of numbers — among these studies are some of the subtlest , most ingenious and most penetrating essays written in our time , and the factor common to almost all , the naive or the clumsy as well as the brilliant , is the conviction explicit or implicit that Joyce is an outstanding , indeed for some the outstanding , modern writer . |
| 13 | In a large area , small trees such as Pyrus salicifolia or Salix exigua or the larger but equally silver , Pyrus nivalis could make a centre piece . |
| 14 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 15 | Jonathan Carroll 's After Silence ( Macdonald , £14.99 ) comes complete with a curious endorsement from Stephen King : ‘ I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporated scenes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature , ’ writes the doyen of domestic horror , prompting the thought that it all depends what you mean by literature . |
| 16 | Since the 1990 Budget , parents with a child in a workplace nursery do not pay tax on the value of the care , but women employed by companies that either ‘ buy ’ places at private nurseries or the 60 or so firms such as British Gas , National Power , Debenhams and BMW which issue childcare vouchers ( worth an average £27 a week ) must pay tax on what is treated as a perk . |
| 17 | For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ . |
| 18 | Skinner 's notes to the final disc in the Christchurch recordings of the Byrd masses skate over the exact reasons for this change of pitch and , although I would agree that the brighter sound of trebles has the greater immediate impact than men 's voices alone , it could be argued that if this Mass was ever used , it would most likely have been performed by solo voices or a small and musically skinned ensemble gathered to celebrate a recusant Roman service , probably without the participation of boys . |
| 19 | Should apparent fragmentation get out of hand , control over policy will be overtly centralized , or a new but equally fraudulent decentralization of state organizations will be devised . |
| 20 | A new form of treatment , or a new and more enthusiastic doctor , may act as a morale-booster which has a beneficial effect on the immune system — the sort of effect that the psychoneuroimmunologists are currently studying . |
| 21 | The result is that often illnesses are considered to be purely physical when in fact they have an emotional trigger , as in the case of the lady who developed rheumatoid arthritis after her visit to Flanders , or a mental or possibly even spiritual precipitating factor . |
| 22 | For example , a highly motivating task , or a familiar and easily recognised context , might prompt a ‘ common sense ’ , pragmatic solution ; a mathematical context might stimulate recall of a standard procedure , and a threatening context might be avoided . |
| 23 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |
| 24 | ( For example , the frequency of the collocate ’ pay ’ in the context of ’ money ’ would be compared with its frequency outside of that context : this may return a high positive value , indicating a high degree of association , or a low or even negative value indicating non-association or even repulsion . ) |
| 25 | The offence is for the first time triable either way , and is punishable on indictment with either three years ’ imprisonment or a fine and summarily with six months imprisonment and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . |
| 26 | ‘ We own about 60 or 70 of 200 houses in the Rivers area , and Trent Street is no worse or no better than anywhere else . ’ |
| 27 | In my next life I shall be a Jew or a Spaniard or an Eskimo or just a fully committed anarchist like everybody else , Alexis decided . |
| 28 | He was looking neither to the right nor the left but out to sea , where a round ship was coming in from the south-east , her sails shuddering , her course designed to intersect with the Genoese just outside the harbour . |
| 29 | What Gandhi objects to is the presupposition of superiority that accompanies much missionary activity and the implicit if not explicit assumption that the end justifies the means . |
| 30 | In Unforgiven — a brilliant but never-clarified title — Bill Munny , Eastwood 's screen character , is quizzed about the times when he was the most feared gun in the West , irresistibly evoking memories of the Man With No Name 's six-shooter holocausts in Sergio Leone 's Dollars trilogy ( A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More and The Good , The Bad And The Ugly ) and the mellower but still genocidal guerilla of The Outlaw Josey Wales . |