Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over half the species of toothed whales are dolphins or the closely related porpoises . |
| 2 | They are patterns of information that can thrive only in brains or the artificially manufactured products of brains — books , computers , and so on . |
| 3 | Issues which must be incorporated are the extent to which Latin Americans — either the educated elites or the mostly under-educated masses — are receptive or responsive to Marxist propaganda . |
| 4 | The authority of medicine finally ousted Artemidorus 's invocations of antiquity or the increasingly muted references to the supernatural by the clergy , in explaining life 's ordinary ecstasies and tribulations . |
| 5 | You could tell where the best-known pros or the most famous celebrities were by the larger galleries following them . |
| 6 | The best , or the most packed defences in the world , ca n't do a thing about a perfectly-struck drive . |
| 7 | Far from emphasising violent confrontation and looting activity , both media focused on the steps being taken to quell the immediate rioting or the most effective ways of dealing with future disorder . |
| 8 | If a group is asked , for example , to select what they think are the most exciting , or the saddest , or the most mysterious passages , they will willingly read and re-read in order to make a programme of those passages for the rest of the class , or for younger children . |
| 9 | Here , as in the example of thinking a question , we have what were earlier called representative contents , or the most important ones . |
| 10 | Only the highest or the most favoured guests were to live in the tent city , and so , inevitably , the fighting between socialites to ensure places there was fierce . |
| 11 | Many observers feel Gedge has already written his best songs , or the most commercial ones at least . |
| 12 | As expected , the carcinoma incidence in the under 50s ( 0.6% ) was very much lower than that observed in the 50 to 70 years age group ( 7.5% ) or the over 70 years group ( 11.6% ) The incidences of adenoma in these age groups were 6.2 , 31.5 , and 32.2% respectively . |
| 13 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 14 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 15 | Membership of an economic community requires the acceptance of a financial obligation to fund the objectives of the organisation whether they consist of the limited objectives of a regional trading group , or the more extensive objectives of an economic union . |
| 16 | The dead and injured — and often there are casualties , particularly in the poorer areas , or the more remote parts of the New Territories countryside — are taken away ; the power lines and landslips are repaired ; the beached ships are tugged off the reefs ; the cost is counted ; and the colonials take to watching , with a curious mixture of pride and nostalgia , as the storm — ‘ our Agnes ’ they 'll call it — wanders away , does some more smashing and battering in Taiwan or the Yangtze valley before petering out , quite spent , and becomes just another statistic for the record books . |
| 17 | The large trucks that are used by professional carriers where the horse is sealed up in almost complete darkness and isolation , frighten horses more than two-horse floats pulled by cars or the more open trucks frequently used by professional riders . |
| 18 | They 're the more common ones , or the more popular ones . |
| 19 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 20 | The principal difficulty is that it is quite clear that the texts of the classical jurists have not been left as they were written ; and since it is clear that Justinian was keen on enforcement in all circumstances , it is hard to decide whether we should take all reference to it to be a product of his ardour , or the more extreme cases of public interest to be acceptable classical examples . |
| 21 | Very common for those who have left the whole process too late , perhaps because of exam pressures or the more attractive diversions of student life . |
| 22 | Do n't mist furry-leaved plants such as African violets and calatheas , or the really paper-thin-leaved ones such as maidenhair ferns . |
| 23 | This is regardless of the character of the bidder or the possibly depressing prospects for the company under the new management . |
| 24 | Thus was God 's blessing , fortified by relics and talismans and the flowering of legends , promised to those who pursued the pagans down the dusty road into Spain , or the still dustier tracks of Syria . |
| 25 | There 's a wealth of things to do here , from visiting the fortress or the water gardens at Hellbrunn , to wandering around the museums or the very elegant shops in the old town . |
| 26 | If , for example , they are tested with full-strength or even half-strength milk , they show no preference for the more or the less sweetened examples . |
| 27 | Is the Prime Minister prepared to abandon the target or the seriously ill patients ? |
| 28 | The latter pavements , admittedly , share a number of features which , together , indicate a much greater degree of affinity : similar acanthus scroll and arrangement of designs at Stonesfield and Woodchester , or the almost identical styles of the animals at Woodchester and Barton Farm . |
| 29 | Many cases of resistance depend on only one or a very few genes . |
| 30 | Nevertheless it is worth citing some instances where the continual use of one or a very few gestures can fully describe the feelings of some characters and convey their reactions to the circumstances of the plot or theme . |