Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( a ) The correct way to stand while holding a camcorder if no additional support is available ; ( b ) shows how to ‘ pre-swing ’ before starting to take a pan-shot ; ( c ) lean against walls , trees or whatever is available ; ( d ) rest your elbows on car-roofs or low walls for extra steadiness .
2 There are a variety or possible reasons for this interest .
3 Land could be sold or leased to public or private bodies for any purpose , even if the purpose was different from the one for which the land was purchased .
4 The Trabukos offers pleasantly furnished bed and breakfast accommodation , for 2 or 3 people sharing a twin or three bedded room with private bathroom and balcony , or self-catering studios for 2–3 people with private bathroom .
5 So that little old ladies who are , decide , or old gentlemen for that matter , want to try and live in the community , and then , they stick that on their bill .
6 A dress can be worn with clumpy men 's shoes ; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable , roomy and worn by either sex ; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones ; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down , such as ‘ no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women ’ .
7 Section 4 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 adds a new and more important form of interlocutory relief , available in the county court and High Court , whereby goods the subject of present or future proceedings for wrongful interference may be ordered to be delivered up to the claimant , or a person appointed by the court , on such terms and conditions as may be specified .
8 Most tents come with a combination of straight pegs for hard ground and angled or V-shaped pegs for softer soil .
9 There were no clear constitutional or democratic procedures for political succession .
10 The law , now in section 6 of the ERA 1988 , still requires all pupils to take part in an act of collective worship ; however , there may be a single act for all pupils or separate acts for different groups of pupils .
11 Separate toilets for younger children , staggered playtimes or separate playgrounds for under-fives also mark schools that are really gearing themselves up to the educational needs of these younger pupils .
12 In a ramshackle sort of way , we actually put together a few decent tunes , though as is always the case with truck bands , or marching bands for that matter , quality loses out to volume .
13 Whether it is affirmative orders for national schemes or negative orders for local schemes , the procedure is very unsatisfactory .
14 A simple expression of the difference between left and right ears or visual fields for each subject can be misleading since the same difference in scores may be obtained by subjects who differ in their overall level of accuracy .
15 The problem with producing absolutes , or trite answers for grieving people who are asking questions , is that they feel defeated before they have begun to explore .
16 All young hypertensives were given repeated advice and support on associated or causal risks for coronary disease , particularly smoking .
17 The cost for 15 twin or double sites for 14 days is around £6,400 , as compared to the average cost of one base unit in Belfast of £123 for two weeks .
18 An international crime has effects erga omnes and entails certain unilateral or collective obligations for other members of the international community : the obligation of non-recognition of the situation created by the act ; the obligation not to assist the author of the act ; and the obligation to assist the victim State .
19 The Board determines the size range of potatoes which can be offered for retail sale but certain large or small potatoes for specific uses are packed and labelled accordingly .
20 Asserting herself as a conceptual artist , considering all her work as creative , whether working with other people or developing ideas for further projects , jane nevertheless sees spending time on to her people 's creativity as a Catch-22 situation .
21 PA chief executive Clive Bradley warned the a.g.m. that agreement between American and British publishers which divide up the Continental European market between different suppliers ( typically , particularly in relation to works of fiction , when British publishers enter into rights agreements with American publishers , the British publisher obtains exclusive rights for the UK and Ireland , the American publisher secures exclusive rights for the United States , and they both have open market or non-exclusive rights for Continental Europe ) could leave British publishers vulnerable to the importation of American books .
22 Local gangs such as the infamous ‘ Forty Row ’ from Ancoats , the ‘ Bengal Tiger ’ from Bengal Street , the ‘ Bungall Boys ’ from Fairfield Street , ‘ Alum Street ’ or ‘ Hope Street ’ from Salford would do battle for neighbourhood supremacy , sometimes retiring to parks or open crofts for these engagements .
23 There is no simple tree variation in the choice of written or spoken modes for particular purposes : ‘ the choice of medium is normally determined by the social function of the communication .
24 Otherwise , successful inventors would have an entrenched entry barrier which would prevent competition from other firms or new entrants for all time .
25 Any kind of yarn may be used for the weft , including wool , ribbons , tapes or fancy threads for extra effect and definition .
26 However , by use of dye in the resin , manufacturers can produce pink , green or blue rods for quick identification in the assembly of commercial kites .
27 Throughout history moral philosophers , jurisprudentialists , anthropologists and sociologists ( in their quests for universal moral ideals , natural law , cultural universals or minimum requirements for social life ) have all , of necessity , been led into speculation about basic human needs as foundation stones for their theories .
28 In December the State Council held a national planning conference at which it was announced that there would be no change in the rural household contract system , the enterprise contract system , the factory director responsibility system , the development of the private and collective sectors , local government financial autonomy , or special policies for Special Economic Zones and coastal regions .
29 The TEI header allows for the provision of a very large amount of structured or unstructured information under the above headings , including both traditional bibliographic material which can be translated straight into an equivalent MARC catalogue record , as well as a wealth of descriptive information such as the languages it uses and the situation within which it was produced , expansions or formal definitions for any codebooks used in analysing the text , the setting and identity of participants within it .
30 Instead of vulture banks , the study suggests that turkeys might be a better name for those whose stock prices were on average 15% lower than that of their peer group — or dead ducks for those 25% lower .
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