Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] or [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where textual or illustrative copyright material is to be included full information of the source of the material shall be provided . |
| 2 | Where half or full board has been booked , flight timings may necessitate the loss of one meal ; in such cases the holiday price has been reduced to compensate . |
| 3 | As multicultural education is cross-curricular in its scope , many parent groups regard the right of a parent to withdraw his/her child from religious education or collective worships ( but not sex education ) as offering insufficient choice where cultural or religious autonomy is at issue . |
| 4 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 5 | In cases where the dog is healthy or where surgical or medical intervention stand a good chance of success , most veterinary surgeons would try to dissuade the owner or offer rehoming . |
| 6 | Most consumers ‘ certainly fail to recognise the implications of agricultural practices and policy ’ , such as subsidies for producing and promoting full-fat milk rather than semi-skimmed or skimmed milk , and those for butter and meat . |
| 7 | For all its drawbacks as a theoretical base for the sociology of knowledge , the social constructionist accounts do suggest the importance of common-sense knowledge , of knowledge in ordinary social interaction rather than theoretical or scientific knowledge . |
| 8 | The criminal law includes only one type of non-consensual sexual act as rape , namely the insertion of penis in vagina by force or threatened force ; it excludes sexual intercourse between husband and wife , no matter how much the latter is beaten by the former to exercise his ‘ conjugal right ’ ; it excludes most sexual acts achieved by fraud , deceit , or misrepresentation — thus a man may pose as a psychiatrist and prescribe sexual intercourse as therapy to a ‘ gullible female ’ , because he knows the law will regard this as acceptable seduction rather than rape ; it excludes men who use economic , organizational , or social power rather than actual or threatened force to overcome an unwilling but subordinate , and therefore vulnerable female ; it excludes the forced insertion of any other instrument , no matter how sharp or dangerous . |
| 9 | They see the output of state policies in the USA as the result of interagency negotiation , rather than central or local direction . |
| 10 | Sources of welfare are the family , the voluntary sector and the private market rather than central or local government agencies . |
| 11 | The body 's centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures non-symmetrical . |
| 12 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 13 | Some flower beds may have soft , fertile soil which is easier to dig or hoe than hard or stony ground . |
| 14 | Thus , a man may have sexual relations other than vaginal or anal intercourse with his mother , daughter , grand-daughter or sister provided that she is over 16 and provided she gives her consent in the legal sense of the term . |
| 15 | This has a very much lower risk of HIV transmission than anal or vaginal intercourse . |
| 16 | Regardless of age and gender , health is viewed by the majority as a psychological rather than physical or social paradigm . |
| 17 | Entry then became based on financial rather than medical or social assessment , and in 1983 upper limits were set on supplementary benefit , resulting in a massive increase in the total national bill for supplementary benefits to people in private sector homes — from £105m in 1983 to £500m by 1986 . |
| 18 | A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women . |
| 19 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 20 | A later use of stone can be found in everyday rather than religious or funerary building . |
| 21 | Metal hardened by deformation can be returned to its initial soft condition by ‘ annealing ’ , that is to say by heating it until total or partial recrystallization occurs , in which case most of the excess dislocations vanish . |
| 22 | Even if psychological or physical trauma are not causal , they can be associated with symptom severity and should be considered central to management . |
| 23 | Passwords should be changed regularly and mail messages regularly read to determine if spurious or malicious mail is being sent . |
| 24 | I do n't know if prudent or reckless love is the better , moneyed or penniless love the surer , heterosexual or homosexual love the sexier , married or unmarried love the stronger . |
| 25 | If primary prevention is successful the number of new cases ( the incidence ) should reduce , while if secondary or tertiary prevention is successful then the prevalence rate should reduce . |
| 26 | If severe or total hearing loss interferes with the in-built automatic ‘ volume control ’ of voice , what can be done about it ? |
| 27 | However , if troublesome or severe disorientation does occur then : a ) Get on instruments . |
| 28 | Cuttings of both rootstocks and scion are taken in autumn and stored until mid or late winter . |
| 29 | Corrections might have to be made if Single or Double Summertime ( Daylight Saving Time ) is in operation . |
| 30 | However , if sterile or individual equipment is not available , the next best thing is to clean equipment using disinfectant . |