Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So 86 per cent of Asian day centre users relied on income support , while only 14 per cent have state and/or private pensions above income support rates . |
| 2 | In drawing up the list of activities below we have aimed to recommend programmes of study that reinforce the links between English and drama , and between English and media education , which we seek to emphasise throughout this Report as well as in chapters 8 and 9. • We see role-play as a valuable means of broadening pupils ' mental and emotional horizons and of developing social and personal confidence : it provides an ideal medium for much of the exploratory and/or performance-based elements of programmes of study . |
| 3 | This time delay can have safety and/or economic consequences hence the need to accelerate the experts ' diagnosis and decision processes . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | The 453 amino acids long region N-terminal to the POU domain contains several features typical of transcriptional activation domains such as an acidic region with a putative amphipathic alpha-helix , a glutamine-rich region , and short threonine- and/or serine-rich regions . |
| 6 | Those schools having no pupils absent were all either small and/or rural schools . |
| 7 | Some aspects of schools may be changed in order to facilitate curricular and/or extra-curricular activities , without this being perceived as curriculum change per se . |
| 8 | We can thus substitute equation ( 1 ) into equation ( 2 ) and obtain For a chemical system which involves only solid and/or liquid reactants and products , the expansion V of the system is often negligible or zero . |
| 9 | On the other hand , to describe a person as a " friend " , or a " colleague " , or a " cousin " , etc. is implicitly to presuppose the existence of non-relational features of some kind or other , physical and/or non-physical characteristics , actions , attitudes , etc. , without which such descriptions would not be applicable , or even make sense . |
| 10 | Much discussion has focused on whether or not it is a general phenomenon , related to a ‘ natural ’ cycle of urban change that will in time affect all developed countries , or whether there are specific national and/or regional circumstances which mean different trajectories . |
| 11 | Endoscopy examination was normal in all the 10 controls whereas ileal and/or colonic ulcerations and inflammed mucosa were noted in all Crohn 's disease patients before prednisolone therapy . |
| 12 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
| 13 | It must be remembered , however , that these xenoliths and veins do not represent frozen melt compositions , but rather the respective cumulate and infiltrate products of fractionally crystallized melts and/or associated fluids in an open system , so chemical resemblance may be fortuitous . |
| 14 | I can do no more here than say that I believe that they illuminate some of the processes whereby females come to wish to disassociate themselves from mathematics and other scientific and/or technical activities . |
| 15 | To account for their complex set of results they proposed that a concurrent task may have either general effects , that is , influence performance by both hemispheres , and/or specific effects which are restricted to one particular hemisphere . |
| 16 | The composition of individual laminations , determined by electron microscopy , varies from near monospecific assemblages of intact specimens to mixed assemblages of Thalassiothrix with calcareous nannofossils and/or centric diatoms . |
| 17 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 18 | However , where agriculture starts to become mechanized , usually under the auspices of the colonial powers and/or foreign investors , men begin to take more interest and to appropriate the economic gains for themselves ( see Boserup , 1970 ; Brydon and Chant , 1989 , ch.3 ) . |
| 19 | Where State and/or public definitions of crime become less tolerant . |
| 20 | Where a surgeon has been brought in ‘ at the last minute ’ to prepare a Medical Report then his opinion and Report can always be made the subject of valid criticism in the event of being compared with the Report and opinion of a surgeon who has consistently treated and/or prepared Reports on a claimant over a lengthy period of time . |
| 21 | Most LDCs experience at regular intervals external current account ( deficit ) problems due to a lack of diversified exports and/or deteriorating terms of trade because many obtain more than 50 per cent of their export earnings from one or two products , e.g. Zambia regularly obtains over 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings from copper . |
| 22 | Turbine Engine Services has the capability to disassemble , repair and reassemble engines and/or free turbines . |
| 23 | This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals . |
| 24 | As with the AMPA receptor-mediated component , LTP of the NMDA receptor-mediate d component of synaptic transmission could involve increases in L-glutamate release and/or postsynaptic modifications . |
| 25 | Where a product is to be marketed in export markets which have high temperatures and/or high humidities , or both , prediction of shelf-life is more difficult . |
| 26 | Failure to do so is ‘ unnatural ’ ( ie sick ) , and this unnatural behaviour is caused by psychological and/or social factors , the influences of which are largely outside individuals ' control . |
| 27 | These differential learning experiences ( and/or social influences which discriminate against girls in this respect ) , it may then be argued , also independently affect the learning of mathematics . |
| 28 | As we saw , experiments by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) on auditory word recognition showed that a word can be identified more rapidly if it is predictable , that is , if there are syntactic and/or semantic constraints on the number of possible words which might occupy that particular position in a sentence . |
| 29 | As an umbrella body uniting over 250 national organisations concerned with sporting and recreational activities , it provides through its Divisional structure a forum where like-minded bodies can meet to discuss areas of common concern . |
| 30 | Now one of the interesting cameos of God 's providence , prominently found in the Talmud and among the Hasidim , is the idea that in every generation are 36 tsadihim , pious or righteous men , who ( though unknown ) keep the world going . |