Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and had narked and sparked at my comment I only had one decentish pair of black shoes for meetings and/or interviews and I have remedied that now back here using X 's advanced ( if a little critical ) birthday money . |
| 2 | If you have paid for , or returned , any items it would be helpful if you could give some indication of the date of payment or return and whether a cheque was used . |
| 3 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 4 | But there is usually an effective distinction from the institutions of simple commodity production even where the cultural work is quite clearly a commodity it is almost always , and often justly , also described in very different terms — and from the institutions or power and administration , in which purposes and objectives are inherent . |
| 5 | All you or your workmen have to do is supply a concrete base and clad the outside walls in brick or stone and give it the finishing touches . |
| 6 | Contemporary churches in the eastern part of the Byzantine domains were domed with vaults of brick or stone and such domes covered a square plan . |
| 7 | In the evil , glowing red light they could see that the walls were not of brick or timber or of anything that walls were normally made of . |
| 8 | dark smoke from a chimney of a building or boiler or other plant ( controlled by s.1 of the 1956 Act ) , or |
| 9 | Among the 35 essentially ‘ non-advanced ’ colleges , two specialize in agriculture or horticulture and another seven offer courses in one or both of these two areas . |
| 10 | Swedish agricultural policy is principally directed towards the enlargement of farms and an overall reduction in crop acreage and farm labour , but rural communities which earn the major part of their income from agriculture or forestry and whose populations are declining are recognised as a national asset whose survival should be safeguarded . |
| 11 | If you have applied for a grant or scholarship and are awaiting the outcome , give the name and address of the body to whom application has been made , and the amount and period applied for . |
| 12 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 13 | Second , it is submitted for the plaintiffs that such action is not in relation to the grant or refusal of a further advance because the making of the valuation is not part of the administration or managerial process leading to the grant or refusal but is only a condition precedent to the actual process of making a grant . |
| 14 | Garden centres will have horse and hop or horse and mushroom , but they are not cheap , can be full of weed seed and , if sawdust and not straw is used in the horse 's stable , and can create problems of nitrogen deficiency . |
| 15 | They looked squarely and intently at each other for a full minute , as blankly as strangers , trying each other for traces of concession or agreement or affection , even . |
| 16 | Many country banks lent in their own notes , but others did so only in coin or in Bank of England notes or bills and drafts . |
| 17 | ( v ) paid off debts or fines or loans incurred by the addict in your life . |
| 18 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 19 | Well it says jeans and a jumper or trousers and a jumper . |
| 20 | My journey , I realised now , was not one that had begun at fixed point ‘ A ’ and would run to ‘ B ’ : crossing space — by canoe or donkey or in the footsteps of — was not what it was about . |
| 21 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 22 | Two consortia — one led by P & O and the other by Trafalgar House — are still bidding for partnership with BR , which is due to announce its choice by the end of the month . |
| 23 | The Trade Secretary recently quashed a scheme by P & O and Sealink to pool services on short routes , but the proposal may surface again . |
| 24 | The best ferry award was shared by P & O and Sealink Stena . |
| 25 | There is n't anyone left in this club who reads anything more demanding than the Racing Times or tits and bums magazines . |
| 26 | This kind of mutual formulation of the right amount of information for communication to take place is very common in conversation , particularly where times or places or objects need to be specified . |
| 27 | This may contain text or graphics or both . |
| 28 | All these can be difficult to file , so why not try the following : convert all documents to A4 size , using either a photocopier or paste and paper . |
| 29 | There is now a need for a fresh use of the imagination , a new conjecture or hypothesis or guess . |
| 30 | caused by normal settlement or shrinkage or to solid floors caused by compaction of infill |