Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ( Whether women , or gay men , want to see both , either , or neither is not an argument I want to get into here . )
2 All three trades are vulnerable to censorship and where that is not practised overtly each , in their different ways , can be bought .
3 Where that is not possible , we need to develop other ways of ensuring good standards of service — for example , through regulatory bodies which have real powers and responsibilities .
4 In England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , where that is no longer the case , the age of consent for male homosexual behaviour in private is 21 and not 16 as for heterosexual relationships .
5 Where that is so it will be for the prosecution to rebut , if it can , the presumption .
6 There may be alternative keys , in which case the most natural or concise is normally chosen .
7 The quantum of satisfaction derived by a voter from helping to elect a candidate he has ranked fifth or sixth or lower is not easy to assess .
8 This model of working-class culture as pathological or deficient is often given a holistic twist and linked to notions of ‘ necessary false consciousness ’ .
9 we 'll I think , be okay and , provided we do n't excessively energetic and too stupid , get too hot in the bath or that 's not a very good thing to do , or crash out with er flu or something I dare say anyone can crash out , I mean you , you , you could be a president of the United States
10 Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving .
11 Or that 's too late
12 Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to .
13 If it 's a thing that the public thinks is wrong or that is n't really , truly , basically artistic it 'll fade away anyway ten years from now nobody 'll think about it .
14 This you must have if players are going to accept that this or that is not right .
15 All this post-this or that is so lazy .
16 The war was over and the Empire had won — or that is how the politicians presented the result of the match between Britain and Germany .
17 Provision of the real object where possible is usually eagerly explored .
18 Marxman join the ranks of the likes of Hiphoprisy and Consolidated , bands who are bangingly right-on to the hip-ho beat at a time ( as we are constantly being reminded — YAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN ! ) when to be anything other than either defeatist or mindless is utterly unfashionable .
19 The requirement that analysis be objective or scientific is often little more than another means of social control .
20 On the contrary , an oddness of one sort or another is frequently a signal that an expression is being used creatively , in a novel extension of its usual sense .
21 However , they may still be needed for information which for one reason or another is not made available by subject access .
22 A 1961 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran concluded the " profound political and social change in one form or another is virtually inevitable " .
23 ‘ But the question whether the gross profit resulting from a particular transaction arose in or derived from one place or another is always in the last analysis a question of fact depending on the nature of the transaction .
24 One of the basic factors we have to bear in mind about fungi is that , unlike insects , which make their attack at certain predictable times depending on their life cycles , fungal attack in one form or another is about and ready to take advantage of any weakness for much longer periods — in fact , at almost any time of the year .
25 Within this perceptual framework , White women are frequently seen as agents in the narrative disruption which Black people initiate : it is the ‘ skirts ’ whose sexuality in one form or another is out of control or misplaced .
26 Only sleep stage deprivation experiments can answer the question whether one stage or another is more restorative , and these are discussed next .
27 And it 's one way that they that the clubs can get planning permission to expand a little , so I do n't knock big business , I think that sponsorship in one form or another is very very important and vital .
28 The rail will be butted up against the sides of the wardrobe , and where this is n't the case , end stops prevent disaster .
29 Any light fitting which is secured to a ceiling should ideally have at least one of its screws going into a joist , but where this is not possible , it is best to secure a piece of wood between the joists to take the securing screws , rather than relying on hollow wall fixings into plain plasterboard or , especially , into lath-and-plaster .
30 In this sense we may talk of there being a shift to the right , even where this is not reflected in voting for the Conservative party .
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