Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 2 | Gandhi 's understanding of Truth and the essential unity of all that exists means that he has not only to realize his highest Self or Ātman but also recognize his oneness with all his fellow men and with all sub-human forms of life . |
| 3 | The artist 's ‘ intimacy ’ with a ‘ handful ’ ( the possessive act of holding in one 's palm ) of ‘ familiar ’ sitters , fixed and therefore by implication immoveable both in the sense that they pose like good models and in the sense that they do not leave , travel or change and therefore have no narratives of their own . |
| 4 | Inheritance tax ( the modern name for both death duties and capital transfer tax ) could be due if you make a substantial gift or settlement and then die within the following seven years . |
| 5 | Equivalently we can imagine picking up b and carrying it to A without changing its length or direction and then examining whether it fits a exactly . |
| 6 | A biology of hierarchy grounded in a metaphysically prior ‘ great chain of being ’ gave way to a biology of incommensurability in which the relationship of men to women , like that of apples to oranges , was not given as one of equality or inequality but rather as a difference whose meaning required interpretation and struggle . |
| 7 | Voluntary landscape agreements have not saved acres of hedgerows , heath or woodland and even those trees that remain in lowland England are an ageing population because insufficient planting has taken place over the past thirty years . |
| 8 | The child must not only remedy the situation caused by his or her negligence or transgression but also ‘ overcorrect ’ it to an improved or better-than-usual state . |
| 9 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 10 | So there will be something in the day to suit all ages — morning or afternoon or both — and we hope there will be a good turn out of Somervillians , families and friends for all or part of May 11th . |
| 11 | The court can disregard any injury or damage and still find that he was in charge of the vehicle . |
| 12 | long time to remember what 's going to happen in three months ' time , but if it 's something related to an event like Christmas or Easter or something like that , a lot of , a lot of press people are always thinking ‘ What the hell am I going to do that 's different for Christmas or Easter or so forth , ’ so if you do a signal , lay on a special event related to a , a time , in other words a sort of custom , a calendar custom-type event , they 're going to appreciate that notice because they may do some forward planning which would actually help them in that respect . |
| 13 | Everybody who 's had any sort of tremor or experience or much worse , they 're all individual and it 's no use me talking to you about my heart condition , because you have n't got my heart . |
| 14 | Some of it has been reclaimed for housing , new industry or agriculture but much remains to disfigure the landscape . |
| 15 | Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved . |
| 16 | Do you have gifts such as music , or preaching , or teaching or even story-telling ? |
| 17 | ‘ What the Archdeacon means is that the way in which priests are appointed means that the sort of questions which you are asking , while perfectly appropriate for an appointment in commerce or industry or indeed other professions , simply do n't apply in the Church . |
| 18 | This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus . |
| 19 | As we have seen , by 1981 there were 198,000 students in all in the polytechnics , but by then over two-thirds , or 133,000 , were full-time or sandwich and only 65,000 part-time . |
| 20 | As we have seen , femininity is associated with darkness , infinity , the body , emotion or unreason and so on . |
| 21 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 22 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 23 | The cost of the entire operation was competitive with glass bottles and , moreover , the package and contents could be dropped without damage or loss and therefore should have been an attractive proposition to supermarkets and bottling plants alike . |
| 24 | How convenient women were , Rupert thought , accepting her offer , the way they were always ‘ just going ’ to make coffee or tea or perhaps had just roasted a joint in the oven or made a cheese soufflé . |
| 25 | We may also note that it is possible for the word instantiating the subordinate element to be otiose from the point of view of the speaker or hearer or both ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 26 | In 1937 the type was tested on twin-floats , setting several more records in this configuration , and during 1942 numerous examples were used in combat after being modified with various armament configurations involving guns mounted on the wings or fuselage and even on the undercarriage spats . |
| 27 | An 8 lumen polyvinyl catheter ( outer diameter 4.5 mm ; inside diameter of each lumen 0.8 mm ; Arndorfer Specialties Inc , Greendale , USA ) was passed through the nose or mouth and continuously perfused using a low compliance pneumohydraulic capillary perfusion system ( Arndorfer Specialities Inc , Greendale , USA ) at a rate of 0.5 ml/minute . |
| 28 | It is knocked to the ground by a heavy blow , seized by the throat or mouth and quickly suffocated . |
| 29 | Once or twice Barbara Coleman sought corroboration of a point from Rain or Cobalt but otherwise not one of the onlookers dared to speak . |
| 30 | Most other furniture — tables , desks , storage and occasional pieces — will either be made of wood , glass and some sort of metal or perspex or plexiglass or even marble . |