Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 2 | Other species from one particular microhabitat in the region may be over-represented in the predator assemblage if it is a favoured hunting area or under-represented if it is not ( see Append . |
| 3 | She said appropriate things in the right places , and hardly knew whether she was glad or sorry when it was time to go . |
| 4 | Or sorry because it embarrasses you to be with me because of it ? ’ |
| 5 | This is then forgotten or repressed when it seems to have vanished altogether and there 's a third period , what Freud calls the return of the repressed when the initial trauma comes back in the form of symptoms and er ideally in the form of an analysis that finally brings it to the surface of consciousness and dissolves it , and this is a typical pattern . |
| 6 | They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation . |
| 7 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 8 | The coat colour can be all white , blue , blue roan or pied and it owes this variety to the Shorthorn ; the ‘ blue ’ is the equivalent of the Shorthorn 's roan . |
| 9 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 10 | Unlike many psychodynamic theories , this one is at least susceptible to proof or disproof and it has just been comprehensively disproved . |
| 11 | As a result , although the coverage is not as lively or interesting as it would probably be if the editors had more freedom , it is not nearly as stilted as many people feared ; it is certainly much better than the terribly restricted and monotonous presentation of the Canadian House of Commons . |
| 12 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 13 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 14 | Of all Edward 's legislation , three pieces particularly affected the church : the statutes De Viris Religiosis , or Mortmain as it is commonly called , Circumspecte Agatis , and Westminster II , chapter 41 . |
| 15 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 16 | Termite fishing is not as simple or straightforward as it sounds . |
| 17 | Set your opening move too low or unambitious and it will be difficult later to achieve a settlement well away from this starting point . |
| 18 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 19 | If what they say is derogatory , then that opinion ( false or unfair as it may be ) will be registered in the child 's subconscious mind and will grow and expand as he approaches adulthood . |
| 20 | Or do they say that , because the police behaved badly , the confession is , as a result , unreliable or unfair and it should not therefore be entered in evidence ? |
| 21 | The bacon is then put through the smoking process or left as it is . |
| 22 | There let your fish rest until you are ready to serve it : warm with a sauce of your own devising — variations on the hollandaise theme always go down well — or cold when it has cooled . |
| 23 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 24 | Well it 's usually because the heart itself is getting either old or tired or it 's damaged in one way . |
| 25 | Völker ideally combines the lyrical and the heroic in his singing , phrases with authority , albeit with a certain freedom where note values are concerned , and puts other contenders in the shade , even though by 1942 the voice was n't quite as pliant or firm as it had been six or seven years earlier . |
| 26 | You can use petrol , but that 's not particularly safe or healthy and it tends to leave an oily film . |
| 27 | Broadly , of course , it meant pro-Russian or pro-Communist but it could also mean an opponent of big business or of big unionism or a proponent of birth control or atheism . |
| 28 | Winemark and other Independents have the Bellingham range which includes Culemborg Chenin Blanc ( or Steen as it is known in SA ) Crisp , fresh slightly off dry with a definite style of its own , £3.99 . |
| 29 | Yes there is something outside his window , however near or far and it is alive but he does n't have to be seeing it and on the other hand something is alive in the room because actually if you look at the context of that , something else is alive beside the clock 's loneliness and the blank page where my fingers move . |
| 30 | Haemophilia was graded as severe if the patient 's concentration of coagulation factor was <0.01 of the normal value , moderate if it was 0.01–0.05 , or mild if it was >0.05 . |