Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marital status has a positive effect , agreeing with the interpretations that either employers favour men who are married and/or that married men search harder . |
| 2 | If the pattern of use and disuse of the cemeteries also reflects settlement movement one would be drawn to conclude that either population levels fluctuated frequently and/or that shifting settlement was common . |
| 3 | The opportunity class teachers I knew either had some extra training and/or some special quality or flair . |
| 4 | If a yacht on flotilla breaks down and can not travel due to a major failure which is not your fault , and a substitute is not available , we pay for each 24 hrs or each full sailing day ( 1000 to 1700 ) the yacht is immobile . |
| 5 | The genes , as we shall see , are more like a recipe than like a blueprint ; and a recipe , moreover , that is obeyed not by the developing embryo as a whole , but by each cell or each local cluster of dividing cells . |
| 6 | The real ones or that made-up version you concocted ? ’ |
| 7 | If it 's from Aubrey Debrace , or that other girl , Alice , he opens it straight away and reads out bits of news to me . |
| 8 | The Committee even considered the possibility that the occupant of the Chair be given a cut-off button or that other devices be employed to override demonstrations or disturbance in the galleries or on the floor of the House , but it rejected such innovations . |
| 9 | Never say you do not know why you picked certain subjects , or that other people decided for you , as this will show you in a negative light . |
| 10 | This association means that primary gastric MALT lymphoma can develop as a second neoplasm or that other neoplasms can occur in both treated and untreated patients with gastric lymphoma . |
| 11 | But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected . |
| 12 | It suggests either that Apple and Novell only would market the software with Intel-based machines , or that other manufacturers would be licensed to sell machines bundled with the software . |
| 13 | It suggests either that Apple and Novell only would market the software with Intel Corp-based machines , or that other manufacturers would be licensed to sell machines bundled with the software . |
| 14 | To say that new migrants came , or that new generations were now born , into a world of industry and technology is obvious , but not in itself very illuminating . |
| 15 | It should perhaps come as no surprise that the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) in England and Wales has some of the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ( NAEP ) in the US ; or that new moves in the UK to establish procedures to make incompetent teachers liable to sanctions ( reported in the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 16 | If the British governments of the 1980s had been elected by proportional representation , it is almost unthinkable that any party could have gained a sufficient majority to impose the sweeping reforms instituted by Mrs Thatcher — or that decisive government of any hue could be achieved in the future . |
| 17 | I abandoned the idea altogether of taking either the sovereign state or that vague concept , the national society , as the unit of analysis . |
| 18 | It is therefore most unlikely that present-day stigmatized forms have always been stigmatized , or that present-day elite forms have always been elite . |
| 19 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 20 | We can not assume that a divergent phonological system , for example , is structurally similar to or derivative from RP , or that lexical items belong to the same phonemic sets , or that the tense/aspect system is structured in the same way as that of standard English . |
| 21 | In practice the question of the duration of the disability imposed by the springboard doctrine does not frequently arise because most cases concerning confidential information do not come to trial following the grant of an interlocutory injunction and it can therefore be assumed that either the parties settle the action or that interlocutory judgment is treated as final . |
| 22 | Local scepticism maintains that , even if knowledge is possible elsewhere , it is for special reasons not available in this or that selected area . |
| 23 | Their presence in large numbers is fish-only systems is an indicator that the aquarium is overfed , or that uneaten food is not removed thoroughly enough . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 25 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 26 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 27 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 28 | Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union . |
| 29 | There was no evidence that fundholding was encouraging a shift from specialist to general practice care or that budgetary pressures were affecting general practitioners ' referral behaviour . |
| 30 | With the sexes thus reunited in the obscure origins of the word ‘ Hooligan ’ , let us pay a find visit in our tour of these troubled streets and pop in to see Mrs Jenkins and her family of Bean Street , South London , on the occasion or that fateful Bank Holiday . |