Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The outcomes of working in such ‘ teams ’ will include : poor communication and/or high level of conflict , limited or conditional commitment , poor quality decision making with limited innovation , inhibited implementation , confused objectives and poor motivation compromising performance .
2 Another way in which a patient may seek to achieve control over his fate once he has become incompetent is through the device of an Enduring or Durable Power of Attorney .
3 From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee .
4 It 's also important to note how important the affective , as opposed to merely informational or propositional component of conversation is .
5 Between the first and the second DPQ over three-quarters of the participants either reduced to ( 72 per cent ) or remained at ( six per cent ) a medium or low level of risk .
6 whether the leader has a high or low level of authority and
7 The idea is that we may know that some pleasures or pains have a generally high or low degree of purity or fecundity without its being practicable on a particular occasion to specify and evaluate specifically the precise further pleasures or pains which are likely to ensue from them .
8 We have seen how entries in the internal lexicon can be more easily or less easily accessed according to whether they correspond to words which have a high or low frequency of occurrence in language .
9 This absolute privilege is founded on the principle that it is advantageous for the public interest that the citizen should not be in any way fettered in his statements , and where the public service or due administration of justice is involved he shall have the right to speak his mind freely …
10 ‘ Adam & Eve ’ stands for Automated Document Analysis and Manipulation & Extensible Variety of Exercises .
11 The disability must preclude an individual from working for an employer in a class or broad range of jobs .
12 Work in the organisation provides individuals with a career and so is the main or sole source of income of its members .
13 Discussion of the principle of education for women was interminable , oblique , recurring at every social gathering in Huaiwiri — not a dominant or sole topic of conversation but always liable to crop up .
14 Any single form or cohesive group of forms ( e.g. , a bunch of intertwining leaves ) which constitutes part of the overall design .
15 The community occupational therapist also assesses whether the patient has any perceptual problems , such as an inability to recognize left and right , or total lack of awareness of the affected side of his body .
16 This is shown clinically by the decrease or total loss of secretion of the affected glands .
17 IF YOU HAVE CHOSEN 4 STAR COVER and ‘ 4 Star Cover ’ appears on your latest schedule General Accident will pay for loss or total destruction of items as follows :
18 IF YOU HAVE CHOSEN 5 STAR COVER and ‘ 5 Star Cover ’ appears on your latest schedule General Accident will pay for loss or total destruction of items on the basis of cost of replacement as new .
19 We pay for loss or total destruction of items on the basis of cost of replacement as new .
20 It is hard to envisage any cooking without lemons , and indeed those of us who remember the shortage or total absence of lemons during the war years , recall the lack as one of the very worst of the minor deprivations of those days .
21 While it may be agreed that the different subtests assess different aspects of linguistic functioning , there is considerable controversy concerning whether this is a complete or representative set of subtests , and whether they do in fact tap the processes described by Osgood ( 1957a , 1957b ) .
22 Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ .
23 Visualisation of the tubal lumen may assist in planning rational treatment of infertility , permitting surgery or tubal transfer of embryos or gametes if the mucosa is normal .
24 In the 1680s , when Colbert de Croissy was preaching honourable behaviour to his son , the theft or attempted theft of despatches was still a commonplace of diplomacy .
25 5.11.3 the recovery or attempted recovery of arrears of rent or other sums due from the Tenant and
26 5.11.3 the recovery or attempted recovery of arrears of rent or other sums due from the Tenant and
27 Technically , it meant problems of co-ordination within production ; socially , the sheer boredom of a minutely divided labour process , or technical division of labour , showed signs of countering its technical possibilities of increasing productivity ; and , more widely , the collective bargaining by workers in large factories began to put pressure on profits .
28 Readers who would like a more specialised or technical account of articles about research or other academic articles should also get in touch .
29 It also has to have some mechanism by which the latent TL signal is zeroed that can be related to an archaeological or geological event of interest .
30 As well as adding more candidates , the draft law allows France 's seven-member privatisation commission to suggest names of investors who could form a ‘ noyau dur ’ , or stable core of shareholders , to protect privatised firms against takeover .
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