Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many prospective employers view French , German , Spanish or Russian as the most practical vocational skills although these are often only required for communication and conversational situations as opposed to fluency . |
| 2 | He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult . |
| 3 | Is redundancy , early retirement , or any other major change possible or likely in the foreseeable future ? |
| 4 | She was not contrite or sorry or any of the things she should have been . |
| 5 | In particular , this means that the placement with a parent , relative , friend or person connected with the child should be considered as a first option unless this would not be reasonably practicable or consistent with the child 's welfare ( s23(6) ) . |
| 6 | Under the Children Act of 1948 the local authorities were given a duty to place a child in foster care unless this was not practicable or desirable in the child 's best interests . |
| 7 | At the same time , we have seen , they stressed that meaning was not a purely subjective phenomenon ; as Wimsatt put it ( 1958 : 10 and 24 ) one can distinguish between what is public and what is private or idiosyncratic about a poem , or between its meaning , which is an objective fact about it , and its ‘ import ’ , the reader 's subjective response . |
| 8 | His experience may tell him that it may be unnecessary or inappropriate in the circumstances , but failure to take one may become visible to headquarters . |
| 9 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |
| 10 | A quirk of the Lapwing 's distribution in Sussex is that it is very scarce or absent as a breeding bird from many suitable parts of the East Sussex Downs . |
| 11 | Such cells were remarkably scarce or absent beneath the follicle associated epithelium in the dome region of Peyer 's patches , where CD68 macrophages were abundant . |
| 12 | Most of the world 's population have accepted states and powers , and it is easy to see why : life may not be less bloody or dangerous under a sovereign power , but it is more predictable . |
| 13 | These links were weak or nonexistent in the Low Country , where most villages were identified with only one caste . |
| 14 | In 1168 the Lusignans were nothing like as rich or powerful as the Counts of Angoulême , who ruled what was in effect an independent principality in the heart of Aquitaine , and yet it was Lusignan which seems to have been the storm centre of the revolt . |
| 15 | Neither general practice has a reputation for being outstanding or different from the normal run of practices . |
| 16 | Brushes do last fairly well , but the little plastic discs need replacing when they get torn or jagged at the edges . |
| 17 | The scare quotes sound the alarm , and so alert readers to the idea that something is deficient or inappropriate about the word being used . |
| 18 | The induction into beliefs and values separated from all that is religiously controversial or ill-fitting in a secularist , pluralist world , which the HCF model sees as the focus of RE , is performing a valuable educational service , but it is one which can and should be shared by the school as a whole , and every subject-area in it . |
| 19 | Though because perhaps we feel guilty or embarrassed about the whole area of mental health we 're not tackling the problems when they come up nearly as well we might . |
| 20 | His bias is to believe that the general carries greater weight than the particular , and that uniqueness is somehow accidental or incidental to the world . |
| 21 | To write a novel is to conduct imaginary personages through imaginary space and time in a way that will be simultaneously interesting , perhaps amusing , surprising yet convincing , representative or significant in a more than merely personal , private sense . |
| 22 | Had expected to be sore or tired from the previous day but I felt great and was never tired , no sore muscles or any blisters on the entire trip . |
| 23 | But the majority were either dissatisfied or upset about a number of aspects of the way they had been treated during the assessment process . |
| 24 | Or does a difficult birth seem to be associated with schizophrenia because it causes the mother to feel overprotective or guilty towards the child who started life so badly ? |
| 25 | There was nothing remotely sensible or well-balanced about the turmoil of emotions his touch was arousing , Luce thought distractedly . |
| 26 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 27 | Those of us who want the Scottish people to stay in the UK can see nothing logically wrong or abhorrent in the UK developing its constitutional relationship with its community partners . |
| 28 | It is now acknowledged that the educational , health and social welfare systems are often not adequate or appropriate for the needs of most ethnic families . |
| 29 | The right to refuse should , of course , be upheld , even though the patient 's view is deemed irrational or unreasonable by the doctor or is based on what seem to be poor grounds . |
| 30 | The aim was to make use of all available resources whether labelled public or private for the benefit of the patient who wanted treatment . |